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Accentology
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We are trilingual speech and language therapists with a previous background of teaching English. Over the years we have often been asked by non-native speakers of English how to improve their accent and sound 'more British'. We have since been working with people keen to improve their pronunciation in English and these short videos are inspired by recurrent issues that our clients face in sessions.
Which word should I stress?!
Speech therapists and communication coaches Sophie and Nathalie Cooper share a few tips on what words to stress in a sentence in English!
Full tongue-twister from video:
Betty Botter bought some butter, 'But,' she said, 'This butter's bitter! If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter! (Sentence accidentally omitted from video:) But a bit of better butter will make my batter better.'
So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and put it in her batter and her batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!
Full tongue-twister from video:
Betty Botter bought some butter, 'But,' she said, 'This butter's bitter! If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter! (Sentence accidentally omitted from video:) But a bit of better butter will make my batter better.'
So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and put it in her batter and her batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!
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Long and Short vowels: Offal or awful?!
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This is a video about the difference between long and short vowels in English and how important it is to differentiate between the two in order to avoid misunderstandings. Long and short vowels also play a significant part in giving English its distinctive rhythm.
How to fix a sore tongue...
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Speech and Language Therapists Nathalie (left) and Sophie (right) give tips on speech and communication...
Linking: one of the secrets to better flow
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Linking: one of the secrets to better flow
BLACKbird or black BIRD?
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In this video we talk about the difference between compound nouns and descriptive phrases.
From Queen's English to MLE
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In this video we talk about some of the changes that have occurred and are currently occurring in Southern British English over the past few decades.
SHIFTING stress!
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Stress is not ALWAYS static in English… sometimes it changes!! Most native English speakers may not even be aware that they do this. Here we look at a couple of common examples.
Contractions in spoken English
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Contractions are used all the time in English speech and generally make speech sound much more fluent. It is one of the things that gives it flow! Some non-native English speakers may worry that the use of contractions will make their speech sound too colloquial in professional situations, but the truth is these are used in all settings - formal and informal - even though we would not usually f...
Keep your hair on!
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This is a very commonly used English idiom you may come across! Here's a bit of background information in case you are not familiar with it.
Identifying word stress
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Some people find the concept of word stress very confusing, even in their native language. Many people may ask: ‘who cares?’, but being able to hear word stress can make it easier to acquire correct pronunciation in a foreign language, or to help English language learners stress newly-acquired words correctly.
Tricky London place names!
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In this video we go over some London place names which can be difficult for non-native English speakers (or even native English speakers who are not from London!) to pronounce.
Where do we put the stress on roads and streets?
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Here's some advice on where to put the stress when talking about roads, streets, avenues, lanes etc, as it is not always the same!
Intonation variation in questions
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This is a video demonstrating subtleties in intonation when asking different types of questions. To non-native speakers of English these intonation variations can sometimes seem very subtle and tricky to replicate.
Words ending with "-age"
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When pronouncing multisyllabic words ending in '-age' (like 'language'), there is a tendency for non-native English speakers to pronounce the final "-age" syllable the same way as in the one-syllable word 'age'. So how are we MEANT to pronounce it?
The difference between 'bit' and 'beat' - do they sound the same??
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The difference between 'bit' and 'beat' - do they sound the same??
Commonly mispronounced words (with dropped syllables)
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Commonly mispronounced words (with dropped syllables)
Is English stress-timed or syllable-timed?
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Is English stress-timed or syllable-timed?
Connected speech - how some word-final stops can seem to disappear
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Connected speech - how some word-final stops can seem to disappear
Why work on improving your pronunciation/ accent?
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Why work on improving your pronunciation/ accent?
To say or not to say? The R sound in English (rhotic vs. non-rhotic accents)
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To say or not to say? The R sound in English (rhotic vs. non-rhotic accents)
Word stress tips (useful for French speakers)
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Word stress tips (useful for French speakers)
Words spelt with an 'o' but pronounced 'uh'
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Words spelt with an 'o' but pronounced 'uh'
Home/həum/ Come/kuhm/ write and right?😅
Wonderfull
Stress makes me feel stress. Thanks for the clarification.
