Weir A weir or low head dam is a barrier across the width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level. They are also used to control the flow of water for outlets of lakes
Hello Victoria :) Speaking of things dictionaries don’t mention - I was talking to a native speaker from California the other day and I used the word “cult” in a sentence and they told me I pronounce it wrong. Apparently, /kʌlt/ (the dictionary pronunciation) is not how people in CA say it. For them, cult sounds more like /kʊlt/ with a certain degree of lip rounding and rhymes with bull /bʊl/. When I asked about some other words with the -UL letter combination (adult, bulb, gulp, multiple) - they confirmed that all of them have the /ʊ/ vowel sound. The interesting thing is that there were also exceptions to this pattern - the words color, lull & skull apparently retain the /ʌ/ (uh) vowel. I was wondering whether this also occurs in your accent and if so, is there a way to predict whether /ʊ/ or /ʌ/ should be used? I apologize if the explanation is somewhat convoluted :( Anyway, thank you so much again for always creating such high quality content!
Hi there:) In my own speech, /ʊ/ is quite rare, and I wouldn’t use it for cult, adult, gulp, multiple or bulb. It might be a specific California-ism: there is certainly a distinguishable dialect over there. In terms of predicting, there is so so much variation all over North America, that it would really come down to listening to how a given word is said in a particular speech community, be it CA or another place, to be considered “correct” by those living in that area. But if you ever want to have a good guess, I suggest you pop the word into youglish.com and you can hear lots of different usages of a given word in context, said by multiple speakers. I just did this for the word “cult” out of curiosity- there was a mix of both. I looked up where two of the /ʊ/ producers lived- #1- Maciej Ceglowski and #10- Tai Lopez- both live in CA!
hi I'm lakshay from india i really love your way of teaching i found you so helpful you're a great teacher i have been watching videos for 8 months i mean American English learning videos and i have learned lot of things about American pronunciation and American English and i love the way American talk American English is way too easier for me to understand than Australian or British but i need somebody who can help in person i want somebody to give me feedback if I'm doing it right or not and what's way of doing it correctly though i have learned lot of things thorough your videos and others as well but i don't know if i do it right or not so if you offer private sessions through Skype or something like that i would love to be your student i really need your help i wanna sound natural and understandable by everyone especially by native speakers i need your with this and if you do offer private sessions please let me know i need a native couch like you who can exactly tell me what i exactly need to do where my English is today, I'll be waiting for your reply. thank you 😊😊
Hi Lakshay! Thanks very much for your kind words:) I’m glad to hear you’ve been making progress on your own by watching videos, etc. I agree that at a certain point, getting feedback is helpful. Unfortunately, I am currently not working with individual clients, though I am sure you’ll be able to find someone online fairly easily. I hope you find someone excellent:-) Wishing you all the best of your journey!!
@@AmericanAccentMastery oh okay but can YOU suggest me somebody who can help with this because I'm not able to find do you know anybody because you're American English so you must be knowing who can help me with this if yod do that would be great for me.
@@lakshaysharma658 Unfortunately, I don’t personally know anyone who does this that I could recommend:( But since it will be remotely, you can Google “accent reduction” and the name of a major city, like NYC for example, and there are many options that come up, some of which offer Skype. Just FYI- anyone can offer accent reduction, there is no specific training that is required. Speech language pathologists hold a Master’s degree, and are often among those who offer the service, so they are typically better qualified, though I’m sure you can find non speech pathologists who are quite skilled as well.. Just something to be aware of though. Best of luck:)
You're welcome, I hope it was helpful:) You can also try "youglish.com" to get more auditory exposure to how different speakers say the word in context:-)
How much you reduce can be partially attributed to a speaker’s style, though I personally never say wee-r. If it’s able to be a contraction, it can be w-r. Oddly enough, I tried to come up with any scenario in which I’d say wee-r yesterday, but nothing realistic came to mind.. Put “we’re” into youglish.com to hear a variety of speakers:-)
Sometimes, Southerners pronounce "where" almost like "way-yer". Can you believe that? I also like how a Californian like me says "worry" as "wer-ee", but someone from the East coast might say "wuh-wree".
