English Pronunciation – 3 Common Mistakes, part 2

Hi James,
Great lessons man. I am new in USA and i am sure these are going to help me alot to improve my English language and also it correct pronounciation. I have a question for you. You have mentioned that sometimes “ed” is pronounced as “t”, now here is my question, How can we know that which word ending with “ed” will pronounce as “t”?.

Asim

Well,..i’m about to ask the same question…

gus ri

Look Asim
you pronounce ‘ed’ as ‘t’
when the main verb ended with:
‘s’ like : missed = /misst/
‘k’ like : walked = /walkt/
‘p’ like : helped = /helpt/
‘sh’ like : wash = /washt/
‘ch’ like :watched =/watcht/
/f/ sound like : laughed = /laught/

TareQ

Hi james, I’m Jack.
Actually, I already replyed something on the Forum but there’s no answer. As far as I said, you and rebecca have great skill to teach
English. I bet it. By the way, I have a favor.
First of all, can I watch your lesson frequently? I mean new lesson is uploaded a quite long time. I wanna watch your lesson once or twice
a week even if you’re so busy please.
Second, here is a few lesson for advanced group compared to any
level of group. That’s all.

S T & D.. hm.. .. I’ve rememberd.. hehe..
Anyway, I completely appreciate your lesson. See you later. ^^

Jack Bauer

HI jams don’t play games,

How r u doing dude, this is paul chaitanya and i want you to help me regaring learning english language in better way . To br honest, i want to learn all lession which are showing by video tape, are you providing cource in the form of cd’s?. I want to buy that cd’s if possible.

Please help me out, i am from india

chaitanya

nice lessons sir james i love it this is dolly from Philippines/…

dolly

thank you very much teacher James,this lesson helped me alot.

paula9

Would you please give me some adviced to pronounce these words and to listen them effectively when a native speaker speaks. I am often confused.

Drain
Train
Rain

Uma Arudsothy

D has T sound,when your vocal cords vibe

Rêgi

You have it mixed up. The d sound is when your voice box vibrate. When you pronounce the t sound your voice box doesn’t vibrate.

martin vu

hi sir james thanks for the lessons
ahmm can i ask a favor??what should i do i can write in english well but when it comes in speaking i cant do it right,it seems that im choking everytime i speak in english i cant spoke it out,what should i do sir??

jason

Hi James! This is a great lesson and all the series as well. I don’t understand why so little commentaries. In this series you spoke slowly and very clear for me. I will listen this videos many times again. Thank you!

Janaina

hey great lessons.

moe adwan

good job, i appreciate it,but you’d better put a subtitle for the video

huso

please, i need its subtitle

huso

Hi Jimes and thanks for your lessons!
I’d like to ask you a question about the ‘t’ sound for the past tense of verbs.
How could I know whether I have to pronounce it like a ‘t’ or like a ‘d’ sound? Is there any rule?

Sofiane

I am very pleaser to improve my englsih and I thank you for help me .

jasim

hello friend you know your lessons are appreciated here in Morocco. As far as the “t” pronounciation i can add the following:
ss,sh,ch,ck, k,p +ed = T
I THINK THIS ADDITION MAY HELP TO PRONOUNCE THE ED A T FOR SOME READERS .
YOUR NEW FRIEND
SAID.

said zegoumou

Hi, James. I really like ur style when u teach. I like u.hihihi…

Annavn

Happy New Year James! I have one question for you. Is it correct to use future simple after “If”? I am from Russia. I was always tought this is mistake except phrase “If you will”. Thank you for your lessons!

Aleksei

Hi James Sir,
Please tell me how we pronounce the words ‘send’ and ‘sent’ differently??
Also where is the TH class??

Riaz

Hi James I have been watching all your videos on youtube. I missed the first video on this leasson. And where can i find the frist video on this leasson.

bratmatt101

Hi! Part 1 is here: https://www.engvid.com/english-pronunciation-s/

engVid

Hello James, thanks for the video. When you have a chance, please have a video lesson on all of the 44 sounds of English. I would really appreciate it. Keep up the good work.

martin vu

Hi James,
U always smile when you teach, I like it. I watched almost ur lesson, It’s very great. But sometimes You speak very fast and not clear, I can’t hear that. Mr Le from Vietnam.

What is different between prep. to and prep.for? thank uuuuuuuuu

Hi James

Hi, I like Your way in presenting information , & your lesson R very helpful.
Thank u .

Dania

lot of benefit to prove english’s skills

tokyo

Hi Jams,
I think you are a great teacher. I enjoy listening to your lessons. You make them very simple.
Gentiana from Albania.

Gentiana

hi james you are not as good as ronnie

shujath

Hi,teacher James…
You are very good teacher,I have learned so much from you.Keep it the the good work…

babez

Awesome lessons, James! Thanks alot!
Regards from Russia

Jane

Hi James thanks for your lesson but I am not satiesfied with your lesson as you have not taught about the pronouncian between T&D that is how to pronounce in mouth.

saran

HI JAMES,
I have been watching u lesson for long time It is very good fo me and may others. Thanks a lot. plz any mistake my writing forgive me.

kandiah rajendra

How can we know that which word ending with “ed” will pronounce as “t”

nisrena

You have to learn the rule. The rule is if the verb ends with a voiceless sound, then you pronounce the ed as t. If the verb ends with a voiced sound, then ed will be pronounced as d. If the verb ends with the letter t or d, then you need to add another syllable id/ed. For example, wanted=wantid/ed needed=needid/ed. If it’s an adjective like crooked,blessed,learned,gifted ect.. then you also add another syllable id/ed. All of the vowels will have a d sound. I hope that will help you with how to pronounce the ed ending.

