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As an Italian learning English this kind of videos are very very much interesting, because some differences in pronunciation I mean if I didn't hear them from you I wouldn't even imagine of them 😅

You are the best, Christina ❤❤

I like your Voice ;-)

I feel like we (by we I might mean I) might mispronounce niche more like "nitch". "Cache" is another one of those words, "cash" or "cash a". In a vain attempt to appear smarter than I am, I just try to avoid using these words.😁

Because not every American drops their t’s. Also. World. Whorled. Whirled.

@@laZOETje We don’t all do that but some of these alleged ESL teachers on KZfaq are pushing this narrative and some people are taking it as gospel.

It might not be a problem, but it is at least something that makes understanding harder. for example, I am a native speaker of English with little or very little exposure to US speech and I can have difficulty here on youtube with so many US voices.

Haha thanks for updating everyone! 😄

@@xxmimiaxx haha! I’ve been enjoying your TikToks!

That's exclusive to Brazilian Portuguese, here in Portugal the "al" at the end of every word is always pronounced as "al".

@@module79l28 Well observed, Portuguese from Portugal pronounces the "l" differently from Brazilian Portuguese. However, when speaking Portuguese in general, without specifying it, it means that they are referring to the reference Portuguese in the world, that is, Brazilian, and not, a variant spoken in such a small country like Portugal (it's unfair, I know, but are how things work). It's like the reference English is American and not British (although England is much bigger than Portugal, and has much more influence, it's still not enough).

I can’t speak for Portuguese, but I believe the “mother country” will always have the reference. As for English as a foreign language, British English clearly has the upper hand in books, teaching methods etc.

@@jonnyborgesdev I don’t agree at all. Here in Europe, European Portuguese is the reference. Also the Portuguese spoken in Africa is much closer to European Portuguese than Brazilian Portuguese. Even within Brazilian Portuguese, there are accents and dialects (sotaques) that have many features from European Portuguese. Like already pointed out here above, the mother country of a language will always be of significance. Like Spanish of Spain (even though Mexico is much bigger) and English of the UK.

@@TheElevenBravo20 Colonization. :P

There are native speakers who pronounce it as three syllables. I do. There are different accents.

Yes, in America it's 3 syllables. Rest-uh-ront. In the UK it's 2... rest-ront. But the difference is very slight and really nobody would even hear the difference. There's a lot of words that follow the same pattern (US vs UK), where the UK shortens to one less syllable. Like anything that ends with "ary" for example.... "complimentary" in USA is "com-plih-ment-uh-ree". and in the UK it's "com-plih-men-tree" etc. (one less syllable)@@anndeecosita3586

How many accents you guys have in Australia?

Pronounciation is a common mispronunciation you would more likely find amongst foreign English learners.

@@jonlima9897 We have some regional differences but it's mostly in the vocabulary. There are some more notable differences like how South Australians say dAHnce as opposed to dance (d-ants). Otherwise we have cultivated (posher sounding, like Cate Blanchett), broad (what people think Aussies sound like, think Steve Irwin), General (most people speak like this, newsreaders and whatnot) and ethno-Australian accents such as Indigenous Australians, Asian Australians or Mediterranean "Wog" accents.

@@thevannmann the first australian movie ever to be premiere in the US movie theaters was "mad Max" but they had to dub It into American english, could you explain me why?

@Chris Davis well, brasilian novelas started to be broadcasted in Portugal way back in the 70's. In spite of some of them saying It was hard to pick some words and expressions they still manage to get It with not that much of struggle and dubbing to their accent was never really necessary. So Im asking about Australian-US case since english speaker countries are culturally way more close to each other than portuguese speaker ones, so Just asking...

The other one in a similar vein is restaurateur. which is often mistakenly said as restaurantuer. there is even a con-trov-er-sy of how to say con-tro-ver-sy

How do you pronounce jewelry? The same as jewellery?

I would say joolri

@@MrJoeshipley I was about to point out that there are also spelling differences but you beat me to it! 😃

Yes!

Yep. I don't think I knew that it was supposed to be pronounced the way they said it. I know I've never said it that way 🤐

Dictionaries accept both as correct. Historically, "nitch" was the traditional pronunciation. "Neesh" is the Gallic pronunciation that has gain popularity,

I’m American and what pronunciation I use for this word depends on whether I’m using it as an adjective or a noun. Adjective = I say neesh Noun = I say nitch I think it should be pointed out that not everyone exclusively uses one pronunciation or the other.

