You're welcome! I'm so glad you liked the lesson:)
@chuengeddie60386 ай бұрын
Enjoyed this! Thank you!
@proactivepronunciation6 ай бұрын
Awesome:) I'm so glad!!
@tranvankhoa37244 ай бұрын
It's the awesome lesson. Thank you for sharing of silent mysteries in English speaking. I would try to practice and remember as much as I could. Best regards
@proactivepronunciation4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your kind words:) I'm so glad it was helpful for you!
@edytadesignstudio6 ай бұрын
Thanks for including "dumb" in there. I've been saying this at work lately so it needs to be pronounced perfectly 🤣🤣🤣
@proactivepronunciation6 ай бұрын
Lol, effective communication. That's what it's all about! 😉
@fredericroyАй бұрын
Hello, I think for some examples, you could make it simpler. For instance: all English words that end in ‘mb’ (and their derivatives), the ‘b’ is silent. (ex : plumb =>plumber; climb=> climber). Because listing all the words is, in my opinion, not very useful and a bit tedious, and a rule is easier to remember :)
@proactivepronunciationАй бұрын
Hi! Those types of videos are on my channel in different playlist. Definitely check them out!
@kennynarvaez80155 ай бұрын
Thank you! Great content to continue exploring the complexities of spoken English. Teacher, I want to ask you a question about a movie called SPECTRAL (2016) that I recently saw and really interested me. First of all, I would like to clarify that this has nothing to do with silent letters, but with phantom letters or ghost letters... 😅 Well, getting down to business, one of the soldiers in the movie SPECTRAL (2016), at timestamp 32:17, says, "When's his wife due?" The question here is that "When's" + "his" is pronounced like "When this wife due?" I checked dictionaries for the pattern "when + is + subject," but in the movie, you can clearly hear a "d" sound. Why is that? The question isn't "When does his wife due?" So, where did the "d" sound come from? ... Well, that's all! Thanks again!
@proactivepronunciation5 ай бұрын
Hi! Great question... you're really paying attention to some intricate elements of speech! I love it lol A phenomenon occurs as we transition quickly from one sound to another. As the /n/ is released to/z/, a sound may occur from that release, sounding similar to a /d/. Try to transition from n>z quickly and you may hear a slight release sound. It's not a purposeful insertion of /d/ , but rather a by-product of that particular transition. A similar thing happens with /m/ to th in the word "something". A small /p/ sometimes occurs as the /m/ is released. Speech is fascinating:) Hope this is helpful!
@kennynarvaez80155 ай бұрын
@@proactivepronunciation Hi Teacher! This is super exciting! It's a whole new world of sound phenomena for me. I can only get answers that amaze me this much from specialists like you. Thanks for taking the time to explain it!
@proactivepronunciation5 ай бұрын
My pleasure:)
@송치정-x4y2 ай бұрын
There are more silent letters : psalmmon, photoplaywrigt, heiress, etc. Dear teacher, In case of homage and hone, h isn't silent letter. Am I right? Hope you have a great one.
@proactivepronunciation2 ай бұрын
Great, psalm and wright are great ones! Homage is portend pronounced with a silent h, hone on the other hand is fully pronounced:)
@송치정-x4y2 ай бұрын
@@proactivepronunciation Thanks a lot for your quick response
@proactivepronunciation2 ай бұрын
You're so welcome!
@fredericroyАй бұрын
0:27 Hello, for the word ‘beard’, isn’t it the /ɪ/ sound as in ‘silver pin’ that we hear rather than what you’re saying, which is the /i/ sound as in ‘me’ 0:41 And for the word ‘bear’, all dictionaries give the /ɛ/ sound as in ‘red pepper’ and not the /eɪ/ sound as in ‘grey day’ (Oxford, Merriam Webster)
@proactivepronunciationАй бұрын
Hello! For beard the vowel is /i/ "EE" and for bear the vowel is /eI/. There is definitely some confusion online with regard to this word and even some credible resources can be wrong, which is very unfortunate. Be sure that you are looking at the general American accent. Try the Merriam-webster dictionary. This vowel /eI/ is also often shown as just /e/ which is the same sound, just a variation of IPA use. I recommend listening to an audio interactive IPA chart to help as many students find it useful for listening.
@송치정-x4y2 ай бұрын
Dear teacher, There might be a typo from pharaoh to pharoah. Sincerely yours, CJ Song