Watch your Language | How to improve your pronunciation of foreign languages @watchyourlanguage3870 | Uploaded March 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Links:
What actually makes a language easier/harder to learn? youtu.be/Qhs8cjlIxT8
How to read the IPA charts https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE
Omniglot Writing Homepage omniglot.com/writing
The song I used to demonstrate mouthwatching youtu.be/EYn84uEOxUM
WIRED videos relevant to the subject: youtu.be/oa6cHEJIjYI youtu.be/5aXmNle560k youtu.be/XKuPfZpzEHg youtu.be/KEmd6GyTzho youtu.be/NvDvESEXcgE
Corrections: youtu.be/ZeEv6_rPGE4?t=827s
Translations:
5:04 (Spanish) [bdg] lenition between two vowels; [n] agrees with the next sounds; [s] almost disappears before a consonant; others depending on the dialect
5:08 (Hebrew) [those 3 letters] change sound; the vowels around [those 2 letters] change; Hebrew’s system is so historic that I don’t know how to show the allophones without breaking the rules, because everything depends on the letter.
5:10 (French) R loses its voice; If you’re wondering why I didn’t write the silent letters at the ends, it’s because they still appear at the ends in other cases (feminine words), so just like in Hebrew, the system is too historic.
5:12 (Arabic) All vowels change to... ; I couldn’t do the formatting with more IPA characters or [the formatting] would be weird.
5:13 (Swedish) All front vowels (3x)
5:15 (Russian) Reduction (2x); Fricatives lose their voice at the ends [of words]
5:16 (Dutch) The “L” thing from earlier; on the ends (3x)
5:18 (Portuguese) The “L” thing from earlier; in the middle positions; before [i]; reduction
6:31 (Hebrew) My brain when I speak Hebrew
6:49 (Spanish) Uhhh, I don’t wanna try
7:04 (bad Spanish) And then uhhhhh, my dad picked me up from the airport and like, brought me home.
7:50 (Hebrew) I have no rights to these images, I’m not claiming ownership of them, and there’s no copyright infringement intended. The images that will appear will be used only for educational purposes, and in fact, this is free advertisement for the creator, because I’m a fan of him.
Links:
What actually makes a language easier/harder to learn? youtu.be/Qhs8cjlIxT8
How to read the IPA charts https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE
Omniglot Writing Homepage omniglot.com/writing
The song I used to demonstrate mouthwatching youtu.be/EYn84uEOxUM
WIRED videos relevant to the subject: youtu.be/oa6cHEJIjYI youtu.be/5aXmNle560k youtu.be/XKuPfZpzEHg youtu.be/KEmd6GyTzho youtu.be/NvDvESEXcgE
Corrections: youtu.be/ZeEv6_rPGE4?t=827s
Translations:
5:04 (Spanish) [bdg] lenition between two vowels; [n] agrees with the next sounds; [s] almost disappears before a consonant; others depending on the dialect
5:08 (Hebrew) [those 3 letters] change sound; the vowels around [those 2 letters] change; Hebrew’s system is so historic that I don’t know how to show the allophones without breaking the rules, because everything depends on the letter.
5:10 (French) R loses its voice; If you’re wondering why I didn’t write the silent letters at the ends, it’s because they still appear at the ends in other cases (feminine words), so just like in Hebrew, the system is too historic.
5:12 (Arabic) All vowels change to... ; I couldn’t do the formatting with more IPA characters or [the formatting] would be weird.
5:13 (Swedish) All front vowels (3x)
5:15 (Russian) Reduction (2x); Fricatives lose their voice at the ends [of words]
5:16 (Dutch) The “L” thing from earlier; on the ends (3x)
5:18 (Portuguese) The “L” thing from earlier; in the middle positions; before [i]; reduction
6:31 (Hebrew) My brain when I speak Hebrew
6:49 (Spanish) Uhhh, I don’t wanna try
7:04 (bad Spanish) And then uhhhhh, my dad picked me up from the airport and like, brought me home.
7:50 (Hebrew) I have no rights to these images, I’m not claiming ownership of them, and there’s no copyright infringement intended. The images that will appear will be used only for educational purposes, and in fact, this is free advertisement for the creator, because I’m a fan of him.
