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BelgiumCastGijs
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Hello everyone,

 

I'm currently starting a tech channel on youtube but I'm not sure how good my pronounciation is.

In other words: Am I understandable for people who speak English as their primary language or just anyone else.

I have uploaded one video as a test of some sort, currently the comments I have received are good!

 

This is the video:

 

This definatly is not an "advertisement" for my channel but f you can leave a like to keep the like/view ratio about the same ;-)

 

Thanks in advance!

-Gijs Fiten

 

PS: If you think I can improve please let me know in what area's, just saying something like Your english SUCKS! doesn't help at all.

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You sound great! ^_^

Obviously youve got an accent, but theres nothing you can really do about that + it doesnt interfere with pronunciation, so youre good. Most of us primary English speakers look at is as something more entertaining and appealing to listen to anyway, since its different.

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Sounds like english is your first language

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You sound great! ^_^

 

 

You sound very understandable :3 10/10

 

Thanks guys! I had to read the entire script a couple of times before I got it right... I kept saying HDMI 2.oi in stead of 2.0 Don't know why!

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Dutch?

 

edit: See Belgium in your name, my bad :P still sound Dutch to me

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You pronunciation is like Eber's from hardwarecanucks, basically very easy to understand but with an accent.

Now that's a nice thing to hear!

 

Sounds like english is your first language

Really, I thought my dutch/flamish accent was to noticable for someone to think that!

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Dutch?

 

edit: See Belgium in your name, my bad :P still sound Dutch to me

I have talked a lot with Dutch people over the past couple of years so I kindof got my pronounciation from them ;-)

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I found the accent to be pleasing to the ear.  Good job.

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you can work on your pronunciation of the "t" sound like in the word "ten" or "too" it is supposed to be a much sharper pronunciation, yours is slightly more round, like a "d" sound.

And "W"s are always a bit hard for european languages, like german, polish, or dutch. 

 

You're still very easily understandable, your accent isnt very strong, but it is certainly there with some words. A bit of an accent only adds a bit more flavor to a narrator, i personally prefer some but im not all people. Your grammar is pretty much flawless, if you didn't say you were mildly concerned about it I could easily assume you've been speaking english for most of your life.

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I found the accent to be pleasing to the ear.  Good job.

Thank you!

 

you can work on your pronunciation of the "t" sound like in the word "ten" or "too" it is supposed to be a much sharper pronunciation, yours is slightly more round, like a "d" sound.

And "W"s are always a bit hard for european languages, like german, polish, or dutch. 

 

You're still very easily understandable, your accent isnt very strong, but it is certainly there with some words. A bit of an accent only adds a bit more flavor to a narrator, i personally prefer some but im not all people. Your grammar is pretty much flawless, if you didn't say you were mildly concerned about it I could easily assume you've been speaking english for most of your life.

Thank you for the tips! I will definatly try to apply them in my next video, but it will probably take some practise ;-)

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Sounds good, but you sound rushed :P

I kindof was actually, I only had about 3 minutes of video footage and I had a script of nearly 4 and a half minutes! I also couldn't make more footage easily since I was using that card as my daily driver.

 

You sound great. 10/10 ign

Thank you!

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Very good, except slow down just a liiiiiiiitle bit

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Thank you!

 

Thank you for the tips! I will definatly try to apply them in my next video, but it will probably take some practise ;-)

 

Don't stress it too much. You're perfectly fine as you speak now, its just something to keep in mind if you wanted to try and become some, perfectly unaccented english speaker, which i suppose is really hard, even for someone like me in california, where typically accents are very light.

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Very good, except slow down just a liiiiiiiitle bit

I was a little bit rushed since I only had about 3 minutes of video footage and I had a script of nearly 4 and a half minutes! I also couldn't make more footage easily since I was using that card as my daily driver. but next video I will have more time to take extra footage and talk a bit slower and more clearly.

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Don't stress it too much. You're perfectly fine as you speak now, its just something to keep in mind if you wanted to try and become some, perfectly unaccented english speaker, which i suppose is really hard, even for someone like me in california, where typically accents are very light.

I will just try it and see how it comes out. If it works then you have just helped me improve my english, otherwilst I could at least say I tried!

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Thanks everyone for the feedback! I'm a lot more confident about my English so that will help me even more with creating better content! Thank you to each and everyone of you!

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you need to be more smooth in the product shots.

 

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