Stop using the glottal stop!

Would you like to be a smooth speaker of English? This video is all about the pronunciation of the consonant “t”, which some people, including native speakers, tend to completely avoid nowadays, leading to a rather broken-up style of speaking. The technical name for this is the “glottal stop”. In this lesson, I’ll give you a few examples of what I mean, and I’ll demonstrate how to put the “t” back into your pronunciation and achieve a smoother way of speaking. www.engvid.com/stop-using-the...
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In this lesson:
00:00 Stop using the glottal stop!
03:07 glottal stop before words starting with a vowel
05:12 glottal stop in the middle of a word
06:29 glottal stop in words ending with -ed
07:50 Stop using the glottal stop: Practice

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Thanks for watching, everyone. I have many more lessons about English pronunciation; next, watch these: Learn English Pronunciation: TH & THR kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYGsgKuPqcyons0 Learn British accents and dialects kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHXHg3uNfd-qiJY

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Well put, I agree!

[@christina_silver]

Thank you for saying that! As a non-native speaker, I dislike the glottal T sound, it reduces all the beauty of a true British accent.

[@Anyasaidso]

i can't be agree. it's also rather beautiful so we probably shouldn't be this categorical 🤷‍♀️

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@@Anyasaidso it's my opinion, you have your own.

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I agree. The glottal T sounds low-education.

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Me too, the T sound is weird to my ears. I rather listen the d sound

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[@Occulomotoria]

I'm so relieved 😅 I noticed those glottal stops a lot recently in movies and videos, and I don't like them. German being my first language, I should be used to glottal stops 🤣 but I love British pronunciation just because it's clear AND smooth.

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So helpful! I'm into British accent and I can notice they use to pronoun the t's heavier than the American people. Thanks a lot for this new lesson! 🧡

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[@ammini999]

I fully agree, it souns better with the t sound, but it is so common especially in some movies and its good to train our ears and try to understand the speaches with glottal sounds. Thank you for your advice always preciouse.

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Thank you for your beautiful pronunciation of consonant "t". I found the beauty of t-sound in the English language. From now on I will stop using the glottal stop.

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Your accent is an extra lesson, and I love it. I usually use the glotal stop with "th"... it is very American and I like it too. You look adorable in that colour...you are adorable. Best wishes.

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I always enjoy your lessons, they are very useful and from my view as a non native speaker that it is easier understand words with T sound rather than without it

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Thank you Gill, I had listened that kind of pronunciation but I couldn't being able to understand so good, I thought I was a bad listener, now I understand so clearly what the problem was!!!

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[@TheEarthCreature]

Thank you very much. I am doing coaching in voiceover and they told me that I do a lot of glottal stops and I wasn't fully 100% sure what they meant even after they explained it to me. These examples have helped me mentally visualize what it means and this will help me with not doing that.

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[@barrysteven5964]

Sorry (not really) to complicate things but can I add something from my part of the country - Durham. Up here and in fact all over Durham, Tyne & Wear and Northumberland we have a unique way of pronouncing this type of 't' sound. We also use a glottal stop but not instead of the 't' sound like for example Londoners but we keep the 't' and produce a glottal stop simultaneously with it! We do exactly the same with 'p' and 'k' sounds. If you want to know if somebody is from the north east just ask them to say 'later', 'happy' and 'lucky' and you'll see. It's what most people call the 'Geordie' accent. It's probably not wise to try to imitate it unless you're going to live here but it's interesting to hear.

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[@jamesr6959]

I’m a Brit that’s lived abroad for many years and I love the glottal stop. The glottal stop is the only feature of my accent that hasn’t softened to global/American English over the years. I suppose it’s a part of my identity 😅

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Thanks for the practical pronunciation lesson. You show me the answer to one of the problems that always confuse me.

[@alikacerto2280]

Here in the US, we often use the "D" sound in place of the "T" sound. We don't really use the glottle stop.

[@Demondzeta]

actually the american pronunciation is full of glotal stops, but the use it before a consonant sound or at the end of a word

[@AndresRuiz2035]

But americans don't pronounces T letter in some words, for example: Atlantic, Latin, wanted, international, internet, etc. Is very similar to phenomenal of glottal stop. I'm not native speaker english and this is so hard for listening, when you don't pronounce "T" or when Yes.

[@anonymoushuman8344]

Replacing the hard "t" sound with a glottal stop before vowels has actually become a trend in the U.S. lately, too. You can hear interviewers and weather people doing it on t.v., not only at the ends of words but in the middle of them, too. I wonder how long it will take for this fashion to be replaced by some other strange pronunciation trend. What will the next one be?

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@anonymoushuman8344 Can you give me some examples? I can't think of what you're referring to. But I'll be listening for it now. What part of the US?

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Without the t is like casual English but in an interview or formal job, formal English is used. I suppose is better to adapt to our surrounded just to blend in. British Standard English is phonetically beautiful!.

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