🔥 How To Easily Pronounce OUGH Words (Though - Through - Thought - Throughout - Thorough)

There are 8 ways to pronounce OUGH in English, so I understand why you have difficulties knowing the correct pronunciation of the 'OUGH' in words such as though, through, thought and thorough (which, by the way, are all different!)
In today's lesson I'm going to teach you how to pronounce all of these words clearly and accurately so that people understand you every time you use them.
I'm also going to teach you an EASY way of remembering the correct pronunciation of OUGH words. This is a technique that you can apply to English pronunciation in general, but it works particularly well for this type of confusing group of words.
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► LESSON NOTES:
00:00 Intro
1:33 How to pronounce THOUGH in English
2:05 How to pronounce ALTHOUGH in English
2:34 How to pronounce THOUGHT in English
3:01 How to pronounce THROUGH in English
3:38 How to pronounce THROUGHOUT in English
3:47 How to pronounce THOROUGH in British English
4:41 How to pronounce OUGH words in English
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[@EnglishWithGreg]

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[@Beatles-Forever]

Thank you, you're amazing Sir! ALTHOUGH I THOUGHT that my doubt was not going to be resolved, I was wrong, and THROUGH this THOROUGH video you have made me learn a lot! I am going to practice the pronunciation of these words with your video and let me think of phrases to remember the acurate pronunciation and then I will write to you again. Thanks again, I couldn't have pulled this off without you! I am missing a sentence with the last word: I could listen to you talk THROUGHOUT my whole life. 💝Cheers!

[@mahbubbhuiyan1389]

Have a great day you too!💖

[@huongnguyenvan861]

Although Greg speaks English fast, learners thoughout the world can understand him really well thanks to his clear English voice.

[@vals207]

Hi Greg, I always enjoy your thorough explanations and although I've once thought: I'm not able to become better, because of you and through your lessons I`ve improved my English.:-) Thanks

[@user-lx4ox9yx2i]

You always give us a thorough explanation. I teach English at school though I can't teach it to my children. Welldone! You rock! Way to go!

[@user-zy9hc5jw9b]

Thank you for your work, I really appreciate it.

[@paolab9778]

I've been looking for an explanation like this for a long time, thank you very much, you teach very well.

[@lospopitos]

Eres tan buen profesor que me dan ganas de llorar de alegría 😭😭😭😭

[@sebus4039]

Beautiful explanation. Thank you Greg.

[@wagnercavalcantidarosa7869]

my friend, I am impressed with your didactic and charisma. it's amazing how i can understand every word you say. I hope your channel grows a lot.

[@ricardosilva2651]

Hi Greg Thank you for your thorough explanation.

[@andrefurlanetto6013]

Your channel appeared on my youtube and I have found the content to be incredible. I am from Brazil and never took english lessons outside of public schools, which basically only teaches us the "to be verb" and all my english came from playing videogames. I am able to understand most of the things and even write, but my grammar and some listening are weak, especially if the person is speaking fast. Now I am always watching one of your videos to improve my english. Thank you!

[@agneskonradt1464]

Oh dear teacher was very very usefull this short lesson thank you so so much 🙏🤗

[@miguelgd1985]

Through my teacher, I could learn how to pronounce "ough" word with a thorough explanation, tough I have other problems trying to write this sentence

[@gammock4026]

You meant to say "though I have other problems......" but it is interesting because by missing out the 'h' you have actually used another 'ough' word TOUGH. and that has another sound. The 'ough' here is pronounced "uff" Tough means very strong or hard-wearing or difficult.

[@claricevercelhese95]

great job Greg. I appreciated top mucho.

[@Beatles-Forever]

To sum up the great work Sir Greg have done in this video, the phonemes (sounds) we´ve seen with him: /əʊ/ "the bad news sound" (ou) /aʊ/ "the pain sound" (au) /ɔː/ "the cute sound" (oooo) /uː/ "the lipstick sound" - "the failed goal sound" (uuuu) /ə/ "schwa". However, I also call it "the zombie sound" but shorter jaja 🤣

[@fatmaadan1408]

Thanks my best teacher

[@enithcampbell507]

Hi Greg, I try to take my English, walking through the score to speak better a lead myself through a good level of English so then I could speak and be understanding, to reach my score though I have to do a thorough investigation about what do I do good, bad, get better, so then I could do it, thanks for your videos, you're always leading us at the success :D

[@panszarlotka]

Bravo Greg - great convention!!! This lesson was amazing! First I read on the email about what I would see during the lesson, then I watched the Lesson All that was left for me to do was repeat it tomorrow, then in 3 days, then in a week, then in a month, then in 3 months, and then every six months :) (I'm low B1 or amzing A2 ;) ) BTW Just try to make as few cuts as possible. We students love realistic long statements. ;) The brain remembers them better.

