Improve Your Accent

Improve Your Accent

I'm Luke, your British accent coach. I teach English learners speakers how to communicate more clearly and confidently. I lecture at UCL's Summer Course in English Phonetics and I've taught students from 90 countries around the world. You can find out more (and check out my British Council award-nominated course) on my website: www.ImproveYourAccent.co.uk

I'm a speaker of British English, but I also speak (to varying degrees of fluency) German, Italian, French, Spanish - and I'm learning Russian, Vietnamese & Tamil.

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  • @AndreyRubtsovRU
    @AndreyRubtsovRU28 минут бұрын

    I think I hear stress on A when he demonstrates it 😂😂

  • @racosphinx
    @racosphinx11 сағат бұрын

    I wonder if "yolk" is a British thing. I'm American (Indiana), I definitely pronounce the L every time.

  • @rossproenca
    @rossproenca21 сағат бұрын

    I've mispronounced and didn't know that. Thanks a lot for your help.

  • @ImproveYourAccent
    @ImproveYourAccent2 күн бұрын

    This word can also be spelt with <-ize> at the end. If you want to learn more about word stress (+ games and practice), check out my British Council award-nominated course: course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register

  • @HansDieter60
    @HansDieter602 күн бұрын

    Can you do a pronunciation video about the word 'iron'?

  • @elisabettabubola4927
    @elisabettabubola49273 күн бұрын

    The second. I guess it s more American

  • @benedettobruno1669
    @benedettobruno16693 күн бұрын

    I like this "series" of shorts with the phonetic transcriptions Please keep doing it.

  • @carlosmc7304
    @carlosmc73043 күн бұрын

    Sofía Vergara is a comedy character, she speaks perfect English.

  • @rossproenca
    @rossproenca3 күн бұрын

    All of them

  • @yariyll4685
    @yariyll46853 күн бұрын

    3

  • @yariyll4685
    @yariyll46853 күн бұрын

    2 ( ✅ ❌ ✅ )

  • @virginiacampos8129
    @virginiacampos81293 күн бұрын

    I love these videos! I got all of them right 😄

  • @user-om2ti8jj1f
    @user-om2ti8jj1f4 күн бұрын

    But you've said /ˈɛlɪfənt/, not /ˈɛləfənt/ as the transcription says.

  • @ImproveYourAccent
    @ImproveYourAccent3 күн бұрын

    I'm definitely using a schwa here. In fact, I purposefully made an effort to use schwa in the recording (as using /ɪ/ is, of course, an alternative pronunciation).

  • @fwfeo
    @fwfeo4 күн бұрын

    Farsi has some similarities to Italian, but instead of pronouncing Sheet shit, we pronounce shit sheet! 😂

  • @youre_mom1
    @youre_mom14 күн бұрын

    what are your thoughts on noah webster

  • @plurimapaucis7944
    @plurimapaucis79445 күн бұрын

    So do I

  • @user-om2ti8jj1f
    @user-om2ti8jj1f5 күн бұрын

    The first one, like "palm", "calm", "balm", "psalm" and "alms".

  • @L-mo
    @L-mo5 күн бұрын

    cayern peppern

  • @susanf8900
    @susanf89005 күн бұрын

    No 1

  • @nunyabiznis1851
    @nunyabiznis18515 күн бұрын

    I'll see you in hell.

  • @aliazhar5754
    @aliazhar57545 күн бұрын

    Number 4 is the right way to say It

  • @alfonsmelenhorst9672
    @alfonsmelenhorst96726 күн бұрын

    Is it bad to have a German accent?

  • @rossproenca
    @rossproenca7 күн бұрын

    All of them

  • @NeveroOn
    @NeveroOn7 күн бұрын

    0

  • @alienwinters8473
    @alienwinters84738 күн бұрын

    Yolk got me confused

  • @emmanuelruellan825
    @emmanuelruellan8257 күн бұрын

    Me too, I thought of 'yoke'

  • @youre_mom1
    @youre_mom14 күн бұрын

    @@emmanuelruellan825 goated pfp 🙏

  • @yariyll4685
    @yariyll46853 күн бұрын

    Me too; I thought of "joke"'

  • @alienwinters8473
    @alienwinters84738 күн бұрын

    Two :D

  • @ImproveYourAccent
    @ImproveYourAccent8 күн бұрын

    Want to improve your pronunciation? Try my 🇬🇧 British Council award-nominated pronunciation course for free: course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register

  • @thaiphanvevo
    @thaiphanvevo9 күн бұрын

    Yeah nah, I emphasise the third syllable. Probably an accent thing

  • @zafergokselkaraaslan2055
    @zafergokselkaraaslan20559 күн бұрын

    I’m way way off! ( pom:graneıt)

  • @user-om2ti8jj1f
    @user-om2ti8jj1f10 күн бұрын

    Yes, I knew that "pomegranate" is pronounced /ˈpɒmɪˌɡranɪt/, but still thanks!

