1. Think of it like whirl in whirl wind. Whirld 2. When you say thought or think it's the same th 3.deff en et lee . deffenetlee Maybe that helps, I dunno
if you learn tricky American accent you see the difference from them (work&walk) even me I promulgated( bee &be , sit & seat, meet & meat ) that has same pronunciation I was totally wrong when I still learn from Coursera tricky American accent I did realize that they have some different pronunciation to them! I do appreciate that channel it helps me to complete my record and Vannessa channel( speaks English with Vanessa )
@@kaissoune The reason is because the American accent is much flatter than a British one. Also, it's why so many non-American English speakers have an American inflection when singing.
I was practicing with my teacher the pronunciation of tooth and teeth. When I tried to putt it on a sentence I ended up saying "you've got really nice tits"... Tooth and teeth are not easy to pronounce...
English is my first language (I’m from the US) so I say these words without thinking most of the time. I was also wondering, is it easier for people learning English to distinguish work from walk when they are said with an American accent? They sound more different that way. Just wondering.
Congratulations on your great teaching style. What you're passing on here is so important. As someone who studied Thai and its five tones, I'd like to add something that really accelerated my pronunciation and it works well in reverse for students of English. Students: you must listen to the sound of your own voice and repeat exactly what you are hearing. Not everyone does this but it's the only way for your brain to connect with the real sound. When you do this, then see the explanation here about the formation/position of your mouth, tongue and teeth you'll find it much easier to master English. This teacher has a lovely accent!
@@emilywilding1327 N. American gang. I can't imagine saying anything besides "cloze". The "th" is just symbolic; it's never a problem in spoken use. But I say "COMF-ter-ble" because N. American "r" is so nice.
@Vivien Oge 😂😂 After watching this video, I got up to go to the kitchen and I was singing and jigging and dancing to : ' I walk to work I don't work to walk ' . 🤣🤣. Good to know I wasn't the only zany one,lol . 🗣️ i🚶to 👷 i don't 👷 to 🚶
Eat Sleep Dream English Your pupils/students are very lucky to have such a nice teacher :))) Little tip: It often helps to use similar words for a better understanding. For example: walk, talk, chalk... TFS
Great post Tom. As a native speaker I say these words exactly as you do. Ours is a very difficult language to learn, seems tough for those who speak the Romance languages to learn our many odd grammatical usages. You can see how English came from German because that’s a tough language to learn as well.
What really bugs me are words that have totally different pronunciations when they're nouns vs verbs or adjectives, just like that analysis vs analyse example. Eg politics vs political, indication vs indicative etc
Fobulous TV maybe what will help in some cases is knowing the emphasis is different based on whether it's a noun or verb: REcord-noun reCORD-verb PERmit-noun perMIT-verb Some exceptions where both are the same would be comfort, attack, and many many others. However if you know there are two pronunciations with different emphases, it's often safe to assume that the one with a stressed first syllable is a noun and the other is a verb.
Fobulous TV um you find that difficult to understand?? English is not that difficult of a language to learn, try Russian where each noun, verb has to change everytime you change I, you, us, them in past, present, future- all 6 would be different for I, 6 different for you and so on...
+Eat Sleep Dream English lol...thanks for relying my msg. Have been pratising english *British eng* for i while now. some say i have the british accent put it's been difficult keeping up since my country has an accent of it's own. i'm glad i stumbled upon your videos, wish we could chat more. Thanks again or cheers as you lot often say : ).
Probably because the English language comes from many languages. German. French. And many more. And then even some words are pronounced differently depending where you are from. The development of the English language is an amazing story. Pretty sure there are documentaries on it.
Good afternoon Teacher Tom! I've been working on my finals for school, and I'm not feeling so comfortable. I haven't asked him yet! However, I have a lovely time practicing my English with you! Thanz!
For me the most difficult aspect of the English language is linking words when words have just too many consonants in a row. The sixth stage (ksθ st). English always has to resort elision in order for words to sound more natural when speaking and that makes listening even more difficult because words sound different compared to the way the sound in isolation. While elision occurs in Romance languages it is much less common because there is more of a balance between vowels and consonants.
Work is small mouth and walk is when you elongate your mouth... Like your at the doctor's office and they need to look at the back of your throat... Awww... W(awww)lk :)
I am a native English speaker from Canada (Calgary, Alberta). I say more sounds in restaurant and comfortable. I didn't realize it was different in England com-fer-ta-bull and rest-uh-raunt
American here! We say ‘comfterbl’, and some people cut out the middle sounds in restaurant and dangerous, but some don’t. Accents really are interesting!
For me it's a bit difficult to say 1. Chlorine 2.Submerged 3. Administration 4. Encouragement 5. Literature It's just little difficult to say ( actually no its hard for me )
I never realized how differently Americans and English people (British mainly) pronounce words. It's weird when I hear this teacher teaching these words the technically correct way, when I say them completely different (granted I was born in Michigan but now live in California so sometimes words get muddled)
Grew up in Mississippi, have lived in Alabama since 1986. Clothes and close are pronounced the same. Then you have close. How close is the market? Please close the door. Work and walk. It is more like wawk and werk - hard r.