martin vu

Hi James
I like your way of teaching. You make every topic easy by the way you talk and write and by making eye movements and body gesture. thanks sir.

srivastvachandan5

thanks..

khayulay

your pronounciation is very good but if you make it slow
shokrullah khamosh from afghanistan

shokrullah

Thank you very much sir.

randika

your pronounciation is very good but if you make it slow

fernandis2121

Thank you *———-*

Renata Lopes

haijames,
nice teaching and your pronounciation is absolutley superb….i have to improve my writing knowledge haw can i get??

naushard

I’ll not forget STD :)

basel010

thanks!

pashalost

STD )))

pashalost

thanks teacher I am from Peru i love how you teach

Marians

Thank you very much Mr.James for your lesson, that is very well for non-native speakers, Im from kurdistan.

Nushar

thanks my good teacher James God bless you I learn more from you sir

charles Edward

Hello James.I know the number of fhonemes is not so big, beetwen 30 an 50, maybe. In Spanish it is lower than in english and it makes difficult for us to recognize some words because we don’t recongnize the sounds, the fhonetic sounds. Why don’t you organize a set, a series of lessons which would cover all of then, from “a” to “z”, giving examples and telling the diferences beetwen countries?

angel

hey , james ,ur my favourite teacher so plz i want to make a video on american t sound coz i’m willing to learn american accent ,thanks

daliaali

James!!!! I didnt understand when use d or t, because both are in past tense…..how I know?

bblechinger1969

From Azerbaijan.You are great teacher You are my favourite teacher.

gulshen

I will immediately seize your rss as I can not in finding your e-mail subscription hyperlink or newsletter service. Do you’ve any? Please allow me realize in order that I may subscribe. Thanks.

You can use the RSS feed.

engVid

Thank you so much james

Huynh Đặng

Thank you very much for this lession.

chani

Hahaha, still laughing! Nice work ! Humour is the key ! Knowledge is the subject. Nice way to explain things.

carlos77

hi dear friend.i just checked ur site but i cant see the movie.it s filtered in iran.how can i see it?plz help me.

mostafa jafari

You’ll have to use a proxy!

engVid Moderator

when to pronounce the ed ending sound as a t or d sound is not as hard as you think. I assume that all of us know the difference between voiced and voiceless sound, but for those of us that don’t this is what it means. A voiceless sound is when you can feel the air and your voicebox doesn’t vibrate when you make a sound and vice versa. For example, the sound of the letter b and p. The sound of the letter b you can not feel the air coming from your mouth and your voicebox vibrate so it’s a voiced sound. With the p sound you can feel the puff of air coming from your mouth and voicebox doesn’t vibrate so it’s a voiceless sound. when ed ends with a voiceless sound it takes a t sound and d sound when it a voiced sound. If the verb ends with a letter t,d or if it’s an adjective, then you have to add an extra syllable id/ed. All of the vowel sounds will pronounced as d sound.

martin vu

thank you very much sir James,i learned a lot from these lessons .this is eslam from egypt.

eslam zaid

You are an interesting person and the way you teach is great!!!

Gohar from Armenia

really good job is done by http://www.engvid.com

Amandeep Singh

thanks man, you do great job . you helped me lot.

dz-us

Good job! Cam on (Thanks)!

Phi

Hi,

can you please clarify that stressing “t” at the end of the word is not correct or not?

For e.g doubt, conduct, complete, contact,etc..

Thanks,
Das

Das

Hi Jame
your video is very informative. How would you pronounce the word “needed” and “wanted”? they arent the t or d sound in the end.
Thanks

yves5211

quick lesson
but very useful

elkrespo

hi james
your lesson was very interresting i hqve got some probleme when i pronounce that “d” at the end of the sentence cqn you help me

oliver12

hELLO jAMES HOW ARE YOU? I’M NEW IN USA AND I’M SURE THESE ARE GOING TO HELP ME, BECAUSE I DON’T SPEAK ENGLISH VERY WELL THAK’S

pambounde64

an interesting and helpful lesson of pronunciation. thanks James!

threedragons

i wanna know the situation where is t is pronunced like d

mohamad hosni

Hi James: Thanks for not only this class, but for all lesssons. You are one of the responsible that, i don´t study english for obligation, until i watch your lessons I study for curiosity and like a hobby. Thanks a lot, so please continue making more videos. Kind regards. Joaquin

JOAQUIN87

what about the ‘d from past perfect or would.

I had gone. I’d gone.
I would study. I’d study.

chinesse24

Excelent answer TareQ

Kae Guimaraes

thank you >

Zarzour

His heavy american accent is awful! Most things he says I Can not understand.Is he a rap singer? Kkkk

Benny Dilson

I really enjoyed myself this video , congrats !

Lpedroso

Thank you so much, it was so wonderful, you are great.

Marta Lopez

Mr James, you best of the best!!!!!!!

Pelagiya

Ok, so was the STD used just to remember the importance of the T, D and S, or I don’t get this lesson?

matt9

I studied that the sound “t” is for past tenses and participles of verbs which finished in “-k,-p,-s,-th,-ch” and the sound “d” for the rest of past tenses and participles except those verbs which finished in “-t and -d” which sounded like “ed”, but now the sound “t” is also emphasized in the negative form of the verb with a strong sound which makes the difference between the positive form and the negative form. Thanks a lot teacher James from EngVid.