Pronunciation - several sounds/words - English Meeting ESL Lesson

This is the pronunciation video that accompanies the Shoutcast 2 English Meeting video lesson.

A focused pronunciation lesson for North American English by EnglishMeeting with Dave Sconda.

Pronunciation can be fun to learn and with consistent practice, you can be speaking much more clearly. A clear speaker of English has more opportunities and feels confident in life.

Have fun practicing!

Dave

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• English
• pronunciation
• education
• english
• video
• lesson
• esl
• efl
• learn
• teach
• EnglishMeeting
• entertainment
• Dave
• Sconda

[in4cer]

We missed you, Dave!

[EnglishMeeting]

@in4cer I will be back in action soon. Thanks for your nice comment.

[jorgento]

Are there different pronunciations for T? for example T in Tip it sounds different from that in better (like a spanisch R: beRer)

[EnglishMeeting]

In North American English, -better- is most often pronounced with a /d/ sound (beder), not with the /t/ sound. So the answer to your question is YES!

[jorgento]

Thanks so much Dave. Your lessons are a great help. By the way, I can make the two sounds of TH but I can not determine the rule to decide when to pronounce it voiced and when voiceless. Until now I have had to memorize every single word. The same happens with "i" (long vs. short). This is different from other languages where you have predefined pronunciation rules (ex. German: if only one consonant precedes a vocal, the vocal is long, otherwise is short :-)

[EnglishMeeting]

Please see the comments under my -TH- pronunciation video where this is explained. English is not a logical language and the rules are many, and there are exceptions to rules. It might be best to make a short list of voiced th words and a separate list of voiceless th words and pronounce them (review) once a day. Eventually they will become part of your knowledge base. The list can grow as you improve. Make it a game, make it fun for yourself, otherwise you may get frustrated and give up :)

[lussito3]

Your videos are amazing. I don't have a problem with pronunciation actually, but I really enjoy watching these videos. Actually, there is one word that I really can't say. I sometimes get it right, but only if it's in a sentence - "literally". An English person would say it with a 't', and that's not a problem to pronounce. But I want to learn how Americans say it. If you could help me, I would be grateful, because I've been struggling with this for quite some time and still can't say it right.

[heydek]

gooooooooooooooooooooood veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy goooooooooooooooooooood

[maajikl]

@EnglishMeeting - I think it's important to note that while NA people say "I'm gonna", it would be inappropriate to write it like that in any situation other than a very informal one (e.g. texting, passing notes, etc.).

[oterrivelivan]

Thank you very much!

[rechiamiller]

hello...I've been struggling on /i/ and /e/ pronunciation...from Philippines..love your videos and i need to learn american english.. i applied several call centers but they always commented on my /i/ and /e/ pronunciation ...thnx..

[brainfiller]

Marvellous! Thanks deeply dear Dave for this fruitful lesson

[tatromain]

Your teaching is very clear and nice to watch.

I am just apologize that the music is too strong for my head, sorry.

Thank you so much for such a great help!

[bhavnajha11]

Dave these videos are really very help full