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@mackomare2544

28 күн бұрын

Hi Jade - Witty way to bring across the lesson. I'm from Trinidad - 't' and 'th' are the same to me and I have not changed my accent even though I have been in the UK for 10+ years now. I enjoy your videos - hope all is well. Different accents are beautiful - if you like sci-fi - watch or I should say listen to The Expanse.

Betty bought some butter but the bit of butter Betty bought was bitter so Betty bought some better butter to make the bit of butter better

@heidiferrazzifarnkopf7373

2 жыл бұрын

Love it!!!

@richardj9016

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed she did.

@RobBCactive

2 жыл бұрын

That's Betty Botter who bought the butter!

@aquamina766

2 жыл бұрын

So it’s more natural for me to pronounce the “T” when it’s at the end of the word.

@RobBCactive

2 жыл бұрын

@@aquamina766 if you don't it'll likely change the meaning.

My youtube hadn't recommended you in 5 or 6 years, then suddenly today here you are.

@dovidhamelechcat

3 жыл бұрын

mine too, so weird

@robin_birdie_

3 жыл бұрын

The same happened to me and my youtube yesterday. And I'm grad I here. )

@hugotakada6289

3 жыл бұрын

Subscribe and activate notification . I always get the latest videos

It is all about real english, so don't worry dear. You are speaking real english and we have to get used to many accents in order to understand and lear. Congrats for you channel. Personally, I love you accent. Greetings from Granada, Spain.

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

Good point. Thanks for watching.

I never stop learning from these videos. It is very interesting to know the social implications of oneself accent, in UK. I think not everybody talks about that openly. Thank you Teacher Jade 🙏

@cklg88

2 жыл бұрын

Openly, but some (myself) always listen to accents to determine class. I guess snobby habit.

I'm a suscriber to your channels just BECAUSE of your accent. Love your glottal stops, love your L-vocalisation. So natural, so British to my ears ...

Most of England, of all classes, pronounce T’. It only seems to be cockneys and mockneys who don’t.

Non-native English speakers like me usually need a lot of time and practice to get accustomed to stress-timed languages. Your lessons let me improve and refine the pronunciation even more: I wish I had such good skills you have as native English speaker. Keep on this way, thank-you!

I've known your clips for 8 years now and I have to say I just LOVE your voice, and your pronunciation, so personal and at the same time so typically British. Please keep it going. You don't need to change anything.

Interesting. You don't have to sound like a posh person or a classically trained actor. A good tip I learned was to listen to people on radio 4. No matter what the accent they always pronounce their words fully.

I do love the way you teach us new things!!! Thank you so much

interesting perspective! as an Italian native speaker I had to work very hard not to pronounce Ts all the time and use glottal stops instead!

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

😅

@neilwilson5785

2 жыл бұрын

I'm English and have trouble with the rhotic rrr sound so it's all good.

Most people come across as false when the try and act in a way that is not natural. I believe it is more important to feel comfortable and natural. Being a SW London lad, I find the glottal very natural and sounds friendly. I used the /t/ in my professional life, but it felt like wearing a shirt&tie ... was nice to get home and relax. I have always appreciated your pronunciation, and look forward to hearing a more natural you.

@anarayaa4399

2 жыл бұрын

What a great association - wearing shirt&tie, beautiful.

Beautiful lesson. I like glottal T and I will try

Thanks Jade for all the help you give to everyone watching.👍

@neilwilson5785

2 жыл бұрын

I was literally called this (neil neil orange peel) as a taunt at school. I didn't get offended enough, so they dropped it, lol.

@Monkdewallydehonk

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilwilson5785 it’s just a line Rik Mayall says in the tv series The Young ones. He’s the peoples poet 😂

You are right.I listened a song from Beatles, always Paul said beır beır instead of better better.Yes we are student and learning English recently, we can't pronounce glottel t easily.

Thanks for your video. So enlightening! I'll try to follow tour advice.

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

You're Amazing 💕Jade😍 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

People leave compliments, so I'll leave my own too. I've watched you since 2015 and you helped me build my English English Estuary accent. I would always watch your video and try to say words with your accent. Less than in a year, I'd made it, and have been practising it all the time.

Being French I'm not sure completely I really get what's "wrong" with your T's but that got me thinking a bit. Thanks for sharing!