[@arlindocassabioficial]

I liked very much this lesson

[@fabioapolinarioapolinario9181]

Great video! You are amazing!

[@olgacornejo3030]

Thank you.

[@user-lx4ox9yx2i]

English is getting popular throughout the world Most people experience difficulties through not knowing how to use English. Thorough knowledge of English is must.

[@Britishempire3545]

Very well lesson, i got to learn. I'm Zubair Al mahmud from Bangladesh.

[@wojciechszulc1411]

Thanks Greg for this lesson. For people from Poland understanding and pronouncing it i extremely difficult. I'm studying also Spanish. Do you teach Spanish on KZbin or any other place in internet? 😉

[@user-ux7lp9jk9c]

Oh so helpful & some funny class 😉

[@huguesbrain6081]

Thanks❤

[@SingerAtoz]

Thanks greg

[@rauf7899]

Thanks

[@chrisrey703]

Cómo tengo que ver tus videos para aprender mejor, hay alguna lista de reproducción o va por niveles?

[@KetilDuna]

Coming from elsewhere, English is quite the wild ride to learn - even a modicum of mastering the language requires quite the dedication. It helps that it is the dominant language in much of culture and technology.. but this is a lifetime occupation! Thank you for your videos- they clear up quite a few messes I make both in written and even worse in spoken English.

[@ronronniemeyers]

Your written English is lovely dear and may I say way better than most Native English speakers. English must be crazy to learn. California girl here, may I ask where you are from? I tried to guess from your name but no clue there for me, lol. Thx (Sue)

[@KetilDuna]

@@ronronniemeyers Norway. Not to worry, my name is unusual even here.. A bit of history and inventive parents branded me thus :)

[@KetilDuna]

@@ronronniemeyers A bit floored by the complements - thank you! Good thing I do not need to follow it up with live speech. Thank you again for video content.

[@ronronniemeyers]

@@KetilDuna I know about unusual names believe me. I go by Sue, my middle name but I'm the only one I know of anywhere with my first name Itrice. It was my mom's name too, I hate it lol!! Norway accents are adorable, well all accents are adorable and that's why I can never figure out why non English speakers want to get rid of them as they are what make you distinct and stand out in a crowd. I would love to have even a southern or Boston accent, anything besides boring CA blah no accent.

[@mariadelasmercedesblanco7081]

YOU ARE AMAZING

[@powerlifter7897]

I like clarification at 3:22

[@lidiabonguardo7771]

Thank you for yr tricks on how to remember the pronunciation of the OUGH. Have you suggestions also for the words "Rough/Hiccough/Cough"? Did I miss your lesson on these words? Thank you for your reply. Lidia

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

I came looking for the same thing, being surprised they hadn’t been included too. There’s also dough (rhymes with though). Slough (which may rhyme with tough - cast of dead skin, or maybe with you - a muddy swamp, or then again maybe cow - a town in south east England. Bough and plough and drought (cow). Ought, nought, bought, brought, fought, sought (that rhyme with thought). Ahh the vagaries of the English language 🥴 It’s tough*, knowing that your mum will cuff* your ears, when play is rough* enough* to scuff* your shoes | ŭf As I doff* my hat to quaff* coffee* I cough* and spill it in the trough* | ŏf Hiccough (a little out on it’s own and, as an anglicised version of hiccup, going out of fashion as it’s origin was a misapprehension that the spasm was related to a genuine cough) rhymes with a kind of cross between cup and cuff, hiccup actually with cup| hi.kəp/hi.kʌp

[@ronronniemeyers]

US here and I just learned y'all spell draft as draught. I thought it was a misspelling of drought. Interesting.

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

Draft in Br English is a sketch or early copy of a plan or piece of writing. Hence you have a draftsman who may work in a solicitors office an architect’s or in engineering. And students creating early drafts of their essays whilst their lectures are drafting out lesson plans. We drink draughts or shut the door to prevent them.

[@ronronniemeyers]

@@FC-PeakVersatility That's interesting as we drink drafts or shut the door to prevent them or write a rough draft of an essay. How does anyone learn English, we're so weird right?

