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eepurl.com/izRKww 101 Common Pronunciation Mistakes made by learners of English. In this video you'll learn how to pronounce them correctly (with a British accent). I'll give you the correct pronunciation and, if the word is particularly difficult I'll give you a trick on how to say it. We have many more English pronunciation videos on this channel. Check them out.
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My first thought was easy-peasy, but I must admit that I learned a thing or two. Once again a brilliant video. Cheers Gideon.
Glad to hear it
So did I! Big thanks for creating this series :)
@@LetThemTalkTV at 39 the word Guest came up what I want to know is how do you get Gig out of guest??
#39 - I confess that I was stunned to learn that "guest" is pronounced "gig". I did not know that one.
#60 And I when I saw the transcription of mountain is /mɪstʃɪvəs/ mis-chee-vehs. Just joking Gideon, these videos are very helpful: I got most of them right but a couple of examples I keep getting wrong: the stressing of Arabic and I keep pronouncing almonds with an O at the beginning (olmonds or all-monds). Keep them coming, I can't wait for more chances to test my pronunciation
Almond can be pronounced with or without an L sound.
Drawing - perhaps most British speakers say the second invisible R, but most Americans don't say it that way (said with only one R).
It's sort of like the invisible "r" in "wash" that some people in the US say.
I am 74 and live in Britain. I have always pronounced the l in Almond, and never put an extra r in drawing!
Thank you so much for this lesson! I’ve been living in the UK for 7 years but mispronounced LOADS of these words 😂 I made a list and will re-watch this video frequently to ensure I improve my prononciation
What happened to "mischievous" at minute 14:38? Great video, by the way.
Spotted another one b4, but I forget the word.
It was GUEST instead of GIG
By the way, 'mischievous', the way it's written, take us to the ancient pronunciation 'mis.CHEE.vuus' (uu = oo). Nowadays it's archaic to say 'mis.CHEE.ves' (recommended spelling for this: mischeevus), because many French loans have become stressed in the 1st syllable, the English way, and thus people say 'MIS.chi.ves' (recommended spelling: mischivus).
Comments about two of the words from an American.
Almond. Americans are divided in how to pronounce it, mostly it's a regional thing, but either way you say it people will know what you mean. -- I lived in an area where many almonds are grown, and there was a common joke that was told. You need to know that the nuts are harvested by using a large tractor that grabs the trunk of the tree and shakes it very hard to make the nuts fall off the tree. The joke is, "You say all-monds when they're on the tree but ah-minds when they're harvested because you had to knock the L out of them."
Route. As the name of a road, or as a description of a way to go one usually says "root." Route 66 = "root 66." "Will you take the direct or scenic route?" (root) When it's used to describe a regular path followed by, say, a delivery driver or a postman delivering the mail one usually says "rowt." "I better get moving, I have sixteen stops on my route today." (rowt)
Very interesting. Thanks for the clarification
“Root” also means sex, so we may say “route” instead
I have heard the occasional Brit pronounce the L in almond too. Small minority though.
Awry - I'm a native speaker, and I think I was in my 20s when I had that aha moment and realised that the "awry" on the page was the same as the "a-rye" that I heard.
Thanks a bunch for this pronunciation masterclass. Hats off to you Gideon. You are BRILLIANT!! ⭐
You are brilliant
Good job, Gideon!
English is very tricky when it comes to spelling, but every time I see a new word I always look it up in my dictionary.
These are the words I got wrong: AWRY, CLEANLINESS, DISCIPLE and LIQUEUR !
Cheers, mate!
97 out of 101 is pretty good.
You can blame the CLEANLINESS on your teachers not teaching you about trisyllabic laxing.
Very useful, thanks a million!
The CEO of one of my French client companies (I'm a conference interpreter) recently declared in a presentation: "I love Diver City". I thought at first (but not really) it could be a Disneyland-like holiday resort in the Maledives he was talking about ...
