Watch the trailer for my pronunciation course here: canguroenglish.com/english-pronunciation-course/

@Pogo4799

5 ай бұрын

Hi from Italy. You seem a very good teacher; even your pronounciation of "pizza" is good. BUT... which pizza? Before I completely trust in you as a human, you must answer to this test I prepared just for you. 1) You can choose only one of these 3 pizze A - pineapple (hawaian style?) B - banana (swedish, they say) C - Margherita (in Savoy Queen's memory) 2) You must drive a car, after this pizza-meal. What do you drink with your pizza? A - cappuccino B - a soft drink C - water You seem enough a good teacher to evaluate yourself. Two right answers: you're OK Only one, or even zero... all the best to you and your family, but never, NEVER, ask for a pizza meal sitting close to me. I'll immediately ask the waiter for another table.

@chesslover8829

5 ай бұрын

It's a no-brainer: 1. Pizza Margherita 2. Cappuccino

another amazing video , please let me share my own personal experience , my brother has master in English teaching and he always talks about my mistakes , I didn't have self-confidence at all for talking until finally I was forced to have a conversation with my spouse for the first time , she is American and I'm Iranian , after our conversion she said me your English is not perfect but it's completely understandable and it's enough for me . the only purpose of the language is communication not learning British or American accent

1) Do nothing 0:20 2) Use the rhythm of English 3:20 3) Use nuclear stress 6:20 4) Focus on consonants 9:47 5) Consider others 12:45

@MyFluentPodcast

7 ай бұрын

T.hank you for the time stamps. This is useful. Daniel.

@Canguroenglish

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! I added them!

The main goal of any language is to be understood, not to sound fancy. I see many people selling courses “to sound like a native” and that’s really bad, because it makes people think they’re not speaking properly. English isn’t my first language and I don’t care much if I’m writing it wrong or right, as long as people get what I’m trying to say!

@MyFluentPodcast

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I see it similar as you. But it always depends on the situation and the per on. Let's say you are living in a town in the UK and you won't adapt (at least a bit) then you will stand out like a sore thumb and some might even having troubles understanding you. But yeah, might not be an issue at all... but maybe not everyone wants to be "the stranger" forever. It's an interesting topic! Daniel.

@LeoListening

7 ай бұрын

@@MyFluentPodcast Agreed! I've lived in France for 16 years and it's important for me to sound like the people around me so that I fit in. Of course, some people will always judge me for my accent, but for the most part, the French language is no barrier for me. But there are other people who live abroad who have a much lower level and who don't care! So even moving abroad is not motivating enough for some to improve their level!

@Clodd1

7 ай бұрын

But you are a foreigner, no matter how many years you live in another country. People should accept us as we are, especially in the globalized world we live in. See how many Indian CEOs are out there. It doesn’t mean you can’t sound like a native if that’s what you want. My point is, you don’t need to if you don’t want to.

@lissaouimustapha9568

6 ай бұрын

​​@@MyFluentPodcastyeah, however you might be mistaken, as an English my third language, I concentrate on the origin language not an accent, although I studied American accent but, I didn't care about it, I talk with foreigners get me well and I likewise, that's the purpose. For instance, I'm Arabic from Morocco 🇲🇦 , if you study Arabic language, you'd like to learn an accent, how many accents you have to learn? Because each country has a special accent, As an Arabic while I traveled first time to Libya 🇱🇾 didn't understand Libyan people even I lived with them for 3 months, the first time I was asked them to talk with me by origin Arabic to get them, Every Arabic country has a different dialogue, but if you'd like to talk with them, talk by origin language, each country has an accent different about another. So let me get you an advise, if you want to learn a new language, concentrate on origin language not accent, you can make mistakes in accent, it's not bad, however if you made mistakes in origin language it's horrible, people won't get you.....

@lissaouimustapha9568

6 ай бұрын

​@@Clodd1 I totally approve with you bro.

