North American English - Difficult to Pronounce Words

[Irmaonight]

missing write words in your video

[SupportWeThePeopleKB]

The website acapela has a wonderful tool for having text read with many different pronunciations. An English text can be robot read by quite good male and female voices with UK & N.Am accents. It is funny to put the same text and have it read by a nonEnglish voice. All the problems of ESL reading from that maternal language are highlighted perfectly. I find it helpful.

[zvintoXD]

thank you for this! i really need to improve my english! :P some words i just coudnt say! but i will keep pratice :)

[verziehen]

One can indeed find educated people everywhere .. but they are a dying breed. There was a time on the BBC, the ABC (in Australia) et al that one could hear recieved English. Alas "Amerispeak" allows any damn pronunciation and spelling with intonation, and punctuation abandoned. Universities churn out "graduates" in any subject ranging from macrame to beekeeping. I have heard the finest English spoken in the USA, but Hip Hop mumble is the more popular tongue and is on the ascendancy.

[pronunciationmeg]

@verziehen Actually, education is on the rise worldwide, especially in countries with historically low GNPs. But I haven't had your experiences, at the same time. Maybe you see a decline around you. I help people with speech impairments so I don't care about their dialect. You would probably see it my way if you were in a car accident tomorrow and forgot 70% of your vocabulary, not only words like "ascendancy" but words like "toothbrush" and "mother". Linguistic superiorty can be ephemeral.

[ryanr20091]

@pronunciationmeg yyour so cute heee

[verziehen]

Try hemidemisemiquaver. Without "eye" for the letter "i", but the correct use as in the word "bit". Americans say "hem-eye-sem-eye-dem-eye-quave­r. Watch CNN or Fox and here the multiple pronunciations of Iran and Iraq. From "eye-rack' all the way through to "ear-rark". If you want to learn how to speak English, learn from someone that speaks English like an educated Englishman (or woman)...never an American!

[pronunciationmeg]

@verziehen Thank you. My grandparents are from London so I also like the sound of British English. However there are two things I don't like about your post. #1 It assumes that some forms of English are inferior to another. #2 It assumes Americans are not educated. One of the koolest things about being a native speaker of English is the very fact that we have so many versions of it worldwide. As for the second problem, you'll find educated people everywhere, and the US is no exception.

[Portoinfinitivo]

@verziehen Forgive me, but your comment smacks of arrogance, or ignorance. See, just because AE and BE sound different does not make one superior to the other, only distinct. You're offending not only Americans, but all non-English speakers of this language. Your 'educated' English often speak in regional accents, fewer and fewer using the received pronunciation which appeals to you, whereas your non-RP Americans are often far better educated then many English. But you're right on ee-'rack.

[Shofrah]

I love all of your videos, they're extremely helpful.

When listening to my audiobook

I noticed many times "asked" being pronounced like "a**ed", or was it just me? Could you point that out for me? thank you so much!

[manuelgalvanvargas]

Thank you for this lesson I add it to my favorites.

[sakurazful]

thanx soo much :D:D