Sandy Loveday I'm from Texas and say close for clothes (pronounced 'cloze'). Close the door, same. But how 'close' is the market, I use a soft s. Do you use the z sound for close in that usage?
In my country these words are often mispronounced even by local English school teachers: comfortable, restaurant, island, dangerous, vegetables, work Another word is Wednesday, three/tree (th/tr sound), drawer/towel (we/el sound), etc.
Oh, gosh! It's my first time here and I love it! I laughed so much trying to say that tongue twist. I've been learning with American teachers so the British accent is not so common to me. Even though I wanna learn more with you. You're funny! Thumbs up right now!
Swap in an 'F' for any number starting with 'th' and immediately sound like you have lived in the south of England all your life! Example: Number three say 'free', 30 is a little more complex as the second 't' must be dropped 'firhe' and dont bother rounding the 'r' too much either. Also works in some names like Catherine, say Cafrine. Swear plenty with 'fack' doing the job nicely. Words ending in 'er/or' sub in 'ah' so all together "I fink the drivah needs to stay off tha M25(tweneefive) its noffing bu' a facking caw pawk".
Hi.There. I am not English native speaker ,I have just been relearning English these 5 years ,and almost by my own .I took some English online classes for first 2 years ,the rest I learnt it by self-learning, such as watching online English videos which were made form this wonderful teacher -Tom and other teachers(you are all very kind,friendly,warmhearted,diligent，talent at teaching English…Thank you ), read English books almost every day , watching English films online frequently and so on. Now I’d rewritten some pieces of lyrics of songs and sung them ..They were for people getting through the dreadful pandemic all over the world .I hope I could ispire peolpe more positive and optimistic by the special lyrics and singing. I’d done my best, at least I tried it .I hope that would be a good example for you all who are following Lucy’s English class and learning English online all over the world ,I hope that would be a inspiration and stimulation for you all . I’d posted these songs online.Such as some Chinese songs:《感谢》、《希望日红日》、《春节在哪里》《中国欢乐颂》，English songs :《let’s make our lives lovely》，《Let’s unite together to make the world lovely 》《we will regain joy pretty soon》，for children《Little baby we love you 》was for children…(they were on my TH-cam ,Facebook account and my Microblog acount: 18688819328 as well, please take a look at them if you have time ）… Please forgive me being rude .Because I am so earnest to spread those positive songs .I’d really aprreciate you all if you can spread the positive songs I’ve posted on my account over the internet, such as Facebook ,TH-cam ,Twitter or whatever you got .If people can hear it , It will possibly make people regain faith,strength and joy ,to relieve upset ,pain and worries. Thank you for your time and help . Lady Zheng 2021-2-26
I am English too but say comfortable using the second syllable also. No issues with walk / work. Restaurant; use second syllable also. Clothes, same as close. Island ... Agree. Dangerous; use second syllable also. Analysis; use second syllable also. Vegetable; agree. Tooth / Teeth; no issues as they are completely different vowels. Asked; agree!
As an American myself (California), for #2, i never really considered “walk” and “work” as being similar in sound, but I suppose they can be, depending on one’s accent. I always say (and hear most people say around here): “Work” sounds like “werk” “Walk” sound like “wahk” or even “wok”
work/walk is probably harder for the ones learning the "British way", it seems to me that Americans put a lot more stress on the R of work, I don't know the exact scientific terms but it's an anatomy's thing, the american accent is sharp and the british softer, that's why even with a lot of practice british accent will most likely sound fake for those who are really from UK. That's why adult japanese people have a hard time speaking english, our brain learns how everything sounds and then when we're speaking even if we know how a word should sound it's possible that we'll pronounce it wrong if we don't put a lot of effort in it.
As a non-native speaker of english, one of the most difficult listening challenges is telling 'can' apart from 'can't' as the pronunciation varies depending upon the accent.
I think I'm fairly good at English. I've studied it for more or less 10 years but one word that I still struggle with is "literature". It's so obvious I'm not a native speaker when I try to say it.
+Caroline Hedman You are from Sweden, right? May I ask which part of the word that troubles you? Anyway- it's pronounced "Litt-ra-chuh", with the stress on the first syllable. "LITT". If you speak American English you say :Li-der-a-chure". Sort of. Lycka till från en annan Svensk kvinna :) dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/literature
Words often mispronounced by non-native speakers: prayer iron lieutenant colonel sergeant dessert, possess, dissolve, Missouri lens, Mars attorney courtesy zealous ...