You have my thumb up! One of the best English lesson ever in the internet.
You are too kind
Thank you so much for pour videos...it helps a lot!
I missed you Mr Gideon. I'd like to thank you for this excellent video. I always take advantage of your lessons to report them to my professor and he , Mr Ballington, is quite grateful to share what I've been learning here for these years.
Love the music interludes :) Currently using this video to make a list of hard to pronounce words for my dear Polish students.
the amigo with ego thing was absolutely fantastic.........
Very good!!!!! It is hard to find such a good English Teacher!!!!
Thank you for the video!
THANKS, Teacher, for your invaluable video lesson!
In California, we pronounce the "L" in "almond" and stress the final syllable in "caffeine"
Thanks, Gideon, that’s very helpful😊
Thanks a lot for all your work.
21 degrees where I am right now, quite nice … dear Gideon, you have just corrected 4 words I used to pronounce erroneously, thank you for that 😊😊
Amazing video. More like this, please.
Excellent! Brilliant! I teach EFL and your videos are a great help/adition to any thing I do in class. Many thanks!!
Thank you for the Nat King Cole snippet!
Horray my fav series, 101! Thank you Gideon for this amazing lesson!
Just watched it all. I’ve noticed that I was making mistakes with everyday words and learnt some new words too. Thank you! I’m gonna repeat this:))
Very interesting note many words appear to be French in origin with English intonation and pronounciation😊
Hello, Gideon! Lovely to see you ❤️☀️❤️☀️! Thanks for the lesson, tremendously appreciated!! Keep eavesdropping around with your famous black book in your pocket 📖; we will love to hear some lines from it👍🤓🤓🤓
It's top secret but I might share some lines with you one day.
Thank you Sir
I loved your video and I got 12 words that I can improve. Just two comments: "GUEST" was shown as "GIG". HOMAGE - I think the pronunciation can also be without the "H" sound. You should include "harass", as many people pronounce the stressed syllable incorrectly. Thanks for the video!
News readers in Australia have taken to calling harASSment HARassment, it makes me wonder every time "how do you HARass someone, do you have to be named Harris to do it?"
Edited for punctuation.
Hi Gideon, you are a phenomenon! Thanks a lot for the laughs and your teachings.
You're too kind
Loads of fun, thanks.
Thanks for this! If you're interested, I taught in Italy and Italians usually mispronounce:
- Report as 'rEport
- Apple as EIpol, or Epol, particularly when they talk in Italian about Apple products
(these first two examples are almost impossible to correct as they are now part of the Italian language)
- Continental as contEEnental
- gasoline as gaso'lAIn
- they pronounce every 's' between two vowels as /z/, for example increaZe, leaZe, cloZe friends (they struggle to hear the difference)
- they pronounce every 's' in plurals and third persons as /s/, e.g. plays like place, rays like race and so on
- interestingly, some Italians hold the view that English speakers 'eat letters' and that words like doubt and almond should be pronounced /daubt/, /almond/
- some also believe that weak forms are just mistakes that native speakers make because they speak too fast
On a different note, I've always said liqueur /lɪˈkjʊə/. I thought /lɪˈkʊər/ or /lɪˈkər/ was AE, without the /j/. I've been in Italy for over 20 years so my English might be corrupted. I also say vineyard /ˈvɪnjəd/ but I know you can say /ˈvɪnjɑːd/ as well.
Thanks, Nick. Valuable comment!
Merci!
Very, very, extraordinary!
That's a good one, very useful:)
Дякую за інформативне відео, дякую)
Your sentence examples are great 😂, Gideon. Thanks!
Thanks for the useful video, Gideon! And I appreciate your support of Ukraine and war refugees! Greetings from Kyiv.
100 percent right Thanks for this exercise
So amazingly beautiful teaching 💖🤩
Nicely done 🙌☺️
Most useful! Thank you sir!