My accent is hard to pin down- I was born in Poland, raised in Canada, later lived in the US (northeast) for a number of years. It fluctuates based on where I am sometimes- probably because English wasn’t spoken in the home so it’s less linked to my identity (I think..)
@@AmericanAccentMastery you speak great, I think you've mastered the American accent but I also noticed not an accent but a tone of voice, I thought you were maybe from a state near Canada.
@@nitochi3 I know what you mean! The other day when I was speaking with my friends from graduate school (all raised in the US) my husband commented that we all sounded like a "bunch of valley girls". I wish I could have observed if my tone of voice was any different. It's interesting stuff!
@@AmericanAccentMastery I’m Canadian. One feature of your speech that I noticed doesn’t sound Canadian is that you don’t pronounce the letter T in words like senTence or wriTTen.
Am I the only who prefers english as a non-phonetical language?, while a phonetical language may seem easier, it doesn't always work, I'm a native portuguese speaker and it commonly gets hard to guess where it should be punctuated or not
I was thinking of running for president. Once elected, I would force English spelling to be redefined so as to match phonetics without any ambiguity or exceptions. I could do sooo much good if I were president. It gives me goosebumps to think about it!
@@didiTchu Great guess, though my native language is actually Polish. You've perhaps heard of it, but if not, an excellent TH-cam channel on which the teacher IS Israeli is called English with Hadar:-) I've always wanted to visit Israel, hopefully one day!
I was watching your video. It is quite interestig but cant pay attention much cause the backgroung, is too brigh and hurts my eyes. Wish you could do Another vid with the lights dim back there. Thank you in advance.
I believe Gervonta Davis was going to bag " Ryan Garcia " anyway... my non bias opinion, i believe Shakur Stevenson, including Regis Prograis are the only two fighters to possibly defeat Gervonta Davis " right now Gervonta Davis " is the face of boxing we need to give credit were credit is due. Fight Doctor " Everything you're saying is true 👍 Mental War or not, Gervonta Davis " was going to bag Ryan Garcia. Ryan wasn't ready for Gervonta Davis, who has a world of experience. Will see what's next for Gervonta and Ryan " As for Oscar, Joe shame on these guys...
Hey! If you just want the pronunciation without explanation, check out the site youglish.com, you’ll hear a bunch of different speakers saying your target word. It’s very helpful!
@@AmericanAccentMastery no no, explanations are very good, I like them and I want them as well. I meant that in this video in the beginning you were introducing the topic too long imho. The video itself and explanations are great, thank you! And the website is definitely something I've been looking for for months. Thank you very much! Just keep it up, don't listen to haters :D
Hi Ralph! You can slow down the playback speed in the TH-cam settings:-) Almost all of my clients are advanced speakers, and they prefer when I speak at the same speed they hear out in the real world.
R U kidding? She speaks slowly enough to understand. If you don't understand this, how can you understand natives speaking in a natural way? Slow down the video! It is your problem, not ours
can not get enough!! High quality channel! The best English accent channel I’ve see . The articulation, the accuracy and even the studio layout,, best
Alec thank you so much 😊!!! Best wishes:)
Weir
A weir or low head dam is a barrier across the width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level. They are also used to control the flow of water for outlets of lakes
the way you talk it's magical hahahahaaha great work
You are one of the great teacher I have ever seen. I'm eagerly wating for your new content...
This was really good, really professional and high quality video. Very informative too
Thanks so much for your kind words:-)
Try not to punctuate everything you write, and try to use connectors.
Amazing video.
You rule!!!
Thanks for so valuable video... I really enjoyed it!
Thanks very helpful for us.
Thank you so much! Now, I know how to pronunce ``were´´ and ``where´´.
