Btw, I thihk it would be cool if you made a video about "malapropisms". They are a big problem. And, you could also tell people how the term came about. There is a classic play that includes a "Mrs. Malaprop". Ibsen? I can't remember. Anyway, I hear malapropisms daily. Just think it would be an interesting video and right up your alley. And, btw, isn't "malapropism" a GREAT word? I've loved it ever since I learned it which was decades ago.

Correction "ENGLISH is a LANGUAGE, not a MEASUREMENT of INTELLIGENCE" so if you don't speak English your not intelligent? Is that what want to say?

Isn't the correct form: "Be careful whom you imitate:"? - the pronoun is objective case.

I thought, incorrectly, that Madam Malaprop was Moliere's character, but apparently it was Sheridan's 1775 play 'The Rivals' where Mrs, Malaprop added comic interest.

You're an amazing teacher! Much love from Brazil 😘😘

She's beautiful too. Those cheekbones though!

I agree with both of you! 😊

I don't think a foreign accent is necessarily a mistake. However if you're an actor it would be a good thing to be able to change your accent for a certain role. I happen to love the melodic Jamaican accent.

I agree. They coolduff AND shoolduff known better!

see a surgeon

Omg same. Pancreatic pain lol

Same. It's just so painful to watch.

Different to vs different from 😖

Clever!

Knocks those teeth out, huh?

Just say strengts!

good one

lmao i have a lisp so i relate

Yes. I did as well.

I learned that this lady has a bizarre cadence to her speech. I can only guess she is using extreme emphasis to assist English learners.

Yes, I am speaking extra clearly so that English learners would understand. In this video, it's more exaggerated than I generally aim for.

This video helps a lot.

I am not native and my whole life learn english literature but I did mistake lol. thanks this is a brilliant

Same😅

The Jamaican lady pronounced mischievous correctly. She sounds very well educated and her accent is infinitely more pleasant to my ears, than the American lady.

@@crankyoldperson6871 How is, "vous" vee-us? "Mis-chuh-vus" is correct. Sorry. You say it however you like, though. Language is personal, after all, just like handwriting.

Good point!

Vitamins vs vetamins & etc r vowels diff.

@@spicyirwin5835 Vetah, vitah, vegemin!

Formal education what we have learned is from school and in the book. English has its Rules, the Book. License teachers and Masters who have a degree in teaching will perfectly teach their student regardless what ethnicity or what part of regions they came from. American is very interesting. America is diverse. I don't speak any language until I am 15 Years old. My vocal cord has no sound. I whispered when I speak; I spoke in head. Good Luck everyone. We are great and grateful, Thanks to all School Teachers and Professor. Never forget them. They guided student to write Essay to pass the exam on the paper, able to do it. I Love K Lo ! Good job !! Great success.

WE LEARNED FROM OLD FASHIONED BOOKS AND TOUGH TEACHERS OLD SCHOOL IM ALMOST 60 IM NOT TRYING TO BE PERFECT NOW BUT IF I HAD TO I WOULD LOL

MashaAllah, Excellent presentation,God Bless you and your entire team for this Noble Work, Amen.

SIR the subject English is tuff but If we follow it through our professional teacher it may be Easy for we the beginners. Right Prounounciation may bring crown For ourselves.thanks to my foreign Teacher madam. Jai sri krishan

It’s alright. Most of us butcher pronunciations anyways.

wow, i am dreaming about New York. Is it worth it?

Kind of my " Pride and Prejudice". That's the book to learn English from!!!

Me too thats why I tune into NHK WORLD a lot

Pilar Quiroz as long as you’re prepared to get some funny reactions after you use 19th century vocabulary/grammar in everyday conversation, you do you!

@@ironflowers977 hahaha. Yes.. it's funny when I say "you were engaged somewhere else" or " the latter" or "He is a very undeserving young man".. The one that I use a lot is :"I would be only too happy to oblige you". I work in customer service and I only use it with older customers, nevertheless, i hope they read it too. I love the way it sounds and it perfectly expresses my willingness to help!!