I am a native Italian speaker, and English is my second language, which I love and have never stopped practicing for 40 years. It really does have a very simple grammatical structure, as the teacher in the video claims. Listening to his every speech, always so easy and clear, does not require the slightest effort. Yes, okay, he's a teacher, he must communicates paused and slowly, he speaks in a basic way using elementary vocabulary, i.e. no phrasal verbs, has perfect Oxford school pronunciation, free of accents and shortcuts that make comprehension less immediate. Quite differently, listening to a Londoner, who has a pronounced quick and robotic up-and-down pattern full of shortcuts, cool & idiomatic & dialectal ways of saying, acronyms, etc., requires “a lot of phisical and mental effort”, a non stop practicing: I can usually understand 50 percent of his "broken english", I cannot risk taking even 50 percent. Moreover, I can't stand the recent fashion, imposed by a district of London, the world's most multi-ethnic city, of changing certain grammatical rules of this beloved language, such as the conjugation of verbs in the present tense and the removal of the 'S'/ES in the third person. One more obstacle to understanding. However, I appreciate this man's approach to teaching. I thank him🙏

Thank you, Christian! If we can understand you, than we can communicate in english. We lack for confidence, but you give it to us!

"There is nothing cool or authentic about making communication difficult for other people." Amen!

You're a great teacher and a great person. Thank you for your efforts to teach us. From Pisa with respect.

I was searching for something special to motivate my English learning journey. Now, I need to go back many years to find your videos and enjoy my journey.

I was always worried about the pronunciation but now I now that the important thing is Comunication!!! "YOUR ACCENT IS YOUR IDENTITY AND THIS IS BEAUTIFUL"!!! WONDERFUL!!!

I discovered why you don't have millions of subscriptions. Your videos are for valuable people and there aren't too many of them online. ;) I love your videos and with each one I understand more and more what you are saying to me. You are amazing! Your Grandmother is certainly proud of you! Be here more often.

I´ve assigned an exercise from one of your videos (What is Freedom?). I´m a retired LIterature ( Brazilian, Portuguese, English, American) and I still have some students, EL. I choose two American two Canadian and one British teacher for being a target of listening and pronunciation. I send them the link of your video. Work with them to get the sentences from it. Read, listen and practice until they are learning to follow you in a near future. It´s very pleasant active for them and for me, considering they are young adults. We all learn. I tell them, I am no longer just a teacher , I am the bridge for you guys reach success and have Christian as your REAL teacher. Sounds good to you?😊

I too wanted to change my accent until I realized it’s my identity I wanted to change but for who and for what? Be proud of who you are and be proud of where you’re from. Most English native speakers aren’t even speaking English properly let along another language. 😂

Кристиан, вы философ и реалист, в тоже время. Спасибо за умное видео.

You are a great and true human!! For sharing your knowledge and give to us self confidence! Thank you Christin!! (I'm from Brazil and I've already watched all your videos!! For me you are the best teacher I have ever seen!!)

Christian has the best pronunciation of English KZread videos. I undestand all that he talks.

This man has just taught me more in 15 minutes than my english teacher did in the whole month. Should I ask my money back? 🤪

I love your overall message, especially the first one about the difference between identity and pronunciation. I've spent years trying to adapt to either British or American standard pronunciation. As an English teacher myself I don't consider this not that relevant anymore. The most important thing is to be able to communicate fluently and ,at large, better if you do so correctly. Of course, you may opt for British, American or whatever other variety but these days it is given far too much importance and this builds up a whole lot of unnecessary anxieties. Peer group pressure makes us vulnerable for supposedly not being at the expected level of proficiency. But who is this up to to decide what is expected? This should be in our hands and go beyond other people's pressure that is often the product of money-making based incentives. As far as my own language teaching is concerned, I consider the crucial aspects of phonetics the following four: good pronunciation of the phonemes, the right syllable stress, intonation and word linking. When you put the four pieces together properly, you achieve a considerable outcome no matter what certificate you are aiming at or if you stick to learning for fun which should always be our main motivation.

I'm training to become an ESL teacher and I really like your approach. Thank you!

15:00 "Theres nothing cool or authentic about making communication difficult for other people". Christian, I just had discovered your channel, and as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language I think I'm going to start quoting you instead of all those "researchers" who barely contribute with useful or meaningful insight on language teaching. It goes without saying that you got a new subscriber :)

It is often forgotten it is up to the learner to decide in what shape or form s/he wishes to acquire the pronunciation of a foreign language - and the learner only. The teacher’s role is to make this happen.

