ERRATUM: As you know I edit while I'm running. The pressure to meet deadlines led to quite a few (small) errors on the video particularly the IPA. Also number 71 "throughout" - says 'months'. Obviously it's not. I hope they don't spoil your enjoyment.
I THOROUGHLY enjoy these lessons. I love language and I love the differences between the mother tongue (a.k.a The Queen's English) and American English.
agreed. I've been studying english for around 12 years and I have considered myself to be quite fluent by now, but this channel makes me reconsider that every time
Dear Gideon, having been an English teacher for years myself, I enjoy your lessons a lot, I really do. I especially appreciate your sense of humour and the occasional subtext ;-)
This is a fantastic video and extremely useful. Sent it to my students and they were all very grateful - and it lead to some very productive class discussions. You can see that you put a lot of time and effort into these videos, and I wanted to make it known how well appreciated it is. A great resource.
This was a real ear-opener. I had some 26 bad mistakes. I was most surprised to hear "loosen" had such a short vowel. I had to check other sources to verify Gideon was not pulling my leg. Also the silent t in hasten, moisten, and soften. Who knew?
33 out of 101 that i used to mispronounce (circuit climbing debut beloved crooked wicked wretched finite foul gnaw hasten hyperbole indict infamous iron jeopardy loose manoeuvre mayor mischievous mishap moisten nuisance plough pint quay realms says sew sleuth southern women). I was a bit shocked to make mistakes on "says" or "women" for instance...Thank you so much to help us get better in English !
@@LetThemTalkTV I must concur that this video is very much appreciated and I absolutely loved it and would love it if you not only did more like this but also a video explain WHY we pronounce things a certain way. As an example the word “Debt”. It has a silent b so first question is why is the b silent? And the 2nd question is why have the letter “b” in the word at all if its silent. That 2nd question could be applied to every instance of a silent letter being present. Thank you so much for each and every video you have posted to date. I have only recently found your channel so I’m burning the candle at both ends lol. I’m keeping up with your most recent videos and starting to watch all of your videos from the very first one you posted. I feel that between your channel and the English with Lucy channel I should be alright with a silent “l” in alright lol. Cheers
@@prepperjonpnw6482 I agree with you. An explanation for the silent letters and weird pronounciations would be nice, but, perhaps, people learning English in France these days don't study foreign languages like they used to so they wouldn't appreciate long-winded explanations for silent letters as they might have 50 or 100 years ago. Maybe, Gideon doesn't know the reason himself.
Ooh - I'm so glad you added the proviso regarding "sixth"! I absolutely cringe when I hear "sick-th" - to me it just sounds horrible. I don't know why it is considered hard to say "six" and then quickly add "th" .
This is what surprises me in English: I'm Italian, and our spelling is quite phonetic so with a few rules you know how to write or read a word (with few exceptions, but those are expected in everything I guess), except maybe on where to put the stress in them. On the other hand, in English, one may not know how a word is written or pronounce unless you have both heard it and read it: sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's frustrating, especially once you find out you've always mispronounced a word or didn't realise that's how you write a word you are familiar with 😅
@@enigmaster84 it's kind of phonetic if you understand the history of English. The spelling of words tends to be conservative and 'locked' in when it was first used in written form. 'QU' in Norman French was pronounced as a KW so quick and quit are pronounced using that form. Later words which were borrowed from French have the K pronunciation such as cheque. (It's a British form of spelling but it gets the job done.) What has definitely helped me is learning some Greek, Latin, French and German as a native English speaker. if you have a grasp on where the word came from, you can guess correctly most of the time.