@@pilarquiroz3585 - wooow, I like these sentences because they sound very elegant :D

I would have supposed Polish uses the Cyrillic alphabet like other Slavic languages. Does it?

@@michaelwoods4495 No, in Poland we use the Latin alphabet. Cyrillic alphabet is used in Eastern Europe and is typical for the Orthodox Church followers...

I don"t speak spanish.

To A Michaelis: You made a big grammatical error in your first sentence.

@@gfitz6001 lol!

@@gfitz6001 I noticed!

@@wolfhound1452 It's not funny. Why haven't you corrected it? It makes your claim that you are "a former English teacher" highly suspect.

I wish I had had access …

Fail

Your grammar is actually very good

Almost perfect. Keep it up! Most native speakers are quite forgiving. We do use the article “the” more often in English, so we have the opposite issue with languages that don’t. It’s all good. The goal is understanding.

Petit fantôme, your English is perfect. Well done

I had a friend from Russia who would often apologize for her grammar and pronunciation. But it was perfect! I would tell her that she wrote and spoke English better than many Americans do.

... to the USA late in life, I have found your classes to be so helpful.

@@josehonoridez1085 you, too? 🙄

Forra’nuh. Emphasis on the first syllable.

FOR in er

For-rin-ner

Haha

Lol

This is a common mispronouncation by people who have dyslexia.

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For real?

Thank you! 😃

I hate it when people say anyways, grates on my nerves, shows lack of education (in my opinion)😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

@Brenda Schlitting Not really a native speaker as you speak an offshoot of English.

You may be British born... but one can speak cockney english vs RP english ( as in Queen's english) which many aspire to emulate

The Queen's English is not RP, she is a tosh.

@@anitaleo5551 The Queen’s English is definitely not RP or Received Pronunciation. The royals have an accent of their own. There are many regional accents in England , not only cockney, just as there are many regional accents in the US. Received Pronunciation is the standard British accent.

Sure you are "already" a native speaker. All natives don't speak or write correctly. Try to write a few sentences about yourself, you will then realise that your nativity mean nothing.

This videos? You mean "these" videos, right?

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I like this video very much.Your way of teaching the pronunciation is very nice.I can understand your speech in english.Your way looks beautiful like a woman who follows moral values of her life.

I’m a native English speaker and I only mispronounced one of these but it’s good you not only pronounced them but also gave the reasons such as the sentence and also the definition.

Learning Italian would be a piece of cake for you!

Did you learn from Caecilius lmao

Thanks for He a that information. Very helpful!

People who abbreviate it as ect irk me... it is etc.

@@msr1116 Italian, French, Romanian, Spanish or Portuguese.

Same

I need to repeat for several time. kzfaq.info/sun/PL08B4I0FI2n1kxmg_cbHVUZ1NvUjrKiEM

same

Ikr? I shouted "WHAT?" XD

Wait how do you pronounce Falcon- Falc-in, Falc-on, Falc-own, Falc-un or Falc-en?

@@booorue4876 falc-in so silicon is pronounced more like silic-in

@@cara4088 I've never heard silicon pronounced like that (I'm a native English speakers)

silicon is pronounced closer to dawn

@@faydemaria1019 So close...

This reminds me of a little trick that the mind plays. Most people pronounce the letter " F" at the end of a word as the letter "V". As an example, the word "of", we don't say "offff", we say "ovvvv". So, the trick is to write a paragraph that contains a lot of F's as in "of" and then ask the person reading the paragraph to count all the F's in the paragraph. Most people will not include the F's in the word "of" because the F registers as a V in the brain.

Lauren W “of” is pronounced with “v” for “f” so as not to confuse it with “off” ( meaning “not on”, “ nonsense”, “weird”, etc.If you pronounce “of” with an “f” then the meaning will be weird.

Btw, you’re right.

I see that one a lot in comments, as well as your vs you're.

🙄 I know

Americanese 😂😂😂

Hello laudine. How are you feeling today I hope your day is as bright as your pretty smile today.

