Similar English Vowels? Here’s How To NOT Get Confused! [Minimal Pairs Guide]
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Has it ever happened to you that you wanted to say ‘body’ but it came out as ‘buddy’ instead? Or maybe you never noticed that these two words should be pronounced differently because they sound the same to you? If you sometimes confuse vowel pairs in English, this video is for you!
In this episode, I’ll go over some of the key vowel distinctions in English and will help you perceive the difference between each two vowels, and then - how to pronounce and practice them.
Here are the timestamps, so you could pause and practice vowel pairs that are relevant for YOU:
00:00 - Intro
04:02 - Sheep-Ship
05:14 - Bin-Ben
06:32 - Bed-Bad
08:07 - Luck-Lock
12:06 - Pool-Pull
14:30 - Bought-Boat
17:32 - How to practice in the most efficient way
Here are separate videos on some of the vowel pairs you might want to watch:
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➡️Bed vs. Bad • Bed vs. Bad | American...
➡️Cap-Cup-Cop vowels • Cap-Cup-Cop (The 3 A's...
➡️POOL vs. PULL vowels • How to pronounce foot ...
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➕a full Pronunciation Masterclass on all English Vowels + PDF of IPA CHART FREE Download • American English Vowel...
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Hadar you are a gifted teacher. I use what I learn from you to better teach my Native English dyslexic learners. Sound production explained via minimal pairs was never introduced to me in any of my courses for teaching reading. So thankful for your perspective and love the Meryl Strip story.
Wow. Powerful lesson. With my french speaking influence i have serious vowels confusing problems. Thank God for the way you put it, I understand that all I need t is to work hard on it. Sweet cheers Coach. You're a angel.
I'm basically a native bilingual in English & Spanish so idk why I'm watching this but it was a great video!! Your face is very expressive, you do a great job of enunciating, slowly demonstrating even with your hands so that the viewer can get a solid sense of what you mean-and your IPA representations were spot on! If I were to be super nitpicky I would say that the schwa sound is not the same sound as in cup, though that vowel and schwa are effectively merged in american english, the sound in cup is closer to [ɐ] than to [ə] For that sound think [wɑɾɚ] vs [wɑɾɐ] or Ros[ɐ]'s vs ros[ə]s
Your story in the intro reminded me of this time I was probably like 5, I pronounced mosquito in a very anglicized way, I nativized the word as /məskɪtow/ my family never let me live it down lol
anyway keep up the good work!
Finally, I found the teacher I needed! I really like your charisma, your way of explaining! Thank you for your time, for your dedication to teaching and helping others. Pronounce the vowels it works, but “tt”, no, I can’t repeat it, no matter how hard I try🤭
That is very nice of you to point out this kind of mistake from all non native speakers. you've made my day.
Wow.. This lesson was amazing.
I’ve been struggling with words “want” and “won’t” . So, I almost always use the base form “will not”.. but I’ll practice more. Thank you a lot!☺️
The best course to learn the way to pronouce these sounds. Thank you so much for this help!
I was searching for the same type of lessons for a long time. Thank you Hedar. It's really helpful.
Thank you Hadar! You are amazing teacher! God bless you!
The most useful lesson ever about vowels!!
I really canèt thank you enough for this amazing extraordinary video! You just put your finger on the spots that i have been struggling in my life!
An unbelievable lesson, awesome, thanks for your dedication.
It's a very useful lesson. Thank you, teacher Hadar.
It's really an extremely great class. Thak you so much classes like that and, be sure you are helping so many people that for some reasons can't afford to join an English course.
This is difficult at the beginning, but after practicing and listening more, you'll be able to hear the difference. Thanks a lot for this class
Thank you !! excellent session and its extremely useful
Very insightful and powerful lessons. Thank you Hadar
Great video! Thank you Hadar!
Thank you for great lesson and good advice!😘
I Spanish speaker and these sound are difficult for me. But you're explanation is useful.
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What a great video, thank you for drawing your attention to gave out this relevant video because there’re some pinpoint that this video contained and thank you for that, really appreciate for it.
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Thank you teacher. This lesson is very important for me.
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Muito bom!!! From Brazil!!! Espetacular!!!!
the best video I've ever watched about English vowels
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thank you so much for this lesson. you are so amazing and this lesson really helps me a lot
thankyou it's really helpful ! and also clear !
That lesson was outstanding, thank you, Hadar. As a Brazilian and Portuguese speaker, it is easier to think of the "i" in Ship as "ê" (with that little hat on it) and the "ee" in Sheep as our "i". Learning a second language made me fall in love with our diacritics 😅.
Thank you so much my dear teacher.
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great lesson x
Awesome Hadar…Thank you..
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This is a very helpful video! Thank you so much! My first language is Spanish and this is helping me a lot. My main struggle is with the sheep-ship and pool-pull sounds.
Great class👍🏻
Thank you very much. I appreciate your time and effort and hope for more.. and what about the consonants!
Thank you so much! Big help for me since am living in Arab country. It helps me to practice and pronounce it again in a correct way. 🙏 💕
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Hadar, love you sooo much. thank you for the lesson :)
Another good job 👍 thanks Hadar 👏🙋
Really love your lessons. Greetings from AREQUIPA. PERÚ
Thank you !!
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Thank you so much
for me, I'm polish, the most confusing vowels are æ, ʌ, ə, ɑ, because in our native language we only have "a" vowel
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So banging Hadar your exoplanet its very clear . thank's for your teaching
Thanks a lot 🌹
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I love the way you explain! The intrusive sound "y" and "w" in words it's very confusing. I wish you have a video. Thanks
Thanks. It's cup and cop the more difficult pair
Hadar, your anecdote about Meryl makes me think about how people back in the eighties were always complaining about how touchy the French were about pronunciation. You make it sound like NYC was the Paris of the new millennium.
