8 Silent Letter RULES… with (almost) NO EXCEPTIONS!
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- Silent letters are confusing, annoying, and make life difficult for people learning English. And so the big question is: "How do I know when a letter is silent???" In this video, you will learn 8 British English Pronunciation "RULES" that will help you know when letters are silent in English.
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► CHAPTERS:
00:00 Silent GH rule in English words
01:04 Silent B rule in words ending BT
2:27 Silent B rule in words ending MB
3:36 How to pronounce ED in the past tense
4:37 Silent G in GN words in English
5:16 Silent K rule in English words
5:35 Silent L rule in English
6:37 Silent U rule in English
7:21 British English pronunciation quiz
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You know what this is, right? It's a door. You can say door. So why do you do something strange with this word: daughter? The GH is completely silent. It's basically the word door and the sound /t/ daughter. I mean, didn't you know that when we have a vowel sound in English followed by GH, the GH is silent unless it uses the /f/ sound, like cough and rough. Yes, in all other situations, the GH is silent. Like, daughter, caught, thought, bought, taught, high, night, thigh, through, thorough. Did you hear me pronounce the GH in any of those words? It's a great pronunciation rule that I want you to learn. And I've got so many more silent letter rules for you inside this lesson. So let's go!
OK, this is a British English pronunciation lesson, by the way. And something I hear quite a lot is students saying, hey, Greg, I have a doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt. Well, did you know that when we have the BT combination of letters, especially at the end of words, the B is silent? And did you also know you should say I have a question instead of I have a doubt. But anyway, look at these examples: doubt, debt, and subtle. Now, this doesn't work when we're using -sub as a prefix meaning below, like subtitle or subterrain. But generally, this rule works well.
Now, yes, I'm going to include the phonetic transcription of the words in this lesson. If you're not familiar with the sounds, with the symbols of these transcriptions, please take the time to learn them. It will really, really benefit you when you're learning pronunciation, OK? It changed my life when I learned them when I was learning French. And I make it really, really simple for you in that video up there. So I'll put a link in the description. Please watch that video. It will absolutely benefit you when you're learning pronunciation. OK, let's have a look at the next rule.
Here's another rule for the silent B. And this is for words that end MB. In this situation, we do not pronounce the letter B. Dumb, thumb, lamb, climb, bomb, tomb. Again. Do you hear? Do you see? There's no B in the transcription. And you do not hear any B at the end of that word. So don't pronounce it just because we write it. It will not help us understand you. It will do the opposite. OK? If I asked you if you want a teab, you'd probably say, what a teab? Yeah, I don't pronounce a B at the end of T, so don't pronounce a B at the end of thumb because it doesn't exist in spoken English.
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Greg you are an amazing teacher! Thanks for your lesson!
Many foreigners understand wrong pronunciation without silent letters much better. It is distinct and easy to recognize. I personally remember the variant without silent sounds, with letter-by-latter pronunciation with a few combinations, like sh, ch and so on - the distinct ones. And I separately remember the reading as a local accent variant.
Many years ago I had problems remembering a distinct version of th, now I remember them as fs/fz (open a sound editor, record it and see that it is not T+H, but rather f+s or f+z), not as a "special sound", but as those 2 together. It makes things much easier to remember.
Great lesson! Greg is an amazing teacher!
hello I'm William I'm from Vietnam and I watched your lesson and I feel your lesson is very useful .Thanks for your lesson !
Hi Greg, you are very welcome to your videos, thanks. Even though I am a lot busy, I'm trying to lern every day something. Thank you.
Oh, Greg! You just made me so happy! I was looking forward to this video!
I still have a lot of work to do and I hope to catch up with the lessons I have pending. We'll be in touch again soon.
As always THANK YOU for these videos.
Thanks Fernando! We'll be in touch soon 😀
Thank you Greg ❤, It's really helpful to me.🎉
Thanks for the lesson.
Muchas gracias Greg, hasta ahora siempre he tenido problemas con este tipo de palabras, pero ya no!!!
GRACIAS ❤YOU ARE THE BEST TEACHER IN THE WORLD 🌎
Hey, Greg!
I want to thank you for all your lessons. I am learning English with you because you are so cool with your beautiful pronunciation and explanation. I'm 56 and still like to improve my English skills cause I'm using it I'm my job . I'm seaman. All the best. Thank you .
Thanks a lot for your fabulous lesson. The subtle nuances of pronunciation have been clearly explained . Cheers! 💞
Thank you! 😃
Hi Greg, very good lessons, it's useful for my tefl course. thanks a million
Ahhh great video, I have a hard time with the words that end with ED but this was awesome and well explained as always 🙏🏼
Thank you so much teacher Gerg!☺️🙏💖
My pleasure!
