In this video I show you how to pronounce the difference between the Light L and the Dark L in English. I’ll give you examples of words and sentences with the light and dark L and how to pronounce them perfectly in English. NOTE: For the second sentence, you can also pronounce the word “fell” with a light L as the next word is followed by a vowel. It’s possible in natural speech, however, in this video I didn’t want to overcomplicate the matter and go into it, so I kept it as a Dark L! 🤓
⚠️ NOTE: At 1:15 I say “lovely” but the word says “lucky”. The transcription is correct but the word isn’t. It should be “lovely”. 🙂 ⚠️
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Clearest lesson on light n dark l ever❤
I'm from Brazil, and these pronunciations are more or less similar to Portuguese.
Thank you very much ❤
that helps me a lot ! thanks for the very clear and informative explanations.
👏👏👏 you're very good at explaining! Thank you
Your lessons are amazing!
Nice pronunciation tips.
Wow, finally I understand it😊
Very nice ❤❤❤❤❤
You are a great teacher! 🎉
Where can I go if i wanna learn america english accent
Ventriloquists are necessarily aware of how much the human brain fills in missing auditory content through context (so as to be able to substitute other sounds for B/P/M without the audience realizing it). As it so happens, English words ending in consonants like L/W/T tend to have few or no homonyms, so exactly HOW those final consonants are voiced isn't consciously noticed by listeners whose brains are already decoding the word and only ensuring it sounds right ENOUGH. Dark consonants also make it possible for speech to occur smoothly at a rapid pace in much the same way we change a to an if the following word begins with a vowel sound; Japanese has something similar called rendaku.
Thanks sweety♥️ very simple, clear and to the point❤
excelent , gracias
Wow, teacher, I'm so glad. That's wonderful. And of course, you are very beautiful Wow, teacher, 🇬🇧😊🥰⚘️
Does it really matter, hen?
This video really helps me, but I have a question: when I speak quickly I don’t have enough time to move my tongue to the top of my mouth and pronounce the next letter fluently. Could you please tell me how I can solve it? thanks!
Thanks Emma so much❤. Finally I understool the difference betweek L light & L dark.
Thank u i didn't know that there was two different types of the "l" sound
Thank you, but how would I pronounce ɫ̩, like in kettle (ˈkɛ.tɫ̩)
You teach carefully, our Teacher!!!
Lovely!
When adding a suffix, which L is pronounced? In the words DROOLER and BRAWLER, which L is pronounced?
i am creating a conlang and also has the [ɫ] with the same rule
Thank you so much❤!!! Very helpful!
I'm from the westcountry, and I think a lot of the time I replace the ɫ with essentially a ł – my tongue doesn't touch my bottom teeth a lot of the time, it's much closer to a w with how I form the end of the vowel immediately proceeding the l 🙂
But there is a third type of allophone for /l/ isn't it? The Dark /l/ number two. The vocalized one.
aprendere demasiado con utd señorita!