I spent 14 years learning English and have been speaking it daily ever since, never has anyone taught me this or even pointed out I was pronouncing these wrong (in fact I'm not sure if my English teachers pronounced those properly), nor have I realized this myself despite being aware something was off with my pronunciation. I just didn't sound like a native speaker even though I was trying to, yet I couldn't put my finger on what exactly sounded off. Instant sub.
Some of this is down to regionality. As a midlander, my +ture is pronounced as a soft "chur" instead of "chuh", my du+ is pronounced "dyoo", but these are all mutually intelligible. "Jooplicut", "Dooplicut" and "Dyooplicut" are all valid regional pronunciations of duplicate (adjective). Similarly, "tyoon" not "choon" for me, although that's inconsistent with his other examples. That's unforchunut. Your tell is probably an inconsistency in how these are applied -- so you sound like you're from everywhere -- or you're bringing in some feature of your own language (Examples: carrying in final devoicing from Dutch or Polish -- ents of worts instead of ends of words -- tapped or trilled Rs from Spanish -- the English rhotic r is just weird -- or the singular L sound from German, which is the feature that makes German sound funny when saying "squirrel". Practice saying "Label" - both L sounds are different.)
@@Kastagaar There are many people who have a rhotic R in the UK. Just about all Scots and Northern Irish people do as well as people in northern and southwestern England. The mistake coaches like this one make is to assume that their accent is the definitive one, when it is just one accent of many.
@@alicemilne1444 "Rhotic" was the wrong word; I apologise. What I meant was that the postalveolar approximant that most regional accents of modern English use to pronounce a leading R sound (E.g. in "red") is weird. It's just a strange thing to do with your mouth, and not common in the rest of the world, which is why it's often not emulated correctly by non-native speakers.
The "D" rule doesn't really apply in North America. Most of us say "doo", "doo-oh", "doon", "doo-plicate" etc. We also say "garage" in more of a French style, "garr-ahj", or "grahj". And unlike British and Australian etc, we in Canada and the US say "toon" not "choon" for the word "tune".
Yes, It sounds like a very strange speech impediment to me when I hear the d sounds swapped out for a j sound or a t sound swapped out for a ch sound. Besides speaking English in North America all my life, I do frequently watch British TV. Only one person ever had this pronunciation habit that I've noticed: the presenter of the gameshow 'Duel'. I find it odd that he introduces the round by saying, "Let's jewel".
Worth mentioning that many of these rules are true for British English, but are modified or completely different for North American English. But I suppose that's true for any accent or dialect
As an English speaker this blows my mind! All these little unspoken rules that the language has, that you completely take for granted when it's your first language is absolutely nuts. No wonder it's a tricky language to learn for foreign speakers
And that's why you can't really learn a language using rules like these. There is no way to consciously reference all these rules while having a conversation.
Hi Greg. I have been watching a lot of your videos. As a foreigner to the English language I found your lessons very easy to follow as your pronunciation is very clear. I just want to thank you for improving my English.
10:48 For the silent R rule, I just place my tongue like pronouncing it without voicing it. Then, it can be naturally heard or not depending on the next sound.
Voiced consonants changing into unvoiced is a common trait of some languages and this trips up English learners, including me but not anymore. My ear was just not used to hearing the voiced consonants in English until my teacher pointed it out. And this is so important as it completely changes the meaning of some words. E.g. some learners would pronounce code and coat in the same way.
I had been watching for the compound noun for around one minute and then I found keyboard as a part of computer and keyboard as a music instrument. Thank you for teaching us how to speak English fluently and understandably.
Fair to note that rules 3 and 4 are such recent changes that people often don't use them in very formal RP, and it doesn't sound wrong/second language so much as very old-fashioned and posh. And not only will 5 be ignored by the same people but the t in tube is realised in multiple ways, including [tj] indeed (including in my own quasi-RP British variant)
Not having English as a native language and being widely exposed to both British and American takes on the language is quite interesting. I kept listening to American and British word pronunciations on my Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary while watching this video, and it was clear how differently the letter 'R' is treated in various examples given here. BTW, at example #8 I could actually hear a very, very subtle 'R' in "nurse" and "forty" - quite more sublte in the latter; if you set the reproduction speed to 0.75 and/or 0.5, it's easier to notice. Maybe because you and British people in general don't even think about a 'r' following a vowel, as stated on the video, there lies the reason why you can't even notice that sometimes it's actually there. Anyway, amazing video. I'm subscribed and eager to keep watching your lessons!
