WEEK FIVE: Unlock Your Pronunciation Potential with YouGlish

 Hi, everyone. Welcome to Mengmeng's week five blog ;)

Are your students worried about English pronunciation? Are you searching for an entertaining and effective tool to help them improve pronunciation skills? Why not try YouGlish! The blog comprises of four main parts: a brief introduction to YouGlish, how to use this tool, the benefits of using YouGlish, the limitations of YouGlish. To find out more about this exciting tool, keep reading!


picture from Youglish.com


👀What is YouGlish? 

YouGlish is a website that offers users practical examples of how particular words and phrases are spoken by youtubers in order to assist users improve their English pronunciation.

👀Why YouGlish? 

  • User-friendly. The design of the platform is quiet neat and clear, users don't need to spend much time learning how to use the tool.
  • Free. Sometimes it's necessary to consider the cost, but it's not a problem for this tool. You can browse the website with unlimited time until you acquire the skills.

👀How to use YouGlish? 

  1. Search phrases or words in the blank
  2. Choose the accent (All/US/UK/AUS)
  3. Click the button--say it

👀Any limitations? 

  • It may be not suitable for the language teachers to use in the class. It means that the teacher couldn't control the selection of materials on the platform. Therefore, students may come across some grammatical mistakes in the authentic material.
  • Students may be distracted by other things. In the other words, learners can possibly encounter some other new words when they look up the word or phrases they originally don't know.
If you are interested in this tool, you can see this video for more information💬


Overall, I think YouGlish is an effective tool for letting students be immersed in authentic materials but it's not appropriate for teachers to use it in the class. Thanks for reading, see you next week💗

Comments

  1. Elora LiApril 17, 2023 at 3:06 AM

    It's good to see that you've started talking about the limitations of the software this time! You've made your blog more objective and comprehensive, thank you for sharing! However, I think it would be nice to have some more details on how to use it.

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  2. Runping YuApril 17, 2023 at 4:48 AM

    Hi, thank you for sharing. I try Youglish to search for some words with a lot of video results. The videos have diverse topics and some texts are difficult, which may lead to inconvenience to find appropriate videos for students to learn word pronunciation, especially young learners. How do you think about that? Do you think it good to be used by teachers in the classroom?

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