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

@@ronronniemeyers 🤷 the founding fathers set sail too soon 😉 but it does make Hollywood and global publishing extremely harmful, imbued as their products are with americanisms. Even English authors are being published in American, the impact of which being English youth (and some of its adults) no longer knowing how to spell English. Mind you textspeak is putting paid to both languages I think 🤔

[@ronronniemeyers]

@@FC-PeakVersatility Because it's different, doesn't make it wrong. Language is evolving all the time, in many different directions. Look at all of the different accents in English, I'm in CA but I can't understand Cajun or Appalachian accents to save my life but that doesn't make them wrong. . . just different right?

[@innamel_UA]

Hello Greg. Is that typo at 4:08 "ThoUrough", maybe it must be "Thorough"? Without a letter "u". I am really happy to find your channel. Thank you very much for your time.

[@gullyzhen5885]

I just watch you because of your eyes 😍

[@user-zl8de3fc6l]

Greg, can you please tell me how to spell the word in your video at 3.20? "Thorough" or "Thourough" ?

[@rick_matrixx]

yes.. they are common words in daily activities. I actually could not pronounce those all well since I am not American.. but my trick is to change those words with their synonyms .. it works he he he.., Other words are world, word, work.. he he he

[@juliette5724]

Hi, thank you for your videos, they help a lot. Well I have one comment though! The word "rough"!!! Can you tell me how to pronounce it because to me it looks as if I have to pronounce it as if at the end theree were a "th" like at the end of tooth. Thanks in advance for your answer!

[@Rimmonin]

Although Willoughby hiccoughed at the thought of ploughing through the tough dough at the lough, he coughed and did it thoroughly.

[@Abdi_sulaiman]

T or D very confusing. Thro/Dhro for Through which one the correct ?

[@wagnercavalcantidarosa7869]

What difference between "also", "too" and "as well"?

[@Beatles-Forever]

How do you do Sir? Well, I´ve been playing with the words you gave to us jaja, with your permission, I hope this helps to my classmates, surely, the following phrases will have grammatical errors, but, anyway as you´ve said, the idea now is to remember the pronunciation. Please feel free to correct me since you are the one who knows, I´m only trying to help with this topic. 1. " THOUGHT " /θɔːt / As we know is the past tense of the verb "think", Professor Sir Greg said the pronunciation was / θɔːt / with the cute, long, back rounded vowel "ooo" /ɔː/ (To simplify and not confuse I will do all the transcriptions without the stress and without assimilation because of nearby sounds.) I will transcribe "just" into a weak form /ə/ for this example because I don't want to emphasize the word "just" since it has very little lexical meaning, furthermore, is quite the opposite, I want to emphasize the other sound. /ɔː/ We could remember "THOUGHT" pronunciation with this phrase: "This morning just before dawn I THOUGHT I saw my horse." We can see the "long o" sound /ɔː/ in many words, and even if you don't understand the complete transcription, you can try to identify the repetition of the sound /ɔː/ / ðɪs mɔːnɪŋ ʤəst bɪfɔː dɔːn aɪ θɔːt aɪ sɔː maɪ hɔːs / Did you see it? Remarking /ɔː/ sound: morning /mɔːnɪŋ/ - before /bɪfɔː/ - dawn /dɔːn/ - THOUGH /θɔːt/ - saw /sɔː/ - horse /hɔːs/ 2. "THOUGH and ALTHOUGH" /ðəʊ/ and /ɔːlðəʊ/ The second word "ALTHOUGH" is the first one but adding "oool" /ɔːl/ at the beginning. The sound /əʊ/ as Professor Sir Greg called it "the bad news sound". We can play with the phoneme /əʊ/ thinking of the Beatle Song "All my loving". (And now we must use the strong form for the pronoun "you" /juː/ since it is at final position, the important thing is to show how the sound /əʊ/ is repeating and so we can remember the accurate pronunciation.) Sir Paul begins the song saying: "Close your eyes and I´ll kiss you, tomorrow I´ll miss you... remember I'll always be true..." (/ɔː/ ...always so sweet Sir Paul), we can add "THOUGH" or "ALTHOUGH" in the middle of the phrase: "Close your eyes and I´ll kiss you, ALTHOUGH tomorrow I´ll miss you..." / kləʊs jər aɪz ən aɪl kɪs juː / ɔːlðəʊ təmɒrəʊ aɪl mɪs juː / Remarking /əʊ/ sound we can see: "Close ...ALTHOUGH tomorrow..." / kləʊs / ɔːlðəʊ təmɒrəʊ / 3. " THROUGH and THROUGHOUT" /θruː and θruːaʊt/ Professor Sir Greg said the pronunciation of the word "THROUGH" was /θruː/ with long vowel u /uː/, he called it "the lipstick sound", although I usually call this sound "the failed goal sound", as when Argentina fails a goal "uuu..." (grabbing your head.) We can use his great phrase: "I threw a shoe THROUGH the window" /aɪ θruː ə ʃuː θruː ðə wɪndəʊ/ As he said, "threw" and "through" sound alike but they have different meanings, or spelling, therefore, they are "homophones". We can again play with Beatles songs, I´m sure my classmates know their songs, for example in "Hey Jude" adding the words "THROUGH...you" at the beginning of the song: "THROUGH you... hey Jude you'll do, the movement you need is on your shoulder..." / θruː juː / heɪ ʤuːd juːl duː / ðə muːvmənt juː niːd ɪz ɒn jə ʃəʊldə/ Remarking /uː/ sound we can see: "THROUGH you Jude you'll do, movement you.." / θruː juː ʤuːd juːl duː / muːvmənt juː/ (I think it is difficult to speak like this, I would say the second and the third "you" without any stress, "/jə/" the reason why is that I usually don´t stress pronouns when they are in the middle of a sentence, even knowing that the correct weak form of the pronoun "you" is / ju /, but, perhaps it can be useful to use the strong form of these words because we need the /uː/ sound for this example.) "THROUGHOUT" Professor Sir Greg said the pronunciation was /θruːaʊt/ we can think of it as two words joined: THROUGH + OUT /θruː/ + /aʊt / He called the diphthong /əʊ/ as "the bad news sound"... so maybe we can define the diphthong /aʊ/ as the "the sound of pain" "au". 4. "THOROUGH" /θʌrə/ Finally, we have "THOROUGH", what a crazy word, really, because I don’t find any relation with another similar word, for instance, take a look at the word "ROUGH", the same five letters but the pronunciation is /rʌf/, so, I´m wondering, why the voiceless phoneme /f/ is here representing the letters [GH] whereas in the word "THOROUGH" the same letters [GH] are silent? Best Regards.

