[00:00:00] If you don't know how to pronounce a word in English, I know the best tool for you.

You can find real examples how the word is said in British English, American English, even Australian English. It's completely free and works for so many words. Let's have a look.

[00:00:18] So, if you go on Google or any search engine of your choice and type in YouGlish; like “You" from YouTube, “Glish” from English, and you go on this one, or you just go on “youglish.com,” consent to their cookies and search for any word that you are interested in learning how to pronounce.

So, for example, I'm going to type in the word bounce. You may have seen this written down. You may not know what it means or how to pronounce it.

[00:00:51] You search it in YouGlish. And it will give you examples from YouTube of people saying the word bounce. So, this is one video out of 8,183.

Let's have a listen. “These waves of air pressure enter our ear canals and bounce off the eardrum.” And bounce off the eardrum. Okay, it even shows you the sentence here. So, you can see it in context as well, which is excellent.

[00:01:22] Let's have a look at the next one

[00:01:26] “Its also got a real sort of bounce to it” Bounce to it. Did you see how different that was? That shows you how the same words can be pronounced completely differently.

So, if we go on UK, we'll hear some British people saying the bounce, so the first one was a British person.

[00:01:44] “And the idea was that sunlight would bounce off the mirror.” Bounce off the mirror, sounds quite similar. “These kinds of events, but the only way of seeing how they actually bounce back.” Bounce back, okay, phrasal verb.

“And even light particles they can convert often bounce off them.” Bounce off them. Okay. Let's have a look at an American saying bounce. “Its also got a real sort of bounce to it, which is.” There you go, same one.

[00:02:07] “Why? Just keeps me balanced and I can bounce things off for,” okay. “We'll… we'll bounce around. We're gonna go there.” We'll bounce around. “Than just a single bounce around.” Single bounce around the corner.

Let's listen to some Australians. “Bounce ideas off others.” Bounce ideas off.

[00:02:25] “We could project off, bounce off with a long one.” This is great because you can see so many different people from different parts of the world pronouncing the same word.

If you do want to practice saying it yourself, you can just say it after them, or you can type it in Google, “bounce pronunciation,” and you'll be able to see what it sounds like.

[00:02:48] Bounce. You can choose the pronunciation as well, British or American. It's a bit more robotic and it's not real people saying it like YouGlish.

But yes, it still can be really helpful. You can slow it down. “Bounce.” Bounce. Okay. Yeah, so that's the tool. So that's the video. Very quick. Just wanted to show you that excellent tool that I came across because I think it's fantastic.

[00:03:17] See you later.