@@ericbarlow6772 Even though I see what you're trying to explain, English spelling as a whole could never qualify as phonetic, not even "kind of": it's a collection of different spellings ("core" English for a lack of a better term, French, Latin, Greek, etc), and knowing these sets of rules helps in safely guessing, but still there are too many exceptions, hence the need to have this kind of videos. Just to make a few examples, how can someone safely guess that the O in women is pronounced as an "e", when an I is "ee" and when it's "eye", that the H in heir is silent and so on? Not to mention historical names which have their own set of "no-rules" (Greenwitch != green witch), but I can understand that. Given that there are varying degrees of phonetic spellings, let's say as a general rule, that for every letter or group of letters there is only one possible sound. I'll use Italian as example as it's my first language and therefore the one I'm more familiar with: CH always sounds like K in Italian words, so you don't need to guess if it sounds like in chaos or like in Charlie: it's K, full stop. Fs sound as F, I don't need to fear they sound otherwise or be silent (I picked a random letter). In Italian there really is no need to know the origin of a word, apply the spelling rules and you know how to write it once you hear it and how to pronounce it once you read it. Also, I don't know if that's just in American films, but no spelling contests here. They would take too long to have a winner ;p
@@enigmaster84 I see one example, which kinda shows what was meant by the phonetic statement. We can read "Lead" in two ways, which results in two different meanings, but spelling remains the same. Lets say, In Czech language, the one word could have different meanings too, but there would have to be difference in spelling to read it differently, otherwise the pronunciation of the word would be exactly the same regardless how many meanings it can have.
@@ericbarlow6772 Ancient Greek, I imagine, you mean. @Eric Barlow Spanish also helps for a lot of American place names. Italian helps for musical terms.
I'm so glad the description mentioned "with a british accent" I would have called it received pronunciation but same difference, I'm a westerner :P I got half way through the video and I was like "I'm almost feeling a little talked down to right meow" then I saw the description and was like "OOOOOOHHHH" lol
Talking English for quite some years, though, it helped a lot especially with the official approval from a native speaker how to deal with "clothes" and "sixth" 🙂
The difference in pronunciation between woman and women is not in the final syllable but rather in the first. Wimmin. Now I’ve told you all I know about women.
There are many words that I have never heard before here, not just for mispronunciation! Sentences with collocation are perfect for understanding their meaning and studying it later to learn and remember. Thank you very much
It’s so much better to hear them from you and not from “Google” ! You give us the correct stress tone! Perfect and very helpful! Crucial to improve our normal conversation! “Broken English” causes confusion and misinterpretation! That’s why I tend to email my “communications” instead of picking up the phone. But listening to you, I feel I can do it more frequently now! Thank you!
It also depends on which dialect of English you're talking about. For example artisan has a different stressed syllable depending on whether you're speaking British or American dialects.
@Alex ... D'un autre côté, le genre en français, espagnol, allemand, russe - en fait, dans la plupart des autres langues - et la nécessité d'amender les adjectifs et les verbes pour s'accorder avec le genre, rend leur expression très difficile. Il n'y a pas de règles fiables. Mais en anglais, le genre suit la logique et n'est pas aléatoire. Chaque langue a ses pièges !
Thanks for the video. There were a couple of words that I was mispronouncing specially in the group of ed adjectives. Another tricky word that could be included in this list is "threshold" 😉
The way I say it (west coast USA accent) is like "thresh-hold". I'm not sure how you are hearing it, but it definitely should not be "thresh-old". The contracted, lazy way to say it might be "thresh'ld" dropping or diminishing the final "o" sound.
@@latorreenglish The problem with these kind of questions is that when you try to listen carefully to what you are saying, you tend to automatically pronounce the word the way you think is "correct" instead of how you normally say it. I can convince myself that I use 3 different pronunciations when I say it slowly, but I'm not sure which one I actually use: Thresh-hold Thresh-old or Thre-shold where "shold" is pronounced like shoal with the short version of the -ed ending. I am leaning towards the third one where the "sh" sound flows directly into the "old" sound with no pause.
Thanks a lot. I've had several funny experiences mispronouncing some of those words. The closer thing in Spanish is to pronounce "Federico" for "frigorífico", although most of the times the context tells the meaning.
Frigorifico is a fascinating word. In Brazilian Portuguese it means 'cold storage unit' or 'meat packing plant' while in Portugal it is just a 'refrigerator'.
I didn't speak much English until I started elementary school, and I was taught to pronounce 'debut' with an 'a' sound in the first syllable. Also, the verb form of the word had the accent on the second syllable.
I "only" mispronounced 24 words. Actually I didn't even know six words... Thanks for your videos. They help me improving my English while having fun...
I'm italian, from an hamlet near Venezia. I'll give a report of my pronunciation mistakes next time ;-) For now, I only would tell you how much I enjoy your lessons, how very useful they are, and how much I appreciate your kindness, your pleasantness, your very nice way of teaching. Thank you Gideon! ("Beloved", "naked", "finite", "harbour", "indict"... here they are!)
