English Pronunciation -- "It Sounds Like..."

[lexygd]

I don't get it .-.

(I am British though)

[Gadapaj]

but I like of british accent

[AGuideOnTheSide]

More ways to connect... (C) Accent reduction with my pronunciation videos youtube DOT com/watch?v=ESXa12DNCCs You can also send email messages to FreeEnglishLessons@gmail DOT com and I will pass your email address to some local volunteers who want to help people with pronunciation.

[AGuideOnTheSide]

I have three ways of helping people with free English Lessons: (A) Youtube dot com / FreeEnglishLessons has some videos that you can watch and repeat and repeat and review. ..... (B) Skype with Penpals (You can go to Youtube DOT com/bibpenpals and leave a message under the videos to ask English speakers to contact you) .....

[nahum67]

Thank you very much for that explanation, I'll suscribe your channel

[AGuideOnTheSide]

@nahum67 you are very polite. Thank you

[ihateyouaol2011]

I can imagine that this would help non-English-speakers learn to speak English. But as an English speaker, I'm completely confused by this, ahahahah.

[MrVictory15]

hummburgguurrr.... ham berrrrrgirr!!!

[nahum67]

@MrVictory15 hahahaha ham bür gueguera

[Renegade30]

Press 5 over and over

[GoSTy91]

Very helpful!!!! Thanks a lot.

[platypusy10]

shut up you american twat.

[ticketyboooo]

wanker

[anatnavarro]

A M A Z  I N G

[omgitskayleigh14]

wut the fuck!

[julestags]

The i sound he mentions at 1:34 in 'cute'and then again at the end in 'new' is actually called a 'semivowel' in phonetics.

[AGuideOnTheSide]

@julestags Good point. In order to make it a simple system, to keep the system easy for students to use, the distinction that you point out is not labeled. It's nice to know that there is a name for that little "iii" sound in "u"

[gerpierro]

LMAO, stick to math, is my advice :P (5 songs? not sounds? funny!)

[AGuideOnTheSide]

@gerpierro Good point, that is a misstatement at 1:16 of the video... It should be "sounds"

[JanaSklibova]

I am not sure if I say "th" the right way. However th in "that" or "they" makes me more problems than in "think" or "throat". The voiced one is harder.

[dianitaleja28]

jajajajja dicen que es mas sencillo aprender ingles que español, pero en español solo tenemos 5, en lugar de 15 vocales... y en realidad es mas sencilla la pronunciacion

[MsAnarosita]

good job go ahead we need your help to improve our classes

[wtfudimbo]

I'm high and this is pretty mind blowing.

[Kinvalor77]

Type PRIZE before youtube and hit enter

[Kunichiro]

Very nice and beautiful hands ! ;-)

[hilbert1862]

An extremely nice tool to improve your English pronunciation:

Iphone App "Pronounce It L1"

You can get it from Iphone, Ipod-touch, or Ipad.

This allows you to record your own voice, listen to native speaker, grade your pronunciation and come back for repeats.

[FrenchDayana]

thank you for the lesson !

[avillafafila]

good for help students

[maiteska48]

I think that this video is very useful

[bryarworship]

I don't like how people teach the english vowels

there are actually 9 basic vowel sounds

ah eh ee oh oo ae ih uh and eu

which can be heard in in their basic forms in...

cot, bet, eat, mote, food, mat, kid, mud, and look

I think it should be taught phonetically

[svjsingh]

Anyone there to help me??? If yes please respond here so that I give my ID

[svjsingh]

I want my writing to sound more like an American... Can you help me out in someways??

[joeeyson]

i dont know why im watching this

[Tsukiko330]

@joeeyson

Lol. xD

[jydanlla]

yo estoy aprendiando a hablar ingles y le a gradeco qu eeste subiendo esta informacion.

[babybear7410]

let's look at the short sounds.. (end)

wtffffffffffffffffffffffffffff­ff!

[RoguishBlonde]

pff, i'm american. tried teaching english the other day. why the hell do we have such a hard language? i mean, in spanish we have to learn all the conjugations and all the genders for every friggin word, but at least a letter always has the same sound. english does not make sense, man!!!

[montibbalt]

@RoguishBlonde Learn Esperanto!

[ettlemontree]

@RoguishBlonde I thought english was easy to learn, but hey maybe that's just me :)

[TheMrberta93]

Oh, this is a fanTAStic video. Thank you so much

[bobcooper31]

I find it amazing that Sandbergnz should quibble over such an insignificant issue. Teaching English to ESL students is a huge task and needs to involve compromise unless you want it to take 12 years as it does in primary/high school environments.

I see nothing wrong with the technique and the outcome in any case. Unless you are extremely arrogant there is a diversity of pronunciations of English speakers around the English speaking world which to most people is completely acceptable .

[mydarlingsona]

good

[pablogrifter]

Very helpful & I'm English & I speak the queens english.

[TheFowlyetti1]

@pablogrifter You mean Samuel Johnson's English?