I just wish I can know how to pronunce all this words and the other 101 with a pure posh accent, since I've just seen your video on this topic.
I found the intrusive R in "drawing" a bit weird, but I was immediately reminded of an australian computer programming teacher who kept pronouncing "Java FX" as "javarefex".
Many Brits will deny they use intrusive r until someone plays a recording of them speaking!
always great videos. Got a few wrong so thanks for the lesson. Cheers.
Glad you like it.
I absolutely love your sense of humour, Gideon!
Thanks a lot !
thank you
Absolutely LOVED the Sesame Street interjection!!!!
Hi from the southern US, we pronounce drawing with no intrusive R and flawless as flawless as in awe not floor.
For Brits, “flawless”, “awe” and “floor”, all have the same vowel sound.
Thanks. I've got mostly of them correct even though I didn't know the meaning! 😁
Thanks a heap for your priceless informative videos! Can I kindly ask you which English dictionaries would you recommend to the advanced English learners and teachers? Particularly I am curious about your comment on the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary 10th Edition.
Thanks in advance!💝☺️
What a brilliant video from Nepal
I had few mistakes, so it was worth watching . Thanks
I certainly learned much more than a thing or two!
Native English speaker here(US). Never heard of the L in almond being silent. Is it a European thing?
Edit: also a second r in drawing? You brits are crazy...
Edit 2: I'm just gonna keep adding all the pronunciations I think are weird.
Its flawless not floorless
Yes, you Brits put Rs where there are not any and drop them where they should BE! On the other hand, in the U.S. a horrible thing is happening to our language with the rampant outbreak of the glottal stop in words where it never was before, as in "impor 'ant" for imporTant! I hate that!
Interesting. I'm a native English speaker from Lancashire, living in the UK until my mid forties and in Canada for the past couple of decades, and I've always pronounced the L in almond. The BBC also seem to pronounce it at the start of this documentary - czcams.com/video/egS4cRBqAN0/video.html I never realised that some people don't. pronounce the L. So I'll now be testing all my Canadian friends!
I always pronounce the L in almond and I ain't gonna stop now.
No nobody in Oz pronounces L in almond either 😂
I'm in the American Midwest and i also pronounce the l in almond... But not like al-mond, but more like in the word "alm". I pronounce the alm in almond much different than the am in amend.
@@martalli I'm from an old California Forty-niner family which has been growing almonds commercially (Blue Diamond) on the family ranch for well over 150 years. The cousin branches differ on the pronunciation however. The cousins who currently farm the almond orchards pronounce "almond" (bizarrely! grin) as "am-mand", both short A's as in "I am" or "amend." I and the other cousins and most other native Californians use and agree with your pronunciation with the soft "L" sound as in "alms" (rather than the hard "L" as in "already.")
Thanks sir
14:27 A mischievous Mountain that was!
At 9:20 you missed GUEST and MISCHIEVOUS at 14:28. Something went awry but it's hardly a catastrophe.
Edited: I also noticed that the phonetic transcription of LIQUEUR at 12:19 _/lɪˈkʊə/_ differs from your pronunciation of the word: _"LI-KERR"._ I suppose there's more than one way to pronounce it.
Great video, though - as always. Cheers, Gideon.
I sometimes mix British with American pronunciation and don't know which one is which. This video is amazing, I learned a lot. Thank you!
Btw, there were a lot of words where I needed to correct my pronunciation, even though I thought there would be only a few. Some 20%
As a native-born American with British parents, I say this: If it's correct in British English *_or_* American English, it's correct. 😁 It's only wrong if it's wrong in _both_ accents.
@@Milesco I'll take exception this as an Aussie on only one word "route" is pronounced root, "rout" with the ou from ouch sound is when an army flees it's enemy in utter disarray. This one gets my goat every time.
@@A_nony_mous For me, route can be pronounced either root or rout with reckless abandon. Merely two ways of saying the same word.
@@A_nony_mous But to "rout" an army is spelled differently.
