How to Pronounce MAN vs. MEN - American English
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- Learn how to hear the difference between MAN and MEN, and pronounce the two words correctly. MEN has a pure EH [ɛ] vowel, but MAN can be especially tricky! Get Rachel's Book: RachelsEnglish.com/book SUBSCRIBE!: bit.ly/RE_sub, Fan! bit.ly/RE_FB
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To me is equal the pronunciation:
ma'am=man=men
Perhaps for natives it comes more natural, but for me, as a Brazilian, until this video it had always been complicated to notice the difference. Great job, and thanks.
You're welcome!
man é um som exagerado mano, como méééan pouco exagerado e longo, e men é som de E de elefante. um som rápido. cara eu percebo a diferença. sou brasileiro também.
Caramba, tem muito brasileiro aqui hein...
Seria semelhante as palavras "Sabia" e "Sabiá" em português. "Sabiá" tem um som mais longo, enquanto "sabia" é mais curta a pronuncia.
@@yuribatista7268 nossa faz muito sentido, agora eu consegui entender a diferença, muito obrigado
there is no different for me
Same for me
there is no *difference* for me
Edmar Farias Man é ligeiramente mais agudo e longo. Qq coisa o contexto ajuda..haha
I must admit, you must have very sharp ears, to distinguish [ɛ] from [æ].
Glaucio Ribeiro men = mén; man = méán [pt-br]
It's so similar I have been difficult to differentiate them in pronunciation. My native language is Portuguese from Brazil.
I agree with you, and I am also a Brazilian. Cheers, bro!
Oh man, I didn't even know this word had two vowels, man.
I guess I can pronounce them differently, but I can't distinguish when I'm hearing them. 😕
Sameeeeeee, I can only distinguish them when a British person says them.
Maaan! This tip with the tongue touching the roof of the mouth was awesome! This is the key to the plural! I've tried in Google translate and it work perfectly! Thank you so much Rachel! I'm Brazilian! 😁🇺🇲🇧🇷
awesome , and so much better to have news from you !!!!
Muchas gracias Rachel, tus vídeos son de gran ayuda para mi por que estoy aprendiendo ingles y así puedo una mejor pronunciación desde el inicio.
Rachel, this video is just amazing. Thank you so much for explaining this so simply.
You're very welcome!
wow! I really appreciate this lesson. Rachel you're the best English pronunciation teacher. Well everybody knows it but I just wanted to say it again😄
Thank you for the understandable explanation of the difference between these vowel sounds
Wow!!!...Rachael. That's great! You make me very happy with this video. I've learnt to speak the words "man" and "men". Unbelievable GOD Bless you!
thank you for the vedio.your vedios are really helpful for them who are learning English as their second language.I really love your channel.....✌☺😀😁
It may seem tedious with the explanation but in the end it turns out very helpful and easy to follow. Thanks so much Rachel, you're the best.
You're very welcome Beni!
Bigggg Thx Rachel
It's really helpful
for a long time i was confused with those two sound
This was a tough one, thanks for the video, you are the best English resource I have on internet!
+Rafael R. S. Robles Thanks!
Good explanation Rachel! Thanks!
You're welcome!
thank you so much!!! perfect explanation! i Wish every student would watch your videos too
Hi, Rachel, thank you so much for your unwavering dedication to constantly providing English education programs, your lessons have been an inspiration to me. undoubtedly I've been one of your faithful fans, I was wondering if you could show me the pronunciation of visual, usual, unusual and so on... thanks!
Rachel, thank you so much for keeping producing your awesome and super helpful pronunciation videos. Could you make one about the difference between such word pairs as stuck - stock, suck - sock, duck - dock, etc. I know you have amazing separate new videos on each of these sounds, but it would be really helpful to have one video contrasting this sounds. Once again, thanks a million!
+Roman Priscepov I actually have a video that deals with those types of word pairs (AH as in FATHER vs. UH as in MOTHER)! Take a look: th-cam.com/video/eJPv2mJJwHQ/w-d-xo.html
I just saw the movie "The Irishman" yesterday, and since my mom has trouble with English I wrote down: The Irishman, The Irish man, and The Irish Men and she pronounced all 3 the same. When I told her it's all pronounced differently, she didn't believe me. But now she knows haha. Even when I said men and man she just said "it sounds exactly the same". Until I showed her this video :)
Thanks. It solved a big question for me.
Great Rachel I have problems with these two words, thanks so much.
I finally understood the difference.. Thank you so much, Rachel!! Big hugs from Brazil!!
You're so welcome Vai!
Thank you so much ♡ keep doing the great work
Excellent explanation. Thanks.
Thank you so much Rach ! Now I better hear the difference between those two words !! Thank you, you're still the best ! love from France !
+Agnès Besson :)
It took me quite some time to convince myself of those differences. Yet, they do exist. Great video!
It's extremely subtle and ridiculous that such subtleties lead to completely different words.
Wow, I've never seen such thorough explanation. Thanks, miss! 😁
You're welcome Gabriel!
Thanks a lot, another excellent video!!
I finally got it because of you, teacher! Thank you so much!👍🏽
🇧🇷🤝🇺🇸
My pleasure Alex!
Thank you for articulating so well...
Thank you for the useful video!
I'm confused with walk and work, too.
*Thanks teacher, I hope to buy yourbook soon !!!*
you are a great teacher, Rachel.
Obrigado pela ajuda... (thank you for help me).
