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Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 3 of them.

submissions
5
submitters
5
observed span
2019–2025
peak thread · 331 comments
770 pts
latest 20+ return · 2023-10-30
548 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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Wow, this seemed to work very well for all the words I typed in. I would love to try something like this for German, as it can be hard to pronounce those massive compound words they have. The one criticism that I have is that many of these videos are from ted talks or speeches by politicians. During speeches people will inflect words differently than in everyday conversation, especially politicians. I got one Theresa May speech and the rest were…

As a non-native English speaker, the "randomness" of English pronunciation has been a source of frustration for me for many years. I realized there are two types of issues: 1. Some sounds in English don't exist in other languages and you have to learn them "from scratch". For example the "flap T" in butter. Or the particular American "r" (constrast it to the Spanish rolled r for instance). 2. Certain sounds I DID know how to make, but didn't know…

At the moment I see a few comments criticizing the mixed results in accents and pronunciations. I am a Brazilian who speaks English at work, so I just wanted to share my use case for Youglish. I go to Youglish whenever I have no idea on how to pronounce a word. I read English much more than I listen to English (HN contributes to that), so it is not uncommon to find such words. I don’t need (nor want) to…

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Breakout years
3

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
1530

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Total comments
676

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2019-06-19Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciationFirst breakout · Best threadinterweb770236
2020-11-11Improve your English pronunciation using YouTubeh12810
2021-11-02Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciationmrzool210109
2023-10-30Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciationLatest 20+ point returnvikrum548331
2025-05-24How to Pronounce English Like a NativeHall inductionTomte10