Literally your words and accent I'm getting in proper way.
This has been helpful. I am having trouble pronouncing these words. Thank you!
I often expected to have a teacher like you in my classroom but unfortunately...
Thanks for your kind words!
Great lesson
My great teacher..thanks
You're very welcome!
Have you ever seen speech on a spectrogram? It's totally fascinating!
Haha, yeah! I love spectrograms:-)
@@AmericanAccentMastery -- If you are into spectrograms, then you are my kind of gal!
Muchas gracias, bien explicado. Me ayudó mucho
Thanks so much:)
Fantastic teacher.
2:20 video starts.
We're! Interesting. Thanks.
It's helpful. Thank you so much!
Thanks so much, the words ´were´ and ´where ´are so similar at the pronunciation but ins't imposible
Hi I’m new teacher Victoria .... I hope to learn with your videos thank you.
very excellent explanation. Thank you!
Thanks so much for your kind words! You're very welcome!
You are doing a good job!👍 Your lessons are always helpful.
Thanks so much, so glad to hear that!!
Hello Victoria :) Speaking of things dictionaries don’t mention - I was talking to a native speaker from California the other day and I used the word “cult” in a sentence and they told me I pronounce it wrong. Apparently, /kʌlt/ (the dictionary pronunciation) is not how people in CA say it. For them, cult sounds more like /kʊlt/ with a certain degree of lip rounding and rhymes with bull /bʊl/. When I asked about some other words with the -UL letter combination (adult, bulb, gulp, multiple) - they confirmed that all of them have the /ʊ/ vowel sound. The interesting thing is that there were also exceptions to this pattern - the words color, lull & skull apparently retain the /ʌ/ (uh) vowel. I was wondering whether this also occurs in your accent and if so, is there a way to predict whether /ʊ/ or /ʌ/ should be used? I apologize if the explanation is somewhat convoluted :( Anyway, thank you so much again for always creating such high quality content!
Hi there:) In my own speech, /ʊ/ is quite rare, and I wouldn’t use it for cult, adult, gulp, multiple or bulb. It might be a specific California-ism: there is certainly a distinguishable dialect over there. In terms of predicting, there is so so much variation all over North America, that it would really come down to listening to how a given word is said in a particular speech community, be it CA or another place, to be considered “correct” by those living in that area. But if you ever want to have a good guess, I suggest you pop the word into youglish.com and you can hear lots of different usages of a given word in context, said by multiple speakers. I just did this for the word “cult” out of curiosity- there was a mix of both. I looked up where two of the /ʊ/ producers lived- #1- Maciej Ceglowski and #10- Tai Lopez- both live in CA!
@@AmericanAccentMastery You're an angel, thank you so much!!
hi I'm lakshay from india i really love your way of teaching i found you so helpful you're a great teacher i have been watching videos for 8 months i mean American English learning videos and i have learned lot of things about American pronunciation and American English and i love the way American talk American English is way too easier for me to understand than Australian or British but i need somebody who can help in person i want somebody to give me feedback if I'm doing it right or not and what's way of doing it correctly though i have learned lot of things thorough your videos and others as well but i don't know if i do it right or not so if you offer private sessions through Skype or something like that i would love to be your student i really need your help i wanna sound natural and understandable by everyone especially by native speakers i need your with this and if you do offer private sessions please let me know i need a native couch like you who can exactly tell me what i exactly need to do where my English is today, I'll be waiting for your reply.
thank you 😊😊
Hi Lakshay! Thanks very much for your kind words:) I’m glad to hear you’ve been making progress on your own by watching videos, etc. I agree that at a certain point, getting feedback is helpful. Unfortunately, I am currently not working with individual clients, though I am sure you’ll be able to find someone online fairly easily. I hope you find someone excellent:-) Wishing you all the best of your journey!!
