Learn Hindi (part 2(c), English vowels in IPA)

[candistyx]

English is worse even than French? They don't even pronounce letters at the end of words.

[BelialfromAbbadon]

My english dictionary doesn't use some of these symbols, but then again some of the differences between these are so subtle that even I ( a native english speaker ) fail to appreciate them most of the time

[FourthWeasel]

Thank you for this series. It is so so helpful.

But I disagree with you about English being a phonetically horrible language. It can be really beautiful.

Maybe you meant "orthographically"?

poppyred1957:

English is not the hardest language to learn, but it's one of the harder ones to learn to write (if you don't count languages which use logographs.)

[mrhnm]

I think he was speaking in term of writing to speech/

[enter19]

english's phonology is very complicated, too many vowels

[littleglonia]

there's rules for when to use long vowel sounds and short vowels in english

[shimmiliciousxoxo]

I really appreciate Ur efforts 2 help others learn Hindi. I am American, speak English & about half of the Spanish language, & just a bit of French, Latin, Chinese. I recently began learning Hindi, so I am grateful 4 the opportunity 2 learn online, for $0, & in this format. Your lessons are broken down into bite size segments, which are easier to do "on the run". U R really meeting my needs and I can't thank you enough. Don't stop the good work! Thanks.

[poppyred1957]

its a well known fact that english is the hardest language to learn

[Eopyk]

Umm no it is just so that Enlish spelling is ilogical an unphonetic. It needs a update. I don't why some people from the Uk like yourself think English is the hardest langauge in the world(even if that is a subjective point of view) Maybe some nationalist feelings :P ?

[guauSarah]

In English it is true that our alphabet is insufficient in terms of having a character for every sound. How do we know how to pronounce things then? For the most part, by learning the sounds of certain letter combinations! The funny thing about that is, even the same letter combinations can be pronounced differently. For example, cough and tough. Cough=coff, tough=tuff. It's a funny thing.

[Eopyk]

The thing is that English spelling is still illogical because there are no consistent rules when it comes to spelling. For an example the sure if following English standard rules should be shure and that is just very simple example.

[tutonline]

there is no such thing as a 'difficult language', there are only people who are more skilled in speaking foreign languages... a good teacher should help everyone to develop those skills...

[schrodingersplatte]

Sure there's such a thing is a difficult language, if you approach it from the perspective of someone coming from a particular language.

Anyone coming from a language that at least *tries* to write phonetically will find that say, Chinese, where the character is completely unrelated to how it's pronounced, is more difficult than something very focuses on phonetics, like Turkish.

[premapavarti]

you are a great teacher!

thank you!

i had been tring to find one but here there are none,where i live.

it's very nice of you to do that! _/\_NAMASTE!

[69ablip]

Thanks a lot for your time and for the vids. Just wondering if the type of Hindi your teaching is"standardised Hindi"?

[ranjan2]

Yes, this is Standardized Hindi, in its Standard dialect.

[razzigirl]

i think french is the worst language in terms of phonetics...have of the words you don't even pronounce. But, yah, English is pretty bad too.

[Clown321321]

Believe me that Polish is veeery troublesome as well. But still I agree - French is difficult.

[CherieAndAdri]

French is very easy in terms of phonetics. You only pronounce the c r f and l if you mean the ending of the words. Also, french is a very "flowy" language, you might want to impose your views on another language like german.

[ppihan]

Spanish is "better" in terms of phonetics, every symbol has its own sound, almost every, anyway.

English, for spanish speakers is very troublesome in terms od pronounciation, specially vowels.

[kmika7e]

thanks for the vid! it is very useful.