As a native english speaker it's interesting to see rules applied to these things that are just natural to me. I haven't ever thought about ate/et being a verb/noun divide and just treated them as different words in my mind
I'm not even a native speaker but the same thing has happened to me. I think it's because I've learned my pronunciation mostly by listening rather than studying; my brain just likes to pick up interesting things. In the video the "up" in "put up" was one such thing. That vowel sound is pretty distinctive.
Have just come across your uploads, great work, just what the world needs, an accurate description of how we all should be speaking in 2022 and beyond.
My English is pretty good, but when I read words that are new to me, it can be difficult to know where the stress should be. That goes for long and rare words, but they seem to pop up quite often as the English vocabulary is so frickin' huge.
Not saying this won't help, but I've been learning english for about 15years now and I knew all these. I taught myself by listening. for the past 15 years I've changed everything to english; my OS, my Phone, all the content I watch or listen to...
0:50 Which makes the thing more confusing because the previous words (message, garage, average, marriage, courage) also come from French or Old French 🤣
Hello Greg, even though this particular video and lesson was uploaded in 2022 October 7th but the contents you taught us are still relevant and as such I realize my past misunderstood in pronouncing . Thanks so much , so now I can pronounce words like (1) courage,(2) passionate , (3) literature ch - ch ch correctly . Awesome and fabulous lesson this one!!!
On the topic of "linking r", it also appears where there's no written "r"; in most accents where it's present, it's a function of adjacent vowels (and I would argue is appended to the start of the following word, rather than the end of the preceding). E.g. "there's bacteria on it" would be pronounced as "there's bacteria r-on it".
You're correct apart from "Garage". That word famously has a North/South divide in the way we pronounce it. Personally I'm from the South, and I pronounce it with a long aaa sound, like ""far". Garaaadge - but with the stress on the first syllable.
As general rules, these are pretty good for foreign speakers and this is a video I would recommend to my non-native english speaking friends. But a few of your pronunciations following these rules are americanised or only follow the rule with a regional dialect ( I suspect you are from the midlands/north) - not Oxford || or the Kings English pronunciation. Congratulations for example is Congra-tyu-lay-shunz. no ch sound.
I take issue with D pronounced J before U. I agree that many people speak that way, but it’s not necessarily correct. I have spoken English my entire life and prefer the traditional sound of D as D in those case. I don’t disagree that there are many way to pronounce words. In this lesson, garage, as it’s usually said in England is pronounced garahj in other countries, as it’s also taken from French. Living languages evolve and one is best served to learn from a person in the English speaking country they live, or plan to spend time.
What I've speculated is that American English stresses all the Rs while the British version tends to silence the ending Rs. In the case of "-ture," like "culture" and "literature," in the American version you can clearly hear the Rs, there's a definite roll of the tongue, not just the "che."
It should be pointed out that the "d-" /dj/, while it can easily be pronounced on both sides of the Atlantic as Greg does it, words such as "during" are pronounced in North America with a lot less "oomph" on the /j/ sound, and much more on the /d/ sound. If you want, for North America, write the pronunciation as /d(j)/. Likewise, other pronunciations that have a more Brit Eng sound can be softened (as in YouTUbe) and work perfectly fine for North Americans. All is relative and on a continuous line, not one OR the other pronunciation.
I'm a native German speaker and I somehow figured all these out without any training like this. Perhaps it's really learning by doing. Thanks for the video for those who need it nonetheless.
AS - 1 & 2. More "ih" than "uh". 3. "ch[u]r" 4. We don't say "j". 5. We don't say "ch" in "tuna"-like words, but we do say it like that for embedded "tu" as in "congratulate", and then it's "ch[i]". 6. We tend to flow it together evenly, with a slight stress on the second part. 7. Pretty much the same. 8. We usually pronounce the "r", except for regional accents, like NYC or Boston, and there you have vowel changes, too.
The 'Du' having a 'ju' sound; is that the case in Received Pronunciation as well? The English spoken here in Sri Lanka; descends from an older form of RP which was probably spoken around the mid 1900s (we still pronounce 'flour' as 'fla') and we don't have that feature.
