I LOVE your channel! I share it with all of my ESL learners and they love how slowly and clearly you speak. Yay! Plus - your Red Hair is gorgeous! Wishing you much success Keenyn!
Hey Keenyn! If I say right now that "you are one of the awesomEST teachers this planet has ever seen in its 4.5 billion years of age", I would't be exaggerating at all! Not even a bit! I have learnt tons of great things about American English Pronunciation from you and I am super SUPER super grateful for it. You are literally making a change in people's lives by hugely helping them improve their English. THANKS!
For Brasilians, It is ok, because we have many sounds like this. I love your pronunciation and i like because you talk clearly. I am learning english and it is fantastic to me.
I love this lesson Keenyn. Thank you so much! , I hadn't realize we had to prolong the second sound in these blend in order to make it sound more natural. AWESOME your fan from Venezuela.
Glad it was helpful! 😊 This work is tricky too because is has a Vowel + ER combination. You can watch my American R Part 2 lesson for help with sounds like this- be sure to check it out! :)
Mrs Keenan, Can’t thank you enough, every video it’s an Aaaaaah! Moment, so is this class, thank you, thank you, thank you, my English has improved so much and people does understand me way better! You’re Awesome 👏!!!!!
Hi dear professor Keenyn Rhodes. You are so beautiful and your method of teaching is excellent i really appreciate your work. I wish you life plenty of happiness and success. All the best. Your follower from Algeria.
Actually…I really don’t know the difference between the play and pray Or rate and weight. But I now have more idea after this lesson. Thank you, Keenyn.
Olá amiga,sou do Brasil,Amei sua aula de pronúncia,já me inscrevi . Tenho estudado inglês pelo RU-vid,a algum tempo ,mas sua aula me surpreendeu Apesar de não entender o inglês falado Mas aprendi muito com você. Obrigado
Thanks for all you do. Since I start watching your vids I am paying attention to put the stress on the correct syllabus but can you make a vid and explain about which word in a sentence take the stress ? Thanks again
Absolutely. You have to approach this word sounds by sound. I talk about how to do that in this lesson: www.clearenglishcorner.com/blog/how-to-say-girl-and-world-american-english-pronunciation-lesson
For Russians, this is not difficult, because Russians pronounce basically all consonants. It is more difficult for Russians where the consonants are not pronounced all, for example, in the word lamb.
As usual, Keenyn speech training is the very best out there and by a big margin. I just wish she didn't speak to the viewers as if she was speaking to toddlers. Fewer exaggerated facial expressions would be highly desirable. At the moment, I find myself looking away from the monitor and just listening, because frankly what she does with her face is a bit too distracting. I wish she could tone down this effect and speak with a straight face.
There's actually no blending going on here. A blended sound is one where both sounds occur simultaneously. A voiced 's' for example, becomes the 'Z' sound where both a vocal chord produced hum and the hiss of air of the 's' sound are occuring simultaneously. THAT is a blend. "Bl" (as in 'blue') is a case of two consonants spoken in quick succession. "BR" is a case of a consonant being followed by a vowel, which is no different than 'BE'. If your first language uses a Trilled /d/ whenever the /r/ appears in a word, you may have a hard time resisting the urge to do that, otherwise it's just learning how to make the 'er' vowel sound. The word 'brown' has a starting and ending consonant sandwiching a triple vowel combo of 'er', short/a/ & 'oo' / IPA(u). The letters 'ow' are mismatched balderdash tossed into the word because the two pure vowels that make up that diphthong do not have any characters in our half-baked Clown sourced alphabet. (R) is a vowel and Dark L is a vowel. If you say 'blue' & 'play' correctly, like a pro, you'll skip the dark L or shorten it to near nonexistence as you go directly to the Light L. Proniuncing the consonant form of /L/ - the so-called "Light L" requires that you keep the back of your tongue down but lift the tip up to touching or near touching the back or gums of your upper front teeth and then snapping it downward.
I don't wanna see this kinda omitting these necessary l and r sounds. I'll keep using all important and necessary actions to speak our favorite American language in righteous way.