Offcourse dear

Dear i want be a your friend ! pls do accept me🙋‍♂️

ugh same

I'm a native English speaker, and I only have a lisp with 'th' sounds! It drives me insane, it's been happening for a big chunk of my life.

What about "sixths"? XD

@@thacf23 Impossible, just impossible... I'll never use that word

@@aino2927 five sixths of us never use it! 😆

I think you mean SPELLT

Thank you Stephen. I thought that viewers would understand that I help actors to prepare for roles in American films and TV, something that I've done for over 20 years. My students' agents and casting directors tell them to find a trainer and to work on their accents in order to have a chance of booking a job. I've gotten a lot of mean comments attacking me personally, that I chose to delete.

My question would be how does a non-native speaker know what is the correct way for every character and usage? American English can be difficult for even native speakers to understand when they go to a different part of the country. What's right and proper one place, is not in another. To get a full grasp of the American English language, one would have to spend a lot of time traveling and investigating all areas. For one thing, there are dialects and colloquialisms a plenty sometimes even in one small area. Go to New Orleans, or as most say there, Nawlins. There is a definite French based dialect, Creole, and the coarser version known as Cajun. Canjun is a very thick accent usually, with lots of phrases seldom heard in other dialects. To learn the manner of speech in any given area, one must go to that area and become a sponge absorbing everything. In say, New York City, there is every variation under the sun. There is also a variation in different boroughs of the city, as well as a version that's spoken in upstate New York. I can easily tell a Manhatanite from someone from say Buffalo just by the way they speak. Manhattenites tend to speak more businesslike, but in short, fast clipped sentences, while upstate New York is slower and not clipped. Sometimes I just love to sit and hear people from different places talk. A lady from the UK visited us earlier this year. I would ask questions with long involved answers just to hear her talk. While she still sounds Brittish, she's been living in Ethiopia and it has effected her speech patterns to a degree, she speaks slower and more pointedly and concisely than a normal Brit. As if she has to go slow and keep it simple to be understood. I don't think she realizes it. Oh, it's probably realise in the UK, but here it's spelled with the z, or Zed as y'all say. In the US, there is no Zed, only Z, or sometimes spelled out zee.

@@tootall5559 I was born abroad and started my schooling here. I was talented in learning English (I hate learning other languages though - why, I do not know) - reading literature and writing were two of my favorite subjects. I spent my childhood with a dictionary nearby and I USED it religiously, studying every nuance of meaning AND of pronunciation. If my schools had participated in between schools spelling competitions, I might have ended up in DC in a national competition, but my schools only had in house spelling exercises. Throughout my life as a grown up, I have often found myself wanting to correct American US born and raised English speakers (you can be a US born and raised English speaker where you NEVER hear American English in your home because the parents and grandparents etc are foreigners) because of their NOT speaking English "properly." I think it comes from their ease in the culture and local patterns of speaking around them, which foreigners DO NOT have experience with so we learn American English "by the book" or "properly" - which IS how my teachers taught it in all my schools btw. I REALLY paid attention to what they taught exactly because it was my MAIN exposure to the language, as at home we did not speak it. PROPERLY spoken American English is defined by dictionaries and encyclopedias. Dialects are VARIATIONS or DERIVATIVES of properly spoken versions of ANY language. Movies MUST be able to reach all citizens both in the country and abroad (in foreign countries people learn English PROPERLY AND ACADEMICALLY, as their second language, because schools are often their only chance to learn it or hear it). So to have American films earn the most abroad they need to have American English properly spoken in them. As far as plays - same thing applies - lots of foreigners come here on vacations where they include seeing a play or two as part of their trip. If PROPER American English was not used by the actors in these plays, foreigners or even people from other US states would NOT come to see them because they'd be pulling their hair out in frustration rather than enjoying themselves and relaxing. Same goes for plays that travel abroad. In movies or plays that local language plays a strong part it, SOME of that local area dialect must be featured, but only to a degree - so that the flavor and color of that local area is captured through that dialect, but after that lots of proper language must be included so audiences in all areas and from various countries can comprehend what's happening in an enjoyable manner. And that's PART of how a foreigner can end up being an American English coach - she must have abilities with sounds I do not have because I would never be able to be a language coach as she is - I believe that requires certain musical aptitudes I do not have. (Word sounds are a form of music really.)