@@AmericanAccentMastery oh okay but can YOU suggest me somebody who can help with this because I'm not able to find do you know anybody because you're American English so you must be knowing who can help me with this if yod do that would be great for me.
@@lakshaysharma658 Unfortunately, I don’t personally know anyone who does this that I could recommend:( But since it will be remotely, you can Google “accent reduction” and the name of a major city, like NYC for example, and there are many options that come up, some of which offer Skype. Just FYI- anyone can offer accent reduction, there is no specific training that is required. Speech language pathologists hold a Master’s degree, and are often among those who offer the service, so they are typically better qualified, though I’m sure you can find non speech pathologists who are quite skilled as well.. Just something to be aware of though. Best of luck:)
Thanks a lot for this video.I'm Brazilian and the sound of this two words:where and wear made me confused. Are pronunced the same.
You're very welcome:) These words are tricky for almost all of my clients, there is so much going on! I hope it was helpful:)
Thanks a million
Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Thank you , I am practicing how to say were for weeks
You're welcome, I hope it was helpful:) You can also try "youglish.com" to get more auditory exposure to how different speakers say the word in context:-)
hello would you help me by a video on how to pronounce "partner "
Hi there! I don’t but check it out on youglish.com, it’s an amazingly helpful resource:)
@@AmericanAccentMastery thank U
This lesson was really useful thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you nice work
You're very welcome:-)
Very useful video, thanks. Really love how you pronounce 'sentence' :-)
Thanks very much Billy:) Haha, I think I say "sentence" in different ways at times- with the /t/ dropped when I'm reducing, but sometimes not;-)
Thanks so much.☺
You're very welcome:) I hope it was helpful!
@@AmericanAccentMastery definitely. Good morning have a great day.
Very nice sister
I can either pronounce it with a really hard r or no r at all.
Thanks , i love you
Terimakasih ka
Wow!! Great video. Keep up the good work :-)
Thanks so much, I'm glad you found it helpful:)
Thank you so much
You’re very welcome!
We're / were wasn't too clear. When to contract we're to w-r and when do take all the trouble to say wee-r. Can you please elaborate?
How much you reduce can be partially attributed to a speaker’s style, though I personally never say wee-r. If it’s able to be a contraction, it can be w-r. Oddly enough, I tried to come up with any scenario in which I’d say wee-r yesterday, but nothing realistic came to mind.. Put “we’re” into youglish.com to hear a variety of speakers:-)
Sometimes, Southerners pronounce "where" almost like "way-yer". Can you believe that? I also like how a Californian like me says "worry" as "wer-ee", but someone from the East coast might say "wuh-wree".
Yeah there are definitely variations between the coasts:) I haven't been out west much!
I can't figure out your accent, are you from the US?
My accent is hard to pin down- I was born in Poland, raised in Canada, later lived in the US (northeast) for a number of years. It fluctuates based on where I am sometimes- probably because English wasn’t spoken in the home so it’s less linked to my identity (I think..)
@@AmericanAccentMastery you speak great, I think you've mastered the American accent but I also noticed not an accent but a tone of voice, I thought you were maybe from a state near Canada.
@@nitochi3 I know what you mean! The other day when I was speaking with my friends from graduate school (all raised in the US) my husband commented that we all sounded like a "bunch of valley girls". I wish I could have observed if my tone of voice was any different. It's interesting stuff!
@@AmericanAccentMastery I’m Canadian. One feature of your speech that I noticed doesn’t sound Canadian is that you don’t pronounce the letter T in words like senTence or wriTTen.
thanks so much :)
HELLO, SISTER THANK YOU SO MUCH
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching:)
@@AmericanAccentMastery morning I can't say WERE. but now I'm saying WERE I had learned from you, from this is video
*I forgot to mention you need a blackboard or something similar.*
Great teaching but hard.