You guys are amazing 🥰. We love you! Te amamos! Gracias 🙏🏻. I’m literally watching all of your videos!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@Ggg496 thanks so much!
Thank you
Thank you❤
Boston accent is non-rhotic.
Thank you so much 🥹🫶🏻
Gosh, you both are beautiful! Difficult to concentrate on learning pronounciation!
Thanks a lot for the information . This means that there is no harmony between sound n spelling in English . Arabic is a phonetic language .
Firstly, fantastic presentation. Secondly, I thought this video was about flow states. Finally, at first I thought there might only be one of you and the microphone was cleverly used as the split for editing two takes of "you" in different outfits.
Many thanks for the comment! Haha, that would indeed have been an interesting way to edit the video! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
Great work. Thanks a lot
This was a perfect explanation
Very informative. Didn't know about the intrusive R. Thank you.
You two look alike, are you twins
Yes !
Indeed, I really enjoyed that video.
I've just discovered your channel today and enjoy it massively. I have to say that you don't seem that comfortable with MLE though lol.
I like the video . Do you know if Spanish is a time stressed or syllable stressed language? I’ve studied Spanish in various courses, and many, like Michel Thomas, really emphasize the stress being elongated. However, I saw a clip in Spanish that said that the syllable length doesn’t get longer but just gets louder which surprised me. You might know
Hi and thanks for the question- Spanish is syllable -timed. I have heard Michel Thomas’s Spanish and to me it has always sounded a little more stress-timed than what Spanish normally is (sounding kore Italian, which is ALSO in theory syllable-timed but has more of a sing-song quality with syllables that do sound longer at times!!) Confusing eh!!
@@accentology yes the Michelle Thomas pronunciation is incredibly elongated on the stress syllable. I tried saying the stressed syllable in Spanish words at the same length as the other syllables, but just louder and it just comes across as me shouting lol
The non-rhotic accent is so difficult to understand. Did he say "She went to party" or "She went to potty"? And the list of confusing words goes on and on.
Haha well it’s all in the length of the preceding vowel! That’s the secret! If it sounds long (paaaaaah-ty) then the likelihood is that it’s the word with the ‘r’ (party), whereas if it’s short it’ll be ‘potty’ - also, in British English the vowel is different in both words, whereas in US English it’s the same (but the ‘r’ is audible to make the distinction)
Amazing video ..short and concise and very clear .. thanks for sharing your knowledge
Laura Norder, drawring, Indiar, Chinar, Americar, Russiar ...
very interesanting
You're scarily close to each other
Scarily close, how ridiculous. Maybe they are close but why is it scary, are you autistic (if you are, then like I am, I could understand discomfort with someone entering your personal space, but if not you have no excuse; besides they look like twins and twins are always very "close".
Anyone been to the Gloucestershire villages or South Bristol or Somerset and Devon recently?
So I have an Essex accent and I've just learnt that I don't use any rhotic Rs at all, even with vowels involved - feels more natural to me to just put a very slight pause in between the two sounds (for example "her aunt"), though that does feel a little stilted when I focus on it! Never even noticed I do that 😅
That’s really great. Thanks for posting!
Thanks so much on that! After living in Ireland (as a non-native speaker) I was so used to using the rhotic R. However, during my postgraduate in the UK I was feeling rather uncomfortable for using it 😂.
Ur videos r very informative but r very short so increase the time of ur videos
Expensive make-up strapless bra,thank you for sharing your brilliant content th😅oughts and wisdumb
So nice that yuo have reminded me my professor Amarjit Garg who taught me this English in1977on wards ....i am retired lecturer of Economics but have degree in English Post Gradution aand Linguistics its major subject and worked With British council for one year without taking any salary etc... I am fond of English language because of International language i love punjabi because of my mother tongue love hindi sanskrit Urdu and pharsi persian also. ... I know French language ....ans so on
No. One stop red. Time no what. Free. Out..yout. By tt. K. Prlo
Hi, Do you know about islam. You should accept Islam. It helps you to lead a happy and peaceful life. You should research about Islam so that you can learn more about Islamic culture.