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

thorough - (said thurrah or thurroh) see also borough sounds like the burgh in Edinburgh and rhymes with David Attenborough. Sort of long story short - because the English language was built from so many different roots similar spellings became associated with entirely different sounds. The gh in words like thorough and weigh came with a hard guttural pronunciation that doesn’t exist in English so became silent.

[@sangeethamanjunathan8156]

Could you please explain, when to use " have you had breakfast" and " did you have breakfast"..

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

You’d probably ask have you … around breakfast time and did you … later in the day

[@1firstimpression]

Thorough is sometimes spelled thOUrough on some of your "walls" - you might want to correct this.

[@benicio9150]

Hello I am in the Mozambique

[@olegryabkov2339]

THOUGHROUFULLY DONE...

[@olegryabkov2339]

THANKS...

[@Mar2ku]

Thorough vs thourough which one is correct way to write? Dictionary knows thorough. Kind Regards, Markku from 🇫🇮

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

The dictionary is correct

[@natpraweesriphum3295]

Very difficult words for me.😆

[@pixel2pixel248]

Could you please explain the difference between "I received" and "I have received".

[@rchan9655]

What about 'rough'? Which rule does it fall onto?

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

Tough, enough, rough, (one pronunciation of) slough - sound ruff, cuff, snuff

[@panszarlotka]

Let me give you a hint. Change sides. Now you have the head on the right side and when you cut it, change the frame and put the head on the left side and the subtitles on the right. It will be more enjoyable to watch and you can still cut the video in post production to remove the bad stuff. Good luck.

[@mamymimma]

Thank you and Beatles Forever ( agreed, cool name! )

[@Beatles-Forever]

How do you do? Thanks but It's not me, it's just him, amazing professor !!! 😁

[@mamymimma]

@@Beatles-Forever he's amazing, you are amazing and The Beatles are amazing too ♡

[@Beatles-Forever]

@@mamymimma To whom did you write? to me? jaja well thanks, but my father is the amazing one, because he used to sing me songs of the Beatles since I was a baby and so I fell in love with the Beatles, forever... The last time that Sir. Paul came to Argentina I almost died, I lost my voice for two days because of singing and screaming jaja Sir. Paul greeted me with his handddddd, wowww, I was about 5 meters from him...the tachycardia I had at that momenttttt my god.... inexpressible... the dopamine I had jaja, here in Argentina there are many fans of The Beatles, of al ages... have you ever seen a Beatle? wowww your heart ex-plo-des, I cried when he sang Hey Jude, I cried when he sang Let it be, and so on ... children 10 years old crying, men and women of all ages singing, crying... we can conclude that The Beatles are amazing jaja Cheers!