Fascinating video. Your pronunciation of ‘Ts’ is amazing compared to the average younger person , I literally heard two glottal stops in the entire video. You speak really nicely. I’ve just listened to an 8 min video of someone with a posh accent doing glottal stops constantly and it drove me half mad!

Good for you and Best Wishes 🤗

Thank you Jade! Love!

😁👍Interesting. It will be very useful for my pronunciation.

Thank you for this useful video and advice, I'm Italian, I'm trying to speak correctly but the path is still long, anyway I'm not going to quit at all

TH is my biggest struggling in learning English. Thanks for making this video

@KiKi-tf8rv

2 жыл бұрын

TH is a difficult one even when English is a first language. My daughter is 9 and she’s still working on it. She practices by putting her tongue in between her front top teeth and bottom front teeth. (Almost like you’re lightly biting your tongue.) She leaves it there and practices whispering by blowing through her tongue and teeth, making the soft TH sound you hear in “think”. Then she uses her voice and hums through her teeth and tongue to make the hard TH sound you hear in “this”. Eventually she’ll be able to put her tongue against the back of her front teeth, but until she gets it down, sticking her tongue out a little further so it’s between her teeth really helps!

You’re amazing and thank you for these educational videos! 👏

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@c.norbertneumann4986

2 жыл бұрын

@@JadeJoddle Hi, Jade, since you teach us Cockney pronunciation, may you give us a lesson in Cockney rhyming, please? (I've heard that Cockney speakers replace words with other words that are rhyming with the replaced ones.)

@objectobj

2 жыл бұрын

@@c.norbertneumann4986 Really? God... Almost like in Russian.

You seem so sweet Jade, I am a Greek subscriber but I also live in the UK, I am in my 3rd year of English studies, you ar esuch an inspiration for me take care xx💗💗💗💗

@JadeJoddle

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. ☺️

I'm from South England, to me the glottal stop has always been so normal in my speech, but I had a very traditional grandmother who would scold me for saying things like "wa'er" instead of "water"! So I find that I have a bit of a mixed accent, mostly using glottal stop but some words I taught myself to pronounce "properly" when I was young. I love the glottal stop in British accents though, it's one of my favorite features.

@pipinoperez2720

2 жыл бұрын

Why would a native English would watch English lessons??

@edwardk6464

2 жыл бұрын

@@pipinoperez2720 I've always been fascinated by accents and I really enjoy learning all the terminology and differences between regional accents!

@igormm5202

2 жыл бұрын

It is interesting to see american spelling of the word 'favorite' from an English person :)

@edwardk6464

2 жыл бұрын

@@igormm5202 I got into the habit of using American spellings sometimes just from talking to so many Americans online!

@jimmythelucky

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story.👍🏻

Helpful video!

As a fellow Londoner, I have the same 'issue', but also with th-fronting, which is an even greater sign of proletarian upbringing.

Love your personality and accent Jade

I was watching Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince and I took note of Alan Rickman's diction. You're right about the classically trained actors. Unfortunately he's not left handed as is professor Snape. I guess that was some movie magic to match the books? 😆

Haha I came across this KZreadr again. The last time I watched a video from this coach was in 2015. I think that video of her doing some bee sounds has been deleted but that's how I found this person. Cheers!

@objectobj

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was in 2017.

Gracias. Intentaré pronunciar la «T».

@RealTrader93

3 жыл бұрын

No todas las T se pronuncian; si se hace, suena poco natural. Hay un video en Rachel's English en el que enseña las distintas formas de T que existe en Inglés.

Hi Jade, that's a relief for me!!! To pronounce glottal Ts in my case is quite painful...lol

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

😅 Better avoid glottal stops in that case!

thank you for everything

Hi Jade, your accent really is my favorite and reminds me of my former coworker’s accent who is from Brentford and my former employer’s accent who is from Ealing. Now, I try to use the ‘t’ sound in my speech to sound more like a native UK speaker. But I grew up using glottal stops just like almost everyone else here in Georgia/Florida. Words like “hat”, “cat”, or “Hatton Cross” would all just be glottal stop and I still do it unless I practice :)

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

"I try to use the ‘t’ sound in my speech to sound more like a native UK speaker" : most people from the UK pronounce 't' so your reasoning here is incorrect. If you grew up using glottal stops, then it means has that in common with the Cockney and Estuary English accents. I didn't know that glottal stops were used in any American accents; are you sure we are talking about the same thing?