Such a useful lesson! Thank you very much!!
You're welcome, Vicky!
why why why i did not hear this before? Thank you Greg!
thanks a million, very clear explanation!
Glad it was helpful! :-)
Greg, I' m an old lady and like your pronunciation very much. I' m really trying to learn this. Thank you.
Massive thanks for your impressive lesson Mr.Greg😊
You're welcome, Arie :-)
Thank you
Greg, thanks a lot for your lessons, greetings from Peru!!!
Thank you.
Hi Greg😁your lessons are getting better and better, thank you very much!
Thanks Bérénice ☺️
Thank you 🙏🙏💪
I think that “GH” sound is a relic of Old English like a guttural g/j in Spanish or Dutch and K is look like Scandinavian words
thanks
Thank you very much teacher.
I have learned from you a lot. Just a suggestion if you can learn us about functional skills levels.
Thank you Sir!gracias Sr.!
You are welcome! De nada :-)
Muchisimas gracias ,Greg,majisimo maestro !Desde ahora,esperando impaciente tu proxima intervencion.Bye for now.
Hey Greg, looking great ..
I reinforce the phonetic transcription importante. I'm from Brazil and with phonetic transcription, I can make link with the phonetics in english with portuguese, spanish and french, it's so easy to read and assume a sound for the word.
Hey Greg. Just recently found your channel and I'm learning a lot. Thanks for that.
There is one thing that always puzzles me and even my English teachers here in Germany couldn't answer my question.
Maybe you know the line of Boromir in Lord of the Rings where he is picking up the ring and says in a longer sentence the words: "...so small a thing."
Why does he use this combination and not "so a small thing" ? I can only guess that it's used this way to emphasize it but I'm not sure. Maybe you could help me understand that.
Or if anyone ready this comment and knows the answer, a reply would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Greg! About the quiz...I think village has a different pronunciation...has it?
Thank you for all your videos! Bye from Argentina...
3:50 Isn't there one too many T's in "laughed"?
Massage is pronounced diferentes from the other ones
Hi. Great vid. Is there any reason why the letter "i" in "view" is silent?
I'm gonna listen to this video over and over again in order to memorize the sounds. You're right, some of them are scary
Everything is simple and acceptable with your approch as a native speaker😇
The word massage is pronounced different
Just have a lot of input to solve such a problem.
Loved your video...what in the world is laught? Isn´t that word obsolete?
3:51 typo on screen (Laughted)
Hi Greg! I'd like to add rule n°9. What about the st sound in words like listen, castle, etc.? Isn't the T silent?
Yes t is silent in all these examples , but it is not silent in words which have st in the beginning for example - start , starter , stand , stay , stick , etc. ✌
Any chance of cockney rhyme slang please please?
Hello Greg, thanks for this lesson. I would like to mention an exception for the rule of « gh » preceded by a vowel combination like « daughter », which is « laughter ». Concerning this noun « laughter », the « gh » is pronounced as an « f » sound, unlike the case for « daughter » where the « gh » is silent. Is there any explication for this exception?
Only historical. English spelling rules mostly based on the fact how words were pronounced centuries ago.
@@jadencorr6897 thanks for your message.
@2:15 (Top right of the screen) was that you without the cap???
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Gracias, Nati :-)
"Tears started to fall down my cheeks as I sat on the sidewalk in Paris"
Hi Greg Can I know why we use 'as' in here the middle of this sentence
Could u pls explain this for me 😊 ?
Massage
GHOTI can be read as the word FISH.
GH as in tough
O as in women
TI as in function!
Long time I was prenouncing word 'beloved" wrong because mistakenly I applied rule no 4 to it
According to my knowledge, 'beloved' can be pronounced both as two syllables and three syllables. What do you mean by your comment?
Massage!!!! Can I have one please ???
I wish you to explain slowly.
Thank you
night in the night or knight in the knight.
No such word as laughted.
We do pronounce the second b in bomb don't we?
i don't know abt all these.. i just know daughter is pronounced as daughter.
Is there such word "laughted"? All dictionaries say "laughed".
All a life pronouncing silent letters
Rules: Worcestershire Sauce?
I am mute and silent from admiration of your lesson like your silent letters...
Idk Rick
1.000000000000000 like and thanks.
marriage , but i don`t watch the other video :(
I'd say massage
If leter are silence why do you spell them from the begining? =)
Teacher greg idont understand why people say"If there is a god please help me" i dont understand why theyuse a real conditional. if you think there is a god why would you say "If there is a god"? Sorry for asking an unrelated question to the content in the video i just really cant understand
stop rait thouz unneeded letters, will yu?
Why do you say "coming OP" instead of AP? are you from the north of England? Please, let me know. Thanks a bunch (bonch) 😃😘