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Cải thiện nói tiếng Anh Mỹ / 음성 미국 영어를 향상 / 話されているアメリカ英語を向上させる / Улучшение говорил американский вариант английского языка / Meningkatkan berbicara bahasa Inggris Amerika / Melhorar a fala Inglês Americano / Mejorar el habla Inglés Americano / 提高口语的美式英语 / बात अमेरिकी अंग्रेजी में सुधार / تحسين يتحدث اللغة الإنجليزية الأميركية
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Gosh I really miss these, where you used whole sentences, focusing on your mouth positions to break down the teaching. I learned alot with these and still do. Would love to see this again! You're amazing.
amazing practice for h sound
thank you
The funny thing is that this sound /h/ exist in my native language, brazilian portuguese, so I don't have trouble pronouncing it, however the letter that represents this sound in my language spelling is the letter R in the beginning of words like rato /'ha.tu/ (rat), recado /hɛ.'ka.du/ (message), rio /'hi.u/ (river). And the sound /h/ also can be represented in portuguese spelling by the double R = RR which is called a diagraph ( the combination of two letters that represent one single sound), for example in words like barra /'ba.ha/ (bar = steel bar or chocolate bar) , burro /'bu.hu/ (donkey), barriga /ba.'hi:.ga/ (belly).
We have the letter H in portuguese alphabet in many words like homem (man) , honestitade (honesty), hora ( hour), etc. but phonetically it's a silent letter, it doesn't represent any sound in Portuguese just like in English, where in many words the H is silent like, for example, the words hour or honesty.
Thanks, Rachele )
Great video – thanks for the clear and simple explanation.
H pronounced is "Haitch", not "Aitch".
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Hi, how do you pronounce Houston and Human correctly? Sometimes it is pronounced as "Hyou-ston" but often also as "You ston". Same for human. Thanks!
Poor video….doesn't even discuss the two different pronunciations of words like "huge".
I'm from Texas, and whenever a word that starts with 'h' follows a word that ends in a consonant, the 'h' is silent. Example: "when he" would be said "whenee". Is this only a southern thing?
Hi Alex, I just did a quick google search and found a few lists — you can start there! Thanks for watching!
Rachel
Tanks Rachel, You're the best!!!
I still can't do it, it's very hard for Spanish speakers, as it comes out as a Spanish "J" 🙁
The video is GREAT, really thorough, congratulations. The only thing that bothered me was the constant piercing sound of your "s" amplifyed by the microphone. Maybe you can adjust the mic, probably setting a pop filter and reducing the gain in your microphone. Any sound engeneer can help you. Congratulations on your video is the best I've seen!
och? As in loch or Murdoch is not pronounced in original Scots dialect as `lock` or `Murdock`.
It's loch with the tongue back as to make a silentish hissing sound without the click of ck.
@Linsanity1234 WH- words can always be pronounced with a quick light h before the w. I find this a little old-fashioned, not many people use that pronunciation any more.
@Linsanity1234 You want to drop the H for an unaccented word, but not a content word like HAND. In general, you want to always link anything unless there is punctuation in between. That means vowel to vowel, consonant to vowel, and even between two consonants you don't want a break.
@My9OO I would say the H isn't ever voiced.