Magnificent! As always, thanks a lot!

"My" Dear and "Unknowing" Christian. ONE MILLION OF THANKS 😊. This video, the content, the ethical approach, and the social reflection ARE JUST AMAZING and incredible useful. Gracias. Muchas gracias. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.

You are the best teacher!!! Thanks for your lessons!

You are brilliant! Thank you very much!

Thank you, Christian! Always helping us stay on track to improve our English skills, and never, ever, give up. Keep it up and have an awesome week! ; )

Have never thought about learning the language with such a wise approach. It's so thought-provoking.

Christian, the more I follow your video's the more I feel the need to not to miss out on a single one of them! You are the English language best teacher ever! Greetings from the Netherlands, Saba

Such a great video!!! Great tips and, even better, values behind the words. Amazing! Congrats!

MANY THANKS!!!

I love how you explain all the things in the video. Thank you.

Hi christian u are the first and the best ✌️.not only u are a great teacher but a great free thinker

Speaking English in ~~rhythm~~ is so hard Thank you for showing us a great way to get into the groove of speaking! The flashing red dot starting at 5:20 was very helpful!

It's a perfect video, as usual! Very informative! Thank you!

What a conscious human being! Love it

Thank you very much for your lessons. Extremely grateful

Love your way of teaching. Thank you, Christian

Thank u, Christian! 🙌 U always find right words to inspire and to give the feeling that all this complicated way to better English, it is okay.

Dear Christian, I want to thank you for your excellent content. I just want to notify the fact that many people, mostly American, consider those "shortcuts" legitimate as they are part of the process of evolution of English language !! And we are witnessing a major shift from the prescriptive language to a more subjective one ! which make it really difficult to keep up with all this changes..mainly in term of teaching and learning...!!!

Watching from Brazil , perfect class, thank you!

I found your videos and I started watching it and I loved it, you speak clearly.

Exquisite presentation and makes my worries about sounding native American disappear. But, since I live in the USA and am in constant contact with Americans I have to understand them as they speak to me with their restrictions and reductions. But now it is clear to me that I don't have to sound like them. Thank you Christian.

Thank you so much. You are always inspiring for us.

Thank you Christian!...your contents ALWAYS make me feel more motivated to improve my English 💖☺

Inspiring as always ❤ thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and giving English learners a healthy vision of what we should focus on 😊 God bless you!

You simply teach clearly and precisely your ideas. Thank for your Channel!

Your are really great Professor ! I just discovered your channel. I am superbly amazed by the high quality of your courses. Greetings from the Kingdom of Morocco

As a non native English teacher I have been demanded by both employers and students to have either an American or a British accent. I've even been asked to change my Spanish name to an English one so that my student's believed they had a native English teacher... This really frustrates me since it's as if I had to adopt a false identity so that students think I'm a good teacher. However, I've had many English speaking colleagues who had no idea of teaching, and no knowledge of their own language grammar, but employers and students trusted them because they were just native speakers. I've taught English in the UK and I haven't had this problem, though, I didn't have to change my name, and pretend any accent.

Thanks, Christian! Brilliant motivating video! And I can't agree more with every idea about the main personal goal of any communicator and the main purpose of any language (that - unsurprisingly - turn up to be the same), that you discuss in this video. The trap of having ideas of everyday things is our ullusion that we know everything about them. But there is always room for another perspective on the same thing that can make our understanding of it better. There are subtle connections between things that we sometimes do not perceive as having any connection, like the ideas of studetnt, communicator and language discussed in this video. But looking at them through the filter of goal makes the connection between them so evident and so indisputable. Thank you for your sharp mind an your desire to share your insights with us! All the best to you and your channel, Christian! BIG 👍

Amazing original thoughts and learnings. Never thought like that about half of the subjects.

Thank you for your encouraging video. It is wise, clear to understand and enjoyable!

Thanks a lot Christian. Great explanation. They try to make language learning rather complicated .I enjoy watching your wise videos ❤

Thank you, Christian! You are my best teacher and colleague!

It doesn't matter how you sound as long as you speak clearly enough for others to understand you. The exceptions is words that change the meaning (verb/vs noun) depending on which syllabe you stress.