Thank you for the Ukrainian flag in the back, Sir! And thank you for your knowledge you share with us.
🇺🇦 🇬🇧
18:03 I am so glad that "rowt" is just US, because I had such a vivid memory of homophone to "root" ...
Many thanks for putting these on as Old English is now a threatened language and we do need to keep it alive
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The explanation of liqueur and liquor was great! I didn't know you guys also use liqueur. As a Dutch person I always found it strange that liquor means all hard alcohol while here it's just the fruity alcohol that is called 'likeur'.
Drawring? Nope! FEB'-ru-ary! and that's final!!!! "Two nations separated by a common language" explains most of the differences.
Thanks
I loved the phoenomenum!! Will never forget ❤😅
One of the most common mistakes my students make is pronouncing "nearby" as "nehr-bee". Just like Derby. When you point out to them that it is actually two words rolled into one you get the great aha-moment :D
And there’s albeit, notwithstanding,passersby, and wherewithal.
Jolly good, sir !
All of my pronunciations are spot on, thankfully. I noticed nominal differences, as an American, but I believe that's simply a matter of accent. [Such as your faint inclusion of an L in drawing, which becomes quite prominent for some who butcher the word here.]. Unfortunately (for me), I've never heard anyone in my state say route properly. They all use "root", which results in an automatic eye roll on my part.
Supposedly I should work on my pronunciation - it's no use pretending I got all words right when in fact there weren't more than 71 ... Thank you for this eye-opener!
I had 25 mistakes or imprecisions out of those 101, oooh. That was quite a good one, dear Gideon, very well spotted.
Thank you for this video. Is there a video about word stress on your channel? Could you recommend some good books?
Hello Gideon, thanks a lot to the great videos, I love to see these videos and I'm learning a lot about the way of using the English language. Just one thing I would like to mention to you, there is a small gap for the word No. 39 (guest) - the answer which comes ist "gig".
And another thing is "homage" do you have just two different prononciation or also different spelling? (hommage) Because I can't find this word in the dicitionaries and I think the book is named "homage to catalonia"
By the way, the word No. 60 (mountain) has the written explanation for "mischievous".
Great work, keep up the good work, I enjoy very much you explanations 😍👍🏻
Very nice and funny video -- I caught a couple of mistakes I was doing too.
Love your videos! The onion joke! 😆
“Here are your onions”
“Oh thanks shallot 😊”
How on Earth have I not noticed this before today? 😂 Honestly I must have watched this video at least 10 times-let’s say I was too focused on the way you were pronouncing key words haha.
Thanks for all these hidden gems, you truly are a underrated genius 😇
Molto interessante
awesome
I am English, but I feel that this is a very useful guide to people learning the monumental catastrophe that is English pronunciation, due to historical invasions and the development of our language. In my experience, I have not encountered any language with so many contradictions and breaking of standard pronunciation rules. If you are learning English, please accept my humblest sympathies, and I wish you the best.
Finally someone that says the truth.
Thank you for your understanding. I’m cursing a lot about the inconsistent pronunciation.
Thanks a lot for the vid! Very useful as always 👍 A quick question though: why did you say "sitting ON the table next to you", not AT? 0:38
I'm not sure myself.
@@LetThemTalkTV Oh... I see 😀💖
Gideon is a brilhant teacher!👏🥂
These were a snap for me. Of course both my parents were English professors around the world. I was being corrected from the day I started speaking.
hi Giddeon, very useful for me, prononciation could be tricky sometimes, I have taken notes for vocabulary I didn t know. could you make a lesson about Bob Dylan writing? Thanks for the quality of the job.Serge from france.
I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan. There will be something on Dylan coming soon (probably September). Not a whole video but part of it. Stay tuned.
Poland here. I've been reading and listening to English quite intensively for the last 28 years. And I am completely shattered by the pronunciation of cleanse, drawing, and vineyard. :)
Thanks for your excellent work.