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We, in EU, have so many English lessons at school ! And we keep learning new vocabulary. At the end of high school I was able to read Dickens all day long. But nobody taught us about these differences in pronunciation !
True. I used to go to the libraries, back in the ‘90s. I have been listening to tapes, then created a notebook for writing down words and practice it at home. I haven’t been having difficulties on learning Latin languages, especially Italian and Spanish, because my native language is mostly derived from Latin.
Hi teacher welcome everyday in my life tank you
All the best wishes for you forever
Very helpful lesson thank you Hadar pls keep making the same video I was waited you going to teach how to pronounce lunch vs launch
In all my english schools they told me that foot, book, facebook had to be pronounced as food ("oo"). Thanks for correct my pronounciation beautiful lady. 💓💓💓
The most difficult for me is short vs long u, like foot - food. And as my first language I speak Polish. Thank you so much for your work and that you said you appreciate your listeners. It's really "building" (i don't know whether in english a word "empowering" would exactly mean "building confidence, self-esteem" etc so if anyone knows it correct me please)
I thought it pronounced as "Meryl Strip /strɪp/" and I just got to know it's "Meryl Streep" 😅
Thank you Hadar for saving me from further embarrassment :D
Also, bin-ben pairs are tricky for me.
Hahahaha I got you!
Hello everyone. I am just learning English. I will be happy to find someone with whom I can communicate and speak more English
Thank you! Your lessons are just perfect, I was looking for sth like that.
Can you tell me how long did it take you to learn the accent?
Thanks Hadar for all the advice and the tios that you gave us to improve our pronunciation. I would love to see a video on how to pronounce « committee »
Bitter / better/batter
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Hi Hadar!for at all,thanks for you help ,and my trick voal are:all it ! hahhahha when i speak litle bit fast became a tragery!
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I am a Russian native speaker, and the only pairs that are easy for me to differentiate are bin-ben and boat-bought.
Ship-sheep, luck-lock, bad-bed, pool-pull pairs are very tough. I order to be certain which one was said I need context, and then I can figure out which one makes sense.
I thought I can be struggling with pull and pool but, suddenly I changed my mind completely and Thought. What about Pull and the name Paul.. they sound more like the same to me.. by the way thanks you for taking the time to read us here
Hi Hader .Thank you for your excellent video. See, city and simple, those are most difficult words for me. If you would like to help with these words, that would be great.
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Fantastic teacher is you ilumination hadar
We need a video on vowel practice with exact pronunciations.
We already have it here 👉 th-cam.com/video/9E6F57s-V7U/w-d-xo.html
Hello Hadar
I think the interesting thing is that the american english sound in "father" and "cot" (used for both ah and o) is used a lot in british english where an "a" is present, as in pass, path, past, but is not used for the same letter in pass(ive), path(ology), past(el), which are like the american pronounciation. The "o" sound in british english seems to not occur in american english.
I would be interested to know if americans make the same sound for "saab" and "sob", or for "maam" and "mom", because to me "ah" feels very different to "o". Similarly, does "father" rhyme with "bother"? for me, "father" rhymes with "bather" (if that's a word for someone bathing), and sounds nothing like "bother".
At 9:27 you're confusing people with that set, because there's honest and job on the one hand and coffee and office on the other hand and those are different vowel sounds, unless the cot-caught merger happens
What a great lesson teacher, but I keep confusing /ɑ/ with /ɔ/, I think I have the Cot-Caught merger lol, anyways, i appreciate your effort 🙏
It’s fine though! It’s clear either way! Don’t be bothered by it!
Well
These lil differences are crucial if u wanna aquire American accent, i used to say most of em wrong cuz i wasn't even able to hear them
In this particular case, practicing on your own first is actually better, because if you rely, like I do, to listening to people, you'll might easily get confused because of the variety of accents. I live in Ireland, for example, and after 7 years I still have problems listening and understanding. The American accent is so clear, and I'm kind of used to it because of the movies and some of my American friends, but when I'm with Irish people with a strong Dublin accent, my brain still struggles.
Also, my current English speech is naturally (and unintentionally) influenced by the Irish accent, and I just don't like the sound of it, I'm curious to see how long it will take to shape it after moving to the States
Hi Hadar. Does the schwa sound exactly the same in every syllable? In words like "government," "occurrence," "concurrent" "covenant" and "current", which are all schwa phonemes, do they sound exactly the same?
Yes and no. Technically yes - the tongue is always in the same position, but also no - because it is such a short vowels it may be slightly affected by sounds around it especially Ls and Rs
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Please, more videos on .... Pairs
Boat of both🤔
My mother tongue is Portuguese. It's incredible how English is difficult to spell!
Hi,Hadar. I am from Taiwan. I want to know how to pronounce -oar- ,such as board.Thanks a lot.
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Salary and celery. Now I know how to pronounce them. My first language is Russian
My brain is boiling now!! 😂
Boat, wood, foot, wool,
What? Hadar is not a native English speaker? How is this possible? She has the most pure accent I've ever heard someone speak. So shocked.
😭😭I got shocked too...the day I found out
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Positive im confused with whats the proper pronunciationis it paw sitive or passitive origimaly from Philippines now in Australia o or a
Hi ! :D What's your native languege?
My first language is Spanish
I confuse the ε with the e. I think it happens to people who speak a romance language.
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My first language is Spanish.