Now I got the hang of what the difference in sound between men and man is. Thanks again, Rachel. 👍👍👍
You’re welcome! 😊
FINALLY, I CAN UNDERSTAND!!!
Oh thanks a lot from Brazil! =D
Thanks Rachel, I had had this doubt during years
Thanks so much!! It's a great video.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Teacher, great job !
Very good. Thanks!
Thank you for this video! It was so helpful for me :)
You're welcome!
thanks for the videos, subscribed!
you are a great teacher!! Thank you
Once again, I agree with everythng you are saying about how to pronounce 'man' and 'men'. But in anticipation of the final nasal sound 'n' it causes the vowels 'a' and 'e' to become nasalized too.
Great lesson Rachel.
Thank you for sharing this video
You're welcome!
😮 I'm Brazilian and for the first time I understood that! 😂😍 I loved it! Thank you, Rachel! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The best explanation!
Glad you liked it @Simbuera!
Rachel you help a lot!!!
Thank you very much! Now it's clear
You're welcome!
It helps a lot. Thx Rachel !!!
You're welcome Eric!
Love your videos. They are very helpful.
My pleasure!
Very tricky for me. Really hard to notice the difference in a real conversation and also hard to pronounce correctly. Thanks for one more excellent video. Cheers...
Thank you so much, teacher Rachel!!! 😊
You're very welcome @elisanzfonse!
I love you rachel, all of this help me a lots.
Hi Rachel, I'd like to see the difference between Road vs World. Could you make a video about it? Thanks so much for the tips!
Very good!!!!!!! Thanks 🙏🏼
Awesome explanation! tks a lot!
You're welcome Anderson!
Thanks ma'am for your awesome presentation
My pleasure Longjam!
Before I couldn't pin them down. Now I can play it up. Thanks. Keep up good work
great teacher :).Thanks!
Thanks so much for everything, Rachel!
thank's a lot Rachel
Increadible!!! thank's
Coolness! I hope I finally heard the difference! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
thanks a lot!
I understood! Thank you 🤗👍
My pleasure!
Hello Miss Rachel,
I am one of your subscribers from Philippines. I really love your pronunciation videos. It helps me a lot. I would like to know how to pronounce properly the words "WHEN" (wen or hwen) & "WHERE" (wer or hwer).
Thank you so much and more power!
Paul from Philippines
+Paul Inot rachelsenglish.com/pronounce-wh-words/
Thank you, Rachel
You're welcome Lutas!
Nice system to teach pronunciation, before i had problems with man/men, thanks.
Glad to hear that!
Thank you, Rachel. This is really a tough pair to pronounce correctly.
How about woman vs women?
+Wilson Botelho Thanks for this idea!
Wonderful video!Keep up the good work! :) I'm curious about the transcription of 'man', I've seen [mæn], [mɛən], [meən] or even [mɪən], but never the one you use in the video, I don't mean to imply yours is wrong, I'm just surprised. By the way, my cousin is Canadian and he uses a pure [æ] in man, dance, chance, and, example, channel etc. I even asked him to pronounce the word 'man' a couple of times (he started asking if there was something wrong :D) and I could clearly hear the same a sound as in bath. Accents..never cease to amaze me, too bad most natives don't realize how diverse they are.
Thanks for your amazing episodes, Rachel.
Can you do an episode about the difference between "new" and "knew" ?
Thanks
+Abdullah Mahmoud Those are pronounced the same ... they are 'homophones'.
+Rachel's English i didn't know that, thanks
Thank u Reachel!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you I get more idea
Thank you so much! I've always made a confusion about these two words. I can't tell how grateful I am, teacher!
hello
Rachel, can you please make a video for WANT VS WON'T
Thank you
Thank you teacher👍👍👍
Thank u so much ❤️ u helped me
Thanks.
Your videos are owesome! I have mistakes on my pronunciation like: WERE and WHERE, and... how can I pronounce LEARN??? Thanks!
+Emmanuel Piedrabuena These are great video suggestions, thank you!
excellence thanks a lot
Good video I am going to learn how to pronounce these words
For Dutch (and maybe speakers of other languages than Dutch and English) this video is extremely important. They can't hear and speak the difference between [ɛ] and [æ]. They are very easily confused.
We have some English loanwords in our language, such as "tram". The - according to me - correct pronunciation of "tram" in English is [tɹæm], but we Dutch tend to pronounce it as [trɛm], which is obviously pronunciated with a strong Dutch accent. If you speak English like that, the English listeners will notice that and think: "He/she is a foreigner, not a native speaker of English."
Hi Rachel. Could you please make a video about how we can pronunce the word would, and the contraction i'd???Thanks for attending this suggestion.
Thanks a lot
the best explanation
Even after learning all this,
the only thing that got me to make them sound different was
thinking that the singular (man) sounds nasal
and the plural (men) doesn't sound nasal.
Hi Rachel, can you please upload the videos of exercises for practice to say words like ''male '' and ''man''. Beacause i am still struggling to pronounce long vowel sounds.
Thanks
excelente!!!
hi Rachel !! I love your videos !!! ;-)
please make a video with the sounds of: bad and bed !!!
+Polliana França Thanks for the video suggestion!
omg this video was just perfect
thank you rachel
The sound is actually the same, but I think I got the difference. Anyway, thanks teacher.
Thank you for your nice VDO. I'd like you to explain the differences of phonetic symbols between /nju:/ and /nu:/ in 'new'. Thank you.
Hello Rachel! Can you please make a video explaining the vowel schwa, I think it is very tricky. Thank you!
Just perfect