Wow! First video of you that has perfect audio levels! The music wan't blowing my speakers away. Anyways... Great video (though there are some top words of the screen words wrong).. I did a lot of mistakes. Will probably watch it multiple times. Thanks!
Awesome! Ty. So much for your effort and research in order to provide us English Learners with real and authentic ( and easy) learning techniques, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, etc., etc. Ty do much! Greetings from Mexico. May you have a year full of Joy, (even more) Wisdom, and plenty of magnificent dreams. Plus a remakable and excellent Good Health! 👍 I enjoy your vids very much. (and learn a lot). 👏💯
I notice, even with a lot of professional broadcasters, that speakers often put an "egg" in _integral_ -- rather than say IN-ti-grill. I find this grates on my sensitive ears. They say in-TEG-grill.
Stay mellow! I will, but one thing to add. I pronounce 'often' with a 't' sound: off-Ten. As a teacher of English as a Foreign Language in Turkey, a young student told me I was wrong because an earlier teacher had taught 'offen' as the correct pronunciation. Some words have two ways to pronounce them - you gave the example of either, but there's also scone, advertisement, schedule, financial and garage (also known as a garridge). English is never logical!
I say 'offen' and Ga'rarge Quite often! depends upon our age, education. Age 82 UK. The dreaded long A from USA gets everywhere eg. fat'ality Not FaYtality
A foreign learner of English walked past a cinema when the film version of a certain Agatha Christie novel had recently become a box office hit, only to spot a notice board reading "Murder on the Orient Express pronounced success", upon which he burst into tears.
Thank you so much for the video, Gideon! The one that shocks me most is "says". I have been mispronouncing this word for for all of those years, right in the beginning of my English learning process. After 28 years I now learn to speak "says" good and proper. I cannot thank you enough, Gideon!
Such a great video, good job! However, you should’ve highlighted that in American English the word ‘ aren’t ‘ consists of 2 syllables, whereas in British English it’s one syllable. Thus, saying /ˈɑːrənt/ shouldn’t be considered a mistake. Additionally, the word ‘debris’ you pronounced making stress on the second syllable, however, the transcription below the word shows that the first syllable should be stressed. Sorry, I’m an English teacher, consequently, couldn’t have skipped such things:)
Which "British English" do you refer to? Do you mean RP? In Britain, pronunciation can change within 10 miles. I do not pronounce 'aren't' as one syllable and I doubt anyone north of Watford does. Sorry I'm an ex English teacher :)
@@BrokenBackMountains Yes I do. can't, (carnt);. Won't (will not); musn't,. The w in Flour isn't pronounced. English English uses contractions. Unlike USA. Do you remember tennis player John McEn/roe objecting to the umpire's decision? He exclaimed "You cannart be serious!" Sounded so strange at the time. We all Americanised now. We would also pronounce his surname McENroe previously.
I've made the "pint" mistake lol I've been saying "shove" wrong, not anymore. I remember trying to say "Sixth sense" siksthsense 🤣🤣🤣 you need a cirque du soleil tongue for that English never stops giving me surprises, only recently I learned the "minute" has two pronunciations lol Great video, thank you 👍👍👍
@@Fadilanse I was very strict and sincere with me: a slightly different sound I have considered a fail word pronunciation. Actually, there were a few words I've never heard before and even haven't known the meaning. I'm very concerned and exigent about grammar and pronunciation and I love this kind of exercice. Gideon is an amazing teacher
Gideon, since you are based in Paris so can I assume some of these mispronounced words came mostly from French people? I seem to get that from the way you mispronounce some words which have a French tint to them. But many are universal indeed and the "ed" section was quite useful. I would say I mispronounce about 70% or so of the words in the video, but mostly due my own native language phonetics which will always carry a bit to English. Also, us non-English natives end up most of the times mixing British and American English pronunciations/accents which can result in a lack of uniformity. I was surprised by "whole" since it's a fairly easy and common word... you hear it so many times I wonder how anyone can mispronounce it. On the other hand I had never heard of the word quay and was surprised queue was not included. Another great video, one that I think I will revisit quite a few times.
Thanks for your comment. Of course I left some out (such as queue) for a future video. I tried to pick mistakes that are common for all learners. Only 1 or 2 have a French bias (e.g idea).
