Growing up in HK in the 70s, like everyone else, ABC was the standard issue in a local “English” school. However, my parents were progressive enough to throw me in an English “language” school who taught me to use phonics. My entire HK school life was blessed with my ability to speak better English than anyone else (hence, better grades=more freedom! Golden rule for a Chinese Mum) It also made an easy transition for me when we migrated to NYC in my teenage years. The “system” stayed with me… almost half a century, 3 continents and 5 languages later… This is one of the most important survival skills I have acquired. I can learn and speak any European languages with ease. (now… remembering the volcabulary is another thing 😂). I am baffled why the HK schools are still teaching ABC… Anyhow.. Love your channel and continue your good work! 加油!繼續努力!
我都有讀寫障礙,小學英文成日都好高分,默書80、90係好正常。反而我讀小學嘅時候,我啲中文就成日都唔合格!我升到中學之後,英文啲考試都認真麻麻,因為我覺得佢哋嗰啲教科書同埋試卷勁無聊!我最記得我中二上嘅英文堂,學校個英文先生响堂上面讀緊around the world in 80 days。我讀小學嘅時候,我就已經睇完呢本書啦!
@thereynoldsfamily
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Really great sharing! Pleased to know you had a positive experience learning in this way 🤙🏻 The important thing about learning is that there are multiple paths to success, not just the one way that might be taught on a school curriculum ☺️
@@cindyheartful都唔係 我女學校 k1教26個英文字發音 k2就教曬44個組合音同Blending k3就教writing and spelling
@hohoho9982
Жыл бұрын
我依前讀書班英文唔係特別優秀的同學都走晒去教幼稚園同小學英文。咁你明窮家子弟會從一班咩質素老師身上學英文。想下一代學好英文,一係去讀國際學校,一係移民到英語國家,一係父母係native English user
@cryyanexplore24
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@@yimhoiyan914 完全唔係,卷校K1開始學PHONICS
@dominic213w
Жыл бұрын
除咗香港人成日讀錯l and r 音之外,仲有就係香港人成日讀錯l and n 音。我都覺得用phonics嚟學英文係比較make sense ,因為英文都係拼音文字。咁樣你先至可以用聯想力學到英文發音。仲有香港人講英文好鍾意亂加stress!我記得我以前讀中學同埋小學嘅時候,我嚟英國讀summer school嘅時候係完全聽得明,我同屋企人去戲院睇西片又係完全冇問題。但係返到香港學校開早會,學校啲先生、校長同埋校監用英文演講,就唔知佢哋噏乜嘢囉!我要好辛苦同埋好俾心機去聽,我先至大概聽得明佢哋啲英文!唉,佢哋英文啲音全部都黐埋一舊舊囉!
@thereynoldsfamily
Жыл бұрын
Yes learning a language always has many levels and then it also depends how you are actually using that language in your daily life and at work too. This is hopefully where the Casual Curriculum can give you a bit more confidence 😄
@dominic213w
Жыл бұрын
@@thereynoldsfamily Yeah actually I looked up from the academic papers about this. Since I'm dyslexic and some Cantonese dyslexic speakers like me; they actually find English is easier than Chinese. There's an article from the BBC about it too. I never had any difficulties in learning English at all but I always find Chinese is pretty hard. Even though I can read and write Chinese, I still make more a lot more typos in Chinese than in English.
反而我由細都大,我都冇背過字典囉!我細細個就執阿菲傭姐姐口水尾去學,細細個去英國讀summer school 同英國人溝通又完全冇問題。但係我响學校考試啲成績又認真麻麻,我讀中一嘅時候,我已經識得用英文打字去外國啲forum 度問嘢。日常生活應用同埋用英文溝通係完全冇問題,但係香港考試考嘅嘢同日常生活係完全無關!我覺得華人最大嘅問題係當英文係一種工具去學。而家有時我都仲會聽到有啲台灣人話要背字典...... 唉呀!我就真係皺晒眉頭!
This is a very important video for me. I am also facing a this kind of challenge for my life and interviews in the UK. So thank you very much.
@thereynoldsfamily
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Really pleased to hear it and good luck! 😁
@julie22221021
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The first time I saw you guys was on insta’s reel, I remember it was about pregnancy while you were in college. I’m so happy now I found your KZitem, such a beautiful family ❤. My dad’s also from Hong Kong 😊
@maxalvin
Жыл бұрын
English is only considered a partially phonic language (as opposed to fully phonic ones like Spanish). Learning phonics definitely helps to a certain degree but you need to understand that it benefits native English learners and non-native English learners very differently.
