Fluency is the key word for this time. YouGlish, the tool I want to recommend, help people with their pronunciation. The link is here. 👍
🍎Introduction
As the slogan on the homepage of YouGlish's website says, it uses YouTube to help people improve their English pronunciation. However, the power of its function is not limited to pronunciation only. YouGlish can help people learn "how English is spoken by real people and in context". Ultimately, users could speak fluent and authentic English.
Here is a short video about how to use YouGlish, enjoy!👏
🍎Advantages
- Easy to use
Whenever you search for a word, you can see the related video that contains it. The tool will firstly provide a video that will be automatically stop at the time when the word appears. Once the play button is pressed, the first sentence the user hears is the one containing the keyword. If you don't like the first example sentence (maybe the accent of the person in the video) or if you want to hear more example sentences, you can press the button at the bottom of the video to go to the next video.
- Convenient to search for phrases and collocations
The correct usage of phrases and collocations is essential for fluent spoken English. For example, there are 542 entries for "take temperature" and only 58 entries for "test temperature", which means that the former one is more commonly used in daily life.
- More Authentic
Whether you are looking up words or phrases in YouGlish, it will provide their using context, which helps people to become familiar with the specific usage of each word or phrase.
🍏Limitations
- Distracting
Because YouGlish is based on YouTube, one of the world's largest video websites, the users, especially younger students, will easily get distracted by the ocean of videos resulting in ineffective learning.
- Difficult to in select useful information
Similar to the previous disadvantage, YouGlish provides users with so much information at once that it can be a challenge to filter the information that is most useful to them. It could be time-consuming to find out how to use a word in a specific area.
- Regional restrictions
It is a pity that YouGlish is not available in China mainland now.😢
Overall, YouGlish would be a rather good choice if you want to practice pronunciation and speaking skills as well.💕
Hi Hongyang. I like your idea about filtering the results. We can always see more than one thousand videos after searching. A filtering system may be better to enhance students' learning interest.
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