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Linguistic variation and language evolution DOES occur cutting through all levels of the system: phonetics, morphology, lexicon, syntax, pragmatics and discourse. The difference lies in the time span between lexicon and grammatical variation, for example, otherwise English hadn't evolved from Old English, to Middle English to Early Modern English to current usage. Languages are social conventions and abide by social norms and conventions. If the latter change, languages change as well.

The quality of your video is so high that it literally feels like scientific researches, now I see what you meant when you said your videos are heavily scripted. Every word is deliberatedly picked to delivery your idea accurately,I can't Imagine the efforts and the enthusiasm you put into making these videos, great work.

This is just a load of liberal prejudice. It is not the accent that bothers me as mine is the same; more from a mixture of cultures then emotion, thus it is the liberal cancel culture attitude that is injected in your behavior that is diabolical and threating.😮 It is not friendly at all, but pulls the listener away from what you are saying toward your counter culture message of I'm right you have a problem ducky!

I opened multiple videos at once on this topic then almost immediatly closed all others after watching yours for 2 minutes.

Please explain in details: It is high time we raised our voice against it. Thanks!

Very interesting, but what is meant with "RP"?

I cant understsnd you.

A fun one is that Canadians and Western Americans, some Midwesterners, and some New Englanders say these the same, and somehow it doesn't cause confusion: Cot/Caught Don/Dawn Not/Naught Bot/Bought Pa/Paw All/Awl Mod/Maude And don't even get me started with pin/pen in the Southern US! So... Good luck, English learners! 🙂

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Who else here trying to impersonate Philomena Cunk?

To me, fluency in a target language means being able to do things like the following - Understand tv, including news, at least with subtitles. Ask for help in a store, and chat with other customers. Enjoy books and magazines intended for native speakers. Recount a funny story about something that happened to you, and understand when another speaker does the same. Understand announcements over a PAS in the target language, and keep up with a group of people talking in a group. Basically... Could you live your life comfortably, and express yourself fully, in the target language. For most people, that means C1.

Thank you so much.

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I think the A sound like in character or sad is not that they pronounce as an E sound but it is more like a very high pitched A .

Really helpful, thanks! How do they explain the phenomenon of one single IPA sound, sounding like three different sounds? Seems illogical....

I'm pretty sure /e/ is not in the word pen. Pen is transcribed /pɛn/ with the vowel /ɛ/.

cool lesson, thank you

I'm very much like you too, ready to spend years in my workshop studying and experimenting with violin acoustics. And I'm indeed very embarassed when other violin makers are asking for my opinion about their instruments, as in most cases I'd be inclined to answer "it sounds like shit", by I am trying to find some other words, of course. BTW I'm never offended if someone has negative opinion of my work, or wants to point on smth. that has to be better. As far as I understand in the British society, which I'm not a part of, there is a tradition of not saying things directly, especially negative, and it has it's positive and negative sides.

What a terribly perfect video, I'm absolutely carried away by it!!!

I love this !!

Well, I can completely disagree about what you're saying around 8.30 about the Italian or any other foreigner, that people are hearing the closest matching sounds of their mother tongue, rather than the original sounds of the foreign language. It can be true fore SOME people but not at all everyone. Some people, including myself, have the ability to copy absolutely accurately ALL of the sounds of any foreign language almost instantaniously, without any instructions about speech organs positions, any phonetic explanations etc. I guess the key is the ability to hear things as they are without comparing or making conclusions that this sound is like some other sound in one's mother tongue. If people would really pay attention to what they hear, or at least would be trained in this direction, rather than rounding lips in a certain way, all of the accent coaches would have lost their jobs, I believe.

Thank you so much. I feel grateful because I chose your video over many other ones. I've been feeling dizzy all the time with advanced grammar, for example "as if". Sometimes, I see native speakers use as if with past tense, sometimes with present tense. I get so confused. Other sources didn't really explain enough. They either only talked about past tense or present tense. The same case with other tenses and structures. And your videos provide very detailed explanations.

A primer is also used in woodworking and making wooden musical instuments, meaning the same as a ground coat, that can be glue or pore filler before varnishing an instrument or a piece of furniture. Just some information from the luthier's world. BTW not too many people know what a luthier is - it's someone who builds guitars, lutes, violins, gambas etc.

Marvellous lesson! I don't know if someone speaks like you do in real life, I mean using this amount of advanced vocabulary in each sentence, but for educational purposes it's probably a good idea to construct such sentenses.

How do I know which one fit on me? My voice is slow with low tone.

Brilliantly explained, thank you!

There is quite a difference between Conservative RP that was used before WW2, the classic BBC accent of 40s-60s the way David Dimbleby and Alan Wicker and, maybe, Robert Day spoke and modern RP. I'm not going to go deeply into the details but they are not the same. You speak beautifully and I'm not finding your manner to be snobbish at all. Best regards from Russia! The Downton Abbey cast members who are playing high society characters do not speak properly in the manner people of the upper class used to speak during that period of time, only Maggie Smith does a good job of speaking a proper accent IMHO.

You're marvelous

That was professionally and fascinatingly done! Thanks a lot! Keep it up!!

thank you for your informative presentation

French spelling is better than English spelling (as a native English speaker) because while there are a lot of silent letters, you can almost always tell how it's pronounced if you familiarize yourself with the rules, English however, is inconsistent in how it's bad because different spellings were standardized referencing different dialects (why there are so many ways different sounds can be represented), English keeping the spelling and pronunciation of loan words (which is why champagne and other words like it got ridiculous spellings), spellings being old (why night has a gh, it used to be pronounced), and people just making weird spellings because they felt like it (hiccough, debt, comb, etc.). French only really has the historical spelling problem, because they don't have anywhere near as many loan words, and they didn't simp over other languages as much... Also English has way too many vowel sounds to be represented by a largely unmodified Latin alphabet...

This is quite thoroughly impressive. I thank you.

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I find that American accent is more easy to produce and understand but I find british accent more attractive and fun than American accent

It's interesting that so much of the modern American accent (the default one) has so much Northern British and Irish accent influences. 1800s-era Immigration from those areas definitely backs up why they were prevalent enough to influence it.

Please don’t say ‘in any way, shape or form’.

Love it!

I have an English exam that includes the grammar topic 'as if / as though.' Could the question require me to choose between 'as if' and 'as though' from the given options? For example, would both appear as choices?

I'm a tuition teacher, and I put my heart and soul to take care and teach my student....only 2 out of 10 of the student willing to listen plus they don't care about my concern of them, they just wanna feel comfortable and HAPPY all day smh. I work everyday like a machine. SO TOTALLY NOT MY FAULT. They even dare to say that I didn't teach some specific chapters of the subjects while I never skip any of them. starting from early this year, my student's behaviour gone worse. Got sick many times because of getting too much anger, hope I wouldn't died from that.

Thanks ! Very clear and helpful.

Incredible video.

It's a pleasure to listen to your English. Amazing pronunciation. Thank you for your hard work. P.S. You've revealed far more details for me than a grammar book by Michael Swan.

Really enjoyed 😊😊

Thanks

excellent class!!!!

excelent class as always

thank u handsom

what about sunderland or washington

I feel vibration in my throat( i put my hand on throat) pronouncing both 😂 like both voiced 😢