2 tricky vowel sounds in British and American English - AH and UH

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[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Sarah, Vicki here. It's great that you like both accents and of course I'm secretly pleased that you prefer my accent. Don't tell Jay. :-)

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[@detroitjack0325]

@@SimpleEnglishVideos You're welcome, Vicki!

[@steffis4480]

♥ Yeay! ♥ What others do on Friday nights: going out dancing, to the cinema, meet friends and party hard... What I do on Friday nights: Waiting for a new video by Vicki and Jay 😍😂 Last week you've talked about prototype semantics and today about phonetics and phonology differences in AE and BE ♥ I just LOVE you for sharing and reminding me of all these fascinating information, which is still somewhere in a corner of my brain as a former linguistic student! ♥ I think the best way to learn the correct pronunciation is to listen in English and talk in English! When you're by yourself: TALK IN ENGLISH! When I am watching a series in English, which is emotionally moving, I yell and blabber in English 🙈😂 In Germany we actually have five vowels in the alphabet, but we are even worse in spoken German with around 23 different vowel sounds (thanks wikipedia :D) If you're interested: I was googling a bit after watching your video and found this interesting list, where European languages are compared according to the amount of vowel sounds in their spoken language. 😮 The more your listen to English, the more you get aware of small differences in AE and BE or the distinctions of the vowel sounds. What would recommend? 😮 I hope Philly is defrosted finally and you're able to hold your noses into some pre-springlike sunshine ♥ Lots of love from Germany Steffi

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Steffi, Vicki here. I thought of you when I was positing this. I meant to do it at 3 pm our time and I got distracted writing a script. When I realised, my first thought was oh no, I hope I haven't kept Steffi up in Germany! Ha! So glad you liked all the phonology stuff. It was a bit of a puzzle working out what words would work, because of course Jay says ah in different words to me. I'm still learning all the differences between British and American pronunciation. 23 different vowel sounds in German? No wonder my German students have had such good pronunciation! It's warming up here and but still thick coat and scarf weather.

[@steffis4480]

Hello there dear Vicki ♥ I’m so glad to hear that Philly finally warming up. You’re such a cordial person! Actually, I was a bit worried, when I was waiting for your video and it got a little later. I thought: “Oh no! Hopefully Vicki and Jay are alright over there!” There was nothing new on German news about the cold snap in America (aside a few comments during the biathlon world cup in Canada). But don’t worry! Your videos are always worth staying awake 😍 I can imagine that’s often hard to get accustomed to American pronunciation even after all the years you’ve already lived in the US. In Germany we really have so many ways of pronouncing a single vowel. Like “u”. “Sucht” (addiction) [ˈu] and “er sucht” [ˈuː] (he searches) or “rund” (round) [ˈʊ] - in these words the “u” is always pronounced differently. Additionally we use “Umlaute” like “ä”, “ö” and “ü”. English and German also have a lot of diphthongs and triphthongs, haven’t we? 😮 I remember a Japanese friend of mine struggling with the pronunciation of those. I hope you both will enjoy a wonderful weekend and I’m sending you rays of sunshine from Erfurt to Philly ♥ Always take care of you ♥

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[@mytwocents7464]

Best video I've seen on this difficult topic for us native Spanish speakers. Thank you!

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Aw Tillzy, that so nice of you to say. Thank you and thank so much for watching. We have lots of native English speakers like you watching our videos. We're thrilled about that. :-)

[@terrydawson1153]

Hilarious introduction, especially with the bleeped out naughty bit!

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Terry, Vicki here. It came naturally to me. :-)

[@terrydawson1153]

@@SimpleEnglishVideos : As a native English speaker, it never crossed my mind that such a word could be a problem for non-natives.

[@terrydawson1153]

@@SimpleEnglishVideos : And in Geordie, 'can't' is said very differently to 'c##t', so maybe non-natives should all learn the Geordie accent. What do you think, Vicki? 😉

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@@detroitjack0325 : Vicki is amazing.

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We're so pleased we can help, Lenorek. Thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching.

[@lorenomenezesdasilveira]

Very clear explanation of the difference between short and long "a", for the first time I can say I understand it perfectly, of course, now it is a question of practice.