It's these Brits with their non-rhotic accents. In most of Canada and much of the US (outside New England or the South), work and walk are quite different :)
I’m 2nd generation British born, Jamaican background and I find it really hard to pronounce ear, eer, air and are sounds. Hear/here/hair or bear/beer/bare. I have a typical London accent otherwise, but just struggle with these sounds. 9 times out of 10 I say them correctly but it’s never quite become second nature. It’s so strange. I wonder if any other cultures have a problem with these words aswell. Ask/asks/asked is also tricky for me too. It becomes aks/aks/akst LOL. With language learning though, I don’t think it’s necessary to get so hung up on pronunciation and accents. Within Britain alone there is so much variation on how people say various words anyway. If someone says veg-e-table instead of ‘veg’t’ble it’s not a problem. Any English speaker will understand what you are saying.
Well, let's just say our language uses the same sound for different words. "There," "their" and "they're" are all pronounced the same, but they have a different meaning. I bet reading in English is a nightmare for non-English speakers learning our language.
"ear", "air" and "are" pronunciations are *totally* different, as are their meanings. A new immigrant *may* be confused, but a second gen British born person? Really? It may be time to take remedial English classes.
The absolutely most difficult word, which was completely beyond recognizing and understanding, I heard the other day in a speech of an elderly person from the US. It started with "America can be defined in one word" and then it came. I think it is worth an extra video! It went like "asomu-uh-hm". I was so intrigued.
@@S_U_R_A_J I think it's the way his tongue touches his lower teeth when he speaks. A hint of a lisp? I find Jamie Oliver's mouth distracting as well. All in a good way, of course.
This video made me realize that I've been saying close for clothes probably since kindergarten and no one said anything. I'm surprised my speech therapist didn't catch my mistake back in elementary.
i like how He addresses "Vegetable" and also the way he states mouth articulation display as an educational device, describing it as "making fun of one self" but actually very useful and functional.
My mother tongue is romanian and the "th" sound is by far the most difficult to pronounce. I imagine the native speakers of other romance languages find it difficult as well.
American speaker. I (we?) actually include every syllable in restaurant and dangerous, but as --what I would call-- a shadow schwa, sort of ambiguous, but definitely an additional syllable. Interesting video.
Tree is more pronounced : chree "Ch" as in cheese Three is pronounce with a hard "th" sound...like if you stick the tip of your your tongue out and hiss...ttttttthhhhhhhh
No, definitely don't say OF and then say TEN! That's not how English works! OF contains the /v/ sound and TEN contains the /ɛ/ vowel sound. The word OFTEN doesn't contain either. In IPA, OFTEN is /ˈɒfən/ or /ˈɒftən/.
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I think the word suggestion and enthusiasm are confusing words for some people too
1. Comfortable
2. Walk/Work
3. Restaurant
4. Clothes
5. Island
6. Dangerous
7. Analysis
8. Vegetable
9. Tooth/Teeth
10. Asked
Thank me later :)
Ha! 😂
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Thanks
Thank you later
Thanks!
Watching this video:
75%: English speakers
25%: Non English speakers
Ha ha!
Lemon Lemon
yesssssssssss
This is very true lol.
Lemon Lemon honestly 😂😂
Lemon Lemon That is weird
I'm a brazilian and the 3 hardest words to pronounce in english for me are:
1 - World
2 - Tooth/Teeth
3 - Definitely
same!!! I'm from Italy
Spanish speaker here, and same!! words with an r or more than one r are so hard for me
Definitely is very difficult
I'm a brazilian too but the only word of your list that I struggle to pronounce is "world", it's similar to "word" me
1. Think of it like whirl in whirl wind. Whirld
2. When you say thought or think it's the same th
3.deff en et lee . deffenetlee
Maybe that helps, I dunno
Daniel Radcliffe. 😂
Hehe well that's the first time I've heard that (I'm blushing now hehe)
Jeniffer A7X YOVINUS
Lol
I thought I was the only one...
Jeniffer A7X YOVINUS Omooooo I THOUGHT THE SAME THING THOOOO ASDFHJKLL
Jeniffer A7X YOVINUS that truuuue hhh
When you're from England, yet you're watching a video on how to pronounce English...
When you're from the U.S., yet you're watching a video on how to pronounce English... lol
This kinda threw me for a loop!
When you're from the Philippines, yet you're watching a video on how to pronounce English
When you're from the Pakistan yet you are watching a video on "how to pronounce English words".lol
"you're not doing it, i'm on my own"
me: how did he know?
Fucking exactly?? How did he know??
@@johnshepard3197 he’s a teacher! He is in front of students irl
The difference between “walk” and “work” are much more apparent in the American accent.
I was just thinking that!
if you learn tricky American accent you see the difference from them (work&walk) even me I promulgated( bee &be , sit & seat, meet & meat ) that has same pronunciation I was totally wrong when I still learn from Coursera tricky American accent I did realize that they have some different pronunciation to them! I do appreciate that channel it helps me to complete my record and Vannessa channel( speaks English with Vanessa )
@@kaissoune The reason is because the American accent is much flatter than a British one. Also, it's why so many non-American English speakers have an American inflection when singing.