I don't know how recent it is, but it's British English. This doesn't happen at all in American English. "Due" is pronounced exactly the same as "do" in America. Also, "tune" in America is pronounced the same as the second syllable of "cartoon." You might have a T becoming CH before U in the middle of a word (e. g., "mature"), but never at the beginning of a word in American English.
It’s quite common for most native English speakers to pronounce words like ‘during’ as ‘juring’ and this is a relatively recent thing and the reason textbooks wouldn’t include it is that it isn’t exactly a posh way to say it and any English speaker will know exactly what you mean if you don’t pronounce the J. I hope this helps
It's a little bit variant on region and class. I was raised pedantic and regard j as lazy but still aspirate the d more than when followed by e, for example. It's more a D followed by diphthong iu
What is this accent you are trying to give me?? Slightly Yorkshire? Vague London working class? You-choob? But this is a great video. Very concise and easy to understand! 🙏
I found that quite interesting, Greg. As a native Brit I do agree with you on most of the pronunciations. Here’s a question, have you produced a video on British place names? It drives me crazy when I hear words like Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckingham, Oxford, all pronounced with the last part of the word emphasised as though it was a seperate word, instead of ‘swallowed’ with little or no emphasis on the vowel. I apologise if you’ve already produced a video on this subject.
I agree with you it 99% of the time. However, as a Canadian the word 'garage' is pronounced differently from the way you pronounce it. The stress accent is on the last syllable in our accent. In Canadian English the word 'garage', the first 'a' is a schwa, and the second 'a' is the same sound as 'apple'. The words 'due' etc. do not have the 'j' sound in our accent.
Yes, this is very much BRITISH English. Some of these pronunciations don't work at all in North America. Do you really use the A sound from "apple" in the second syllable of "garage"? I use the A sound from "father" there--and the schwa in the first syllable tends to disappear completely in my dialect, making "garage" a one-syllable word.
Thank you, Greg, for your help. The more I learn English, the more convinced I am that it is one of the craziest languages to learn. I feel unable to memorize al those rules :((
Personally, I would disagree about the du- words. I concede the sounds are _similar_ but in my pronunciation (UK) they are subtly different. For instance, I pronounce "due" and "Jew" differently. I had to grab my dictionary (Collins English) to see what it shows, and they also differentiate between them: dju: vs dʒu: Granted the difference is minute. Likewise for the unvoiced pairs like "tune" vs "chew" - again I pronounce the initial consonant/vowel combination slightly differently. 🤓
Yes, I was wondering about this as well as they are different to me too, and I have never noticed a british person saying it that way before, only americans trying to say e.g. Tuesday the british way (American person:"Chewsday"). I wonder if Greg is simplifying things or if some british speakers say it this way. It may be related to a phenomenon called "train changing". Video by Dr Geoff Lindsey th-cam.com/video/F2X1pKEHIYw/w-d-xo.html
Hi, Greg! When I hear your word "there", I hear [ r ] sound at the end. And I, Russian speaker, learnt in America to pronounce correctly sound [ 3: ] in such words as "learn", "work", "nurse", "third", only when I could add sound [ r ] making it gutteral sound. Thank you so much for your professional work! I enjoyed this video very much! However, the word "garage" sounded strange to me. Google-Translate gives us sound [ zh ] as in ""bourgeois".
I've just discovered your channel throuhg this video. Great content, great format, exceptionally clear. When the explanation for rule #4 started, the first word that came to mind was 'doom', which seems to be actually an exception, right?
I spent 14 years learning English and have been speaking it daily ever since, never has anyone taught me this or even pointed out I was pronouncing these wrong (in fact I'm not sure if my English teachers pronounced those properly), nor have I realized this myself despite being aware something was off with my pronunciation. I just didn't sound like a native speaker even though I was trying to, yet I couldn't put my finger on what exactly sounded off. Instant sub.
If you are speaking American or Canadian English most of these rules are either completely or partly wrong.
@@DragNetJoe Add Scottish English to that as well.
Some of this is down to regionality. As a midlander, my +ture is pronounced as a soft "chur" instead of "chuh", my du+ is pronounced "dyoo", but these are all mutually intelligible. "Jooplicut", "Dooplicut" and "Dyooplicut" are all valid regional pronunciations of duplicate (adjective). Similarly, "tyoon" not "choon" for me, although that's inconsistent with his other examples. That's unforchunut.
