Waching daily Sep 20 2018

When someone asks a native speaker of English to give the pronunciation of

that speaker is gonna pay very special attention to every sound in that

word, and say buT. BuT. When the word but is alone, buT. Let's look at one of the

websites that I recommended to you. Remember Forvo? So, this is a very good

website for finding the pronunciation of words by themselves,

okay? So here's but. Let's go in and see what people.. how native speakers have

pronounced it in the past. BuT. BuT! You hear that? He pronounces the T. T. The plosive

at the end. BuT. Let's hear some more.

So we hear the word buT by itself with a very strong T at the end. I like Forvo,

but even better than Forvo is listening to the words in context, okay?

Which is why I recommended Youglish. We can type in the word but. Let's see, we

just wanna hear US English results maybe.

So do you hear how President Obama

pronounced but here? He did not say buT, buT. Within a phrase he leaves off the T,

exactly how I taught you guys. Okay, let's listen again.

So for questions about

words that you hear like this, I recommend to go to both Forvo and Youglish,

and just remember that when a native English speaker is speaking very

slowly, or in a formal setting, they're more likely to pronounce the endings of

these words, these plosives: FacebooK. TasK. And that's what's happening.

And let's actually look at the word week right now on Forvo and

Youglish. I'm interested. Let's go back to Forvo. We'll put in week up here.

Five pronunciations of week in English.

Ah, you hear that? So alone he

pronounces it weeK, again with that K, that puff of air.

Perfect. They all say that.

Let's try to find week again in context.

Interesting. So he's giving another lecture; it looks

like a formal TED talk or something like that.

Week appears right in the middle of a sentence without a comma, without a pause,

and he does not say this K, this weeK. Let's listen again.

Week without eating sugar.

Next one.

President Obama did not say seven-weeK vacation. He said seven-week vacation.

Almost saying the K, but not! Okay?

In informal English, you will rarely

hear people pronouncing these plosive letters, okay? But one more time, when you

do hear them, for example in future videos that I post... that I posT!

I'm sure that you'll hear me trying to speak a very clear English, and that's why I'll

use these plosive letters at the ends of words very often, right? JoB. FacebooK.

Ping-pong. But, one more time, I encourage you to try not to pronounce these

letters. It will make your mouth feel better when you're speaking English, and

not having to worry abouT putting in these K puffs of air.

So go on to Forvo and especially use Youglish to find the right

pronunciation, and you can try to figure out what the context is based on the

video, and you can tell if it's a formal, paused English or if it's just people

talking with their friends - of course you're not gonna hear a lot of these

Facebook, hot, bad, these, these letters at the end, because for us it takes a lot of

effort too to make the K, T, D, y'know? So again, very difficult concept, but I

hope that it's made sense to you guys and that it explains, I guess, why you're

gonna continue to hear these plosives, even though Gavin said, "We don't say

those plosives!" That is what's happening. So with that, study it, sound good? SounD gooD??