[@mamymimma]

@@Beatles-Forever how lucky to see Paul so near ❤️ I went to three concerts, and , yes, I lost my voice too after singing all the time 🤗🎶

[@Beatles-Forever]

@@mamymimma magnificent! a shot of dopamine! jaja 🤗🎵

[@gurupitka9571]

Григорий,вы ли это?Очень похожи на моего учителя английского из далекого 2007

[@pedropabloguijarrogarcia2575]

What about "ought" t at the end, and "tough" t a the beginning.

[@matteoverardo8005]

At minute 6.41 there is a mistake, thorough is written thourough.

[@Goitzsche]

What 's with a word like "tough" (even "cough") - "ough" as "^f" ? Well, you mentioned that there are eight different ways of how to pronounce the "ough". What do the remaining three ones sound like?

[@soniadantoni1330]

Nooo,to put the lipstick correctly,lips must be stretched...in a smile😀like this!😜

[@EnglishWithGreg]

😂😂 I realised this just the other day!!! I'm going to have to find a new way to teach this sound now! 😂

[@soniadantoni1330]

@@EnglishWithGreg 🤣

[@MpilarCanepa]

Is there an easy way to remember their meanings?

[@tpartain]

I noticed in the video that the different pronunciations of 'OUGH' as in the words "ENOUGH" or "COUGH" weren't mentioned. I can't imagine how difficult it must be for non-native speakers to know the differences in pronunciation except to learn them at the same time they learn each word. Sometimes if I am writing in a hurry (informally) as in taking notes, I will shorten the words by spelling them phonetically, like "THO, THRU, THOT, ENUFF," etc. This never works when writing formally.

[@user-kh4mx3ho4t]

Ooo!!! This words is tarrieble for me, I'm from Ukraine🤦‍♀️

[@cros_dead]

Crazy English

[@vinky5344]

Next video for.... Accept Except Aspect Expect

[@robernd]

How come tough is pronounced tuf?

[@lubomirvrana2158]

May i ask, why did you say "never again will you have to be..."? Isn't it an incorrect word order? Shouldn't it be "never again you will..."? Or am I missing something?

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

‘Never again will you’ is a promise - you’ll never have to do this again ‘Never again you will’ is an order but it’s also improper English. To correct it takes punctuation and repetition as in Never again, you will never have to do this again

[@nurettinylmaz9156]

İ just can't say " th " word . forexample ; through, think, three,

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

A lot of other languages don’t use the th combination so it’s no wonder really . It all comes down to the position of the tongue really. This video kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXTOgIGFq5d9gK8 provides a good explanation.

[@moviesentertainment9623]

Is your eyes really ocean colour or you just wear two lens

[@uraordie]

I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through...

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

Ahh, the vagaries of the English language.

[@jabbalone2068]

Alldoch Joe lebt an der Küste, er tut nicht eignen ein Boot

[@pmbrig]

English is a hard language to learn. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though (cough cough). Not a helpful sentence, but an illustration of its quirks.

[@SJ101x]

A 'tough' lesson.... Hmmm 🤔😆

[@ikramellouzati9976]

If you want teacher could you speak slowly, I don't understand when you speak in this fastest

[@franpfdez]

I'm done. For me, it was enOUGH

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

It was a bit rOUGH, broke the bOUGH even 🥴

[@dannestrom]

You forgot the word hiccough, which has yet another pronunciation.

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

🤷 it’s also a word falling out of favour since it was built on the misapprehension that the chest spasm was connected to an actual cough. Hiccup is the older word and hiccough, though dating from the 1500s, only adopted into general language in the 1800s, hence why it’s not used in Am English - so, for a change, anglicised rather than americanised.

[@dannestrom]

@@FC-PeakVersatility That is very true, but nevertheless it is a word that is in the English dicitionaries, and it still is a word that ends in -ough that has a different pronunciation than the ones presented in the video.

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

@@dannestrom I’m all for keeping the old words alive as long as possible, though I grieve over a few whose meaning has had a millennial makeover. I had difficulty finding a pronunciation of hiccough given all sources I found default to hiccup though my memory seems to think that was not the case.

[@HiltonBenchley]

You spelt thorough wrongly.