Creating an impact when you speak English is extremely
crucial.
There are so many people out there in our real lives who have great communication skills
but they're not even closer to pronouncing the sounds and English language correctly.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you're one of those people who want to have immaculate
pronunciation skills, great clarity in the speech patterns when you speak
English, then you have come to the right place.
In today's session, we will understand how to reduce your
accent. Accent reduction.
For the G sound, letter G is pronounced in two different ways.
Number one, the 'guh' which is called the hard G.
Try pronouncing the word girl with me here, the word is not being pronounced
as jirl, it is the /guh/, simple sound girl
and the second soft way of pronouncing the G sound is /juh/
in the word gem.
Please repeat after me gem.
We will first understand how to pronounce the hard G.
We will have a list of words and later understand the rule.
In what situations G becomes a /juh/.
When do we not pronounce it as a girl?
So if you want to learn the rules, stay tuned with me in this lesson and you will get your answer within the
next two minutes.
Let us first start with the hard G sound, which is /guh/
sound.
Please repeat after me /guh/
Let us first have a list of words with the /guh/ sound and we have
first of all, The first word that we have is golf.
Please repeat after me.
Golf.
Let's go to play golf.
Please repeat after me.
Let's go to play golf.
Second word that we have is pig.
Please repeat after me pig.
Third word is Great.
Please repeat after me.
Great, for example, it was a great match.
Try pronouncing it as clearly as possible.
Watch the video at a place where you can actually pronounce these words loudly and
clearly. Close the room past the video pronounce after me
Great!
It was a great match.
Remember to pronounce the sound as loudly and as
clearly as possible.
Next word grasp, grasp,
Ram's grasping power is great.
Rams, grasping power is great, make sure that you keep
on repeating the sounds that I repeat after me for better clarity,
loudly and clearly are the key words here.
Next What word is Gum.
We don't say jum, we say Gum.
Next one.
Tiger.
Please repeat after me.
Tiger. Gift.
Please repeat Gift.
I loved the gift.
Please repeat.
I loved the gift.
Excellent, let's move to the next word, Girl,
Girl, Who is your girlfriend, Please repeat after me.
Who is your girlfriend?
Gear, It's not gee-ahr, it is gear.
Please repeat after me.
Gear.
I loved your gym gears.
That basically means... means the shoes that you wear to the gym, gear.
This takes us to the next part of the lesson.
What are the situations when the /guh/ sound changes to /juh/ sound?
This is the most important part of the session.
Please listen to me very, very carefully.
The hard G changes to soft G.
When in a word there is either I
or either E or I or Y.
In any word in English language.
If after G, there is I in the spelling or E in the
spelling or Y in the spelling, the hard G
/guh/ changes to /juh/
Not a lot of people are aware of this rule.
I've seen many teachers, I've seen many people for that matter who are
not aware of this rule and if you are aware of it, that means you're fine tuning your
communication skills.
Many people are confused when to pronounce G as /juh/ and when to pronounce G as /guh/.
And when you ask them what is the reason they say?
Well this comes with experience, but for how long will
we continue to copy others?
It's very important that we know a standard rule and the standard rule is
E I Y.
If before these letters G comes in a sentence, we pronounce it as /juh/,
such as letter J.
That's how we pronounce it as J.
Let's have a look at the list of words after G.
here
E is coming.
So we pronounce it as general, in the next word after G
I is coming.
So we pronounce it as giant.
We don't say /gaa-yunt/, we say /jaa-uhnt/ after every
word that I say, I would like you to please repeat after me because that's when you're gonna
make the best use of this lesson.
Next word is Gym.... gymnastics.
It's one word gymnastics after G.Y is coming?
So we say not gimnastic, we say gymnastics, let's look at the
next word large after G.
E.
Is coming.
A lot of times people ask at Starbucks large
Energy, Y is coming G.
changes to /juh/. Energy. And finally
Change.
Please repeat after me change after G.
There is letter E.
So we pronounce it as /juh/ soft G.
Now you must be uh.... Hridhaan
How do we basically recognize which is hard G.
Which is soft G.
Well, when the G is pronounced as a /juh/, it is soft when it is
/guh/, it is considered in English pronunciation as hard
Who decided that well these are called the sounds of English and that's how they are written In books
and theory.
So that's easier for us to understand it.
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Let's move to the second part to practice it further
first we will pronounce the hard G which is pronounced as a /guh/
Please repeat after me bug,
bug.
It either means an insect or to irritate someone.
Stop bugging me.
Please repeat after me.
Stop bugging me gum.
I will say the word, kindly make sure that you repeat it as loudly and
clearly as possible gum.
Gas regards
gallery.
Nice art gallery.
Please repeat after me.
Nice art gallery.
Yes, make a guess.
Please repeat after me.
Make a guess.
Gosh, you must have heard people saying oh my gosh, it is not.
Oh my gosh it is.
Oh my gosh, trigger
trigger.
Let's look at when what are the words when we pronounce G as
jur, which is called the soft G.
It comes when after G.
There is either I or E or why?
Please repeat after me gymnastics gymnastics.
Stranger disadvantage,
please read after me disadvantage,
genuine, genuine
giant.
Please repeat after me.
Giant, generous,
generous.
One important thing.
Are you one of those people who have gotten confused in in the word?
Exaggerate a lot of times people find it difficult to understand or pronounce.
Is that exact good it or exaggerate.
Let's write the spelling of this word.
The word is
what is coming after G letter E comes from the rule that we
looked at, isn't it?
So how do we pronounce it?
Is it exaggerate or is it exaggerate?
Apparently exaggerate.
So today you have gotten to know why exaggerate is
jure and not girl.
How many of you knew that before?
Let's pronounce it.
Once again exaggerate.
This was about all the list in the lesson.
Now we are going to be introducing a part called post lesson task.
Post lesson task means I have written something very interesting here for you.
A paragraph that basically has the juror sound in it.
What I need you to do now is pause the video, say all
the germs sounds and girl sounds loudly and clearly
and then after that I'm gonna be reading it out for you then match if what
you said was similar to what I said Gotcha, can we start let's
finish it off correctly, pause the video and start now
because as you start I will now be reading it.
Let's get started before I read.
Just want to tell you the double slash here means forward slashes here.
Mean that take a pause.
All right, so let's get started.
I will now read it for you.
Here we go.
I've already begun to plan for the holidays.
I got my gift list ready and although I
plan to be generous, I need to stay within budget.
I'm a pretty good judge of people's interests.
So I hope everyone will be happy with what they
get this year if you want to listen to what I said,
please pause the video, observe and repeat it.
Once again, Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for sticking by in this
beautiful lesson where we understand the understood the reason when G is
pronounced as girl and when it is pronounced as soft girl.
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I love you all.
Take care and God bless.