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The Chaos, English Pronunciation, by G. Nolst Trenité
A clear and slow reading of "The Chaos". Read along with our English teacher - she has a clear, Canadian accent. Use your headphones for extra clarity. Enjoy!

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[domino26000]

SHE SAID ANT NOT AUNT

[davidenespana]

The G in phlegmatic is voiced, but curiously not in phlegm! Viscous = Vis-cuss, not vish-us.

96/100 - good read!

[LatrommiSumac]

Also maybe it's different in Canada, but you got gouge wrong =). At least in Britain and America.

[brumplum]

This isn't a claim against you, but the general understanding of this text. "The 90% of native speakers" claim is really quite meaningless. For a start, what that statement means is "middle class Britons from the Home Counties form the first decades of the 20th century" - this is really the only time and place in which all the rhymes and other elements genuinely work.

There is not a single version of this on Youtube which is 100% entirely correct. Not even mine! :)

[beccacox98]

Aunt has an 'ah' sound not like 'lass'.

[davidenespana]

As a middle class Londoner , I'd contest your pronounciation of 'Gouge' - Go-j, As being slightly off standard English. I think it's more like Ga-oo-j. Go-j sounds a bit Devon and Cornwall/ New England / Canada to my ear. 'Ally' is pronounce a-lie. (on your side in a contest or battle) I think you are confused with 'Alley' (pedestrian passage between buildings), which is how you have pronounced it - a-lee. Eye, I, ay are all pronounced the same.

[tijhan]

In English-

glass rhymes with arse not ass.

grant rhymes with aunt not ant.

moustache isn't pronounced mosstache.

I never knew hiccoughs were meant to be pronounced hiccups. some people say hiccups and some say hiccoughs.

There are about 3 words there that I'd never seen or heard of.

Thanks for posting it was nice to listen to rather than read.

[yasiru89]

It's 'viscous', not 'vicious'. And 'ay' is another 'I' sound, though 'aye' seems to differ between accents sometimes. The 'g' is not generally silent in phlegmatic.

As good a reading as I've heard though, clear and deliberate.