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Super busy with a friend who is going on here for you and adam is a friend
I'm here for the first time and is it me or this guy looks like a successful mixture of Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton
Ha! What a combo LOL!
Anastasia It's physically impossible my dear; bit of a gender problem I'm told.
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I was practicing with my teacher the pronunciation of tooth and teeth. When I tried to putt it on a sentence I ended up saying "you've got really nice tits"... Tooth and teeth are not easy to pronounce...
😂
@@brianboru8858 If that’s true, then you’ve got a mouthful of sweater. And a slap coming! 😉
Easiest words:
Comfortable - comfy
Vegetables - veggies
Lol
American accent doesn't have the work/walk conundrum, thank God 😂
No, but I've had people mishear me when I say "restaurant" and think I said "restroom" (which is a word not used in British English).
Jeff Morse how tf?
😂😂
Americans say "comfortable" as "comfterble" with an "r" after "t".
Was thinking same...that’s not how we say comfortable!!
When you are a native speaker but still watch this video.
English is my first language (I’m from the US) so I say these words without thinking most of the time. I was also wondering, is it easier for people learning English to distinguish work from walk when they are said with an American accent? They sound more different that way. Just wondering.
"English is my first language (I’m from the US)" So therefore, English is NOT your first language. One of the "American" versions of it presumably is.
In American accent, the 'r' letter is always emphasized in a word. But in British accent, they always try to drop out this letter
Depends because I had aptitude so I learned very easily. But sometimes people in my country have a lot of trouble with English pronunciation.
@Cachorro BR
no. British English is best.
the words "work" and "walk" always confuse me
Irina K yeah same here!! wa- sound is sort of difficult to me
Yes Irina and Aubrey, I agree. They are very hard sounds to differentiate. I hope this video helps make them clearer for you.
Yeah, thank you for your help. I need more practice, but i understand the difference
Personally I find the American accent way easier for this couple of words
Kevin Luciani where from u r??
As an American (NorthEastern) I have always said RESTAURANT with 3 syllables. I didn't know there was any other way to pronounce it!
Daniel Radcliffe anyone??
YAAAAAS
if Daniel Radcliffe had no lips
Naaaw, its just the accent.
And maybe the eyes
Daniel Radcliffe
No.
Harry Potter
Yes.
Mar is evil here :v I thought the same
Congratulations on your great teaching style. What you're passing on here is so important. As someone who studied Thai and its five tones, I'd like to add something that really accelerated my pronunciation and it works well in reverse for students of English. Students: you must listen to the sound of your own voice and repeat exactly what you are hearing. Not everyone does this but it's the only way for your brain to connect with the real sound. When you do this, then see the explanation here about the formation/position of your mouth, tongue and teeth you'll find it much easier to master English. This teacher has a lovely accent!
Thanks for the lovely and very useful comments R Fairlie. I'm sure Eat Sleep Dreamers will find that advice very useful.
Thank you for the tips! The pronunciations of "comfortable" and "clothes" have been troubling me for years.
In American English the "th" is always left out. Just say "cloze"
@@emilywilding1327 N. American gang. I can't imagine saying anything besides "cloze". The "th" is just symbolic; it's never a problem in spoken use. But I say "COMF-ter-ble" because N. American "r" is so nice.
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No. You’re not alone actually 🤦🏻♀️😂
Can’t believe I was singing the “walk to work” rhythm with him😂
@Vivien Oge
😂😂 After watching this video, I got up to go to the kitchen and I was singing and jigging and dancing to : ' I walk to work
I don't work to walk ' . 🤣🤣. Good to know I wasn't the only zany one,lol . 🗣️ i🚶to 👷
i don't 👷 to 🚶
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Your pupils/students are very lucky to have such a nice teacher :))) Little tip: It often helps to use similar words for a better understanding. For example: walk, talk, chalk... TFS
Great post Tom. As a native speaker I say these words exactly as you do. Ours is a very difficult language to learn, seems tough for those who speak the Romance languages to learn our many odd grammatical usages. You can see how English came from German because that’s a tough language to learn as well.
I‘m a German native speaker. The Most difficult words are „particularly“ & „irregularly“. I get so many problems with these words. 🤭😂
I'm half German Finnish-speaker, and I agree with you!!
KingMacintosh that makes you stupid
XxHydroqueeniiaxX can u say them in German if so where’s the problem
XxHydroqueeniiaxX oh really? infact that's very easy to say with a proper pronunciation
Par-TICK-you-larly.... ee-REG-you-larly... why are these difficult to pronounce?? (I'm German as well.)
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I have a tip for Brazilians to speak perfectly "comfortable"
They need to say quickly, "campo de futebol".
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Ha ha - nice one Ellen!
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hehe gostei campo de futebol boa idea
@ ellen....very amusing. Whatever works! Robert
What really bugs me are words that have totally different pronunciations when they're nouns vs verbs or adjectives, just like that analysis vs analyse example. Eg politics vs political, indication vs indicative etc
I agree, that can be really frustrating Fobulous TV.