I’m also American and I also pronounce Ts in words like button, kitten, and cotton. However, someone in the comments who isn’t American just told me they’ve never heard one of us speak this way so they highly doubt that I’m American. So apparently we are mythical unicorns 😂😂😂

He speak so fast, that's kinda annoying

@@JacsonFreitas18 oh, I didn’t feel he spoke fast at all … normal speed.

@@davidkasquare maybe that's because you're native?

@@JacsonFreitas18 no, I’m not, I’m from Finland and my first language is Swedish. But I do use English quite a lot, and I also teach elementary level English. I guess the main reason is that I speak quite fast myself as well - in any language that I learn. So to me, it’s normal …

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yeah I was just going to comment this, every American I have heard say niche they say 'nitch' rather than 'neesh' and it really bugs me.

What region is this? I mostly hear neesh or nitch.

honestly, it's only if you don't know how to say it properly which is REALLY ironic.

@@xohyuu Most (all?) languages have a lot of problems.

nope

As a Queenslander, I say it with the ‘nun’, not ‘noun’. Is Mia from North Qld? Personally I find it grating when it’s pronounced with the ‘noun’ option 😂

Mia is from Melbourne

Australian and British are the same

@@jonlima9897 No, I think it's a big difference.

She has amazing hips , you can see them in older videos. 😃

Aww thank you so much! Appreciate it 🥰

@@xxmimiaxx I'm shallow, I think you are gorgeous. 😃

@@Haywood-Jablomie aw thank you so much! 😊

How can you use neither and either interchangeably? This would change the meaning.

@@jonathanlange1339 that's what I would think, but I do hear it a lot in the US. They often use "me either" when I am sure they mean to say "me neither".

I think certain accents do this.

@Chris DavisYes, because missing a t while typing fast in a comment is the same thing.

I think Americans sometimes use pronounciation.

In Scotland we clearly distinguish between Which and Witch, Why and Wye, What and Watt, Where and Ware , Whales and Wales.

Definitely not in Scotland !

It depends on their accent. Not all English speakers do this.

It’s because there were borrowed from French, when “ls” were not longer pronounced but still written. Since then, the French spelling changed and these words became “saumon” (old: salmon), “amande” (old: alemande), “paume” (old: palme). As for calm, I have no idea, although some British dialects still pronounce it..

@@daylonmurray8068 Oh ! Thanks for the information .

I'm American, it sounds like she's just pronouncing the d sound, which I would also do.

It’s actually the D sound, not a s

@@MundaneParticle American do you think cheistina said “ would said” @10:48 or just me?

@10:46

Some "D" come off as "T". And when you land on a T, it breaks as "Ts". It simply is the phonetic (or physics) when the tongue or lips are smacking. Not to mention the quality of the microphone catching each sound and KZfaq compression makes a huge difference.

Not the British - the English. Scots pronounce their "r".

@@annehalecott Well, the title of the video uses British so I am just trying to be consistent within that context. Also, what about the Welsh? What do they do?

I noticed her 'r' was much harder than I'm used to hearing from her with accent.

Oops yeah I’ve lived in the US for quite a few years, I think the accent may have rubbed off on me a little 😅 hope the Aussie still comes through though haha

About "niche", I think for most Americans and Canadians, it rhymes with "which" when it's a noun (ex. "I think he's really found his niche."), whereas when it's an adjective, it rhymes with "sheesh" (ex. "Curling is a very niche sport."). In the UK, on the other hand, it rhymes with "sheesh" in both cases.

I have never ever heard of people saying 'niche' so that it rhymes with 'which', didn't know that was a thing tbh, probably just an American thing (being from north England)

@@josephweaver7460 It is a North American thing.

Exactly the same in Spanish. For us the only silent letter is the "h". Everything else, if it is written is for something. "salmón" is sal - món, why would you not pronounce the "l"? If it is there is for something, come on! 😅 I don't understand that from english (or french, by the way). They write a lot of letters and then they pronounce what they want...

Well, not exactly because of umlauts, for example (or at least this was my opinion when I used to learn the language). But well, German has easier basic pronunciation rules which are better than just trying to guess which one is correct, like in English.

@@migteleco Well, u might be silent as well, but thanks to diéresis in our case.

The 'o' is pronounced in English as well, but it wouldn't be 'ooo' unless there were two o's. Because there is only one 'o' it is like "uh". May-uh-naise.