  • @theresacolosimo3523
    @theresacolosimo352310 күн бұрын

    You look like you are AI. This is very informative.

  • @ukachiveronica8877
    @ukachiveronica887710 күн бұрын

    😊😊😊

  • @AbiSaysThings
    @AbiSaysThings10 күн бұрын

    Honestly definitely has a t in it for most people. You even say it the first time and then have to deliberately get rid of it. Why are most ESL teachers clueless??

  • @ImproveYourAccent
    @ImproveYourAccent3 күн бұрын

    Most people delete the t due to elision. Just take a look here: youglish.com/pronounce/honestly/english/uk.

  • @ImproveYourAccent
    @ImproveYourAccent12 күн бұрын

    To learn all the vowels in English, check out my 🇬🇧 British Council award-nominated pronunciation course: course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register

  • @Mitchtits
    @Mitchtits13 күн бұрын

    I hate american English, and as a full blooded Englishman born in Australia, I mostly say 1 but sometimes say 2

  • @BlackHoleSpain
    @BlackHoleSpain13 күн бұрын

    No. I can't. Fonetic alphabet is not used in Spain to teach languages, I have no clue.

  • @letsstaytogether3710
    @letsstaytogether371013 күн бұрын

    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

  • @ribozyme2899
    @ribozyme289913 күн бұрын

    Honestly, I do put /t/ in "honestly", but I do know some people honestly don't.

  • @AbiSaysThings
    @AbiSaysThings10 күн бұрын

    Some but definitely not most.

  • @ImproveYourAccent
    @ImproveYourAccent3 күн бұрын

    Most people do in normal speech. It's the process of elision. Similarly, most people don't pronounce the "d" in "handbag" or the "t" in "last Monday".

  • @FM_0123
    @FM_012313 күн бұрын

    1 ok 2 no 3 ok

  • @joshadams8761
    @joshadams876114 күн бұрын

    Here is a fun tidbit about “debt”. The b has never been pronounced, nor has it ever been in the French progenitor, “dette”. The English word was originally spelled similarly, but at some point a b got added in recognition of the Latin progenitor, “dēbitum”. The story is similar for “doubt”.

  • @user-om2ti8jj1f
    @user-om2ti8jj1f13 күн бұрын

    Great comment! English spelling is bizarre!

  • @ImproveYourAccent
    @ImproveYourAccent14 күн бұрын

    Want to improve your pronunciation? Try my 🇬🇧 British Council award-nominated pronunciation course for free: course.improveyouraccent.co.uk/register

  • @cleancutguy1892
    @cleancutguy189214 күн бұрын

    To be honest when a French person speaks English it sounds lovely

  • @PixelTrainer.
    @PixelTrainer.15 күн бұрын

    Cats just have the spanish R unlocked by default

  • @ter2710
    @ter271015 күн бұрын

    Very unsatisfactory analysis. Macron just plainly makes mistakes

  • @ImproveYourAccent
    @ImproveYourAccent16 күн бұрын

    More info and booking: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/study/continuing-professional-development/summer-course-english-phonetics

  • @jorgecuna8533
    @jorgecuna853316 күн бұрын

    SION preceded by vowel is voiced. TELEVISION, ILLUSION, ALLUSION.

  • @user-om2ti8jj1f
    @user-om2ti8jj1f4 күн бұрын

    Gideon pronounces "version" /ˈvəːʃən/: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nJ2LxMaqZsbIl5M.html You see, the words "version" and "diversion" are exceptions, they can be pronounced with the voiceless /ʃ/ and with the voiced /ʒ/.

  • @jorgecuna8533
    @jorgecuna85334 күн бұрын

    @user-om2ti8jj1f So, they are not exceptions. They are alternative pronunciations, since they can be pronounced both ways.

  • @user-om2ti8jj1f
    @user-om2ti8jj1f16 күн бұрын

    But isn't "dessert" pronounced /dɪˈzəːt/? It's how you pronounce it, Luke, with the KIT vowel in the first syllable. In New Zealand it's probably /dəˈzəːt, though, because they have the commA/lettER-KIT merger so they pronounce "dinner" /ˈdənə/ with two schwas.

  • @NGT_096.
    @NGT_096.17 күн бұрын

    😐🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm learning animals sounds XD

  • @martindavid9952
    @martindavid995219 күн бұрын

    Please stay home about Olympic games Paris 2024

  • @Candy_ce
    @Candy_ce20 күн бұрын

    OMG 😱

  • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
    @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir809520 күн бұрын

    Rubbish. Channel Blocked. {:o:O:}