It’s spelled analyze just to let u know
Nakul Ganapathy only if you're spelling it the 'American' way...the British/English spelling is Analyse.
Fobulous TV maybe what will help in some cases is knowing the emphasis is different based on whether it's a noun or verb:
REcord-noun
reCORD-verb
PERmit-noun
perMIT-verb
Some exceptions where both are the same would be comfort, attack, and many many others. However if you know there are two pronunciations with different emphases, it's often safe to assume that the one with a stressed first syllable is a noun and the other is a verb.
Fobulous TV um you find that difficult to understand?? English is not that difficult of a language to learn, try Russian where each noun, verb has to change everytime you change I, you, us, them in past, present, future- all 6 would be different for I, 6 different for you and so on...
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I have an american accent and this video was amazing for learning how to pronounce things in british english....
+Sunny H so glad it was helpful.
Dear english native speakers. why do you like to throw away words. it's not fair .
love your vid by the way.
Hehe I'm sorry Daniel : )
+Eat Sleep Dream English lol...thanks for relying my msg. Have been pratising english *British eng* for i while now. some say i have the british accent put it's been difficult keeping up since my country has an accent of it's own. i'm glad i stumbled upon your videos, wish we could chat more. Thanks again or cheers as you lot often say : ).
Probably because the English language comes from many languages. German. French. And many more. And then even some words are pronounced differently depending where you are from. The development of the English language is an amazing story. Pretty sure there are documentaries on it.
because we are lazy hahaha
We do because we're lazy and just as confused about our language as you are.
Good afternoon Teacher Tom!
I've been working on my finals for school, and I'm not
feeling so comfortable.
I haven't asked him yet!
However, I have a
lovely time practicing my English with you!
Thanz!
For me the most difficult aspect of the English language is linking words when words have just too many consonants in a row. The sixth stage (ksθ st). English always has to resort elision in order for words to sound more natural when speaking and that makes listening even more difficult because words sound different compared to the way the sound in isolation.
While elision occurs in Romance languages it is much less common because there is more of a balance between vowels and consonants.
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I don't find any issue with the pronunciation between ''walk'' and ''work''.
Good to know Ricardo Cruz Soza - thanks for sharing with us.
Work is small mouth and walk is when you elongate your mouth... Like your at the doctor's office and they need to look at the back of your throat... Awww... W(awww)lk :)
But I just want to say I'm not being rude about this. Personally, I think some people who speak American English try to speak British ;)
you mean wolk and wark?
Ricardo Cruz Soza same here😂😂😂 but for english learners there is😂
I cannot stand it when someone will say I brought a new dress from Zara!!
It should be BOUGHT!🤔🤨
I'm a native speaker of English and I've been saying brought instead of bought and vice versa ever since I was a child
it shouldn't be anything with zara , they should be out of business
I am a native English speaker from Canada (Calgary, Alberta). I say more sounds in restaurant and comfortable. I didn't realize it was different in England
com-fer-ta-bull and rest-uh-raunt
That's interesting. Thanks for sharing Derek.
Well, there's always "comfy."
American here! We say ‘comfterbl’, and some people cut out the middle sounds in restaurant and dangerous, but some don’t. Accents really are interesting!
I’m american and I think it’s so cool to hear how different this British English and the general American accent are so different
Thanks Luis.
Except you mean "real" English and the US derivatives
Thank you! Love the vibes you bring! Got inspired a lot🤩
I know how to pronounce those words.. watching only because of his eyes. love his eyes 😍
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10. Pneumoniultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Ah yes, miner's lung
This is longest Word of english, isn't it?
Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine (in TURKISH🇹🇷)
this one is super easy easier than walk and work but only it is
because i am a doctor
you made a typo its:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
For me it's a bit difficult to say
1. Chlorine
2.Submerged
3. Administration
4. Encouragement
5. Literature
It's just little difficult to say ( actually no its hard for me )
After living here for 50 years I am ashamed to say I got two wrong. And I thought I was fluent hahaha!
Tineke Williams ha ha - we never stop learning!
I am a native English speaker and I've always said "clothes" the same way as "close". But I'm an American.
I’m impresssed you have been a teacher for ten years. I have been an ESL teacher for 32 years. You are just a beginner.
Where is the "world"?
For me its most difficult to pronunce...
Yes that's a tough one.
Maryan Pekha yaasss!!
How?? Work, walk, and world are so easy to say. It must be an accent thing.
Maryan Pekha The world? Well, you're most likely on it actually.
I never realized how differently Americans and English people (British mainly) pronounce words. It's weird when I hear this teacher teaching these words the technically correct way, when I say them completely different (granted I was born in Michigan but now live in California so sometimes words get muddled)
Michigander here, too. My mouth does the exact opposite as his mouth when I say walk and work! :)
Grew up in Mississippi, have lived in Alabama since 1986.