I'haven't been blessed by the Almighty with being French but this is by far one of the most useful videos on learning English I've run into in my whole life. Would you believe I've been mispronouncing such common words as "breakfast"? I mean, I might be forgiven for not knowing how to deal with Quay or Choir but ordering breakfast or inquiring (or is it enquiring?) as to whether the price includes or what time is breakfast is something I've had to deal with quite a few times in my life. Well done Gideon.
ERRATUM: As you know I edit while I'm running. The pressure to meet deadlines led to quite a few (small) errors on the video particularly the IPA. Also number 71 "throughout" - says 'months'. Obviously it's not. I hope they don't spoil your enjoyment.
Small mistakes that don't detract at all from the video. The entry for Knead (52) also reads "Need" in the corner. No problem.
Not at all, Gideon. Really useful lesson.Thanks for everything.
It was a spiffing class. Nothing can diminish this
Never mind. This was really helpful and insightful. I usually consider myself an advanced learner of English but still missed some :D Thanks a lot :)
They don't, thanks for your work
Hello, in my opinion this is currently the best English teaching youtube channel. Thanks and keep sharing good lessons! :)
I THOROUGHLY enjoy these lessons. I love language and I love the differences between the mother tongue (a.k.a The Queen's English) and American English.
agreed. I've been studying english for around 12 years and I have considered myself to be quite fluent by now, but this channel makes me reconsider that every time
Without any doubt, not only the best TH-cam channel for learning English but he is the best teacher.
Dear Gideon, having been an English teacher for years myself, I enjoy your lessons a lot, I really do. I especially appreciate your sense of humour and the occasional subtext ;-)
Sir Gideon the all knowing
This is a fantastic video and extremely useful. Sent it to my students and they were all very grateful - and it lead to some very productive class discussions. You can see that you put a lot of time and effort into these videos, and I wanted to make it known how well appreciated it is. A great resource.
Thanks
Many thanks for your generous tip. It's much much appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video
This was a real ear-opener. I had some 26 bad mistakes. I was most surprised to hear "loosen" had such a short vowel. I had to check other sources to verify Gideon was not pulling my leg. Also the silent t in hasten, moisten, and soften. Who knew?
Glad you liked the video. Why would I pull your leg?
Some people do say, "of ten" pronouncing the "t" in Canada. I say, "of fen" though.
This will take a while...wrong pronunciation is so hard to get it out your head :). Much needed video, thanks a lot!
33 out of 101 that i used to mispronounce (circuit climbing debut beloved crooked wicked wretched finite foul gnaw hasten hyperbole indict infamous iron jeopardy loose manoeuvre mayor mischievous mishap moisten nuisance plough pint quay realms says sew sleuth southern women). I was a bit shocked to make mistakes on "says" or "women" for instance...Thank you so much to help us get better in English !
Quite shocked about the pronunciation of AREN'T!!! I ve always pronounced the R!! Thanks for this precious video!!
The R is pronounced in my American English accent. It's closer to ARNT so it's still one syllable. Aunt is pronounced like ant (the insect).
@@ericbarlow6772 Also mine. Like many, if not most, Americans, I pronounce it in two syllables and will continue to do so.
Thank you very much Gideon for starting New Year with amazing pronunciation video. Your effort is really appreciative. You rock. 👍👍👍
Your comment is much appreciated. Happy New Year
@@LetThemTalkTV thank you man you're helping me aswell and saving me time and troubles
@@LetThemTalkTV I must concur that this video is very much appreciated and I absolutely loved it and would love it if you not only did more like this but also a video explain WHY we pronounce things a certain way. As an example the word “Debt”. It has a silent b so first question is why is the b silent? And the 2nd question is why have the letter “b” in the word at all if its silent. That 2nd question could be applied to every instance of a silent letter being present. Thank you so much for each and every video you have posted to date. I have only recently found your channel so I’m burning the candle at both ends lol. I’m keeping up with your most recent videos and starting to watch all of your videos from the very first one you posted. I feel that between your channel and the English with Lucy channel I should be alright with a silent “l” in alright lol. Cheers
@@prepperjonpnw6482 I agree with you. An explanation for the silent letters and weird pronounciations would be nice, but, perhaps, people learning English in France these days don't study foreign languages like they used to so they wouldn't appreciate long-winded explanations for silent letters as they might have 50 or 100 years ago. Maybe, Gideon doesn't know the reason himself.