Absolutely the same with me. Each time you think English phonetics can't get any more f**ked up they get exactly like that.
@@AndreiBerezin There is a claim that English has no dialects. I think with the many accents in which English is spoken it does indeed have dialects but at least we all pronounce "f**ked up" the same!
@@AndreiBerezin indeed
@@A_nony_mous Actually not. Some Brits say fooked up.
@@jasonmarks4627 If they're trying to avoid using the "F" word, yes they mispronounce it
Thanks buddy for this extremely helpful video -- there are so many words I never use in speaking because I have no idea how they're pronounced. Disciple I would say 'di-si-pl, Vineyard obviously I'd say 'Vaine-yard, and a few others you talk about on the video (Colonel for instance). My trouble words (some out of many) are : Beard, I think my brain has developed some sort of mental block and I always pronounce it Berd, though I've read a thousand times it's Bird. Bow (the weapon) and to bow (the verb); Crow (the bird) and Brow (as in eyebrow); Bald; Abyss; Halt; Surface. And many, many more! 😂
American here. The only way I would say it is "beer'd" One syllable.
@@josephcote6120 Hi Joseph and thank you, by writing bird I meant beer'd; I had the international phonetic alphabet in mind (bɪrd).
@@josephcote6120 agreed
Entertaining.
Thanks shallot 😁
I'm very proud to say that I got all of them right!
Good one! Cheers for that. I had 81 of the 99 correct but none totally butchered. It is 25°C and I am going for an afternoon walk through nature.
Enjoy your nature hike.
Thanks for The Fun Boy 3 rference...
The Words are well punctuated in our difficulty, perfect! 🎯 I like your pronunciation, I prefer it without the beard, I'm a fan of your hair... Thanks a lot Gideon!
Well I shaved off the beard in the end. I hope you learnt some pronunciation.
@@LetThemTalkTV I learn, with great satisfaction.👍
I just discovered your channel, would you mind to make a video on explaining how I can improve my accent as a German?
Thanks a million! Great work! I've made only 20 mistakes, but they all related to rarely met words. I really like your brilliant sense of humour too. I'd like to see the examples on the screen too. They are brilliant! I want to add that I've heard uncorrect pronunciation of the word " hotel" with a stress on the first syllable. I am sure that the pronunciation of this word in a famous song " Hotel California" by rock group The Eagles did influence it!
I think many people would pronounce the name "Hotel California" that way when speaking. Same with any hotel name where the word after starts with a stressed syllable.
The image of you listening into conversations and making notes in your black book reminds me of Henry Higgens in Pygmalion or My Fair Lady.
Most Excellent! In 99. %. + of theae we pronounce these the same way in US English!
Growing up, we always pronounced route as "rowt." Because of a single joke, I started pronouncing it as "root."
"Did you hear about the mailman who got bit on his route?"
"Got bit where?"
"On his route!"
I use the pronunciation of "rowt" to refer to small country roads, but I use the pronunciation "root" when referring to larger well-known roads. Route 66 is pronounced "root 66". However, if you are not referring to a road, I use the "root" pronunciation, like a route to victory.
Why have a different pronunciation for a smaller route ( "root")? The route from Chicago to Los Angeles is along Route 66, both "routes"being pronounced "Root". The "rowt" version is for a defeat or for the woodworking tool the router.
Thank you for the video, it was useful. The online dictionary word reference gives the pronounciation of "drawing" without an "r". Also, it places a long "e" at the beginning of "event". Perhaps these could be regional differences?
Also, a suggestion for future videos = "haphazard".
American here.
Americans never say "drawing" with an "r" sound. It's a British thing.
For "event", I say it both ways: ee-VENT and uh-VENT. I think I probably say uh-VENT more, especially when I'm saying it in conversation. So, either is okay. The important thing, as he says, it to put the stress on the second syllable. So, e-VENT, not E-vent.