@@migteleco As English-speaking children, it was just normal to us that spoken and written English are two different things, and you have to learn both of them separately. One isn't a way of representing the other, it's not phonetic. (Think of individual words as like Chinese characters, you just learn them!) I think maybe it's only if you are used to a language with a strictly phonetic writing system that you would assume that all writing systems are like that. I am interested in how Spanish children learn to write? Do they just learn the sound of each letter aged four or five and then it's very trivial and they never have to think about writing ever again? In English, we learn spellings when we start school, and have lots of spelling tests and things. Even still when I went to secondary school (aged 11) there was still some learning of spelling and spelling tests going on then. And these are all children who have mastered *spoken* English, it's just that we're learning a new language, *written* English, that corresponds word-for-word with spoken English, but you still have to learn the individual words! I often think that adult language learners tend to learn the language in a very different way to native children. Children learn spoken English pretty much entirely, then only afterwards learn written English. Adult language learners tend to learn both speaking and writing together. In Spanish, maybe this isn't very important, but in English, you're basically trying to learn two languages at the same time, and this is very different to the way children do it!

I was going to bring that up in a comment. It is maddening!

I think that also depends on where you are from. In NJ I say Res te RONT as you say. But I've heard people in the south say it with only two syllables.

Same. I pronounce restaurant as three syllables.

Another idea. Crisps. Many struggle with the sps.

I don't pronounce the ed in texted , I pronounce the word as if it's all one syllable instead of two( logically, I know it doesn't matter but idiosyncencratically and grammar wise to me, it sounds better as a one syllable word.

I use texted for past tense. Texted is grammatically correct for past but how people pronounce it may differ. The t is silent in debut.

@@danielleporter1829 I say texted as two syllables. It feels more natural to me to say the ed with a word that ends with a t sound. But some people don’t really say the t at the end of text.

Nah, "Englished" is more appropriate in this case. ;P I'm Presbyterian, not Anglican. (That's a joke, tbc.)

I've been assuming the subtitles are automatically generated, tbh.

I think a Korean is behind writing the subtitles, they're based in Korea after all :)

most americans say neesh

@princess daya to be honest, I've rarely heard anyone say the word niche other than to sound pretentious. There's other words in English that work better than niche.

The word seamen is pronounced just like semen so just say that is what you meant. 😂

@@anndeecosita3586 I didn’t do that because there’s always someone that says that’s not the case for everyone… lol

American English, over the last several years, has started turning adjectives into gerunds, "addictive" becomes "addicting". It's annoying.

@@jwb52z9 All of their grammatical and spelling errors are annoying! In Australia, we call gerunds “present participles”. The first time I heard the word “gerund” was in a movie!

There is no L in the Korean alphabet.

I’m a native speaker. Christina doesn’t pronounce T at all in these kinds of words. She is a glottal stop type of speaker where she omits it completely. A lot of English speakers including Americans like myself pronounce the second T if it’s a double T. It sounds like Bu -ton . Same as with kitten, cotton and latter. If you have never heard it, it’s probably due to your social circles.

@@anndeecosita3586 really? You actually say kiTTen? For me kitten would be ki__en, but latter is laDer. I highly doubt you’re American haha( sorry about that) I’m just too confident for this! So butter would be buDer and letter would be leDer. When it comes to glottal stop, examples of word would be: cotton, co__on, written, wri__en, Manhattan, Manha__an and curtain, cur_ain! Been living in the US for a while and studying American english! I just love it so much! I mean I can’t judge you American! Afterall this is your language!

@@anndeecosita3586 also button is very common example of native speakers omitting the TT. So I’m not even saying the different accents in the UK when it comes to the people coming from the north omitting the T like bo__le of wa_er. It’s basically everyone from Australia, the US, ireland, the UK, to New Zealand they would not pronounce the T. Probably because it’s just easier! However, in the US, i notice that if you hear some of the black people pronouncing it, they are probably from Jamaica. I notice that Jamaican english sometimes they do pronounce the T but sometimes they just don’t… very confusing!

@@Simonbacon023 😅 you’re funny 😂😂😂

@@raquelfigueroa5539 ?

I thought that was more a sign of being uneducated than having a different accent

Non-native English speakers sometimes confuse this because the associated verb "to pronounce" is spelled differently. They take the verb as the base and add the typical noun ending "-ion" and thus wrongly arrive at "pronounciation".

Oh, then I have a question for you. When I've watched some movies lately I've heard ppl say aks (ax?) instead of ask. Why is that? 😁 Usually movies that take place in the NYC area.

That's how I've always said pronunciation 😅 I know the middle syllable is 'nun', but I have always said it as pro"noun"ciation.