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

Unless Spanish is your first language / South American heritage?

@jpnelson92

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Jade, I thought we were talking about the same thing but I’m not an expert. I guess I can’t tell the difference between glottal stop and ‘t’ dropping. Some more of the words in American English where I notice minimal ‘t’ emphasis either in the form of ‘t’ dropping or glottal stop (I cant tell the difference) are: “cotton”, “kitten”, “what”, “glottal”, and “forgot” - in the American accents in my region I notice minimal ‘t’ sound and it is what I am referring to as glottal stop. Thanks, Jade, and I love your accent and lessons :)

@jpnelson92

3 жыл бұрын

@Jade Joddle

@jpnelson92

3 жыл бұрын

In my area, the word “glottal” actually sounds like “gloddle” with the ‘d’ sound vibrating in the glottis and not a crisp and clear ‘tt’ sound. But “forgot” and “what” the ‘t’ sound seems to just be a stop. Thank you 😊

It's interesting - for me these 'glottal Ts' sound so pretty when I listen to British speakers, so 'native', and I've always been impressed by them and had an imagination in my mind that this actually belongs to higher classes.. and in this video you say something quite the opposite 😅 On the other hand, when I speak I always pronounce all T's (which is totally natural for me) and I find it extremely difficult and not natural at all to skip any of them.. I guess this is because of my first language - we pronounce all letters, we never drop any, so I would need to think very hard and make a lot of effort to try to do this 'glottal T', which I still find difficult and unusual.

@okritsky

2 жыл бұрын

🤝

@anonymousentertainment9823

2 жыл бұрын

She's talking about classic rp, it's a very rare accent and it would be weird and funny to talk that way in daily situations with common Britons. It also requires a certain vocabulary. She wants it to talk fancy on her channel. Most of British accents have glottal stops even moden rp. So, if you want to sound British, you have to train glottal stops.

@camouflageartist8897

2 жыл бұрын

She’s got terrible accent and pronunciation.

@anonymousentertainment9823

2 жыл бұрын

@@camouflageartist8897 believe me I have worse

@PauloPereira-jj4jv

2 жыл бұрын

@@camouflageartist8897 , maybe... but I understand 99.9% when she speaks, wich is for me very unusual because I find hard to understand British accents. So I think it´s amazing that I can understand her perfectly almost all the time, without subtitles.

To me, it is also easier to use the glottal T... :D Also, as you said it, it sounds more natural to me, as well.

I'm not a native English speaker and I didn't even know that there's a thing called glottal stop! I pronounce all the "t" in all words effortlessly, but I guess that's because in greek language we pronounce all the letters. I can't differentiate between different accents, but I find yours very nice and easy to understand

That is just so interesting, that in many languages and cultures pronunciation usually marks a social class. As a native Russian speaker, I noticed that the slight differences in pronunciation, usually intonation, are mostly regional. I would not say that politicians e.g. speak a more refined language than middle class people. It is usually about the vocabulary, grammar and accents in words (in Russian in can be confusing, sometimes you do not know where to put the freaking accent in particular words), but not the pronunciation of particular sounds.

My choir teacher forced us to annunciate each syllable with emphasis on the last letter or 2 when we failed to do so List - LiSTt Cat - CaT And - AnD I now speak like this too...

@Jon.Morimoto

2 жыл бұрын

Sphiwe, good for you! Your training has prepared you to speak and be understood throughout the Anglosphere. Hymns were written by people who disdained glottal stops, so your teacher was faithful to the source material. Conversely, anyone performing British hip-hop using RP would be a hilarious failure.

Glad to see you back in my recommendations Jade! Your videos really helped me with adaptation in new country

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help. Thanks for watching.

I learned to pronounce Ts in South England while learning English there, but later on subtly discouraged from doing so in the United States. Same happens with accents: US southerners are weary of speaking up their southern accents in NorthEastern (New York, New England) United States....or else....

I'm a native english speaker from the South-East. Nobody I speak to now pronounce all the 't's. We just don't do it. It was very common in working-class folk who were trying to be middle class in the 1970s and 1980s.

It's quite funny since I'm a non-native English speaker who is accustomed to pronouncing every T. My goal is the opposite of yours because I would like to stop pronouncing "T" to sound more natural and pick up an Estuary accent that you've got. :P

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

The grass is always greener on the other side. 😅

@yriasantiesteban

2 жыл бұрын

X2 here! I'd love to learn how NOT to pronounce all t's and do that glottal stop so I would sound more natural. I like the way you speak a lot!