@@christinabernat6709 The question remains, who gets to say what is "proper?" Even the best, freshest dictionary is at least 20 years behind the times. You learned denotation, not connotation, so you can't possibly know how words are said and used in the USA let alone anywhere else. Language is a lving thing, it is not stagnant. Pronunciations change, meanings change, and usage changes over time. Just because you say something is proper or not, who are you to make that call? There is probably no native speaker of any language that speaks 100% "properly" not even yourself. You can't learn from dictionaries until you have some basis of the language, and you get that from who and what you hear and see. Just isn't possible to have a totally un-corrupted knowledge of any language from the get go. English majors always want to correct everyone, but they're only majors, when do the generals weigh in? (lol) If you grow up in the area around Harvard, what is proper there isn't to the rest of us, or any part of Boston for that matter. Working class neighborhoods will sound different than wealthy ones. That's how it is. You people that want everyone to speak the same way are totally missing the boat. If you were to hang out some place in the US where a lot of US tourists go, you would be amazed at the diversity of this one language. We don't speak like the Brits either, and they have probably millions of idioms and expressions we do not know. Then there's all the variations, like Cockney an so forth. Really the only people that speak proper English are from somewhere else.

@@tootall5559 I appreciate all you have said. But who says we want everyone to speak the same?? How did you get that from this video or from what I wrote? I LOVE idioms and regional (etc) variations! No no no, it's not about destroying colorfulness. And do not forget she is HIRED by movie and play companies - she is not forcing herself on anyone! She has not come here to dictate to anyone how to speak, for Pete's sake. If you want to complain to anyone, complain to those WHO HIRE HER. And what makes you think it is quick to learn a language - it takes YEARS of not only talent for this, study, but also of OBSERVATION of others and how they speak and act (language and body movement usually go together). This is a subtle point. The times I wanted to correct someone is when they pronounce a word or use an expression in a way that makes what they are saying unclear. SAFETY, for one, requires words used to communicate need to be understandable or a person may die, as in the case of an ambulance answering a call to someone's home where the person needing help us still conscious. Now imagine if someone made a movie where all the actors spoke ONLY a dialect of English you personally have never heard and it was spoken very fast and with a LOT of idioms. (I had a dear friend born here but in her home growing up everybody older was from the West Indies (where exactly I don't recall at the moment) and spoke their particular West Indian way all her life growing up. When she forgot herself and started speaking that way to me I swear I could not understand ANYTHING she said! It was unreal. Word ending were blended together and everything was said soooo fast! It all sounded like one loooonngg word to me - a word I had NEVER HEARD before!! This was English she was speaking!!! Now, if someone made a movie or play where everyone spoke this way, would you go see it for an enjoyable relaxing experience - if it had subtitles maybe? Or without subtitles for a class studying English dialects, maybe you'd sit to watch it, where a teacher would stop the film to explain every so often what was being done and said, or explained it all beforehand.

They're simply conflating "irrespective" and "regardless". They need to learn/be taught/etc., to employ these two marvelous, wholly legitimate options instead ;)

Yes but that's not a pronunciation thing

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It's in the dictionary, but it's generally considered incorrect.

One of my brother's peeves 😆😆😆

Those people are loosers.

Huh? You loost me.

Several of these pairs exist, such as advice and advise, their and there, tin and thin and many more........

They just need to remember that loose rhymes with goose. The ring is too loose on my finger. I don't want to lose it.

@@jknuttel Good archers so.......loose!

Thank you Ana.