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So glad it was useful Loreno. Thanks for writing.

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Hadi, this is Jay writing back to you. You are correct, it is important. We're glad you could share it with your teacher. Thanks for writing to us and thanks for watching.

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Thanks so much for the kind words Cynthia. :-)

[@antonijaros1650]

2:20 I'm Polish and in Polish we pronounce EVERY LETTER in EVERY WORD the same way. Of course there are some exceptions, but only a few ;)

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Thanks for sharing Antoni Jaros. English spelling is can be so illogical! :-)

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So glad you liked it Marco. Thanks for writing.

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Hi Abby, welcome to our channel. It's great to have you with us. :-)

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Oh that's very nice to know. Thanks so much Claudia. :-)

[@johannacherrezable]

Thanks Vicki and Jake, I'm studying for being a English teacher, and you help me a lot with my pronunciation. My L1 is Spanish. Please i would like to know about word formation, because most people get confused with the pronunciation. Like use, used, abuse, abused, or mountain, mountaineer... I love you... I'll share this video with my fellows

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Johanna. Great to meet you and so glad our videos are useful. It sounds like you're interested in the pronunciation of some word endings here. Is that right? We have a set of videos on prefixes and suffixes and in the suffix videos I sometimes mention pronunciation. Here's the link: kzbin.info/aero/PLwrM2Wcy_MsDXAyBxhc6iUutf_DUdpoXn. We haven't made a video on -ed endings yet, but it's on my list.

[@extrafriedBob]

Omg i love you guys 😍😍you have helped me so much with pronouncing english as in school we only have learnt the grammar and not how to pronounce the words. Our teachers never correct us when we make mistakes. A friend of mine once pronouced 'prison' as 'prysohn' and the teacher didnt even say anything. I showed him this channel and now he watches it regularly too 😂

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Thanks so much for the kind words Ju Mei and thanks for sharing our videos too. We love it when that happens.

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Hello and greetings to you in Slovakia Patricia. So glad you like our videos.Good luck with your studies. :-)

[@jairofloresluque5922]

Could this couple be more lovely. Greetings from Peru.

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Thank you so much Jairo. Greetings right back at you in Peru. :-)

[@saidfarid6382]

Hello professor Thank you so much for your priceless advice and interesting guidance. I love your way of teaching and excellent explication. I really appreciate your job. I wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity. Your Student from Algeria.

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Said, thank you so much your kind words and good wishes. We wish the very same for you. Be well and be safe. Jay & Vicki.

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Thanks guys! I always enjoy watching your videos. 🙂

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hey Alexx. We're so glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching this one. :-)

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It's great to have you with us Rodrigo. Thanks for watching! :-)

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[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Roberson. Good to hear from you again. You are very welcome, and as always, thanks for watching.

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What a lovely compliment, Paul. Thank you!!! And thanks for watching.

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I loved it! Have a lovely weekend Vicki and Jay! Xoxoxo from Brazil. ;-)

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Thanks so much Lucy. Love right back at you in Brazil. :-)

[@315315Barbara]

Excellent work. I learned a lot here more than my lessons of pronunciation

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We're so glad you found this video useful Raquel. Thanks for letting us and thanks for watching.

[@robert33232]

Yeah, that is tricky and I'm going to practice these and other vowel sounds. Thank you!))

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You're very welcome Robert. So glad you liked it. :-)

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Thanks so much Carlos. :-)

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Oh no Flip Tech! Hope it gets better soon! Thanks for writing.

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So glad it was useful. Thanks for writing wgr 1206.

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You are amazing!! I just subscribed to your channel and I love it!! Thank you soooo much for your incredible videos!! I've been learning English for a long time and never could learn how to pronounce those vowels properly until now. Thank you and please don't stop making videos!! Regards from Peru!

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Luis! Greetings to you in Peru and welcome to our channel! So glad you like it.

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Hi Vicki Hi Jay as always it's a pleasure to watch your videos You're amazing thanks a lot and have a lovely weekend 😉

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Thanks so much Aparecido. Always great to see you. :-)

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Hi Sergio. Vicki here. I'm still learning things about English too. It never stops. :-) Thanks for writing.

