The Dark L in American English

[@tommytwist8834]

I watched different videos in order to get the dark L sound correct but without any success, until I found yours. You made it a lot easier to get this sound right. Thank you!

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

I'm so glad to hear it. Happy to be of help.

[@faithrich6374]

Well I can pronounce it perfectly. Does help that I'm from Lancashire, England and the dark L is one of the features of my accent 😂

[@sunglee3935]

You have the best tip for the dark L sound. Your first tip finally made me understand how to pronounce the sound. Every body else’s video was making me confused and I thought I had to push the whole tongue backwards and upwards and it was too hard and slow to pronounce other syllables. Lifting the tongue to roof of the mouth is easier to understand.

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Thanks so much for your kind words. It's nice to know my videos are helpful.

[@sunglee3935]

English With Accent Coach Nicole you don’t have a video on sentence stress, stressing the content words? Recently I found out about it but I have to think about doing it and speak slowly to do it. I asked my friends and they said I’m right but they don’t think about it when they speak. I wonder if I keep deliberately doing it for a long time then. It will come naturally to me also.

[@jadelluvia3902]

Your dark L tips are really helpful, it works for me so well after having praticed other tips unsuccessfully for a long time!!! Now my Siri can understand my speech including in L. Thank you sooooo muchhhh

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Glad to hear it. You're welcome.

[@geovannydegracia2197]

Very clear and didactic video. Thanks a lot!

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Thank you so much. Have you checked out my follow up video on the Dark L? I like this video better: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWSZq6KshNVogsU

[@saeidcyppp6293]

hi dear nicole please make another video about dark L and teach us how it pronounces when it gets ing or some situation that is impossible to say it and it has to switch to the light L .I'm very confused about it.thank you so much

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Hello Saeid. Thank you for the suggestion. I will create another dark L video soon. I know it's a tricky sound for so many people.

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[@ubaidrehman2024]

Good topic and very important to learn, the way you teach is very nice, thanks pretty teacher.

[@ramzy-6566]

Thank you..

[@miguelcallecontreras6620]

Thank you very much, the dark l can be a little tricky but with your tips I think It sounds more american😁

[@betovilla8742]

Excelente explanation!!!

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Thank you so much. I appreciate the feedback.

[@小飛-k7s]

It is quite interesting about Light and Dark L

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Yes, I hope my video helped you.

[@小飛-k7s]

@@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole I am from HK and I am studying English,so that can help me

[@inhumanidz6312]

Now, i can speak in American accents..good..alhamdullilah

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Awesome. Thanks for the comment.

[@osheajackson8975]

Masha'Allah, i've been watching a lot of videos about the dark L but until now i can't pronounce it

[@RPHe]

Is it corret if the back of the tongue touch the roof of the mouth or just raise it？Should the tip of the tongue touch the alveolar ？I am confused about this two question…

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Great question. The tip of the tongue touches the alveolar ridge, as it also does with the light L (regular L). For the dark L, the back of the tongue also raises. It's easy to describe this, but in reality, how can you raise the back of the tongue consciously? For this reason, I usually recommend people who aren't used to pronouncing this sound to just close their mouth in order to get the back of the tongue raised. It's not technically how a native speaker would do it, but it produces a close approximation of the sound.

[@RPHe]

English With Accent Coach Nicole Thank you so much！！Now I understand how to make Dark L sound.

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Can you give some examples of words that have a dark L in English? Answers to the quiz in the video: Call, Pour, Tear, Deal, Wire, Litter, Saddle, Level. How many did you get correct?

[@SuperNammour]

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[@铭-r5o]

I feel like my back of tongue and throat vibrate when I'm using the dark L position like in this video, am I doing right?

[@SaifulIslam-jl5jk]

Hi dear madam i want speak English confidently that's y i think i Have to practice. So could u tell me please any Strategy that how can practice my speaking?

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Find daily opportunities to speak English. If you do not live in an English speaking country, find practice partners online and in apps. You can also talk to yourself, but the key is to actually talk, not just listen.

[@SaifulIslam-jl5jk]

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[@Mr.S65]

What about in the word California?

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Check out my pronunciation of US states videos.

[@赵志豪-s4j]

I have a question about the L pronunciation in the middle, like these: "Novelist" "metabolism" "capitalize". It feels like they have dark L and light l at the same time. "vəl+lɪst" "bəl+ˌlɪzəm" "dəl+laɪz" why??😥

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Yes, I agree. If I check the dictionary, it shows the L in each as ending the syllable, which makes it officially a dark L, but when I say each of these very slowly, I feel like I'm using both a dark and light L, pronouncing the little uh sound before the L, but also touching the alveolar ridge afterwards.

[@赵志豪-s4j]

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[@hossamelsayed3640]

the best one

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Thanks so much. Glad it helped.

[@DamizinhoBr]

Thanks, it really helped. +1subscriber

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Glad to hear it. Thank you for the comment.

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[@lawrenceleung1650]

When pronouncing the dark L, 1. you DO NOT touch the alveolar with the tip of your tongue; 2. you DO NOT protrude your tongue between your teeth. These two movements of the tongue are irrelevant and immaterial to the pronunciation of the dark L in English.

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

They are helpful hints to get your tongue in the right place. If they are not exact, they are very close, close enough to help a non-native speaker create an understandable dark L, where they were not able to before. At times, striving for perfection prevents success.

[@SuperNammour]

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[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

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[@dipankarmallick5543]

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[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

Not sure of your meaning. Can you clarify?

[@dipankarmallick5543]

yeah...good morning nicole...here it is...MORPH..MORPHEME...is the single unit of sound and that many sound makes a word...sydney greenbaum oxford english grammar has details about.. have gone about this dark L another video...onebthing i wanna say here this way you can teah the very adult ones but so much to like guys we call students cannot go...they need a practical aporoach to their learning...even they cant spit this pronounciation point...me too was gone wrong with this...very later i can feel it...all i used to try to catch the functionality of the language...but here i can say if this video learning was in placed in 90ts i can personalise the learning...make it to myself..& learning be it of classed when we do it ourselves...exam marks is no use of it unless sb actuatestowards it...well ..thats it..thanks for taking it...

[@bonkoo5978]

I don’t think biting your tongue makes dark L sound

[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

No, it doesn't, but if you're struggling with curling your tongue backwards, making it sound like an R, it corrects that issue, at least temporarily until a more correct tongue position can be mastered.

[@SaifulIslam-jl5jk]

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[@EnglishWithAccentCoachNicole]

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