American Accent Training: Can your EARS detect the PRONUNCIATION MISTAKES?

[@markviana4960]

Please, more videos like this! Thank you so much!

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

You’re welcome Mark! I’ll plan another:)

[@rachidrachidovic8440]

Love the way you teach you're awesome

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

That’s so nice, thank you so much! You’re awesome too!!

[@rachidrachidovic8440]

@@AmericanAccentMastery I'm speechless 😊

[@mamymimma]

Welcome, little boy

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

Aw thanks!! We’re still waiting:-)

[@saidfarid6382]

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[@laracroftvideos]

I think what makes this super challenging is the fact that errors made by a native speaker (with native intonation, vowels, and reductions) are not nearly as glaring as when they're uttered by someone for whom the rest is somewhat flawed as well. I did notice woooodland, poo-blish and wohrms - but I've never encountered the word "registry" so I wasn't sure about that one altho I noticed you were saying it differently each time you used it in a sentence lol. The illustrator part was tricky because my tendency would be to stress the third syllable as well for reasons I can't explain because my native language always stresses the first one lmao.

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

Great to get your thoughts on this! I thought this task was so hard that I actually shared it with a group of native speakers (and my cousin who this was about!), just to make sure I wasn’t overdoing it.. they found them all, but I was actually impressed as I had been doubting whether it was a reasonable task! I’m thinking of crafting a vid in which I mispronounce a word to a native speaker (without the expectation being there) to see if/how easily they pick up on it!

[@laracroftvideos]

@American Accent Mastery Wow, I appreciate that background info a lot, thank you! It's fascinating to hear how you come up with these things haha. I can't wait for that video if it comes to fruition, it sounds fantastic ;-) It really does give us an insight into how minds of native speakers process their own language and there's certainly a lot of lessons to be gained from that! Keep up all the great work please :-) :-)

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

Thanks so much! I just wanted to add one thing that just came to mind: one friend identified “aunt” as a mistake, since where she’s from, it’s pronounced like the insect pretty much exclusively. I thought that was also insightful re: frames of reference, etc!

[@pavelzaikin1055]

Hi there! oh, gosh, yea it was difficult, i couldn't notice any of those mistakes, but who doesn't like torturing oneself with the hard tasks ?) I like the idea of raising the bar, that's how you get better i guess, through pusshing the barrier, and I really enjoyed it, thanks for your great job Victoria)

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

I’m glad you enjoyed the torture Pavel, haha! Filming it was torture too, I had 30 minutes of footage for a six minute video;)

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

Here's one for you: did you know that the only difference between "cell phone" and "self-own" is a tiny, almost imperceptible pause?

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

Love it!

[@AlexanderBecerra23]

Doesn't compound stress have to do with it too?

[@golsaemdadi]

Very useful , tnx

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

I’m glad:)

[@muhammadgulma4628]

I only got two😅 👍🏾 but good, now I know ;)

[@kishor2764]

Thanks mam

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

You’re very welcome!

[@iamatigernotacat1697]

I've detected 0 mistakes 😅. Anyway i like this kind of videos which challenges my useless brain😅. Thank you. 🙂

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

Lol your brain is definitely not useless!! Thanks for your kind words:)

[@iamatigernotacat1697]

@@AmericanAccentMastery I can't believe this was 8 month ago! 😳 It feels to me like yesterday😬 what the heck. 🤔 This ain't normal😒there must be somthing wrong with me or the time🙃

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

@@iamatigernotacat1697 Time definitely flies!!

[@qaryaanmedia8926]

Teacher i can speak but the problem is to speak like native 🙁

[@sidharthparashar]

Difficualt task mam. 🙄😀

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

It really was a hard one! Agreed.

[@sidharthparashar]

@@AmericanAccentMastery yeah mam😀

[@bentorodrigues4397]

Jesus at the first time i didn't realize ur mistakes. haha i'm used to talk anyway with my friend so, it happens sometimes we don't percept our own mistakes.

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

This was an especially tough test!

[@bentorodrigues4397]

@@AmericanAccentMastery really tough and, notwithstanding; usefull.

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

I’m glad it was useful:)

[@freelander5370]

Lol i caught all five...even though for the last 2 i didnt know exactly what was wrong but i knew something was off.. Plot twist: i'm american🤣

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

Awesome!! And great plot twist, haha!!

[@mohamadfarakh9962]

I got 2 out of of 5

[@AmericanAccentMastery]

Great! This was a really hard exercise.