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So glad you found it useful Jaime emiaJ. :-)

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Hi Madahi. We are so pleased to know we are helping with your accent. And thank you so much for watching our videos.

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We're so glad you enjoyed it, Rebecca

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That's great to hear Eduardo. Thanks for writing and telling us. :-)

[@michaelfisher9267]

A big discussion on Toronto transit is the pronunciation of avenue by the electronic voice announcing street stops. Passengers were complaining about the American pronunciation. In Canada, we say, "a-ven-YUE." I'm not sure what the American pronunciation is. "A-VEE-noo?"

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Michael. In my experience ( as an American) I've heard both. I seem to remember that an older generation in New York City pronounced it a-ven-noo. But in checking an online dictionary (www.macmillandictionary.com/us/pronunciation/american/avenue) they say a-ven-noo is the proper American pronunciation. Maybe I've been hanging around Vicki too long :-)

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i love this channel , i am from Brazil :)

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Thanks so much Rayssa. Greetings to you in Brazil. :-)

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That's great to hear. Thanks Diego. :-)

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[@benedettobruno1669]

23 February 2019, Palermo, Sicily. Shame that most schools around the world fail to teach that British English has 12 vowel sounds and American English has 11! Who knew? Thank you very much Vicky and Jay!

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

I wondered if I might be delivering unnecessary info there so I'm so glad you liked it, Benedetto. Thanks for writing.

[@benedettobruno1669]

@@SimpleEnglishVideos 23 February 2019, Palermo, Sicily. Unnecessary? No! Quite the contrary! In my personal experience most teachers don't go beyond saying that English has 5 vowels, a, e, i, o, u (probably because they themselves have been trained this way). And what happens next is that when they teach students how to read English words it all inevitably becomes a blurry chaos. It would be very useful if right from the outset they made it crystal clear that English has 5 WRITTEN vowels BUT BUT BUT 12 SOUND vowels in British English and 11 SOUND vowels in American English precisely as you, Vicky and Jay, have done for all of us here. Thank you.

[@benedettobruno1669]

@@SimpleEnglishVideos 23 February 2019, Palermo, Sicily. Unnecessary? No! Quite the contrary! In my personal experience most teachers don't go beyond explaining that English has 5 vowels, a, e, i, o, u (probably because they themselves have been trained this way). And what happens next is that when they teach students how to read English words it all inevitably becomes a blurry chaos. It would be very useful if right from the outset they made it crystal clear that English has 5 WRITTEN vowels BUT BUT BUT 12 SOUND vowels in British English and 11 SOUND vowels in American English, precisely as you, Vicky and Jay, have done for all of us here. Thank you.

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That's great to hear. Thanks Antek. :-)

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Its ok

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@@SimpleEnglishVideos It`s ok

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Awesome. Thanks for the video, its so useful.

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Estefany Molano Castillo, so sorry for the late response. We're very pleased you sound this video useful. Thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching.

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I love these guys!

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Thanks so much Hazel. Lovely to meet you! :-)

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Barbara, thank you so much for the kind words. Much appreciated, and thank you for watching our video.

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A month ago I discovered your channel on oh my... it's truly awesome. I really appreciate the effort you put in the videos you make. They are really educating and your attitude makes me want to smile. By the way, in one of your older videos I have found a dictionary on a shelf in the background. The interesting thing about it is that it had Słownik Podręczny written on it. And that's a Polish term for a pocket dicitonary. I'm Polish and I'd like to know who in your family is polish because i was really surprised and curious :D. I'm glad we have something in common :).

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

NieMaszPleców. my father was raised in a part of Poland that is now Ukraine, near the city of Lvov (now Lviv). But the dictionary isn't from that family history. I suspect the book was in a stock photo image we stuck on the background. If you let me know what video you saw it in, I can answer more affirmatively. Thanks so much for watching our videos. We really appreciate it.

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Glad you like it!

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ball GLOBAL, thank you so much for letting us know you like our videos. We're pleased they are useful for you and we're very happy you're participating in our community. Thanks for watching.

[@gabomay5092]

This is so helpful! Can you pls make of video explaining every vowel sound?