/təˈdeɪ/ /ðə/ /ˈhev.ən/ /ɪz/ /bluː/, /wɪˈðaʊt/ /klaʊds/, /ɪt/ /ɪz/ /ə/ /ˈsʌn.i/ /deɪ/ /ənd/ /ə/ /ˈdel.ɪ.kət/ /waɪt/ /ˈwʊm.ən/ /ɪz/ /strəʊl/ /wɪð/ /hɜːr /ˈsʌn.ʃeɪd/.
English lady also very angry what a slap to her husband
New friend here like donee 🔔✅
I am the hundredth.Will it be long stories from you on this channel?Like you visited theme park or something like that.
Thanks! High video quality for a channel that is so new😃 When the words were pronounced with a rhotic r it automatically made me think of Ireland 🇮🇪😂 I’m thinking of moving to Ireland and would like to try and be able to naturally use an Irish accent, as well as learning Irish. This video has helped me to notice individual words can be pronounced differently based on the words around them sometimes. Subscribed 👍🏼
Great! I’m glad you found it helpful!
Thank you
Wow🥰🙏 Thank you to teach us non-native🥰🙏
Hi Ladies. Nice video. I came to comment on the cool 'jingle' at the end but I would like to leave some other comments now that I'm here. It's interesting that you have made this family business. I congratulate you on that. Lastly, we all forgive your mistake. We are all human and we all make them, even native speakers like myself. Keep on keeping on. Peace
Many thanks for your kind words Lisa!!
Are you twins?
Yes we are Pawel!
@@accentology Yeah, it's not like you can hide that 🙂
Yes, English pronunciation is extremely difficult. There are really no pure phonetic languages, but you are correct that German and Spanish are pretty close. I can read aloud a random text in Spanish and most native Spanish speakers will understand me, even though I would have no clue what I am reading.
Really informative! Thanks a lot ♡
Thanks for the comment! :)
I took my phonetics mid-term exam a few days ago. One question asked to identify the vowel sounds in tomb, gnaw, ago, and onion. It was a hard question but I only got tomb wrong. The right answer was /u:/, but who would've known it?
I know!!! You couldn’t guess it if you didn’t know it!! It’s so confusing !!! Well done for getting all the others right! :)
I must apologise for an inaccuracy in this video: I mentioned that ‘outrage’ is a word formed of ‘out’ and ‘rage’, but in FACT it originates from the old French ‘ou(l)trage, itself from the Latin ‘ultra’ (beyond)!
Incredible as always! I have never thought of that as a learner of English! Cheers! x
Nice foxy girls.
You're so adorable! I'm Russian and fell head over hills in love with British English. As I can see, you can speak both Russian and English. Besides, your accents change whenever you switch to another language! Well done you!
Thank you Nastya!
Well put, ladies! Unless it's a question of self-confidence, a dash of Anglophilia, or a desire to work in broadcasting , people should regard their accent with a sense of pride. That said, good on you for providing the opportunity to help people out 👍
NB: we didn’t mention this but not ALL U.S. accents are rhotic! The accent in Boston, for example, ans some southern states, is non-rhotic.
The last few pockets of non-rhotic accents in the U.S. namely in New England and a small part of the south gulf region are dissappearing. The famed "Brooklyn" accent which was non-rhotic has almost dissappeared. I am a 43 year old native of Brooklyn NY and when I was a child I remember hearing this accent...people saying New Yawk or Watah instead of water. I have rarely if at all heard this accent since the late 90s. Incidentally AAVE retains the non-rhotic flavor of what used to the standard non-rhotic elements of southern speech, black and white alike. Since the great migration when millions of African Americans moved north they preserved the non-rhotic elements that have been waning from standard white speech accents in the south in recent decades.More and more in the U.S. regional accents are dissappearing in favor of the "standard" American accent best represented in media and has perpetuated by younger generations no longer geographically isolated and limited to exposure from other parts of the country.
@@MrPickledede very interesting! It seems a shame that this Brooklyn accent is disappearing - I suppose language changes all the time, and I certainly have noticed changes in British speech since the 90s!
also AAVE