Gideon did it again! Another one to add to the top 10 of all youtube learning English video (with the 101 phrasal verbs, the 60 binomial, ...)
You're very kind. Thanks
Ooh - I'm so glad you added the proviso regarding "sixth"! I absolutely cringe when I hear "sick-th" - to me it just sounds horrible. I don't know why it is considered hard to say "six" and then quickly add "th" .
Thanks for this! My first language is English, yet I still mispronounce some of them 😆
This is what surprises me in English: I'm Italian, and our spelling is quite phonetic so with a few rules you know how to write or read a word (with few exceptions, but those are expected in everything I guess), except maybe on where to put the stress in them.
On the other hand, in English, one may not know how a word is written or pronounce unless you have both heard it and read it: sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's frustrating, especially once you find out you've always mispronounced a word or didn't realise that's how you write a word you are familiar with 😅
@@enigmaster84 it's kind of phonetic if you understand the history of English. The spelling of words tends to be conservative and 'locked' in when it was first used in written form. 'QU' in Norman French was pronounced as a KW so quick and quit are pronounced using that form. Later words which were borrowed from French have the K pronunciation such as cheque. (It's a British form of spelling but it gets the job done.) What has definitely helped me is learning some Greek, Latin, French and German as a native English speaker. if you have a grasp on where the word came from, you can guess correctly most of the time.
@@ericbarlow6772 Even though I see what you're trying to explain, English spelling as a whole could never qualify as phonetic, not even "kind of": it's a collection of different spellings ("core" English for a lack of a better term, French, Latin, Greek, etc), and knowing these sets of rules helps in safely guessing, but still there are too many exceptions, hence the need to have this kind of videos. Just to make a few examples, how can someone safely guess that the O in women is pronounced as an "e", when an I is "ee" and when it's "eye", that the H in heir is silent and so on? Not to mention historical names which have their own set of "no-rules" (Greenwitch != green witch), but I can understand that.
Given that there are varying degrees of phonetic spellings, let's say as a general rule, that for every letter or group of letters there is only one possible sound. I'll use Italian as example as it's my first language and therefore the one I'm more familiar with: CH always sounds like K in Italian words, so you don't need to guess if it sounds like in chaos or like in Charlie: it's K, full stop. Fs sound as F, I don't need to fear they sound otherwise or be silent (I picked a random letter). In Italian there really is no need to know the origin of a word, apply the spelling rules and you know how to write it once you hear it and how to pronounce it once you read it. Also, I don't know if that's just in American films, but no spelling contests here. They would take too long to have a winner ;p
@@enigmaster84 I see one example, which kinda shows what was meant by the phonetic statement. We can read "Lead" in two ways, which results in two different meanings, but spelling remains the same. Lets say, In Czech language, the one word could have different meanings too, but there would have to be difference in spelling to read it differently, otherwise the pronunciation of the word would be exactly the same regardless how many meanings it can have.
@@ericbarlow6772 Ancient Greek, I imagine, you mean. @Eric Barlow Spanish also helps for a lot of American place names. Italian helps for musical terms.
Thanks a lot Mr Gideon.You are the best.Greetings from Georgia
Thanks a lot !
Super Teacher.
English Debut. In Danish debut, in German Debüt with a silent T. Great lecture T/U
Thank you very much, I am delighted by your videos!!
Thank's Ihave to make a lot of progress here... even if it's catastrophic... so thanks a lot....
thank you!!
Thank you so much.
Very helpful. Thanks a lot.
I'm so glad the description mentioned "with a british accent" I would have called it received pronunciation but same difference, I'm a westerner :P I got half way through the video and I was like "I'm almost feeling a little talked down to right meow" then I saw the description and was like "OOOOOOHHHH" lol
It's not received pronunciation. It is a London accent.
Talking English for quite some years, though, it helped a lot especially with the official approval from a native speaker how to deal with "clothes" and "sixth" 🙂
Glad you found it useful. sixth is particularly tricky and sixths is beyond crazy.
I learnt the "close" trick for "clothes" a while ago. Handy.
Try pronouncing the word breakfasts.
