How to use a vowel grid (in 8 minutes).
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
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The vowel grid (also known as quadrilateral) is a shape that shows you how to position the mouth to make vowel sounds.
It's very useful to develop distinctions between similar vowel sounds such as /iː/ and /ɪ/ in English. But it can seem quite abstract for learners who are new to it - a lot of lines and strange symbols going on!
In this video I explain how the chart relates to the mouth, exploring the position of the tongue both horizontally and laterally, and the rounding of the lips.
There is a live drill of the full IPA vowel grid and at the end of the video I map my vowel sounds (in SSB/GB/Modern RP) onto the chart.
The 2015 International Phonetic Association vowel chart is used in the video.
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I have a degree in Languages and I teach Portuguese as a foreign language. I wish I'd had a teacher like you when I was at university.
the best vowel grid explanations.
Thanks!
Funny and helpful at the same time.
Excellent video! As someone who has been trying to improve his English pronunciation, I found this video very helpful. Hope to see a similar video on the English consonants! Many thanks!
Thanks very much! There'll be one on the consonant chart soon.
When I compare your chart with Cruttenden's, Roach's or even the most recent Carley's, nobody seems to agree about the starting point of the diphthongs /aɪ/ and /aʊ/, even though you are all referring to the same accent. Your chart is the one that matches what I hear the best, but I don't know if I can trust what I hear (I'm not a native speaker). Could you help us understand where those two sounds start from and why nobody agrees? Thank you for your amazing videos!
The thing about those 2 diphthongs /aɪ/ (or /ʌɪ/) and /aʊ/ is that they have a very wide variety of possible starting positions, even in the same accent. I can start both quite front or back and I won't go outside of the GB/SSB model, so it means that you can describe them in different ways. This is actually true of a lot of English accents, you hear a wide variety of starting points for diphthongs in lots of accents so I wouldn't try to be too precise.
@@PronunciationStudio that was very helpful thank you 🤗
Wow crazy… I was just trying to figure out all the IPA sounds, but after all your demonstration, I decided to stick on where I was.
The IPA shown in Cambridge dictionary is enough for me as an ESL😂
But thank you for your contribution, look forward to seeing more informative videos!
Thank you! I'm glad it's helpful - use however much phonetics you need to help with learning English.
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Thank you so much
Is this an app? I would love to improve my vowel pronunciation in American accent. Any tool, app, or resource I could use that provides feedback on how I place them?
Why do you show your GOOSE vowel for the word "who" closer to /ʉ/ than /u/ even though you use the symbol for the latter?
Because phonemically GOOSE is /uː/ though it is closer to [ʉː] phonetically.
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Great
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Face reveal?!! 😲😲😲😲
I know! I thought it would be helpful for the vowel drills.
@@PronunciationStudio it's nice to see the face behind the channel 😊
@@PronunciationStudio yes! Thank you for your work I always learn sth new ☺️
棒！对学习音素感觉有实质性的帮助(特别是表格附加舌及口腔位置的视觉说明)❤😂