Hey there. How's it going? It's your favorite American English teacher Gabby here to help you with some American English pronunciation
Now American English does some weird crazy things
We change sounds we blend sounds we delete sounds all together and in this lesson
I'm going to give you a quick tip that
Could have a huge impact on your accent and your pronunciation
so if you want to speak English more clearly than keep
watching
So in this lesson, we're going to perfect your American English accent and yes, I am
American from The United States of
America born and raised a native English speaker
But what I'm going to show you in this lesson is specific to my English
I learned English in North America in the midwest that's my natural accent and what I'm going to show you today is
typical of
Standard Modern English but not
everyone not all English speakers do it so
This will help you if you want to sound more natural
But let me tell you not everyone does it and people might disagree on whether you should or shouldn't do it anyway
Let's talk about it
the t sound in
English a lot of things can happen with a t now in this particular lesson
I just want to talk about the glottal stop now the glottal stop the
Terminology is not as important as what actually is happening
In your mouth with this pronunciation, and when you should do it
so in a comment on
Another video lesson one of you asked me about whether we remove or delete
or omit the t sound in
Mountain and that's absolutely correct I
and many other English speakers do omit this sound but it's not enough to just say that we
Delete or omit that sound because if we just took it out, it would sound something like
Mowen
Mountain
That's not exactly how we say it say mountain
Mountain
Okay, so that is our first example of a glottal stop. It's what we say when we say uh oh
We kind of stop
Yourself you hold your breath in the back of your throat and you go uh
Uh-oh try with me. Uh-oh
So you stop the sound you stop your breath and it gives the feeling of a t sound.
But you're not actually making a t sound you don't put your tongue in the position for a t sound it just gives that
Feeling because you're pausing so let me give you some more examples of words that use a glottal stop
Mountain not
Mountain
Mount and
Cotton not cotton, but coton and cotton
curtain not curtain, but curtain curtain
important not important, but
important
Okay, so again. This is how I speak English
Naturally some people may not use this some people may not recommend that you use this but when you listen to native
English speakers
We're doing this so you need to be able to understand and it's your choice. If you'd like to emulate this effect in your
English accent. Thank you so much for watching you guys are awesome. I really
Appreciate your motivation to learn English and being my student here at go natural English
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