The difference in pronunciation between woman and women is not in the final syllable but rather in the first. Wimmin. Now I’ve told you all I know about women.
@@LetThemTalkTV yes, right. I loved the movie but I was always afraid to tell people about that movie because of its name: "The Sixth Sense"
There are many words that I have never heard before here, not just for mispronunciation! Sentences with collocation are perfect for understanding their meaning and studying it later to learn and remember. Thank you very much
It’s so much better to hear them from you and not from “Google” ! You give us the correct stress tone! Perfect and very helpful! Crucial to improve our normal conversation! “Broken English” causes confusion and misinterpretation! That’s why I tend to email my “communications” instead of picking up the phone. But listening to you, I feel I can do it more frequently now! Thank you!
It also depends on which dialect of English you're talking about. For example artisan has a different stressed syllable depending on whether you're speaking British or American dialects.
@@ericbarlow6772 So does "accent". At least, in Canada, we put the stress on the first syllable, not the 2nd. Gideon says "accent" a lot, of course.
This year 2022 my goal is to improve my accent and pronunciation. This is fabulous and helpful video. Thank you sir
That's a good resolution. Good luck
Oh, my gosh! This video is frightfully spiffing! Jolly good!
Today you got me twenty two times, quite good!
Fantastic lesson
Hello Gideon! Tu as raison. Les mots que tu as choisis sont hiper compliquées pour nous les étudiants. Merci de ton coup de main. Il été super util.
@Alex ... D'un autre côté, le genre en français, espagnol, allemand, russe - en fait, dans la plupart des autres langues - et la nécessité d'amender les adjectifs et les verbes pour s'accorder avec le genre, rend leur expression très difficile. Il n'y a pas de règles fiables. Mais en anglais, le genre suit la logique et n'est pas aléatoire. Chaque langue a ses pièges !
Thank you for your job. This is cool. Keep your black note safe.
Excellent as usual. Thanks.
Gideon, thank you for your clear explanations of the pronunciation of this practical list of words.
your channel is my fav one on youtube amongst English teachers, thank you for your job and sense of humor!
A very useful video, albeit quite disheartening. I have always considered pronunciation the hardest part of learning English language...
Thank a million, you actually have opened new horizons for me!
I just adore you! Thank you so much, I was doing so many mistakes in pronunciation, I can't believe this.😃
Thanks for the video. There were a couple of words that I was mispronouncing specially in the group of ed adjectives.
Another tricky word that could be included in this list is "threshold" 😉
The way I say it (west coast USA accent) is like "thresh-hold". I'm not sure how you are hearing it, but it definitely should not be "thresh-old". The contracted, lazy way to say it might be "thresh'ld" dropping or diminishing the final "o" sound.
@@edwardblair4096 thanks for the clarification. Do you still make the exhalationish sound of the H in the "thresh'ld" form?
@@latorreenglish The problem with these kind of questions is that when you
try to listen carefully to what you are saying, you tend to automatically pronounce the word the way you think is "correct" instead of how you normally say it. I can convince myself that I use 3 different pronunciations when I say it slowly, but I'm not sure which one I actually use:
Thresh-hold
Thresh-old or
Thre-shold where "shold" is pronounced like shoal with the short version of the -ed ending.
I am leaning towards the third one where the "sh" sound flows directly into the "old" sound with no pause.
@@edwardblair4096 got it. Thanks!
Thanks a lot. I've had several funny experiences mispronouncing some of those words. The closer thing in Spanish is to pronounce "Federico" for "frigorífico", although most of the times the context tells the meaning.
Frigorifico is a fascinating word. In Brazilian Portuguese it means 'cold storage unit' or 'meat packing plant' while in Portugal it is just a 'refrigerator'.
I didn't speak much English until I started elementary school, and I was taught to pronounce 'debut' with an 'a' sound in the first syllable. Also, the verb form of the word had the accent on the second syllable.
According to the Cambridge English dictionary 'debut' is stressed on the first syllable in UK English and the second syllable in US English.
Great compilation of words. Another word that a lot of non-native speakers, at least in my area, misprounce is "variable".
Which reminds me, I've heard "failure" pronounced as though it's spelled "failer".
Thanks a lot! Very interesting to take the tour and test yourself
Thanks a lot for this vidеo.
One of the best and most useful videos around. Thanks!