Your tell is probably an inconsistency in how these are applied -- so you sound like you're from everywhere -- or you're bringing in some feature of your own language (Examples: carrying in final devoicing from Dutch or Polish -- ents of worts instead of ends of words -- tapped or trilled Rs from Spanish -- the English rhotic r is just weird -- or the singular L sound from German, which is the feature that makes German sound funny when saying "squirrel". Practice saying "Label" - both L sounds are different.)
@@Kastagaar There are many people who have a rhotic R in the UK. Just about all Scots and Northern Irish people do as well as people in northern and southwestern England. The mistake coaches like this one make is to assume that their accent is the definitive one, when it is just one accent of many.
@@alicemilne1444 "Rhotic" was the wrong word; I apologise. What I meant was that the postalveolar approximant that most regional accents of modern English use to pronounce a leading R sound (E.g. in "red") is weird. It's just a strange thing to do with your mouth, and not common in the rest of the world, which is why it's often not emulated correctly by non-native speakers.
The "D" rule doesn't really apply in North America. Most of us say "doo", "doo-oh", "doon", "doo-plicate" etc. We also say "garage" in more of a French style, "garr-ahj", or "grahj".
And unlike British and Australian etc, we in Canada and the US say "toon" not "choon" for the word "tune".
I was just going to write that. Good thing I read through comments first!
Yes, It sounds like a very strange speech impediment to me when I hear the d sounds swapped out for a j sound or a t sound swapped out for a ch sound. Besides speaking English in North America all my life, I do frequently watch British TV. Only one person ever had this pronunciation habit that I've noticed: the presenter of the gameshow 'Duel'. I find it odd that he introduces the round by saying, "Let's jewel".
Yeah, I felt caught-out by that one, before I realized it was a regional difference. :)
and US accents also tend to be more rhotic - they don't drop so many Rs where they are written and don't add the linking Rs where they're not.
He is talking about British English not American which is really a different language.
Hii Greg am so fortunate to have you as an English teacher I appreciate it.
Thank you so much! 😊
Sure you do
Hi Greg! Thanks a bunch for all these subtleties you're explaining to us so clearly! Good job! Have a nice day and take care!
Worth mentioning that many of these rules are true for British English, but are modified or completely different for North American English. But I suppose that's true for any accent or dialect
but kttkyk6ykkyk6k.😂
As an English speaker this blows my mind! All these little unspoken rules that the language has, that you completely take for granted when it's your first language is absolutely nuts. No wonder it's a tricky language to learn for foreign speakers
And that's why you can't really learn a language using rules like these. There is no way to consciously reference all these rules while having a conversation.
@@peter1062 that's what study is for
As someone who grew up with a western United States accent, it’s crazy how different these things are.
Hi Greg. I have been watching a lot of your videos. As a foreigner to the English language I found your lessons very easy to follow as your pronunciation is very clear. I just want to thank you for improving my English.
Hello, I'm Jonathan and I thought your english is so good to understand... Your classes are amazing, you have been doing a good work, thanks.
10:48 For the silent R rule, I just place my tongue like pronouncing it without voicing it. Then, it can be naturally heard or not depending on the next sound.
As an American it so interesting to see the tiny intonation that separate the two dialects
Debate for rule number 2 is a perfect counter example. You mentioned it in the verb section but not in the noun section.
Voiced consonants changing into unvoiced is a common trait of some languages and this trips up English learners, including me but not anymore. My ear was just not used to hearing the voiced consonants in English until my teacher pointed it out. And this is so important as it completely changes the meaning of some words. E.g. some learners would pronounce code and coat in the same way.
I really appreciated your lessons, Greg! Clearly, concise, and funny. You are a brilliant teacher!
I had been watching for the compound noun for around one minute and then I found keyboard as a part of computer and keyboard as a music instrument. Thank you for teaching us how to speak English fluently and understandably.