Clothes and close are pronounced the same. Then you have close. How close is the market? Please close the door.
Work and walk. It is more like wawk and werk - hard r.
Sandy Loveday I'm from Texas and say close for clothes (pronounced 'cloze'). Close the door, same. But how 'close' is the market, I use a soft s. Do you use the z sound for close in that usage?
Tawny C. , Yes. Exactly. A z sound for close the door and clothes and an s sound for how close.
Sandy Loveday thanks...btw, we would never say "market" here, unless it's the flea market or farmers' market and then we'd say the whole thing...
I think a word that is really, really hard to pronounce is "world". A lot more difficult than the ones you picked.
WHAT WORLD ARE YOU LIVING IN?? SO EASY!
@@aliciamangar1513 maybe to people who learnt English
"Don't tell anyone our secret, okay?"
I mean, you only told about 1 MILLION people soooooooooooo......
Ha, I do everything in English because it’s all I know.
YetiBlizzard same
In my country these words are often mispronounced even by local English school teachers:
comfortable, restaurant, island, dangerous, vegetables, work
Another word is Wednesday, three/tree (th/tr sound), drawer/towel (we/el sound), etc.
I've heard English people using 'paw' as in a dog's paw to pronounce
Poor, paw and pour !
Oh, gosh! It's my first time here and I love it! I laughed so much trying to say that tongue twist. I've been learning with American teachers so the British accent is not so common to me. Even though I wanna learn more with you. You're funny! Thumbs up right now!
So pleased you liked it Otaku! Welcome to Eat Sleep Dream English!
Eat Sleep Dream English thank you so much!
Swap in an 'F' for any number starting with 'th' and immediately sound like you have lived in the south of England all your life! Example: Number three say 'free', 30 is a little more complex as the second 't' must be dropped 'firhe' and dont bother rounding the 'r' too much either. Also works in some names like Catherine, say Cafrine. Swear plenty with 'fack' doing the job nicely. Words ending in 'er/or' sub in 'ah' so all together "I fink the drivah needs to stay off tha M25(tweneefive) its noffing bu' a facking caw pawk".
ROCKSOCK79 south east maybe. South west pronounce TH as TH
You have terrible taste in comedy.
Gracias. Me has ayudado un chingo!
Hi.There.
I am not English native speaker ,I have just been relearning English these 5 years ,and almost by my own .I took some English online classes for first 2 years ,the rest I learnt it by self-learning, such as watching online English videos which were made form this wonderful teacher -Tom and other teachers(you are all very kind,friendly,warmhearted,diligent，talent at teaching English…Thank you ), read English books almost every day , watching English films online frequently and so on.
Now I’d rewritten some pieces of lyrics of songs and sung them ..They were for people getting through the dreadful pandemic all over the world .I hope I could ispire peolpe more positive and optimistic by the special lyrics and singing.
I’d done my best, at least I tried it .I hope that would be a good example for you all who are following Lucy’s English class and learning English online all over the world ,I hope that would be a inspiration and stimulation for you all .
I’d posted these songs online.Such as some Chinese songs:《感谢》、《希望日红日》、《春节在哪里》《中国欢乐颂》，English songs :《let’s make our lives lovely》，《Let’s unite together to make the world lovely 》《we will regain joy pretty soon》，for children《Little baby we love you 》was for children…(they were on my TH-cam ,Facebook account and my Microblog acount: 18688819328 as well, please take a look at them if you have time ）…
Please forgive me being rude .Because I am so earnest to spread those positive songs .I’d really aprreciate you all if you can spread the positive songs I’ve posted on my account over the internet, such as Facebook ,TH-cam ,Twitter or whatever you got .If people can hear it , It will possibly make people regain faith,strength and joy ,to relieve upset ,pain and worries.
Thank you for your time and help .
Lady Zheng
2021-2-26
I'm your new subscriber, i like the way you said "walk and work" that's awesome.
Hopefully you can reach your millions subscribers ... Goodluck :)
Welcome to Eat Sleep Dream English arma anti great to have you with us.
When I hear people say “aks” instead of “ask” 😑🙄
that is a black thing.
"When I hear people say “aks” instead of “ask". I agree; death is the only suitable punishment!
Pamela Hollon yeah...
Fiona Gregory
The hell? It is not, where are you from?
When I see someone use a clause or preposition as a sentence
I am English too but say comfortable using the second syllable also.
No issues with walk / work.
Restaurant; use second syllable also.
Clothes, same as close.
Island ... Agree.
Dangerous; use second syllable also.
Analysis; use second syllable also.
Vegetable; agree.
Tooth / Teeth; no issues as they are completely different vowels.
Asked; agree!
The words 'walk' and 'work' would be difficult for people to learn if their first language was Japanese. Great video too!
Is it because 'l' word is pronounce as 'r' and will sound similar? I am just learning Japanese so trying to figure out😄
th-cam.com/video/wmszRePGM9M/w-d-xo.html
3:28
I'm doing it YOU'RE NOT ON YOUR OWN.
have you fallen for the hazza too?