I "only" mispronounced 24 words. Actually I didn't even know six words...
Thanks for your videos. They help me improving my English while having fun...
Thanks so much for the compilation
Thank you for watching
Great. The pronunciation is true dilemma of English. I found helpful the third written row, more consistent.
glad you liked it
I'm italian, from an hamlet near Venezia. I'll give a report of my pronunciation mistakes next time ;-) For now, I only would tell you how much I enjoy your lessons, how very useful they are, and how much I appreciate your kindness, your pleasantness, your very nice way of teaching. Thank you Gideon! ("Beloved", "naked", "finite", "harbour", "indict"... here they are!)
Thank you so much for your videos
Thank you very much! I did enjoy your video!
Thanks🥰🥰 Fantastic video as always 🥰🥰🥰
Fantastic comment as always
Wow! First video of you that has perfect audio levels! The music wan't blowing my speakers away. Anyways... Great video (though there are some top words of the screen words wrong).. I did a lot of mistakes. Will probably watch it multiple times. Thanks!
Thanks for your comments. Glad you liked the video. Don't worry the incredibly loud rock music will be back soon.
Awesome! Ty. So much for your effort and research in order to provide us English Learners with real and authentic ( and easy) learning techniques, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, etc., etc. Ty do much! Greetings from Mexico. May you have a year full of Joy, (even more) Wisdom, and plenty of magnificent dreams. Plus a remakable and excellent Good Health! 👍 I enjoy your vids very much. (and learn a lot). 👏💯
You are awesome! Many thanks
I love LetThemTalkTV lessons! Every time I watch one of your videos I learn something new and valuable. Tnahk you a millon time=)))
Thanks a lot about pronunciation, very useful. Greetings from Argentina.
Excellent and extremely useful video. Thank you so much. You are a great teacher ineed!
Bravo ! Excellent.
Very helpful ! It is quite embarrassing to mispronounce common words when you have reached a certain level, thank you !
I didn't realised that I was mispronouncing some of these words... Thank you very much!
I notice, even with a lot of professional broadcasters, that speakers often put an "egg" in _integral_ -- rather than say IN-ti-grill. I find this grates on my sensitive ears. They say in-TEG-grill.
Very, very useful video! I’ll watch it again to make sure I won’t commit any of such mistakes from now on. Thank you for sharing!
Brillian video! I suppose that in about 1/4 of these words my pronunciation was wrong...Verb "to sew" pronouncing as "so" especially impressed me:)
This is really useful, thanks.
The best English teacher ever! :) Thanks Gideon!
Thanks for reminding the correct pronunciation of words you mentioned.
you're welcome
I just love the way you pronounce 'howevah' :)
Thanks for the video... You are the best teacher.
Awsome.
you are wonderful, many thanks.
Very good video, thanks for it.
Thanks!
Gideon Sir 🙏you always teach us something new❤️. today I got this one the bloody "indict"
Glad you learnt something. Best wishes
Stay mellow! I will, but one thing to add. I pronounce 'often' with a 't' sound: off-Ten. As a teacher of English as a Foreign Language in Turkey, a young student told me I was wrong because an earlier teacher had taught 'offen' as the correct pronunciation. Some words have two ways to pronounce them - you gave the example of either, but there's also scone, advertisement, schedule, financial and garage (also known as a garridge). English is never logical!
I say 'offen' and Ga'rarge Quite often! depends upon our age, education. Age 82 UK. The dreaded long A from USA gets everywhere
eg. fat'ality Not FaYtality
Thank you sir..i'm from Indonesia very enjoyed your sections..
Glad you liked it. Best wishes
A foreign learner of English walked past a cinema when the film version of a certain Agatha Christie novel had recently become a box office hit, only to spot a notice board reading "Murder on the Orient Express pronounced success", upon which he burst into tears.
Thanks a lot! Finally someone who could guide me on how to pronounce "heir"!!😊❤
Brilliant! Well done( I love your humour💕) and extremely useful! Thank you very much, sir!
You make incredibly precious content, I wish I had known about this in highschool
Very compact, very clean and so usefull lesson! Many thanks!!! (Hope, here I had no made any mistakes...))))
Just love this Channel!
I simply love your videos
Thank you for this video!
