Submission timeline
2007–2026One 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.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderWow, 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…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1530
- Total comments
- 676
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-19 | Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciationFirst breakout · Best thread | interweb | 770 | 236 |
| 2020-11-11 | Improve your English pronunciation using YouTube | h128 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-11-02 | Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation | mrzool | 210 | 109 |
| 2023-10-30 | Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciationLatest 20+ point return | vikrum | 548 | 331 |
| 2025-05-24 | How to Pronounce English Like a NativeHall induction | Tomte | 1 | 0 |