@clem1300
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It’s absolutely possible to learn English phonetics in less than an hour or even half hour. It’s all there at the back of the Oxford English Learners’ Dictionary. But for some reason it has - so far as I know - never been taught at schools in Hong Kong. I suspect most English teachers do not know phonetics themselves, unless they majored in linguistics in university. Learning phonetics is key and should be one of the first things taught as early as possible in English classes at school.
@cc4829
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Yes I highly recommend children to learn the sounds using IPA chart since it’s more accurate and also have the sound - schwa. I found that it’s quite difficult for me to teach them some words that has more than one syllable cuz the secondary stress is a schwa sound usually. I really dunno how to explain to them😅
@clem1300
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@@cc4829 The consonants shouldn’t cause problems. With experience the students will know how to get it right. The vowels determine the pronunciations so students need to be able to utter them correctly. Try maybe to ask them to associate each vowel with an equivalent Cantonese or other sound, with which they are familiar. This will help them memorise the correct pronunciation of each vowel. There is one which is particularly tricky and when I was a student, the tutor in our class asked us to think, when uttering the vowel in question, the sudden, little sound that one makes when one has a hiccup… This trick still works for me. Students in Hong Kong will speak the best English in this part of the world if they are taught the consonants and vowels properly. I really think native Cantonese speakers are innately better at speaking foreign languages than say the Japanese, the Singaporeans or the Mandarin speakers.
@tywoods3613
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@@cc4829 Depending on their age, giving children another script (of IPA symbols) may not be an evidence-based practice
@cc4829
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@@tywoods3613 but now all the parents in Hk let the child to learn phonics at 3. So it’s kinda hard to explain the rule
@cc4829
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@@clem1300 yeh, when the first letter is a consonant like CVC, then it won’t cause any problems. However, if the word is CCV for example, voiceless sound after S will change to voiced like Star we won’t say s-t-ar instead say s-d-ar. I asked a student to blend in my class and he did say s-t-ar and which is wrong. It’s so hard to explain this phonetic rule since they are only in kindergarten. So somehow I really think learning phonics is quite confusing.
@Jen2020
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Learning phonics helps me read and spell different words, especially some challenging words. My spelling and my reading have improved when I learnt teaching young learning phonics. I am still learning because some sounds, especially those in phases 4 and 5, are quite challenging, e.g. digraph or trigraph. As you have mentioned, there are 44 sounds. In addition, there are more words that can't sound them out, which makes spelling even more challenging. However, if we have a strong foundation of phonics awareness, we can read and spell most of the words! Thanks for your video! 😃
@alexalex-bk5ls
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Yeah生動有趣實用的教英文演繹。 🤩🤩👏👏👍👍 💪💪💪💪💪💪
@louise8204
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很好的教學影片!支持你地出多啲教英文既video 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
@hisonling
Жыл бұрын
When I was studying Elicos in Australia, I also learned phonics at first. It's really enhanced my pronunciation in speaking of English. It's been twenty years already and I do miss my old days.😢 Btw, first time watching you guys worth my subscription 😊
@wlc142
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多謝你哋教我哋phonics ,2個小朋友好好可愛呀。🥰🥰🥰
@sillybaros
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好鍾意你的教學🙂👍希望遲d可以拍幾集教下phonics 發音🙏🙏
@camelofiesta3497
Жыл бұрын
This is a really good episode, I realized the same thing happened to my friends, they are good at reading comprehension but not listening. I always wonder why, I think it is really due to the problem of learning English alphabetically in Hong Kong🙈🥲 Inspiring episode! Thank you Gladys and Lawrence! ❤
That's what we learn in sch ( pre- sch ) in Singapore! We learn phonics be4 we learn how to read
@LK-di8pe
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This is useful! Thanks the Reynolds! But have to say .. Eileen looks like Lawrence's sister instead of his mom!
@shushu1996
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這集超有幫助~奶奶真的太棒了!我是台灣學生!
@thereynoldsfamily
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Fantastic. Glad it helps! 😁
@ashleya8479
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自然拼讀法。好有意思,沒聽過有這個方法~謝謝!
@jlouie8835
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Laurence definitely need to start new You Tube channel teaching English.
@ivanleung1656
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excellent, it's a great episode with a warmful and good learning ingredients 👍👍❤❤
@manmankong2890
Жыл бұрын
聽你講英文, 會覺得好舒服
@chapfor7
Жыл бұрын
To be fair there are so many different accents in english and on top of it english has so many borrowed words ...phonics is great but when all the vowels can be pronounced differently based on accents and what languages the words are borrowed from ... Also ...when you learn a second lamguage you try to use the method you use for your first ...we never learn cantonese in phonics soooo...we are destined to be visual learner first It would be the same for english speakers to learn cantonese ...they have to change the method otherwise they will never know the difference of tones...or characters ...or strokes ...
