I have installed Elsa Speak, which is an excellent and very functional application, but it seems to me that it is designed for American English, so it is not appropriate for British English learners.

Sorry. Dislike the demo voice it's American. I'm English. There's too much if it already

Yow Gideon. Dicha know that the word Indispensable actually borrowed from FRENCH ❓Credit goes to Norman Conquest and Plantagenet Dynasty who brought a bunch of French loanwords into English Vocabulary 👀

To me too 🤣

yes, a few

Actually what makes English seem illogical is the spelling system. The language per se is super logical and regular. If the spelling system was changed to make it more regular like Italian or Spanish, it would be super easy to follow.

@@josealbarran7202 You are jumping a bit short, but no changes, please, to this beloved English language. It is like an old wife, you have grown fond of. *Crazy words* Have you ever thought of the word eggplant and realized that there’s no “egg” in eggplant, or the word hamburger and realized there is no “ham”? I am from Hamburg, bye the way. Is there anyone who likes side boobs? I clearly prefer them in the front. *Arbitrary word compounds* When is it shoemaker or when shoe maker? I wouldn't know any clear rule. Better would be to either always compound words or never. *Words can be verb forms or nouns without change* Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. Why do performers recite a play, yet play at a recital? *Some grammar irregularities* I was, you were and I were *Modal verbs* Freddie filled in his form by filling it out? *Adjectives and attributes* A slim chance and a fat chance are the same thing, but then a wise guy and a wise man mean completely different things. There are so many *silent letters* - knock, knee, knight - and *plurals* that just don’t make sense. Comfortable Vegetable Salmon Almond Sword Womb Yacht The plural of ‘box’ is ‘boxes’, yet the plural of ‘ox’ is ‘oxen’, not oxes. I heard an Englishman look for his mouses, not mice, yet he'd never forget where his houses are. Is there any other language, in which information is uncountable despite the information overflow all around us? Some more examples: “The city tip was so full that it had to refuse more refuse,” “The bandage was wound around the wound,” “The market garden was designed to produce produce,” and “To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

@@Eddi.M. all these things that you have mentioned are not exclusive to the English language. You can find these characteristics in many other languages. Irregularities and weird grammar exist in every language. But in terms of phonology, English is super regular. Phonetics might slightly vary between dialects, though.

Thank you so much. I will increase output....

This video WORTH a COUPLE of HUNDREDS money’s.

I would have said that Americans pronounce for as fr in the weak form, and four as a much longer word - you can hear the diphthong. And in the southern states it’s almost fower. Or fowe(r). I’m English, lived in America for five years.

@@janepage3608 Thank you for the observations of southern (U.S.) speech. I don't get to talk to many southerners.

Anyone who follow this channel knows he speaks in a particular British accent

I’m with you. “Chur” as the right way, but In Utah they don’t pronounce the T in mountain so I wondered at first if he was joking. But still these rules helped me identify what to go over with my kiddos.

I never went away

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Impossible to implement on a French audience. They are told from their very young age how they do not articulate enough and how they must correct that. The absolute contrary of the chewing-gum English is.

@@alkante2962 hmmm… I tend to disagree, Al Kante. I teach a host of 25 to 60-odd-year-old French students every single week and have been concentrating on weak forms-schwa and friends-stressed syllables, content and function words, the whole shebang, this past year. And, au contraire, they report better comprehension and more ease when approaching new words. They sound more natural too, on the whole. Sure, the whole concept is a bit strange in the beginning and some actually don’t believe what you’re saying at first (thankfully, we have videos such as Gideon’s to back us up🙏🏽), but I insist on being a broken record until they get it and start implementing the notions in their speech pattern. And they do get it and have started. So, from my experience, it really works. One student asked me: Why didn’t I learn this at school?” And he went on to say, how much easier it would’ve been had he known all this. So yes, I agree: the French pedagogical system does not in any way contribute to understanding natural English. But, it’s un-doable (albeit with a huge dose of patience).

@@lisaedmondson780 Strange. What he is talking about is taught in french schools. Unless the level has dropped so much and I don't know about it... There is just a gap between a theory and practice. My point is on how radically different and opposite pronunciation of the two languages is.

*and Faroese

I'm glad you liked the video and thanks for getting the t-shirts. I'm sure you'll look super cool in them. Best wishes.

@@LetThemTalkTV I'm sure I'll look stylish, I'll join ELSA👍

A few corrections . The oo sound in room.

Are those truly SSBE features at all? Linking and intrusive Rs are common in non-rhotic English accents to bridge word-final vowels with word-initial vowels, generally to keep the transition between words smooth and fluid without the need to insert abrupt glottal stops. Intrusive semivowels, specifically /j/ (for front vowels) and /w/ (for back vowels) in English, are also commonly used as linking sounds for the same purpose. It's virtually a natural phenomenon (if you speak fast enough or blur your speech/word boundaries a little, it'll occur regardless of your level of English, provided you are using the right sounds); and I suspect other languages do the same too to a varying degree. Except German that is-I know they inert a glottal stop before words that begin with a vowel, which is the exact opposite of what linking sounds in English do.

​@@notit7282 You're absolutely right-linking and intrusive R's occur in many non-rhotic English accents, including SSBE. (I didn't say these features were exclusive to SSBE.) The only exception I know is the one Gideon himself covered in an earlier video: the so-called Transatlantic Accent-a synthetic non-rhotic accent that doesn't use the intrusive R. (It does use the linking R though.) As for the intrusive semivowels-I'm pretty sure what you described is exactly how they became a feature of Classical Sanskrit as well. 👍

Hello Isabel, thanks for your purchase. You have my email do send me any feedback good or bad. Best wishes

@@LetThemTalkTV I'll see it in full and get back to you. Best wishes

I'm glad you liked the video. Elsa has good AI but I guess not 100%

I do my best

It's ok to use the strong form but it's important at least to recognize the weak forms to improve comprehension

Indeed... but it sounds like əˈraɪv+ing 😅

Yes I think he was checking if were paying attention, and *we* passed the test at least!😅

8:18 I'd spontaneously use the "oo" sound both in "to" and in "two" but again, the first one shorter and less stressed. So, you are telling me, it should be more like "tattoo" and less like "tutu"?

Borrow it back from Icelandic! 😅