Am I the only one who totally felt the little walk/work rap thing? Don‘t think so, loved it! HAHAHAHA
I love this so much being American 😍
Amanda's_ Trash ur pfp yesssss lol
I'm always struggling with though, through, tough and thou, do you have a vid of this? Thanks a lot!
SIXTH. It's odd how many native English speakers in England cannot pronounce this word.
It's exactly as one would pronounce DEPTH!
1.Comfortable.
2.Walk/Work.
3.Restaurant.
4.Clothes.
5.Island.
6.Dangerous.
7.Analysis.
8.Vegetable.
9.Tooth/Teeth.
10.Asked.
spoiler.
How did you make the 3th nme blue?
Thanks.
It's blue because 3.Restaurant is a website
*i* *don't* *know*
As an American myself (California), for #2, i never really considered “walk” and “work” as being similar in sound, but I suppose they can be, depending on one’s accent.
I always say (and hear most people say around here):
“Work” sounds like “werk”
“Walk” sound like “wahk” or even “wok”
work/walk is probably harder for the ones learning the "British way", it seems to me that Americans put a lot more stress on the R of work, I don't know the exact scientific terms but it's an anatomy's thing, the american accent is sharp and the british softer, that's why even with a lot of practice british accent will most likely sound fake for those who are really from UK. That's why adult japanese people have a hard time speaking english, our brain learns how everything sounds and then when we're speaking even if we know how a word should sound it's possible that we'll pronounce it wrong if we don't put a lot of effort in it.
Thanks for that insight Marcos C. Very interesting.
what about: sixth, squirrel, choir, isthmus, rural, antarctic, brewery, thoroughly, antidisestablishmentarianism and anesthetize
Wow, yes that's quite a list. Squirrel comes up a lot. I need to do another 10 words!
yes haha, I have trouble pronouncing those.
As a non-native speaker of english, one of the most difficult listening challenges is telling 'can' apart from 'can't' as the pronunciation varies depending upon the accent.
Sometimes even native speakers have to ask the speaker "can or can't?"
I think I'm fairly good at English. I've studied it for more or less 10 years but one word that I still struggle with is "literature". It's so obvious I'm not a native speaker when I try to say it.
Caroline Hedman Lit-ur-uh-churr
You're welcome. 👍
Brits are more likely to say lih-tra-chur...One less syllable
USA English: litter-chur or from around NYC: litta-chur
+Caroline Hedman You are from Sweden, right? May I ask which part of the word that troubles you? Anyway- it's pronounced "Litt-ra-chuh", with the stress on the first syllable. "LITT". If you speak American English you say :Li-der-a-chure". Sort of. Lycka till från en annan Svensk kvinna :) dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/literature
Words often mispronounced by non-native speakers:
prayer
iron
lieutenant
colonel
sergeant
dessert, possess, dissolve, Missouri
lens, Mars
attorney
courtesy
zealous
...
Thank you a lot!
Especially for Restaurant, Clothes & Island
Gotta do an American English version because it's very different for walk work...
I've done a few videos comparing British and American English - here's the most recent. th-cam.com/video/lCYL0jOcrtQ/w-d-xo.html
Jerjer B American English is not proper English
Dylan Shaughnessy Define proper English.
Dylan Shaughnessy
If spoken properly, American English is, without question, proper English.
It's these Brits with their non-rhotic accents. In most of Canada and much of the US (outside New England or the South), work and walk are quite different :)
I’m 2nd generation British born, Jamaican background and I find it really hard to pronounce ear, eer, air and are sounds. Hear/here/hair or bear/beer/bare. I have a typical London accent otherwise, but just struggle with these sounds. 9 times out of 10 I say them correctly but it’s never quite become second nature. It’s so strange. I wonder if any other cultures have a problem with these words aswell.
Ask/asks/asked is also tricky for me too. It becomes aks/aks/akst LOL.
With language learning though, I don’t think it’s necessary to get so hung up on pronunciation and accents. Within Britain alone there is so much variation on how people say various words anyway. If someone says veg-e-table instead of ‘veg’t’ble it’s not a problem. Any English speaker will understand what you are saying.
Well, let's just say our language uses the same sound for different words. "There," "their" and "they're" are all pronounced the same, but they have a different meaning. I bet reading in English is a nightmare for non-English speakers learning our language.
"ear", "air" and "are" pronunciations are *totally* different, as are their meanings. A new immigrant *may* be confused, but a second gen British born person? Really?
It may be time to take remedial English classes.
The absolutely most difficult word, which was completely beyond recognizing and understanding, I heard the other day in a speech of an elderly person from the US. It started with "America can be defined in one word" and then it came. I think it is worth an extra video! It went like "asomu-uh-hm". I was so intrigued.