This is a very nuanced topic, indeed:-)
@@AmericanAccentMastery
Yes, you said the details and I learnt alot. But I want you to speak slowly because I've just learn about phonetics
Try slowing down the TH-cam playback speed- it’s in the settings on most types of browsers:)
@@AmericanAccentMastery thanks😍
Am I the only who prefers english as a non-phonetical language?, while a phonetical language may seem easier, it doesn't always work, I'm a native portuguese speaker and it commonly gets hard to guess where it should be punctuated or not
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Eric, I’ve never thought about it in this way:-)
Yes, you are.
Keep it up!
Thanks so much!
hahaha for me both "where" are the same !
Nice job!!
+1sub from Brazil
Thanks so much!!
wow
Hi, I recommend you Polish language - it is phonetic language :)
I recommend it too, I love Polish! BUT, Polish grammar.. is not for the faint of heart;) Pozdrawiam!
@@AmericanAccentMastery gamma is nothing. Try to remember all of rz, ż, ó, ch :)
Very true!!
12:18 'hw' lives on :)
I was thinking of running for president. Once elected, I would force English spelling to be redefined so as to match phonetics without any ambiguity or exceptions. I could do sooo much good if I were president. It gives me goosebumps to think about it!
The best
Where and wear the pronunciation is the same?
Why you won't post new video on your channel
Wear
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I think the pronouciation of "were" near of "war"
You are a Canadian A.
Weir
In the beginning I was thinking you're not a native speaker
English is actually not my native language;-) But to be fair, my native language isn't my dominant language since I moved when I was really young..
sound interesting. actually I was thinking you are an Israeli and also I am from Israel by myself am I right?
@@didiTchu Great guess, though my native language is actually Polish. You've perhaps heard of it, but if not, an excellent TH-cam channel on which the teacher IS Israeli is called English with Hadar:-) I've always wanted to visit Israel, hopefully one day!
I was watching your video. It is quite interestig but cant pay attention much cause the backgroung, is too brigh and hurts my eyes. Wish you could do Another vid with the lights dim back there. Thank you in advance.
were and we're sound kinda the same
I believe Gervonta Davis was going to bag " Ryan Garcia " anyway... my non bias opinion, i believe Shakur Stevenson, including Regis Prograis are the only two fighters to possibly defeat Gervonta Davis " right now Gervonta Davis " is the face of boxing we need to give credit were credit is due. Fight Doctor " Everything you're saying is true 👍 Mental War or not, Gervonta Davis " was going to bag Ryan Garcia. Ryan wasn't ready for Gervonta Davis, who has a world of experience.
Will see what's next for Gervonta and Ryan "
As for Oscar, Joe shame on these guys...
Another subscribe from me 😃 i hope you can get more followers . I support you 🤗
Thanks so much Yassine:) I really appreciate it!!
@@AmericanAccentMastery you are welcome Victoria! i hope you can use your body language perfectly , especially your hands and good Luck 😉🤗
Sorry to add to your problem
Where are you now Victoria
I’m from Iraq 🇮🇶
Talking English Pronunciation
Get straight to the point next time. Don't waste our time. Please :) The video itself is helpful, thank you
Hey! If you just want the pronunciation without explanation, check out the site youglish.com, you’ll hear a bunch of different speakers saying your target word. It’s very helpful!
@@AmericanAccentMastery no no, explanations are very good, I like them and I want them as well. I meant that in this video in the beginning you were introducing the topic too long imho. The video itself and explanations are great, thank you! And the website is definitely something I've been looking for for months. Thank you very much! Just keep it up, don't listen to haters :D
very long and boring
Thanks so much! Oh no, wait. ;)
*You speak too fast; therefore, it's difficult to understand you.*
Hi Ralph! You can slow down the playback speed in the TH-cam settings:-) Almost all of my clients are advanced speakers, and they prefer when I speak at the same speed they hear out in the real world.
R U kidding? She speaks slowly enough to understand. If you don't understand this, how can you understand natives speaking in a natural way? Slow down the video! It is your problem, not ours