New on YouTube! Let’s continue talking about Natural American English Pronunciation. In this lesson, we will look at the pronunciation of words that shift their stress depending on which part of speech they are. The words in this lesson are: address/address, compete/competition, define/definition, estimate/estimation, invite/invitation, present/present, produce/product, rebel/rebel, record/record, signify/significant, specify/specific, and suspect/suspect. Let’s check it out! Click the CC …
Adding The Suffix IC to Nouns Shifts The Stress – English Pronunciation
Adding the suffix IC to nouns, shifts the stress of the word to the syllable just before the suffix IC. This is a good tip to know to help improve your pronunciation of these words. In this lesson, we’ll look at: academy/academic, alcohol/alcoholic, allergy/allergic, atom/atomic, drama/dramatic, economy/economic, gymnast/gymnastic, icon/iconic, magnet/magnetic, melody/melodic, romance/romantic, strategy/strategic, and symbol/symbolic I hope you like this …
New YouTube Lesson: Was Able To – Natural American English Pronunciation
New on YouTube! In this lesson, we will look at the natural American English pronunciation of: BE ABLE TO. English lessons like this one are helpful for both pronunciation and listening, because this is how native speakers really speak in daily conversation. Here are the Key Sentences: I was able to find it→ I wuh-zable-tuh fine-dit I wasn’t able to …
Words Ending In NDS – Natural American English Pronunciation Lesson
New Youtube English Lesson! It’s another American English Pronunciation Lesson. In this lesson, we will look at how the D sound disappears in words that have an NDS at the end of them. Let’s check it out! Click the CC button to see the subtitles and download the transcript of the examples below. Are you ready? Let’s check it out! …
On YouTube – Teens & Tens – How To Hear and Pronounce the Difference
New on YouTube. In this lesson, we will look at the natural American English pronunciation of numbers. A lot of English learners have trouble with the pronunciation of 13 vs. 30…14 vs. 40…15 vs. 50 and so on. Let’s check out how we really pronounce these numbers! Let’s check it out! I hope you like this lesson…if you do, please …
Pronouncing ARE Like An American – Natural English Pronunciation Lesson
In everyday, spoken American English, the BE VERB is generally not stressed. That’s one of the reasons we have contractions, like I am become I’m and she is becomes she’s. Well, the ARE form of the BE verb is also unstressed. In this YouTube English lesson, I’m going to show you how we pronounce ARE. Let’s check it out! I …
Let Me → Lemme – Natural American English Pronunciation
New YouTube English Lesson! We usually pronounce LET ME as LEMME and in a similar way, LET HIM sounds like LET-IM and LET HER sounds like LET-ER. In this lesson, I’m going to show you this natural American English pronunciation The key sentence is this: Let me know what you think about it.…which is usually spoken as…Lemme know wuh-cha thin-kuh …
YouTube English Lesson – Will & Would – Natural American English Pronunciation
Brand New YouTube English Lesson! Today, let’s have a look at how we pronounce will and would when they are followed by certain pronouns. This lesson is great practice for not only learning natural American pronunciation but also improving your listening skills. Here are the patterns: will I, will it, will he, would I, would you, would he, & would …
Give me → Gimme – Natural American English Pronunciation
New YouTube English Lesson! Thanks a lot to everyone who answered the survey up on my YouTube Channel (you can still vote here). As of today, the #1 requested lesson type is pronunciation. In this lesson, I’m going to show you the natural American English pronunciation of “give me” “to” and “think about it.” The key sentence all together is …
It vs. That & It’ll That’ll Natural American English Pronunciation Lesson 英語の発音
The other day, two people asked me about IT and THAT. First of all, what’s the difference between IT and THAT? The second is about the natural pronunciation of it’ll and that’ll. Those are great questions, and in this YouTube lesson, we’re going to look at both of those points. It’s a grammar lesson and a pronunciation lesson all in …