@imadcoool6901
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This program is really useful ❤ love love love 😊
@mkcs1222
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Thank you so much! It’s so useful❤
@SandyWang-wc7gp
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好喜歡這個主題
@user-jm4ll6ee9x
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Hi. They are so useful to me and please don't delete these. Keep making these. Thanks 👍😊.
@bonniewan6523
Жыл бұрын
I want to learn Phonics after watch this video.
@gigi9079
Жыл бұрын
Me too. I can't find phonics class for audlt in HK.
When I was a child, our teacher taught us sight English. Just list Glady's mother, I tried to spell the word in mind. When I was a Secondary stduent, I found a pattern of words. Try to speak those words base on my understanding. Nowadays, most children learn phonics which really helps their learning in English. Thanks for Laurence and Glady's teaching. It is a very interesting episode.
@thereynoldsfamily
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing and thanks for your kind words. We hope you find more of the Casual Curriculum interesting too 😊
@mick7827
Жыл бұрын
非常有啟發性的一集
@thereynoldsfamily
Жыл бұрын
Thanks ☺️
@Agnes_k.
Жыл бұрын
C & G sound different as prefix😂. G with vowels are the sound made with mouth slightly wider than C by starting with mouth shape of o; eg. Is gone. C with vowels are the sound made with mouth opening less than G by starting with mouth shape of u; eg. Is cone .
This certainly applies to a lot of first words you might learn to say and spell 😊
@irenewong3950
Жыл бұрын
It’s really interesting, thanks for teaching ❤
@thereynoldsfamily
Жыл бұрын
Our pleasure 😊
@yanwong8529
Жыл бұрын
Lovely Noah and Fin Fin🤩
@teresayung9069
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Lawrence said: 'It is just as valuable if not more.' This is also an interesting grammar which if we can use it in our daily conversation, we sound native?
@thereynoldsfamily
Жыл бұрын
You can always try to implement things you hear in these episodes yes! 😄
@kevinlau5940
Жыл бұрын
Phonics and ipa
@TopicContemporary
9 ай бұрын
MORE PLS!!!
@user-dg9hh2il1b
3 ай бұрын
想請教grandma這個名點讀?Cecil,香港老一代學英文衹定口l是舌頭向上口腔發聲在喉嚨
@romiyan8844
Жыл бұрын
phonics真係好重要,係澳洲讀緊master,上年同一個台灣同學一齊係小學實習,睇到local小朋reception, year 1 and 2都會學同練習phonics打好個底,所以year 1的小朋友基本有d字未學過都係用phonics咁嘗試拼出黎,當下台灣同學同我同樣覺得點解我地細個唔係咁樣學英文,唔怪得我地spelling同發音唔好又奇怪
@icyhugs
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Not sure if it is still the same in HK now, I grew up during the 80s and 90s. We were first taught phonics in P5 & 6, the last 2 years of primary school. Then it's thrown away again as we got into junior high school. I heard the word phonics again by the time of college -____- We were taught the pronunciation simply by memorizing how the teachers pronounced it, lol. Therefore, it was very confusing as u have a teacher with British accent for 1 year, then another with American accent XDDD Even if we go to a church to join the Mass in English, we will still get confused as most Catholic priests serving foreigners perishes came from Canada and US, and the Anglican church priests came from UK. We still get a lot of toMAto vs toMAYto (tomatoes) , AR-men vs A-men (Amen) moments. It's really challenging to try going all English or all American English in HK.
@suetkwanjoanneleung5096
Жыл бұрын
I like Noah so much❤❤❤
@hforharriet
Жыл бұрын
i think ‘scone’ is pronounced similar to ‘bone’ or ‘phone’ is because the E in the end makes the O is a long O (‘oh’ sound)? correct me if im wrong🤔
美國人講英文會用連音, 英國人可以這樣說嗎? 例如: What are you going to do? 連音變成 Whaddaya gonna do?
@joannacheung39
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TKS ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@happyfootballgroup
Жыл бұрын
學到野👏👏👏
@cappychan6845
Жыл бұрын
學法好唔同啊👍🏻
@imadcoool6901
9 ай бұрын
Watch 2nd times, never feel bored
@thereynoldsfamily
9 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏🏻😊
@abcabc2680
Жыл бұрын
The correct British way of pronouncing SCONE should be SKON rhyme with gone. * had to edit from SC TO SK
@thereynoldsfamily
Жыл бұрын
Haha the debate continues! 😂☺️
@waiywong9353
Жыл бұрын
I debated with my british colleague few days ago on the same topic as well. Sc(one) or S(cone)😂
@britishterencehongkongese3373
Жыл бұрын
The marriage ring can't take off for any situation!
