I am an ESL teacher and I always watch Ronnie's videos with great pleasure ! Her sense of humour and the way she explains everything are so close to what I usually try to do while working with my students. The key word is I try because Ronnie has so many great ideas for us and she is the best English teacher for me !
When I was a Primary School teacher I taught my children this little rhyme, to help with the above problem. I also taught my son. " When two vowels go " walking" ( they are in the same word) the first one does the talking and says it's own name." I hope this helps. :)
Thank you Ronnie! I'm a veteran ESL instructor in the US, and I love to give students your videos. You speak slowly and explain in simple terms. That is how I like to teach my own classes. I appreciate the time that goes into creating this content! Carry on!
Oh my God I'm having such struggles with trying to get my son to read just because of sounding it out, and I'm watching these videos to see which one would help him and I'm absolutely loving this. That first vowel with the second one being silent is going to be a lifesaver with him
Ronnie, you're awesome. I've been teaching my Chinese students this for ages. I learnt this out of pure frustration when I just didn't know how to get them to understand when to use long and short sounds, and came across it somewhere. It really changes the game!
I was gonna say the same thing.. CUT, C.U.T.. CUTE, C.U.T.E. WHEN YOU GOT SECOND VOWEL,, C ū T ē.. letter U it's gonna tell letter E to pronounce letter U..
Hi Ronnie, I learned English a long time ago, but I never learned phonetics or sounds. I realize that when I go to read I don't know how to pronounce some words. Searching on youtube who could teach me I found this video, which you did 4 years ago. WOW you really know how to teach and what it takes for students to learn. And your humor makes learning much more enjoyable. Thank you so much.
this is by far the most interesting and important class that every single student should watch if they really wanna learn speaking english, besides ronnie is a wonderful teacher you can learn everything with her in a easier way and enjoy at the same time. no words, idk how to thank you ronnie for all the things that you ve make for us, love from Venezuela
I have been devoting a significant amount of time to learning English from the internet. I feel immense stress and anxiety about my English proficiency. However, when I watch your videos, it feels almost magical - like a true paradise. Your teaching style is so engaging and interesting, it makes me feel relaxed and entertained. Moreover, your knowledge is extremely valuable and beneficial for language learners like myself.
don't get too excited, unfortunately, even in this lesson Ronnie herself mentioned 'soup' and there are many more words like this (dove, etc.) that show that the 'guidelines' apply rather narrowly
This was taught as 'the Magic E' when I was in primary school (GB). The E at the end changes the vowel sound. Cool that it works for words like sOAp and crEAm though, too. Thanks Ronnie!
Im Salvadorean my English level had increased thanks to you Ronnie but to my point of view the magick touch that you have is your sense of humor this is my best part thank you for always putting a laugh in my heart... is therapy to my soul Gracias Amiga!
Ronnie, I can say with confidence that you are an amazing English teacher, I love your channel and watch at least one video of yours every day. You're funny and on your channel you don't only teach us English but also you teach us about life, for one what to say in uncomfortable situations, how to make a good first expression and so on. I always look forward to watching your videos, please upload more frequently! Wish you the best🫶🏻💕
It works for 'heat', but not for 'Head' or 'bread', also not for 'break'. Well, it is a guideline, not a rule. Great guideline, I think it works for the great majority of words.
Love the way you tech English, very different from all the classic teachers that follow all the rules and always teach with the same methods. Seeing this I see the big difference.
Honestly I love you for this I am Nigerian and teach phonics it's not easy because back in the day we weren't taught like this.God bless you hope to connect with you more.
Dear Ronnie.....that was amazing I loved the way you explained in such a simple way. Kindly load more grammar lessons so that it helps to teach the first generation learners. Thank you Rani🙏
I am learning English language since last year and i have watch a lot of videos on RU-vid. The way Madam Ronnie teaches English very amazing. Madam Ronnie way of teaching is very helpful and full of joy. I am enjoying learning English language.Thanks Madam Ronnie
They teach this in elementary schools (in Maryland anyway) to teach kids how to read. It’s awesome. I work with the ones who aren’t ready to learn it in kindergarten and first grade and fall behind. 🤗 I love teaching it to my accent clients, too!
I got excited but....What about "learn", "have" "sound" "found" "answer" etc. I got all of these words in the paragraph here under the video. There are many others there too.
Fabulous Teacher!! You broke the record. I have been finding this lesson for mouths. Now, you did perfectly. super super convenient ever ever to understand. Awesome 🎉❤🎉❤
This is so amazing! I've always struggled a bit with the i vowel pronunciation and this method made it so easy to understand. Many thanks for that, dear professor.
Wow! Mind blowing! 🤯🙏🏻 Even for us teachers! thank you so much for this video Ronnie! I love your videos and you are hilarious 💖 love from a Brazilian English teacher in Finland 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Amazing content Ronnie!! You compared soap with soup, which can be confusing as they don't sound the same. It's not a rule but there must be something where 'u' is the second vowel. Like soup, coup, loud, etc.
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Hi Ronnie, thank you so much for this video. The guideline is pretty helpful and makes sense! I am an English teacher in China who's trying to solve the same problem with teaching pronunciations. The question I have is about longer words - when longer words come into play, we have to deal with stressed and non-stressed vowels, and even the same vowel in stressed syllables can have totally different pronunciations. I wonder how we can categorise that and make the whole reading system more systematic? Anyways, this is a comment from 5 years later haha. But your video definitely helped me a lot. Maybe I should take pronouncing longer words from pronouncing short ones first. (teach - teacher, the "e" is the same sound though the length changes.) Anyways, thank you again!!
Hi Ronnie! 👋😀 Your lessons are always so helpful 👍 .. I enjoy every content a lot 😊 .. You have a great sense of humor .. You're awesome .. Thanks! 👍😉 .. Regards from Argentina 👋😃 ..
How about the words "come", "done", "some"? While the second vowel in those words is silent, the first vowel ("o") certainly doesn't sound like in the alphabet!, as opposed to the examples you've given. Why is the "o" in the words "come", "done", "some" pronounced differently from the "o" in the alphabet?
I thought the singular (unpaired) vowel being the short vowel version and the paired (with the silent "e" on the end of the sentence) being the long vowel version was common knowledge. I was taught this "rule" in elementary school. What is new to me is that any paired vowel creates a long vowel. Of course, we know there are more than just 10 vowel sounds in English, so this has limited application.
Yes this has limited application. I think it’s easier to say if you have two vowels together it changes the sound. Sometimes it can make the first vowel a long sound but not always. It would be better to teach vowel pairs. Like ai, ei, ie, ea, ou, oi, oa, oo, ou, ee, etc. That’s how we learned it in school. We also learned the long vowel with the silent e in school. And you have y as a vowel sometimes as well.
@@magzcan26 That is an interesting concept looking at specific vowel pairs. I took the first one you mentioned "ai". I, myself, would have thought it would be pronounced the same as "I" and "eye", as it is in words like "Chai" and "Thai". But it is commonly pronounced with an "eɪ" as in "aid", "aim", "rain", "wait", & "tail'. Or it is reduced to "ɛə" before the letter "r" in words like "fair" and "air". However, there are certain outliers such as "mountain", "bargain" and "said" where it is reduced to an even shorter vowel "ɛ" or even "ə". As for the "hail", "pail", "fail" set, I speak a dialect where we have reduced those words to sounding like "hell", "pell", and "fell". The bottom line is that spelling in English is very complicated.