[pablogrifter]

@TheFowlyetti1 Don't be pedantic you know as well as i do that its a saying.

[dcninga]

@pablogrifter do u mean u speak english, hahaha

[CrystalMoonLady]

Very helpful and funny, too. :-)

[LoveFromTurkey]

It's AmE pronunciation..

[mczr00]

its better dude :D

daha iyi iste :D

[LoveFromTurkey]

İyi de am sööcin britiş pronınsiaeyşın..

Sevgiyle kal..

[NominusTheWise]

to some foreigner, this is valuable information. no need for insults.

[StabbyMcButterPants]

He's showing linguistics. Breaking down certain sounds in a language. The sounds are most important in learning ANY language. Like the French "R" sound is different from the English "R" sound in many respects. If you do not know how to pronounce a soft "R", then your French will be laughable to French speakers.

[Jelloxox]

ur REALLY attractive.

[dude8nihon]

What a retard

[AstRoNamorANdy]

i lold at that

[armaable]

good

[c477681]

watch?v=G7srUhAlePc

[TheSmooshster]

If someone is learning the English language because they dont know it, why would you teach them in English?

Idk i just saw a major flaw in this video lol

[HolyShitImGerman]

I think the point of this video is more helping people to improve their pronounciation. That is, if they wanna go for an AE accent.

It can be really helpful if you are not a native. For beginners this video is of no use, I agree.

[MariavanUtrecht]

it is not an english language course, it is english PRONUNCIATION. For people who already speak english but may be from different countries.

[diego4020]

Diarrhea of the mouth. Constipation of the brain. Mistermath never said this was for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS.

Here is a thought for you: English is my second language and I think I speak and write ok. However, I have trouble pronouncing some vowels still. Sooo, this might be a good video for myself or someone in my position, huh?

BTW, when learning a foreign language, it is best to leave out all of your native language.

Mistermath realizes this.

Hope my words helped. :)

[SquishTheBug]

i agree

[c477681]

This video was perfect. And it is not teaching English come one. He is teaching how to pronounce. First you learn English after, you search for getting better in your accent!

Regards from Brazil!

[123xxrobertx]

Great Job!! it's really helpful to understand some differences between AE. & BE. Is any differences for " ing" prononucation? I heard that "G" vowlel isn't exist so clear in both languages

[IronPrivate]

excellent job

[octopussyleinchen]

FUCK YOU !!!! xD

[tjmorton11]

Can you re-shoot in a bit better quality and do it slower? It would be great for ESL, but is goes a bit fast and the lighting is poor...but thatks.

[Zackholiday]

Thank you!

You are helping many students!

you are a good person!

Excellent videos!!!!

Good job!

[melago68]

sorry but what does this prove? sure, English may have 15 sounds, but that doesnt make it any easier in terms of spelling now does it! haha, poor foreignors

[d4rk4ng3lk]

hey , man. is that you?  I liked your video a lot. please, upload another one .

[Mautita]

excelent job! you forgot in long I sond: die, by, wild, mind, kind. Thank you a million

[polgiu]

your face looks hilarious as u do this im not gonna lie

[islamacros]

Excellent video!!! Are you a teacher of phonetics??? because behind you have the phonetics symbols! oK really nice vide!! your pronunciation is great!

[nathalypinheiro]

Thank you for the videos.

You are helping many students with these tips.

Good job!

[vbplayer18]

That's Cool!!!!

Do some more videos!!!

[kasiakobrynska]

Facet jest boski!!!

[Hussain00007]

thanks alot, that's very nice.

[jan6ko]

It sees from Japan.

I want to become good early ..writing.. English by using the English

translation.

[DRHOUSE922]

thhhh rooo utt lol

[earthmagekl7]

idk why im watching this

[Demonmack0]

@earthmagekl7

Same here. I really spent a minute watching this?

[calaberarumbera]

excellent!!

[XFaGgYX]

iuuuu

xD

thank u

my pronuntiation is quite bad..

é.è

[FanDeAshley369]

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[MARACUCHA2000]

Gracias, mil gracias, thanks, Obligado..!

Good teacher.

[WagnerPrA]

Great! It does really seem like learning English is not that hard. I think that the most difficult thing about learning another language is pronuntiation. This video is a great help. Thanks you Mistermath. By the way why have you chosen this nick, Mistermath? you should've chosen something like Misterenglish lol.......

[MiddleEastinfol]

in Arabic its much simple.. its 6 sounds only. a /aa e/ee u/oo .. thats it.. and i dont know why its considered as a most difficult language.

[overratedmule]

no one gives a shit

[LoonyBird27]

other people do so don't watch it if you don't care

[Destinatious]

It isn't.

[hultonclint]

You're talking about only monopthongs. The list here includes dipthongs (combinations of 2 vowels)...so if you consider Arabic that way you will see there are many more than 6.

[annisxen102]

we need more!!! thk

[HoldingOn2DaMemories]

thankx prof

[joteixa]

lol!

