SayLish is a quite-new website to help you listen to English words and phrases – as part of presentations and conversations posted on YouTube.  PLUS – you can record your own voice, to compare your pronunciation with the video.

Voice recording support has been added just recently on iPhone/iPad with Safari, and we’ll give an example with that.  It also works with Android phones/tablets, and desktop computers.

For example, if you search for videos with the word “infrequently“, you will see part of a YouTube video that contains your chosen word.  After you listen to this, you can pause and …

•   Repeat this to hear it again 
•   Go to the next video that contains this word
• or press the “Speaking” button to switch to the screen where you can record your voice
•   After you listen, press the microphone to record, and try to pronounce the words you hear.  Then press Stop () when you finish

Then you can …

•   Compare your pronunciation with the speaker in the video
•   Go to the next part of the SAME video
•   Go to the next video that contains your search word

Saylish has additional features which we will cover in another posting.