@richardj9016

2 жыл бұрын

Why ?

@fagelsinnet

2 жыл бұрын

Same here.

I have English as L2, my first language being a Romance one, and on the contrary I have to concentrate hard to perceive someone is speaking /t/ as a glottal stop and not as a [t]... so my phonemic filter is the other way around ;))

It has more to do with your region than with social class. The glottal stop is used more here up North than it used to be, but I think it's basically a southern thing. But regional accents are interesting. Do whatever you're most comfortable with.

@goyaskill

2 жыл бұрын

It's so pedantic of her to say otherwise. My first impression of her videos wasn't great, but i made sure i watched more of them so i wouldn't get the wrong idea. I didn't, most of her videos are completely useless to NNES students, especially the class centered ones. I'm an English teacher, I worked with children and teenagers all around the world and I know for a fact, this isn't how they will learn a language.

When people say "you're not pronouncing your Ts", what they actually mean is that the sound usually represented by T (voiceless alveolar stop/plosive) when pronounced between two vowels has been replaced by another sound, such as the glottal stop (Cockney, Glaswegian) or alveolar tap/flap (American/Transatlantic). Sometimes at the end of syllables/words, that T sound can also be glottalised, or it can unreleased (so the release of air that usually occurs with stops/plosives is held back between the lips and the full sound is not pronounced). There is nothing objectively or inherently superior about a voiceless alveolar stop v a glottal stop or alveolar tap.

There are some things from our formative years we just can't shake however we try.

You’re amazing

Thank You, I like it!👍

I do prefer to pronounce the T, especially with the 20s numbers. By the way I like the way you've done your makeup.

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

When someone says 'twenny' without a /t/ that is called 't dropping'.

As an English native speaker from Australia, I rarely pronounce the T sound. Sometimes it sounds like /ch/ or /đ/, but most of times I just drop the T sound even on -ed verb ending.

Hi Jade...I think it's a brilliant decision. I for one simply love your estuary sounds mixed with RP, or is it the other way around? LOL...Anyway, it's your idiolect and you'll be much happier embracing it! All the best!

I noticed, quite late actually, that the way I was taught to pronounce "do" or "too" often differs from how natives do. My pronunciation resembles "doo" and "too", while natives often mix in some tiny bit of "ew" in these two (tew) words. Is that a regional thing?

@RobBCactive

2 жыл бұрын

We're rather slack about vowels where there's not strong emphasis. Joined up speech tends to economising mouth movements, which is probably causing what you're noticing. You'll notice that regional accents AND standard BR/US IPA forms differ mostly in vowels. T's prfctly pssbl ndrstnd nglsh wtht vwls

How about pronunciation Definitely or Recently which is finished "tly"? In these word, is it pronounced T?

I have been watching you for many years and i love your lessons whats more i love glottal stop!!!!!

@JadeJoddle

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. There are loʔs of gloʔal stops around here!

This is like pronoucing the S in my country, in our spanish accent it has a deaf sound, instead of saying "pues vamos" we usually say it like "vamo pue" it is the Nicaraguan accent, we know it is not correct but it is part of being Nicaraguan.

Jodie Cockney styles

I'm about as common as a person can be, yet I hate hearing glottal stops being used in words such as 'bottle' and kettle', it just makes people sound stupid. I don't tend to notice a glottal stop to the same extent in words such as 'cats' and 'bats', perhaps because the glottal stop is followed by the letter 's', therefore greatly diminishing the staccato sound that is present in the first two examples.

Hi Jade you look stunning I love your accent Thanks a lot for your videos Have a great weekend my dear teacher 😉🇧🇷 Take care

Be yourself that’s ok 👍🏻

A lot of Americans also do not pronounce Ts. Rotten = Rah'en. Sweeten = Swee'en. Swiftly = Swif'ly. Sometime the T is jsut dropped. Soft = Soff. If a word ends with a K sound, like Milk, it comes out as more of a soft hiss than a hard K, sometimes it's almost like a Guh sound (Milh/Milg).

Is important to pronounce important with all its ts. Although I was thinking than it was cooler not to do it. Human beings are never happy with its own naturality. I am now writing this with a tourtle speed but by knowing that my thoughs are so universal as earthgrounded.