Very helpful, useful and entertaining

You're kidding, right? We learn to speak listening to our family and peers. If they mispronounce something, we pick it up and copy them. This is most common with different dialects, for example, southern speakers of English, or Boston speakers. After five or six years of repeating spoken language, it's much harder to unlearn or relearn.

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infg3570 heheheheeee gimme another one? I need to laugh. Ya, I mean that sincerely bc right now everything in my life is goin to hades in a hand-basket, I’m trippin. Wait, is this real life?

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@@T0ldja I'm tapped but hang in there. Things WILL get better!

Good point! Sill-ikahn is for the substance itself.

Loki is my favourite god in that pantheon.

@ Kitty : It should be easy. But I think the "ie" throws people off. (Unlike in most words, it's not pronounced "ee" here. In "mischievous, the "ie" is an unstressed vowel sound [ə]. It would be easier if it were spelled mischivous or mischevous.) Also, there is a strong analogue in the word "devious", which I'm sure misleads many people and contributes to the mispronunciation of "mischievous".

Many people misread the words.

As a spanish-speaker, same! and also, I want to politely correct you: "channel" is in singular, so you have to use "gives", not "give" ("give" is for plurals). I used to make that mistake a lot, so I'd like to help other people stop making it.

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Yeah, not to mention the history of the English language.

Well, I’m certain there aren’t many who know 6+ languages. (Not in general, anyway.) 😑

@@doylejodi7502, hence the joke.

You're one sick bastard! :) LMFAO! Cool name, too!

“Don’t you mean pronounciation?”, people have said to me, when I said pronunciation correctly - these people think they are correct and won’t be swayed! Parentheses are often mistaken for brackets! [] Those are brackets! “Jewelry” is not a word! It’s J E W E L L E R Y! I’m English!

Yeah, really. Things will be fixed in November. Sane people will never, ever forget what was done to them, and they'll respond and vote accordingly. Nice meeting you, Susan.

Sprint Rollingon I think that is more about the speaker not knowing how to apply each word.

@@lotuskoko No. The "ir-" prefix negates the following word, just like the "-less" suffix negates the word before it. "Irregardless" isn't a word, but if it were, it would mean "with regard" since the "ir-" and "-less" would negate each other.

Lol. My coworker was just telling me about this word. And it was coming from a high profiler.

@nunya inct Aren't you supposed to pronounce the t in often?🤷🏾

actually either pronunciations of "often" are acceptable.

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Hello pherl. How are you feeling today I hope your day is as bright as your pretty smile today.

yep I kinda use it as well just because of people I'm watching on youtube

We pronounce the t... or at least a i do

Brits do the same, swallowing t’s: IMPO’AN’ Americans make the t’s round like d’s but they still pronounce them

That's a dialect thing, it's not "wrong." In fact voicing the first T would sound strange with most American accents.

The decline is occurring because of the infiltration of the Woke culture in our school district. Little kids are being taught that drag queen is ok.

Many of my students struggle with the word "develop".

Good day Susan,hope you’re enjoying your time online here and it’s a pleasure meeting you here .! Nice speech ,from San Diego California..will you teach me 😁

Lol

I love "silly-con" valley!

HAH

He he he he

Don’t add the “s” on the word “anyway”

Good day Michelle,hope you’re enjoying your time online here and it’s a pleasure meeting you here .! Nice speech ,from San Diego California

Hi Michelle, how are you doing?

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Rashone the way people pronounce words does not indicate their education level. AAVE is a real thing. Mg husband grew up in a different area of the same state, we both have bachelor’s degrees, and he uses the “axed” pronunciation. That was a racist comment.

@@rashone2879 Good English is only expected from the English people. I can say.. Hiingliizz .. Or HaarYou?.. Intentionally. Sbbeaging bad english is promoted. 😂😂

lmao i had a classmate who pronounced desk as ‘deks’

Rashone it’s common among certain english dialects and certain regions, such as AAVE or in the south. you’re just being racist LOL

Hello dear how are you doing?

What an English Teacher

What an English teacher

Hello leticia How are you feeling today I hope your day is as bright as your pretty smile today.