@dr.strange-backtofuture3991
Жыл бұрын
3:52 我覺得簡單d, 叫 G lady s 算😂
@manson857
Жыл бұрын
如果0基礎學英文淨係識a至z由邊到入手最易😅
@pakheichan7830
Жыл бұрын
個手勢係咪有意思😂
@dorisfan2689
Жыл бұрын
I would like to learn more about phonics where possible please
@thereynoldsfamily
Жыл бұрын
Good to know. We’ll work on delivering more 😊
@jlouie8835
Жыл бұрын
My friend taught English in HK for years, her English pronunciation is terrible but she seems to be proud of being an English teacher and I choked every time I heard her speaking English with a terrible accent . She didn't realize how bad it was until she immigrated to Canada. Her English communications has improved substantially over the next 40 years. But if she is still in HK teaching English, just imagine what would have happened to the next generation students she taught? There are thousands of English teachers in HK teaching bad English and that's terrible. I was lucky enough to learn English from Canadian nuns but in my US household, I only teach my kids and grandkids Chinese, I leave the English learning to my kids teacher and the native Americans.
@irisevin7261
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To be honest, I believe that accent is of negligible importance when compared to the quality of teaching. During my PGdE programme interview, the issue of accent was raised, and all the interviewees unanimously agreed that it holds no significant impact as long as the pronunciation is clear and the teaching quality is excellent. The term "native speaker" is often subject to interpretation. For instance, many Singaporeans learn English as their first language, yet they are not deemed native English speakers. Similarly, Scottish people in the UK may face communication challenges with other British citizens who find their accents difficult to comprehend. Instead of attempting to master a so-called "standard" accent, we ought to expose ourselves to a diverse range of English accents. Ultimately, English serves as a lingua franca, uniting people from various regions of the world.
@dominic213w
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@@irisevin7261 Actually even though I grew up in Hong Kong, quite a few people said I have a Malaysian/Singaporean accent. Even a Malaysian student thought I was Malaysian. The Georgie taxi driver thought I have an American accent. The accent doesn't matter but the issue is many Hong Kong English teachers have very poor knowledge of English. They kept on mispronouncing the English words, so my English is always better than my Hong Kong English teachers in practice.
@dorothy0125g
Жыл бұрын
Reynold‘s Family 🫶🏻🇭🇰🇬🇧I learn it a lot 🥰👍🙏🏼
@thereynoldsfamily
Жыл бұрын
Really pleased to hear it ☺️
@winnielui1224
Жыл бұрын
Do you mind to give us scone recipe?
@wongwong3834
Жыл бұрын
好細聲,上一次教學英文也是很細聲
@tangb001
Жыл бұрын
好好呀 學英文
@jadejadekeitung
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the informative video!! 可唔可以請教下究竟英國人係句子最後,唔同情況底下會有唔同’X’s, 究竟應該點樣應用🥲 移民去英國生活咗2年,都搵唔到一個實際答案🤣
@tywoods3613
Жыл бұрын
You mean like “good luck xxx”? The crosses are kisses
@kerorokeroro
Жыл бұрын
可不可以教怎樣學😢
@1msfashionista
Жыл бұрын
more videos pls
@lokyi2003
9 ай бұрын
好想叫大學個韓國教授睇呢集
@aupuishan2012
Жыл бұрын
可以建議入門英文書畀小孩子嗎?
@bellachan119
Жыл бұрын
LOL 😅🤣 the kids now start learning phonics in kindergarten already 🙃
@thereynoldsfamily
Жыл бұрын
That’s great. The idea is to be learning phonics as early as possible 🤙🏻😄
@Brian_yang
Жыл бұрын
Gladys = Glass 不要ss 變成dys
@lewisliamjr
Жыл бұрын
Right but not all right. L2 learners learn the alphabet first because they don't use the English language as native speakers do. They need letters to read, to write, and to make learning grammar easier. Phonics does help pronunciation and hence spelling words, but it hardly helps all other aspects of the language, esp. for L2 learners.
@ellie4358
Жыл бұрын
I thought we learnt International Phonetic Alphabet, but I still have problems in th- and r- sounds.
@juju3610
Жыл бұрын
想問咁phonics vs phonetics 呢? 小朋友應該學邊樣?
@thereynoldsfamily
Жыл бұрын
Phonetics is more about the study of how sounds are physically produced and is an area of linguistics. The International Phonetic Alphabet is definitely helpful to learn though. Phonics is the application of those sounds in use, for reading, spelling and pronunciation. So this is what children will be taught 😄 Most educational settings that teach these areas at a young age will classify it as phonics, though phonetics is definitely involved too ☺️
@cc4829
Жыл бұрын
Highly recommend 學ipa chart ,如果小朋友記得到,有D音phonics 係冇,到學嗰時又唔知點explain 個音係唔同,其實有D rule 大少少先學會好D我自己覺得,但當然細個學咗basic single sounds and digraphs 先都有啲幫助
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