Your videos are so amazing! you have the ability to make any topic reach my heart ❤

Excellent as always!🤩

Great class! Sometimes I was frustrated with my pronunciation and you motivated me.

Really helpful this video. Thank you so much.

You are the best teacher, that l have been seeing in the last 2 years.

This is so true!

Great teacher! Such a clear explanation! Thank you a lot!!!

Thank you very much sir, you're making a revolution in how to teach English efficiently. Love and respect from a learner in Haiti

谢谢，老师，这个视频对我帮助很大

Some interesting points, this chap has. Definetely worth watching, if you’re into learning languages in general, and particularly interested in improving your communicating skills in English.

Thanks teacher

I'm very appreciated. Your video is very clear to listen, and the content is very helpful. Thank you all

Bravo, bravissimo! 👍

Because I understand 100 percent the way you deliver the speeches!!

Thank you soo much for your videos!!! The video really useful!

Your pronunciation is really perfect. When a hear you speaking, looks like I´m hearing my first language (brazilian portuguese). Congratulations (and thank you)! You are helping many people to see and understand this process in a differente way.

love this man!!

Thank you for understandable talk everytime

The best English course last time

Wow, it's wonderful. CHRIS is amazing. He's such an inspiration to all of us. God bless you, sir 🙏🏻

That really makes sense, thanks a lot!

Thank so much, for these amazing tips, that help us a lot.

Thank you Bonnie Lad

With over a dozen of official versions of english and dozens or hundred of accents (of native speakers) I've simply decided to go with the flow. I'm not american, I'm not canadian, I'm not english, I'm not scottish, I'm not irish, I'm not indian, I'm not south african, I'm not australian, I'm not a kiwi. Why should I try to sound like one of them? We learned british RP in school. Most media is american. Most of the people I speak english with aren't native speakers either. my pronounciation is probably a weird mix, which is very on par with how chaotic english spelling is. And just how my written english can differ between british and american, depending on the context, how I feel that day, etc, my pronounciation is probably also somewhat flexible.

I've hearded a lot good inglish teacher but this one is the inglish teacher that l understand when he explain his class.amaizing.he talk so clearly

Oh hallelujah you are talking about the rhythm of English!!!! This is something I am sooooo stressing in my classes with SE Asian students. It makes SUCH a difference in how natural they sound. (also getting them to put the final consonants on words. This so SO hard for them as their own language 'swallows' final letters in a variety of ways that are just as hard for me to do as for them not to :)

Εξαιρετικός.

Smart explication thanks canguroenglish

Wow, excellent information! I’m an English teacher and I’m always looking to become a better teacher. Your videos help me. I totally agree with everything you touch on here. Learners - do not aspire to sound like a native, your version of English is so much more beautiful and interesting 🤩 The other thing is when non-natives take shortcuts, like you mentioned, it’s really hard to understand. Like one-word answers “yeah”, “nah” - I struggle to understand a mumble. I always suggest to my students that speaking slower and with better articulation is far more effective and efficient than trying to sound like a native! Plus, I’m learning French and definitely do not want to sound like a French native, I’ll be keeping my weird accent forever 😊

You are great!!! Thanks a lot

Hi! Christian, I just find you out on the internet and its amazing how I can understand you perfectely. The way you speak is easy for us non american persons. The problem is to understand a native american speaking fast. Thank you for give me hope,😊

amazing person! You're so inspiring!

I realy enjoy your classes, thanks

I am starting to see your content and my first thought is to appreciate that you keep a slow pace along all the video time to help us to understand every single word. Thanks a lot

Lovely!!!

So unique and so magnificent

brighant and convincing as ever , thanks chris

Thank you very much

What's this Man!!!!!! I haven't seen a teacher like you in my whole life.. He is not sharing knowledge and information..... Emotions ❤ too🥰🥰🥰❤️

Thanks, Christian.

Awesome as always

Omg you are a Sensei 9th dan. Superb analyses of the English structure.This us the first time that I see/hear that. Thanks a million

Very, very, very interesting. Thanks you.

Amazing, perfect Mashallah. I love the way you explain

Thank you as much as I can to say it here!

I loved! 👏