Hi jade how can I breakup syllables of strange words

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

Try this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l3uAs7abnMnSoLw.html

I love your accent. 💖💖💖

Hello Jade, Your words : *I'm going to give up training myself to pronounce T all the time* confuse me. To give up means to stop, doesn't it? This phrase looks like you used to try to pronounce T's in every words but you don't now. What's wrong with "give up" here?

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

Your understanding was correct. "I used to try to pronounce T's in every word, but now I don't".

I'd learn to make a glottal stop, I find it interesting.

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone can learn. Give it a go. 👍

@katjusza999

2 жыл бұрын

@@JadeJoddle is it acually worth to learn an accent which is unnatural for a foreigner?

As an American I reserve the right to drop "t"s after an "n". Like in moun?in, ki?n, My keyboard doesn't have an inverted question mark for the glottal stop. Actually the word "glottal" should also be glottalized, innit? The word "innit" for isn't it should be used in North America. It isn't but should be. "I'ma" start using it.

I am making the effort of pronouncing all the /t/s but I don't seem to be getting any better income or climbing up the social ladder.

❤️

Mam today ur video clarity is cool. Is that a new camera

Isn't there a (polite) culture war going on in England English concerning how we lenite intervocalic /t/? The less educated and linguistic slummers prefer the glo?l stop, and metropolitan elitarians prefer the alveolar flap. Just a thought

It's very interesting how you expand on the impact of social class on your speaking - whereas in North America and particularly in Canada you are never actually allowed to even have a clue about that lol. The reality is social class and many other factors make one's speaking different and turning a blind eye only makes people sound and look like dummies.

Yeah, a lot of people use glottal stops which includes the US and Canada. I wouldn't worry about it. Any language is a very chaotic thing. Read some Chaucer in the original and lighten up. My two cents: you have perfect British pronunciation (one of the main classical varieties). You should not worry about things that are inherent to English. There will always be people commenting on accents and castigating any tiny bit of what they perceive improper: double negatives, glottal stops, ain't, would instead of had, etc. People should worry less about inconsequential things typical of spoken English. Many British bands and singers simulate American accent and pronunciation, they simulate non-standard English and glottal, etc. Some teachers even teach ESL students to make a glottal stop! In posh English there's also some glottal stops 🙂 *I would not worry about this glottal thing. Those English teachers whose first language is not English should worry about it.* I'm not worried, neither should you. Take care. You are doing a great job.

I’m American, and once went to a restaurant here with an English friend whose accent I associate with London. He asked for a glass of water, pronouncing it with the glottal stop as well as the English-sounding vowel for the first syllable. The poor waitress had to ask him to repeat himself several times before he caught on and pronounced it “wadderrrrr”, like an American would. She then understood.

It is not about social class. It's about speaking well.

I am American. I can pronounce "tt" between two vowels, but it is not natural for me to do so. When I try to speak with a "clipped" British pronunciation my throat becomes elongated and it is as if I'm looking down at someone over my nose. Can't keep it up. Maybe or a sentence only. I reserve my right to use a flapped "t" when I say better, butter, letter etc. Also when only a single "t" is between two vowels , like "water". I actually sometimes prefer listening to Cockney or Northern English or maybe the English spoken in the Southwest of England where they are rhotic and pronounce their "r"s. Like pirates do in the movies. I like all accents by English native speakers world wide, but your dialect, Jade, has been the most understandable to me. Posh accents spoken by old men in clubs or in movies where the actors mumble all the time is straining to understand. Keep up the good work.

It's interesting that pronouncing the letter 't' is associated with the upper class. As someone from a Commonwealth country, I grew up pronouncing t's and actually find it rather unnatural to adopt the glottal stops.

Nice

Well, so much for "speaking well".

You know what? I'm not a English native speaker, I didn't grow in London, but I will do the same thing :) A question before you go : how do Londoners perceive people who prounouce T's ? Social class apart.

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

More info about this on my blog: jadejoddle.com/always-pronounce-t-glottal-stop/

@aminekessar

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much !

How about British accents where the T is pronounced something like 'ch'?

Not pronouncing T sounds like pressured speech. Pronouncing T sounds tough. Is it possible something in between?

@objectobj

2 жыл бұрын

A glottal stop.

"Today, I tuffed it out with our teacher!"