[@luftwaffle173]

I could listen to you pronouncing uh and ah with that perfect english for hours

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Thanks so much Luftwaffle! :-)

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I Enjoyed class so much!!

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That's great to hear. Thanks Marco.

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Love you both from Myanmar...

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Thanks so much Nay Thant Aung. :-)

[@AYESHA-vk2uz]

That's interesting now i can understand the difference between /ɑ/ & /ʌ/

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

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Ohh I love you both. Thank you!!

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

You are very welcome Ivanna. Thanks for watching our video.

[@mx5720]

Thanks a lot !! Next week I'm leaving for Scotland ! It'll help me !

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Oh safe travels Maxel! Have a WONDERFUL trip! :-)

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@@SimpleEnglishVideos Thanks a lot ! I'll visit NewCaslte too ;) can't wait! Hello from France dear friends !

[@marcoazevedo5878]

Hi Jay, Hi Vicki, could you tell me how Canadian vowels sound like? I mean... are they like American or British vowels sound? Thank you for this spectacular class!

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Marco, this is Jay writing back to you. Canada, like America has a variety of accents. I've spend most of my time in Canada in the Toronto area and there, the biggest difference people from the US notice is that Canadians will pronounce words that have "out" in the as if it was written "oat." So the phrase "Out and About in a Boat" is pronounced "Oat and aboat in a boat." That's a bit of an exaggeration but close enough to make the point. But there are so many regional variations in North America and Britain it's hard to document them all here. But one example in the US that I always find interesting is the word "oil." In the northeastern states it is pronounced "oyl." But in some southern states, you'll hear it pronounced as "all." Thanks for writing to us and thanks for watching our videos.

[@marcoazevedo5878]

@@SimpleEnglishVideos Thank you, Jay!

[@galimaciq]

In conclusion: We say: "Ah" when we are at the dentist's and are ready and willing to get our teeth done. We say: "Uh" still being at the dentist's, but afraid of what he/she is planning to do with us.

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Ha! A lovely description Galina. :-)

[@m.sescaasmo5791]

Thanks for this helpful video, you both are so lovely! You show us the difference perfectly. I'll have to practice a lot! 🙄

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

So glad you liked it M.Sesca Asmo. Thanks for writing and telling us an good luck with your studies.

[@theanthrophobicgirl]

I'm a new subscriber and I love the way you both pronounce...and that helps me in class ..I request you to split the pronunciation with syllables for better pronunciation...thank u..love you both..lots of love from Indian girl..😘😘

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Akshaya, thanks for the very kind words and thank you for the excellent suggestion. Keep up the good work in class and we'll keep on making videos that help. :-)

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You make me smile, thanks ❤

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@Ilovenature12.3, you are most welcome! Thanks for watching.

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Hello, hello. Wow, what a tricky video. It is really hard and I have to practice a lot. There is so many words to practice. Well, I have to say I am really wonder for your brilliant video. I love it so much.

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Awesome video!

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So glad you liked it Jordana. Thanks for writing.

[@drayyoutube5843]

Is anyone going to talk about how funny it was when Vicki accidentally dropped the c bomb at 0:56 and 3:08 when she was trying to explain people are worried that “can’t” sounds similar to it in British English? I showed my stepdad that part and he thought it was hilarious! Sorry if it was too embarrassing to mention.

[@peterwilliams942]

Great lesson, thanks. I’m from Manchester in England and Vicky voice sounds a little posh to me. I think her R sound is stronger than mine.

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Peter. Thanks so much for chipping in and giving us a 'Manchester' take on it. :-)

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We're really pleased you liked this one, Hoàng. Thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching.

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Thank you so much for sharing

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You're very welcome Stefany. :-)

[@Insider_English]

love the videos as always. But here you have left out the fact that the Americans also don't use the Ɔ : (open o) sound. (door, horse, etc)

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Thanks so much Share your English. I haven't noticed Jay not saying Ɔ : , but you're right that we do say horse and door a little differently. I think that's because I'm not pronouncing the /r/ at the end though and he is. That could be affecting the vowel. Is that what you're thinking of?

