hello everyone and welcome back to
english with Lucy the first video of
2017 happy new year everybody I've got
so much planned for this year we've got
the pronunciation course coming out lots
of other secret plans which I can't tell
you about just yet but i will be able to
tell you about them very very soon
today I want to talk to you about your
pronunciation and I've got a new years
piece of advice that I would like to
give to you and the piece of advice is
don't wait for others to educate you
educate yourself
ok so don't wait for others to educate
you educate yourself and this video will
help you do that i receive hundreds of
messages every day emails Facebook
Instagram messages honestly a lot i
can't respond to all of them i do
respond to some but the majority of
people ask me Lucy how do you
pronounce through Lucy how do you
pronounce often
well you really shouldn't be waiting for
someone else to tell you how to
pronounce something if you can find out
the answer yourself i'm going to show
you how to learn to pronounce any word
any word as long as it's in english i'm
going to show you how to learn to
pronounce any English word so today i
want to introduce a very special
resource they're not sponsoring me i'm
not getting paid to do this is the
resource that I use myself and I want to
share it with you
it is Oxford learners dictionary.com now
you might be rolling your eyes and
thinking oh my god does Lucy think we're
this stupid she really recommending a
dictionary
well this dictionary in my opinion is a
little bit special take a look let's
think of a word that you guys find
confusing okay how about laugh I guess
a lot of people asking me how to
pronounce the word laugh okay so I've
gone to oxfordlearnersdictionary.com
i'm going to type in the word laugh
ok and look at the page you've got the
phonetic transcription but it also says
BrE and NaME British English and North
American English so the best thing about
this website is that they have got some
really really good voice actors to say
all of the words for you let's listen to
British English laugh laugh
exactly how I said it and then American
English laugh then you can click on the
little plus sign and look at all the
verb forms and all the pronunciations
as well so we've got the he/she/it
laughs the past simple laugher oh the ing-form
laughing how brilliant is that and they
have the pronunciation and the voice
recordings for almost every word that exists
in the world in English so you will be
able to educate yourself instead of
waiting for others to educate you let
that be your new year's resolution
don't wait for others to educate you
educate yourself if you have a doubt
oxford Learner's dictionary type it in
listen to it
bob's your uncle and if you don't know
what Bob's your uncle means you need to
watch this video here so now I've shown
you the correct resource to use how can
you put this into practice
how can you learn to pronounce that word
that you've just heard correctly i want
you to use your phone again or any other
recording device like your laptop or a
microphone and I want you to record
yourself copying at the Oxford learner's
dictionary recording i would say laugh
laugh then you just compare it with the
recording on the Oxfordlearnersdictionary.com
website so my one laugh
and the oxford learner's dictionary one
laugh laugh great and keep practicing
until they sound more or less identical
that's it for today's lesson I hope you
found it useful I hope you learnt something
don't forget to connect with me on all
of my social media and tune into my free
live pronunciation lesson the first one
of 2017 will be this sunday at four
thirty on my facebook page
I'll see you for another lesson very
very soon