You're done with it. TTTT I never started. Never saw a reason, because…American. I don't know of any estimates, but it must be a very tiny portion of the English-speaking world that pronounces those "posh Ts"-an even tinier portion if you include groups, such as most Indians, for whom English is not their first language. Then you have the Cockney pa'ern, which seems the opposi' extreme.

I wonder if I sound posh or old- fashioned just by saying "twenTy." As a foreign speaker, I try to pronounce all my T's but at the same time I don't want to sound archaic. The glottal stop is a bit hard to say for non-natives.

@_Booker_DeWitt

3 жыл бұрын

In American English, we often don't even use a a "T" or a glottal stop in "twenty" at all. We'll commonly pronounce it "twunny". Not sure if that's common in the UK.

@JulioLeonFandinho

3 жыл бұрын

If by foreigner you mean for instance, spanish, like I am, I'd say glottal is very tough to do, I must admit I'm unable to do it... Anyway, I love the accent

Your rhotics are odd; my ears hear "grottal stop". Sounds grotty. LOL Really, I like your work.

I'd like to use glottal stop as you do, that's really different from me (portuguese native speaker from Brazil), i think that's amazing but hard to do naturally :((

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

More info on it here: jadejoddle.com/estuary-english-accent-features/

@lucasrafaeldossantos8893

3 жыл бұрын

@@JadeJoddle thank you :)

hehehe we spanish speakers pronounce all the Ts

@RealTrader93

3 жыл бұрын

En Español se pronuncian casi todas las letras; excepto H.

How can you say “tea for two and two for tea” if you don’t pronounce Ts? The secret will be revealed 😊

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

You definitely should pronounce 't' in that sentence. It's impossible otherwise!

@steven5oclock

3 жыл бұрын

....because all the 't' are stressed in your sentence. Glotal 't' occurs only when is between two vowels and that syllable is unstressed as in better, bottle of water, daughter, computer, and at the end of a word as in I've got it, that, cat, it, what, mate.

@SMFJose

3 жыл бұрын

@@JadeJoddle LOL

@magyarbondi

3 жыл бұрын

@@steven5oclock To translate: Glo'al 't' occurs only when i'is be'ween two vowels an' tha'ssyllable is unstressed as in be'er, bo'llo'wa'er, dau'er, compu'er, an' a'the en'ovaword as in I've go' i', tha', ca', i', wha', ma'e [may']. Ya nee'a ge' i' ri', ma'e! 😂

@steven5oclock

3 жыл бұрын

@@magyarbondi Yer righ', ma'e. Cheers!

As a native Russian who learned English at school based on classic British standards and who has lived in Ireland for 20 years, I find glottal t’s the most irritating and yes, a low class element of speaking. I do believe that with the right amount of self discipline anyone, and certainly a language teacher, can get rid of this. Don’t (do noT) butcher your beautiful language, it deserves better!

For people speaking modern Received Pronunciation, I'd prefer it if they did try to pronounce their 'T's and tried to reduce their use of glottal stops. I grew up in London and spoke an English idiolect closer to cockney. Over the years I tried to speak more clearly; I now usually pronounce all my 'T's. Often when I listen to other native English people speaking in south-east England I wish they'd avoid talking with so many glottal stops.

@RealTrader93

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a native speaker from Australia and I rarely pronounce my T's. Pronouncing all my T's doesn't sound natural to me. Sometimes I met people whom pronounce all of their T's and my brain asked myself: "WTF does he/she mean?"

accent is identity.

The irony of this is, Jade's saying t perfectly in this video over and over.

Wait can you go into more detail about this because I think there are actually three different sounds you can make in these words right (?), for example in the word "twenty": 1) Twen//ee (I don't know how to notate this but it's the glottal stop Cockney) 2) Twentee (the classically trained way you are talking about) 3) Twenee (in normal speech just dropping the t sound altogether but no glottal stop) For sure (3) is the most common in the US. Do you not do this in the UK? I'm pretty sure you do in some accents but now I'm doubting. Maybe there are "degrees" of glottal stop, some more some less?

@JadeJoddle

3 жыл бұрын

Number 3 is called /t/ dropping. It's something different.

@Albatrosspro1

3 жыл бұрын

@@JadeJoddle Ohh ok and I guess you're not going to do that with "cat" or it will just be "ca__" lol XD (btw love you Jade your voice is beautiful)

People whose mother’s tongue is Spanish would pronounce it too (slightly different)

Do you ever say a d like in better?