Fair to note that rules 3 and 4 are such recent changes that people often don't use them in very formal RP, and it doesn't sound wrong/second language so much as very old-fashioned and posh. And not only will 5 be ignored by the same people but the t in tube is realised in multiple ways, including [tj] indeed (including in my own quasi-RP British variant)
#Ћ, as the Serbian equivalent of T in tube
Rule 3 & 4 definitely incorrect in RP, his rule reflects usage in certain accents rather than a formal rule
Not having English as a native language and being widely exposed to both British and American takes on the language is quite interesting. I kept listening to American and British word pronunciations on my Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary while watching this video, and it was clear how differently the letter 'R' is treated in various examples given here. BTW, at example #8 I could actually hear a very, very subtle 'R' in "nurse" and "forty" - quite more sublte in the latter; if you set the reproduction speed to 0.75 and/or 0.5, it's easier to notice. Maybe because you and British people in general don't even think about a 'r' following a vowel, as stated on the video, there lies the reason why you can't even notice that sometimes it's actually there. Anyway, amazing video. I'm subscribed and eager to keep watching your lessons!
As a native english speaker it's interesting to see rules applied to these things that are just natural to me. I haven't ever thought about ate/et being a verb/noun divide and just treated them as different words in my mind
I'm not even a native speaker but the same thing has happened to me. I think it's because I've learned my pronunciation mostly by listening rather than studying; my brain just likes to pick up interesting things.
In the video the "up" in "put up" was one such thing. That vowel sound is pretty distinctive.
Awesome lesson Greg! I take it in and I'll put it into practice now. Thank you so much!
Thanks Fernando 😁 We'll speak soon! (In fact, I'm just about to reply to your message on What's App!) 😄
I'm very happy to learn English in this way, it's very easy to understand without get bored!!! Thanks a bunch!!
Have just come across your uploads, great work, just what the world needs, an accurate description of how we all should be speaking in 2022 and beyond.
Thank you Greg. In addition to the video, your worksheet is so helpful
My English is pretty good, but when I read words that are new to me, it can be difficult to know where the stress should be. That goes for long and rare words, but they seem to pop up quite often as the English vocabulary is so frickin' huge.
I have immediately shared this lesson with my grandson who is a lover of English language.
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing, Pujarini :-)
Not saying this won't help, but I've been learning english for about 15years now and I knew all these.
I taught myself by listening. for the past 15 years I've changed everything to english; my OS, my Phone, all the content I watch or listen to...
Thank you, thank you, thank you... It's really no way to fail or understandig your teaching experience...
Y apologies Greg... I meant... To fail or misunderstood your teaching experience...
Amazing,my morning's started with perfect English,thanks a lot!
Note: Rule 1,2,3,6,7 are applicable in both British & American English but Rule 4,5,8 does not apply to American English
Excellently explained Greg. As always very useful video. Thank you very much.
0:50 Which makes the thing more confusing because the previous words (message, garage, average, marriage, courage) also come from French or Old French 🤣
Hello Greg, even though this particular video and lesson was uploaded in 2022 October 7th but the contents you taught us are still relevant and as such I realize my past misunderstood in pronouncing . Thanks so much , so now I can pronounce words like (1) courage,(2) passionate , (3) literature ch - ch ch correctly . Awesome and fabulous lesson this one!!!
Hi Greg,Thanks for teaching english prounciation in a very interesting and enjoyable manner.
On the topic of "linking r", it also appears where there's no written "r"; in most accents where it's present, it's a function of adjacent vowels (and I would argue is appended to the start of the following word, rather than the end of the preceding). E.g. "there's bacteria on it" would be pronounced as "there's bacteria r-on it".
Hi, Greg! You are just an explaining-talent, still unclear things change into unforgettable ones, couldn"t be better and thanks for that !
Thanks Edith! What a wonderful comment 😊
this was very helpful, even though I hear spoken english every day I've never registered these subtle pronounciation quirks.
So great and clear! Thank you, Greg! 🌷
You’re welcome, Marinchik 😀
This is a very interesting video. I can’t say I agree with everything you say though!
You are so good teacher 🙂thank you for your exercises,helping me everyday 👍
You're correct apart from "Garage". That word famously has a North/South divide in the way we pronounce it. Personally I'm from the South, and I pronounce it with a long aaa sound, like ""far". Garaaadge - but with the stress on the first syllable.
As general rules, these are pretty good for foreign speakers and this is a video I would recommend to my non-native english speaking friends. But a few of your pronunciations following these rules are americanised or only follow the rule with a regional dialect ( I suspect you are from the midlands/north) - not Oxford || or the Kings English pronunciation. Congratulations for example is Congra-tyu-lay-shunz. no ch sound.
I've heard plenty of con-grat-cher-lay-shunz here in Yorkshire
@@stevecarter8810 Precisely. My case proven.