Come on, the guy has a stutter. You should watch the King's Speech, and gain a little sympathy.
thanks my friend very usefull and the video about ED ending words too
Really happy you enjoyed the videos Alekz, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment : )
His mouth is distracting me..
Why? Btw me too😆
Jajajaajjaa yeah
Same
@@S_U_R_A_J I think it's the way his tongue touches his lower teeth when he speaks. A hint of a lisp?
I find Jamie Oliver's mouth distracting as well.
All in a good way, of course.
He has an underbite which affects where his tongue hits his teeth. His upper row of teeth are small as well.
Great teacher thank u I really appreciate what u are teaching us I don’t feel bored when I watch u videos GOd bless u
English is my mother tongue but I always trip over "sixth" 🤦
Love u so much .. Getting a lot of benift from u as an Egyption girl learning English ❤
Simply put! you are a passionate teacher❤❤❤❤❤❤
I live to eat, not eat to live! 😅😋😀Great video!
Best teacher ❤
Sirn Saroun of course bro
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You sûre, I rarely seldom watch his TH-cam
This video made me realize that I've been saying close for clothes probably since kindergarten and no one said anything. I'm surprised my speech therapist didn't catch my mistake back in elementary.
Daniel Radcliffe eyes. You've probably heard that before, yes?
NOT a bad thing!
Hehe it seems to be a theme. I've never heard it before but thank you : ) ssppeellll
Me going to work after watching this : “I walk to work I don’t work to walk” 🎶🎶🎶🎶
i wak to wok i ont wok to wak
i like how He addresses "Vegetable" and also the way he states mouth articulation display as an educational device, describing it as "making fun of one self" but actually very useful and functional.
I love the tongue twister! It's funny 😄
I'm doing a whole video on fun tongue twisters soon karen sylvia, look out for it!
My mother tongue is romanian and the "th" sound is by far the most difficult to pronounce. I imagine the native speakers of other romance languages find it difficult as well.
+vidiac2012 yes I think they do.
vidiac2012 Yeah especially followed by an R like through, three, thrush
da !!
vidiac2012 No, actually Castilian (European Spanish) has the TH sound.
American speaker. I (we?) actually include every syllable in restaurant and dangerous, but as --what I would call-- a shadow schwa, sort of ambiguous, but definitely an additional syllable. Interesting video.
*Vegee table*
Potato veg'table...no a or e needed
veg-ta-bull
Vechtabl
Arugula is a veg-e-table
Tree and three
Yup tough ones.
Like " I saw tree fellas climbing a tree" lol
and in the republic of ireland they're pronounced the same anyway.
Tree is more pronounced : chree
"Ch" as in cheese
Three is pronounce with a hard "th" sound...like if you stick the tip of your your tongue out and hiss...ttttttthhhhhhhh
chaibia027 k
Seks
Thank you. I faced some problem, when I pronounced 'work' and' walk'. But now these words are very easy I am pronouncing. Thank you so much.
I'm English why am i watching this.
Ha ha - not sure Ruby!
Same here😊
me too - I'm a little mesmerised by the slight lithp : ) - but in a good way!!
Cross checking if you know what you're doing
You can never be too sure lol
You're absolutely brilliant😂 I'm dying😂😂😂😂😂😂
Awesome! I'm happy you enjoyed it Barunka : )
:-))
Learning never stops, Thanks a bunch
Can you please help me pronounce OFTEN. sometime i heard middle sound is 't' sometime i heard middle sound is "f"
Yeah those are the two ways to pronounce it. I use both in my spoken English. I suggest you use the one you feel most comfortable with.
You MUST pronounce the 'f'. Some people pronounce the 't', others don't.
thanh doan minh say of and then say ten
No, definitely don't say OF and then say TEN! That's not how English works! OF contains the /v/ sound and TEN contains the /ɛ/ vowel sound. The word OFTEN doesn't contain either. In IPA, OFTEN is /ˈɒfən/ or /ˈɒftən/.
poftim
It's derived from the old English "oft", so the T can always be prounounced but doesn't necessarily need to be prounounced.
Where is "sixth"?
Shad0w good lord that awful word.
A lot of native English speakers are changing this to "sickth" now. I say "sixth", but I'm 58! Try saying "The sixth sheik's sixth sheep is sick".(!)
Cheers mate. It was abso-bloody-lutely useful.
'Work' only has a silent R in England, here in Scotland we actually pronounce our Rs, but we don't pronounce our Ts
I do the same thing us Utahns don't pronounce our Ts but every other letter we will say
Lana Del Gay the r is not silent otherwise you are saying wok you fool
Fundiamond 211 so Uah then
then "water" is pronounce as "wa'er"? so hard to understand if we have a conversation on the phone ..
I'm Scottish as well and I definitely pronounce my T's!!
How can you say, for instance how are you today with out the T?
I'm french and it's not those words that i fond the most difficult ones i have Real issues with words with 'thr"
Very Helpful , Thank you for this.
Vega Tables
veg-ta-bulls