[@TheRealTricky]

Okay, I guess I speak Britmerican English, as I say "class" the UK way and "can't" the US way.... (As a coder I use the word "class" a lot as it's a very vital word in Object Oriented Programming, which mostly revolves around classes). Now when it comes to words like "pot", "hot", "not" etc. I never knew the way I said them was the U.S. way... Now "pot" is also a Dutch word (with roughly the same meaning as in English) and in Dutch its pronunciation comes pretty close to UK English... Irony! (Although you wanna watch out with "pot" in Dutch, as it's also a slang term for a lesbian and some of them consider that word an insult, so when you use it, make sure to make its context clear). What always gets me in English (especially since Dutch spelling rules are overall pretty phonetic), is that it's always guessing how words are pronounced. "Man" and "Can" vs "father", "bra". The "a" pronounced in two different ways, regardless of the dialect. The verb "read" is one I hate when reading/writing, as the present tense is pronounced as "reed" and the past tense (and perfect form) as "red", yet you write it the same way. Mostly I can guess the word's pronunciation quite right when I never heard somebody saying the word before, but some words had a pronunciation I never expected, and perhaps you can make a video about those words, as their pronunciation was far from obvious for me. - Recipe (I always pronounced it a bit as "ree-caip" until I found out its "re-ce-pee", which kinda baffled me). - Mirage (I kinda pronouced with the emphasis on the "i" before and 'age' as 'edge', but finding out the emphasis was on the 2nd syllable and the 'a' pronounced as in 'dance' (UK English) even in US English... geez). - Catastrophe (Since English copied this word from French I originally used the French pronunciation (also common in Dutch btw) until I learned the English pronunciation "Cat-a-stof-ee" later) - Mayor (Puzzled the hell outta me how to pronounce that. I think I mastered it, but I'm still not sure). - Colonel (I had to practice on that one, I tell ya. It didn't help the Dutch variant is only one letter different (kolonel), but the pronunciation doesn't even come close to English). Now some mistakes I hear my fellow Dutch often make is pronouncing letters that are silent... Like the "w" in "sword" (perhaps because the "w" is pronounced in its Dutch equivalent "zwaard"), and although some words in which the first letter is silent where Dutch do it right like "gnome", "knee" and "who", I sometimes do hear them pronounce "w" in "whole", but maybe the word "while" in which it is pronounced and which comes close in spelling is confusing here. Although I must add that in Dutch there are no silent letters so the "g" in "gnoom" (means "gnome") is pronounced as well as the "k" in "knie" (means "knee"). Now I must say that the "w" in "sword" is the most common "silent letter" mistake I hear. Of course when Dutch say that English doesn't make sense with their silent letters I often tell them the French language is worse (as in most French words the last letters aren't pronounced, but in a few they are), hahaha... Then again I bet you guys can't say "hottentottententententoonstelling" ('hottentot' = slang term for a small person, 'tent' = 'tent', 'tentoonstelling' = 'exhibition', but the meaning is no longer important, the word merely exists these days as a test if you can pronounce it properly or not).

[@kaylazx]

English is my first language and I had the same problem with "colonel" 😂 I was saying it like "col-uh-null" or something up until 7th grade when I learned it was... kernel??? What a weird language

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Oh yes, read is a horribly confusing word when you look at the spelling. Thanks for sharing these other tricky words here. We plan to use many of them in our 'difficult words' pronunciation series. We're just waiting for the weather to warm up. And no, we can't say hottentottententententoonstelling. Ha! We wouldn't know where to start! :-)

[@TheRealTricky]

@@kaylazx Well, it's good to know that "colonel" was not because English is not my first language, and the way you said it comes a bit closer as we say it in Dutch "Koh-lo-nell", and yeh "kernel" is much like it to me, and I thought "da f----------k" ;)

[@TheRealTricky]

@@SimpleEnglishVideos Yeah, it's not that they were hard to pronounce (although 'colonel' did take some practice... never realized how close it came to "kernel" until KaylaZX mentioned that, and that for me as a code.... dang!), now that I know how to pronounce them, it was just that the pronunciation was far from what I expected when I saw those words for the first time in written word.

