Stop using the glottal stop!
Would you like to be a smooth speaker of English? This video is all about the pronunciation of the consonant “t”, which some people, including native speakers, tend to completely avoid nowadays, leading to a rather broken-up style of speaking. The technical name for this is the “glottal stop”. In this lesson, I’ll give you a few examples of what I mean, and I’ll demonstrate how to put the “t” back into your pronunciation and achieve a smoother way of speaking. www.engvid.com/stop-using-the...
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In this lesson:
00:00 Stop using the glottal stop!
03:07 glottal stop before words starting with a vowel
05:12 glottal stop in the middle of a word
06:29 glottal stop in words ending with -ed
07:50 Stop using the glottal stop: Practice
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Thanks for watching, everyone. I have many more lessons about English pronunciation; next, watch these: Learn English Pronunciation: TH & THR kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYR9sdqSpMrbmM4.html Learn British accents and dialects kzread.info/dash/bejne/oHiYtKqQeN3dgpc.html
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Жыл бұрын
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@JaneDoe-ci3gj
Жыл бұрын
Well put, I agree!
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Thank you for saying that! As a non-native speaker, I dislike the glottal T sound, it reduces all the beauty of a true British accent.
@Anyasaidso
Жыл бұрын
i can't be agree. it's also rather beautiful so we probably shouldn't be this categorical 🤷♀️
@christina_silver
Жыл бұрын
@@Anyasaidso it's my opinion, you have your own.
@richiesd1
Жыл бұрын
I agree. The glottal T sounds low-education.
@cheetah2882
Жыл бұрын
Me too, the T sound is weird to my ears. I rather listen the d sound
@iamasalad9080
Жыл бұрын
Personally I love it.
I'm so relieved 😅 I noticed those glottal stops a lot recently in movies and videos, and I don't like them. German being my first language, I should be used to glottal stops 🤣 but I love British pronunciation just because it's clear AND smooth.
@silavlis233
Жыл бұрын
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What an outstanding lesson! Clear, engaging and to the point. Your voice is perfect too. I guess you were born to teach. Thank you for sharing such talent. Cheers from Argentina.
So helpful! I'm into British accent and I can notice they use to pronoun the t's heavier than the American people. Thanks a lot for this new lesson! 🧡
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Your accent is an extra lesson, and I love it. I usually use the glotal stop with "th"... it is very American and I like it too. You look adorable in that colour...you are adorable. Best wishes.
I fully agree, it souns better with the t sound, but it is so common especially in some movies and its good to train our ears and try to understand the speaches with glottal sounds. Thank you for your advice always preciouse.
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It’s so awesome to see this! I told my buddy a long time ago he’d get a good shoulder punch every time he did that dumb glottal stop. lol, he figured it out and sounds like a normal human now. Glad you’re encouraging proper pronunciation. We need to combat this weird epidemic especially in the US!! 🤣
Thank you for your beautiful pronunciation of consonant "t". I found the beauty of t-sound in the English language. From now on I will stop using the glottal stop.
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Sorry (not really) to complicate things but can I add something from my part of the country - Durham. Up here and in fact all over Durham, Tyne & Wear and Northumberland we have a unique way of pronouncing this type of 't' sound. We also use a glottal stop but not instead of the 't' sound like for example Londoners but we keep the 't' and produce a glottal stop simultaneously with it! We do exactly the same with 'p' and 'k' sounds. If you want to know if somebody is from the north east just ask them to say 'later', 'happy' and 'lucky' and you'll see. It's what most people call the 'Geordie' accent. It's probably not wise to try to imitate it unless you're going to live here but it's interesting to hear.
@lalamaralina2457
11 ай бұрын
Me, from Brazil, reading that: 🤯😰😭😓☠️ haha, but now seriously, is there any video on KZread of someone from there saying those words?? I'd really love to listen to it 😂
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Here in the US, we often use the "D" sound in place of the "T" sound. We don't really use the glottle stop.
@Demondzeta
Жыл бұрын
actually the american pronunciation is full of glotal stops, but the use it before a consonant sound or at the end of a word
@AndresRuiz2035
Жыл бұрын
But americans don't pronounces T letter in some words, for example: Atlantic, Latin, wanted, international, internet, etc. Is very similar to phenomenal of glottal stop. I'm not native speaker english and this is so hard for listening, when you don't pronounce "T" or when Yes.
@anonymoushuman8344
3 ай бұрын
Replacing the hard "t" sound with a glottal stop before vowels has actually become a trend in the U.S. lately, too. You can hear interviewers and weather people doing it on t.v., not only at the ends of words but in the middle of them, too. I wonder how long it will take for this fashion to be replaced by some other strange pronunciation trend. What will the next one be?
@alikacerto2280
3 ай бұрын
@anonymoushuman8344 Can you give me some examples? I can't think of what you're referring to. But I'll be listening for it now. What part of the US?
@MrAn0nym0us
2 күн бұрын
@@alikacerto2280 Listen to the podcast "National Park After Dark". One girl on that podcast consistently says "moun'ain" for "mountain". Drives me bonkers every time.
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I’m a Brit that’s lived abroad for many years and I love the glottal stop. The glottal stop is the only feature of my accent that hasn’t softened to global/American English over the years. I suppose it’s a part of my identity 😅
Thank you very much. I am doing coaching in voiceover and they told me that I do a lot of glottal stops and I wasn't fully 100% sure what they meant even after they explained it to me. These examples have helped me mentally visualize what it means and this will help me with not doing that.
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I always enjoy your lessons, they are very useful and from my view as a non native speaker that it is easier understand words with T sound rather than without it
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Thank you for sharing this video. I will be mindful of my speech. Your manner of teaching is refreshing. You always include a lesson in Grace.
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Without the t is like casual English but in an interview or formal job, formal English is used. I suppose is better to adapt to our surrounded just to blend in. British Standard English is phonetically beautiful!.
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I love the global stop. As a German it took me years to master it. To me it is the essence of having a crisp British accent.
@rreagan007
11 ай бұрын
True. If you don't use glottal stops you will sound more American.
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Dear Gill, this was a fun lesson!. My first language is not English but when I use it, I do have an American pronounciaton so I found it quite funny to stress the "t" because we don't do it. Like in "a lot of work".. that goes more like "alorofwork" (not exactly but you get the idea).😅 Or "That is true" that becomes "Datstru"😅
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I love the glottal T... Maybe because it remains me of the years I lived in London 😀 I come from Madrid, Spain, so, as you can imagine, I'd better try to speak RP English than the glottal T. Pity, though 🤗 Thank you very much for the lesson.
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In the 1980's glottal stops were very popular among English students behind the Iron Curtain
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