I really love your all video. They are super helpful. I'm grateful to you.
Thank you very much Greg! I love English it really is a beautiful language!
Very enjoyable lesson.There are many rules that I can' t imagine.
I take issue with D pronounced J before U. I agree that many people speak that way, but it’s not necessarily correct. I have spoken English my entire life and prefer the traditional sound of D as D in those case. I don’t disagree that there are many way to pronounce words. In this lesson, garage, as it’s usually said in England is pronounced garahj in other countries, as it’s also taken from French. Living languages evolve and one is best served to learn from a person in the English speaking country they live, or plan to spend time.
I'm glad to learn English with you. You are the best
Thank you.
What I've speculated is that American English stresses all the Rs while the British version tends to silence the ending Rs. In the case of "-ture," like "culture" and "literature," in the American version you can clearly hear the Rs, there's a definite roll of the tongue, not just the "che."
I love how the Americans say 'Look at yourself in the mirrrrrrr'..😊
It's worth noting that the pronunciation of "debate" doesn't change when it's a noun or a verb - it always ends with the "8" sound
That’s true… There are always exceptions! 😣
Wonderful explanation! Thank you very much, you made an outstanding job. This will help a lot. You're a great teacher
Thanks, Arthur!
I say due, duplicate etc using 'd' not 'j'.
I thought sounding the 'd' as a ' j' was lazy speech. 😁
Every time I have learned something new.Thanks a lot!
Greg, I use your videos as supplements to my classes with many of my students. Keep up the good work.
That's so cool! Thanks for sharing 😀
I often send them along with the weekly newsletter for my students - brilliant videos!
It should be pointed out that the "d-" /dj/, while it can easily be pronounced on both sides of the Atlantic as Greg does it, words such as "during" are pronounced in North America with a lot less "oomph" on the /j/ sound, and much more on the /d/ sound. If you want, for North America, write the pronunciation as /d(j)/.
Likewise, other pronunciations that have a more Brit Eng sound can be softened (as in YouTUbe) and work perfectly fine for North Americans. All is relative and on a continuous line, not one OR the other pronunciation.
Many thanks mate,I teach English to a young kid and this is very helpful to have as a resource for the lad.
I'm a native German speaker and I somehow figured all these out without any training like this. Perhaps it's really learning by doing.
Thanks for the video for those who need it nonetheless.
i do like your video lessons on youtube. thank you very much. They do help me in my EFL teaching learning course
Hi Greg, I'm very happy that I've discovered your videos. Shortly Thank you very much for your big efforts.
much thanks mr.greg. Your video always help us to enhance our English more clear and sound native😃
You're welcome, Arie! Glad you liked the lesson :-)
AS - 1 & 2. More "ih" than "uh". 3. "ch[u]r" 4. We don't say "j". 5. We don't say "ch" in "tuna"-like words, but we do say it like that for embedded "tu" as in "congratulate", and then it's "ch[i]". 6. We tend to flow it together evenly, with a slight stress on the second part. 7. Pretty much the same. 8. We usually pronounce the "r", except for regional accents, like NYC or Boston, and there you have vowel changes, too.
Thank you, Greg! Very useful lesson!
Hi,,, Greg make more videos like this please,,,!!!
Today's lessons was super cool.
Thanks Elky 😀
Excellente video. Thank you so much!
Magistral explicacion, bravo Greg, gracias!
Gracias, Inés 😊
With the -ture sound my teacher always taught me to say “chair” as an easy way to pronounce those words, but “ch” definitely sounds more accurate
GREAT LESSON.✨✨✨👏
Thank you so much.
The 'Du' having a 'ju' sound; is that the case in Received Pronunciation as well?
The English spoken here in Sri Lanka; descends from an older form of RP which was probably spoken around the mid 1900s (we still pronounce 'flour' as 'fla') and we don't have that feature.
Similar to the Serbian #Ђ
Thank you very much sir ❤️
I'm Zubair Al mahmud from Bangladesh.
Hi Gregg. Wonderful lesson. My word for you is 'notebook', so simple. Thank you so much!!
Brilliant! And it follows the rule! 👏😀
Hhhhhhh
I was thinking of keyboard :D
Is this "D -> J before U" transition quite recent? It's almost not mentioned in textbooks.