[@merlin101]

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[@TheGothicDemoness]

I am from just north of London too and found that although I have lots of London language traits I also have picked up some American language styles for certain words. Drives my family nuts sometimes but I'm curious if if both of you have picked up on each others language over the years?

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Autumn. Great to meet you and interesting question. I think the world's got much more connected over the years and now if you live in the UK, you're almost bound to be influenced by American English. And in the US, I meet a lot more folks who are watching British TV shows and films, and I often hear what used to be Britishisms popping up here. I'm sure Jay and I must have influenced one another's English in all sorts of ways, though it's hard to keep track of course. I'm sometimes a bit surprised to find I still doin't speak 'merican. :-)

[@marsaaas]

well I now know that I prefer an American accent probably because of my native language it's difficult for me to pronounce with the british Thank u for such a great video!!

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi Vicki here. So glad you liked it Marina and I think you should go with the accent you love.

[@NN-qv7if]

I've read somewhere that in American English the specific lengthening of a vowel /:/ doesn't make any difference. Of course there are long vowels, but they might be shorter than the British ones (?)

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hi N N. I don't know much about this, but it cane up when we were making this video. I'll have to research it and please let me know if you discover anything too.

[@sky-ct8wq]

Thankyou so much😊👍❤

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

You're welcome 😊

[@eriivsl8227]

You are really helpful and so lovely Vicki and Jay (hope I didn’t make mistake on your names, if I did, I’m so sorry!) I can hear the difference and I’m so glad for that😁 I have a request, can you make a video about « when » and « whenever »? I don’t really understand the difference 🤔 thank you so much for teaching us your knowledge 👍 have a nice day both of you!

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Thanks very much for this suggestion Erii. You spelled our names perfectly and we 're so glad you like the video. Thanks for writing.

[@alexmiracle1737]

You just can't imagine how much I love you!

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Thanks you so much Alexander. :-)

[@CinMg]

Excellent!!!! 😍😍😍

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

So glad you liked it Cin GM. Thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching.

[@Hamza-Shreef]

such a great video! could you please make more videos about phrasal verbs?? i really love your way of teaching them.

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Thanks for this suggestion. We'll see what we can do. :-)

[@meliore2239]

I don't think that the word "can't" could cause much trouble in a long sentence if pronounced incorrectly. People might be taken aback but will definitely understand and have compassion towards a non-native speaker. The real problem comes up when the word is pronounced separately, as in "No, you can't". In this case, there are ways to get ourselves out of trouble. We could just say "No, I don't think you can" it sounds more polite actually. Plus, when we are to keep our mouth full open and make the long vowel sound /α:/ we could drop the "t" altogether and link the sound to the next one (if any) so as to avoid an embarrassing moment. As for the American pronunciation of can and can't, I have to say I have found myself struggling with the same issue Vicki. But here's a a small tip. When Jay says I can see I think the stress has to be on the word "see" because he empathises on the action of the verb "see" . After all, the word can in this case sounds weaker as the /æ/ sound changes to the /ə/ sound. When Jay says I can't see, the stress is on the word "can't" because he can't. So here it goes: ˈɑɪkənsiː ( I can see) ɑɪ ˈkænʔsi: ( I can't see) I 'd love to see a video of you guys pronouncing the words lock, lack, luck, look and lurk in both British and American English. Keep up with you excellent work!!! Much love!!!

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Thanks so much fro all these helpful notes and tips Meliore22. Much appreciated. We'll try to do some more minimal pair videos on some of these sounds.

[@David19677]

thank you for video,it was very interesting

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

That's great to hear. Thanks for writing and telling us David.

[@leesteele9261]

I am from Scotland I roll my R's. Love watching you both make me laugh 😂

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Hello Lee. Jay here. I love hearing the Scottish "R". It so rich. It's so much more pronounced than the American "R", and of course, Vicki simply doesn't say R in a lot of words. Did she say 'father' or farther." Hmmm. Thanks for watching.

[@leesteele9261]

@@SimpleEnglishVideos hello it does sound like Vicki is saying farther in stead of father. You should to the word "Edinburgh".

[@mamymimma]

How lovely you are ♡

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Thanks so much Mamy Mimma. :-)