Tom Sentences 2018
Listen and repeat to practice intonation, rhythm and pronunciation with these YouTube videos.

The Videos

How to Use These Videos

As you repeat, try substituting in other people's names.

You can also try other substitutions such as changing the wildcard city name "Boston" to other city names, changing "French" to another language, changing "Monday" to another day of the week, etc.

Instead of "Tom", you can also use phrases like the following.
  • that man
  • that boy over there
  • the man you met yesterday
  • my father
  • my brother
  • my best friend
  • my French teacher
  • the tallest boy in the class

You can also use women's names, though sometimes you will have to change pronouns from "he" to "she", "his" to "her" or "hers", or "him" to "her." You may also need to change other words like "wife", "girlfriend", "boyfriend", "husband", "brother", "sister", etc.

You can also try using pronouns instead of "Tom." (he, she, him, her)

These videos use a real human voice. Some other videos on YouTube use text-to-speech (TTS) which shouldn't be trusted.

See the YouTube Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDsaecWm7XsV-OBucJRGYcqr9UWXukou4

About These Videos

  • These are sentences that I've recorded for the Tatoeba Project . The Tatoeba Project is set up to allow people to translate these sentences into their own native language. Perhaps you would enjoy becoming part of that project.
  • You can find lists of sentences that are on each video using this search on tatoeba.org.
    https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences_lists/of_user/CK/Tom%20Sentences
  • The data from tatoeba.org is being used on this website under the Creative Commons - Attribution 2.0 France license.
  • The videos were made by me using my voice and are copyrighted © 2018 by Charles Kelly.

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