R*

[Maddy88cr]

niiiiiew lol

[Eidano]

I always have problems trying to understand what people say and my pronunciation could be much better. Thx for the lesson.

[sofire134]

estupendo profesor... gracias por la ayuda :)

[SweetAssoul]

THANK U !! loved it

[MrBBQ4u]

That's Great! How do make sentences out of family's and families??

[NeccoWecco]

"family's" in proper english is the family owning something, like an example, The family's cat is black. 's shows that the cat belongs to the family.

(In improper english, "family's" can also be for "family is". My family's out of town. = My family is out of town.)

'families' is plurual form of family. More than one. Many families are at the park.

[YahoooAnswers]

Another one please. This is a good one.

[josejaku]

can u teach me how to read hehe!!

[urumita]

thank you so much , i would to see more video of you explain the english lesson if you know about a web site which can help me with my pronunciation please welcome thank you again

[ljf02f]

I think it's fine to tell show students the tongue between the teeth for /th/. Students have a very hard time with this sound because they are not used to putting their tongue in this position. When they do, their pronunciation is much better. /th/ is made with the tongue between the teeth if you are articulating the sound clearly. When I don't tell my students to do this, their /th/ sounds like /d/, /z/, /f/ and so on.

[mistermath]

i will ask my students to look at what you wrote so they can test the other sounds... Thank you for the defense. I hope that this system or something similar will eventually become more popular than IPA.... please ask your students to visit freeenglishlessonsinFlorida dot blogspot dot com and find some emails to write to ... my students want to practice with penpals. ... and MSN IM practice, too. I have a travel site that has writing practice on RoadLovers dot com THANKS!

[sandbergnz]

Mistermath, you're mispronouncing "th"! The sound is more correctly pronounced with the tip of the tongue resting against the back of the top teeth and the palate, NOT with the tongue sticking out between the teeth (as you have shown). Perhaps you should re-do this clip.

[mistermath]

thank you for your feedback. when I say bath or bathe, I can bite my tongue.... so that tells me that the tongue is not on the back of the teeth (in my dialect).

[au6057]

what dialect/accent do u have? It seems like you're from NY or around the area or even ireland if your th is like that. but for all i kno u could be from anywhere. i did some research and found that his th is correctly pronounced phonetically.

[stefisor2003]

I've tried to pronounce a sound following your instructions. It was... awkward. YOU should take a Phonetic class. You will learn how to produce "th": tongue tip between teeth. If it's voiceless is pronounced like "thing" and if you will put your hand on your throat you won't feel any vibration. If you pronounced voiced, like "the", you have vibrations into your throat.

[Destinatious]

His "th" is correct here.

[4tomoconnor]

@sandbergnz

Actually, I agree with mistermath. My wife is Chinese and in teaching her the "th" sound we've had better results with her having the tongue protrude THROUGH the teeth rather than resting against.



[psandbergnz]

@4tomoconnor, a "th" sound can be achieved by protruding the tongue, but the sound won't be as pure. Therefore, I don't recommend her to fall into this bad habit. Apart from the sound effect, it LOOKS ugly to stick one's tongue out while speaking. I suppose this aspect depends on your upbringing. I have noticed that the Spanish (particularly in the south of Spain) pronounce the Spanish "C" or "Z" with the tongue sticking out. To the English, this looks awful, and it's unnecessary too.

[joereedster]

@psandbergnz Haven't you ever watched Mighty Mouse?

[heana]

very helpful video keep it up.

[kevin98230]

Not to mention, the 24 consonants, where 12 are unvoiced and 24 are voiced. As far as i am concerned, it is totally and utterly important that an non-native speaker should learn to pronounce english correctly, as in my experience told me that it is surprisingly difficult to correct oneself when one's english is "fluent" so to speak.

[kevin98230]

Thanks for such an enlightening lesson for some. But I do have some doubts about your rather blunt remark on the number of vowels. There is at least 12 vowels in total, in which 5 are long, and 7 are short. Then we can even move into diphthongs, which there are 8 in total.

[PaceyLover]

Thanks for sharing this with us. I truly appreciate your work

[DarkReverie]

THANK YOU! YOU'RE MY SAVIOUR

[alexrosano]

Very nice although kind of short lesson. I hope there will more vids to come!

[kngiht84]

Hey, it's a great clip and you do look like my old fuddy-duddy beak. Don't get mad, I'm sure you're a nicer person than him.

[emesaj]

thank u for share...

[nideguanzi]

this is great! and i really eager to learn how the pronunce rightly

[XElMagoX]

hey thnx a lot for posting this lessons. i wont comment all your videos but i really used your videos to poolish my pronunciation, that frankly suked :P. thnx to you i got a well paid job here in my country!!! ahh and u make me win a bet cause a friend of mine said "u will never find english pronunciation lessons on u tube " :P :) hahahahahhahaaha thnx a lot and keep the good work