There is also a shift in pronunciation from finite (figh-night) to infinite (inf'n-it)
There is a mistake at 11:59 on top left corner it says "need", although it's about "knead".
Thank you so much for the video, Gideon! The one that shocks me most is "says". I have been mispronouncing this word for for all of those years, right in the beginning of my English learning process. After 28 years I now learn to speak "says" good and proper. I cannot thank you enough, Gideon!
Such a great video, good job! However, you should’ve highlighted that in American English the word ‘ aren’t ‘ consists of 2 syllables, whereas in British English it’s one syllable. Thus, saying /ˈɑːrənt/ shouldn’t be considered a mistake. Additionally, the word ‘debris’ you pronounced making stress on the second syllable, however, the transcription below the word shows that the first syllable should be stressed. Sorry, I’m an English teacher, consequently, couldn’t have skipped such things:)
This whole video is deliberately pro-British-English.
There is no such thing as American English, there is English and there are mistakes, Elizabeth Windsor.
@@adlsfreund There are quite a few variants of British English.
Which "British English" do you refer to? Do you mean RP?
In Britain, pronunciation can change within 10 miles. I do not pronounce 'aren't' as one syllable and I doubt anyone north of Watford does.
Sorry I'm an ex English teacher :)
@@BrokenBackMountains Yes I do. can't, (carnt);. Won't (will not); musn't,. The w in Flour isn't pronounced. English English uses contractions. Unlike USA. Do you remember tennis player John McEn/roe objecting to the umpire's decision? He exclaimed "You cannart be serious!" Sounded so strange at the time. We all Americanised now. We would also pronounce his surname McENroe previously.
love your accent😊👍
I've made the "pint" mistake lol
I've been saying "shove" wrong, not anymore.
I remember trying to say "Sixth sense" siksthsense 🤣🤣🤣 you need a cirque du soleil tongue for that
English never stops giving me surprises, only recently I learned the "minute" has two pronunciations lol
Great video, thank you 👍👍👍
Hello Gideon, I teach English in Italy and I would add: management, development, raid, club, spray, fruit, juice, break, steak
Thanks, my fellow teacher. I've put them on the list for a future video.
+ report, adjectives ending in 'ABLE', performance, adjective, promise .... (other staple items with Italians) ;)
Thank you! Very helpfull.
I've got 76/101. So useful like all of your other videos. Cheers!
dude, I got the exact same score as you
@@Fadilanse I was very strict and sincere with me: a slightly different sound I have considered a fail word pronunciation. Actually, there were a few words I've never heard before and even haven't known the meaning. I'm very concerned and exigent about grammar and pronunciation and I love this kind of exercice. Gideon is an amazing teacher
Thank you for your effort 😊
Really appreciate it
appreciate your comment
Even though I only got about a handful of those words wrong, I need to revisit this video. Repetition makes one master an exercise.
I would've added gauge to that list.
Gideon, many thanks for the excellent video! Cheers
Thankyou Looking forward to more videos like this
oh, many thanks 👍! This is so helpful! I'm going to write something down.
Gideon, since you are based in Paris so can I assume some of these mispronounced words came mostly from French people? I seem to get that from the way you mispronounce some words which have a French tint to them. But many are universal indeed and the "ed" section was quite useful. I would say I mispronounce about 70% or so of the words in the video, but mostly due my own native language phonetics which will always carry a bit to English. Also, us non-English natives end up most of the times mixing British and American English pronunciations/accents which can result in a lack of uniformity.
I was surprised by "whole" since it's a fairly easy and common word... you hear it so many times I wonder how anyone can mispronounce it. On the other hand I had never heard of the word quay and was surprised queue was not included.
Another great video, one that I think I will revisit quite a few times.
Thanks for your comment. Of course I left some out (such as queue) for a future video. I tried to pick mistakes that are common for all learners. Only 1 or 2 have a French bias (e.g idea).
I'haven't been blessed by the Almighty with being French but this is by far one of the most useful videos on learning English I've run into in my whole life. Would you believe I've been mispronouncing such common words as "breakfast"? I mean, I might be forgiven for not knowing how to deal with Quay or Choir but ordering breakfast or inquiring (or is it enquiring?) as to whether the price includes or what time is breakfast is something I've had to deal with quite a few times in my life. Well done Gideon.
Wow simply wonderful