I don't know how recent it is, but it's British English. This doesn't happen at all in American English. "Due" is pronounced exactly the same as "do" in America. Also, "tune" in America is pronounced the same as the second syllable of "cartoon." You might have a T becoming CH before U in the middle of a word (e. g., "mature"), but never at the beginning of a word in American English.
Never heard anyone saying "projuce"
It’s quite common for most native English speakers to pronounce words like ‘during’ as ‘juring’ and this is a relatively recent thing and the reason textbooks wouldn’t include it is that it isn’t exactly a posh way to say it and any English speaker will know exactly what you mean if you don’t pronounce the J.
I hope this helps
Like grajuation?
It's a little bit variant on region and class. I was raised pedantic and regard j as lazy but still aspirate the d more than when followed by e, for example. It's more a D followed by diphthong iu
Who says that english is easy?
It is not!
But it is challenging!!
Thank you Greg gor the ch ch ch sound!
I never have learned these differences!
Este es el mejor video que he visto en youtube.
What is this accent you are trying to give me?? Slightly Yorkshire? Vague London working class? You-choob? But this is a great video. Very concise and easy to understand! 🙏
Thank you so much Teacher 💓
I'm Really glad having found your channel 💓
FANTASTIC LESSON!💗😊
Thank you, Pallavi! 😃😃
3:36 except for debate which is pronounced /eit/ both as a verb and a noun.
Thank you for your help.
You're welcome!
I found that quite interesting, Greg. As a native Brit I do agree with you on most of the pronunciations. Here’s a question, have you produced a video on British place names? It drives me crazy when I hear words like Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckingham, Oxford, all pronounced with the last part of the word emphasised as though it was a seperate word, instead of ‘swallowed’ with little or no emphasis on the vowel. I apologise if you’ve already produced a video on this subject.
nice video Greg, sounds are really important, this is a good explanation from you
I agree with you it 99% of the time. However, as a Canadian the word 'garage' is pronounced differently from the way you pronounce it. The stress accent is on the last syllable in our accent. In Canadian English the word 'garage', the first 'a' is a schwa, and the second 'a' is the same sound as 'apple'. The words 'due' etc. do not have the 'j' sound in our accent.
Yes, this is very much BRITISH English. Some of these pronunciations don't work at all in North America.
Do you really use the A sound from "apple" in the second syllable of "garage"? I use the A sound from "father" there--and the schwa in the first syllable tends to disappear completely in my dialect, making "garage" a one-syllable word.
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Probably the most useful video on TH-cam.
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Thank you, Greg, for your help. The more I learn English, the more convinced I am that it is one of the craziest languages to learn. I feel unable to memorize al those rules :((
Thanks a lot! I didn't know about the "du" rule.
Personally, I would disagree about the du- words. I concede the sounds are _similar_ but in my pronunciation (UK) they are subtly different. For instance, I pronounce "due" and "Jew" differently. I had to grab my dictionary (Collins English) to see what it shows, and they also differentiate between them: dju: vs dʒu: Granted the difference is minute. Likewise for the unvoiced pairs like "tune" vs "chew" - again I pronounce the initial consonant/vowel combination slightly differently. 🤓
I also learnd it differently but I am not a native speaker. Might be a reagional thing if you "chew" or "tju" your words. 😄
Yes, I was wondering about this as well as they are different to me too, and I have never noticed a british person saying it that way before, only americans trying to say e.g. Tuesday the british way (American person:"Chewsday"). I wonder if Greg is simplifying things or if some british speakers say it this way. It may be related to a phenomenon called "train changing". Video by Dr Geoff Lindsey th-cam.com/video/F2X1pKEHIYw/w-d-xo.html
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Hi, Greg! When I hear your word "there", I hear [ r ] sound at the end. And I, Russian speaker, learnt in America to pronounce correctly sound [ 3: ] in such words as "learn", "work", "nurse", "third", only when I could add sound [ r ] making it gutteral sound.
Thank you so much for your professional work! I enjoyed this video very much! However, the word "garage" sounded strange to me. Google-Translate gives us sound [ zh ] as in ""bourgeois".
At least in my accent, the so called Standard American accent, it's pronounced exactly as you described.
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Thumbs up! Well done! I appreciate that. Cheers!
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I've just discovered your channel throuhg this video. Great content, great format, exceptionally clear. When the explanation for rule #4 started, the first word that came to mind was 'doom', which seems to be actually an exception, right?
Thank you so much! Very useful.