The /ɜ:/ Sound
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This is the /ɜ:/ sound. It is a Vowel sound and it’s technical name is the ‘Open-Mid Central Unrounded Vowel’.
Remember that the key to pronunciation s physical and the name tells us about how the sound is made physically. In this case your tongue is low and in the center of your mouth. Unrounded refers to your lips because they are stretched out as if you are smiling and not rounded..
All vowels are made through the mouth and are voiced so you vibrate your vocal chords to make the sound.
It is similar to the /ə/ sound, but the two little dots mean that it is a longer sounds.
/ɜ:/ not /ə/.
To produce the sound put your tongue low and in the center of your mouth and stretch out your lips, then make a long voiced sound with your mouth relaxed.
This video is part of our series on phonetics and pronunciation for learners of English as a foreign language.
Phonetics is the science of pronunciation. It can be helpful for people learning English because one of the most difficult things about the language is the spelling and pronunciation. English is not very phonetic and as a result the same letters are often pronounced in many different ways in different words.
The IPA helps by providing a way to write words as they are pronounced. The normal alphabet only has 26 characters but there are 44 different sounds that are used to pronounce words. As well as that, most word in English originate from other languages like Greek, Latin and French to name just a few and in many cases the the language of origin influences how the word is pronounced.
The IPA provides a symbol (phoneme) for each sound so the correct pronunciation can be written or printed in dictionaries.
This video along with the others in our pronunciation series helps language learners to hear the correct pronunciation and also to know how to produce the sound of each phoneme.
ɜ: is my face when learning phonetics
I'm a native speaker of American English, and your video is so insightful. My language exchange students ask me so many questions about ɜ: and AE equivalent (I believe) ɝː with the blended "vowel " r sound. Your video helped me identify it's frequency and pick out some word initial, word ending, and mid occurring words for practice. I pointed my students to your channel and they find it so helpful.
OMG the pronunciation is really complicated. And here I thought I had already enough with my own language 😂😂. Thanks for this video, It helped me out a lot.
Nicely explained 10/10
very nice! thank you
This sound so cute 🌸 btw thanks ma teacher 🧚🏼♀️
Thanks Teacher Munro for this series of videos.
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Hi, from Brazil
A sentence to exercise to unlock the vocal apparatus, with 5 words with the sound /ɜː/.
The *girl* with the *curly* hair *turned* to *observe* the *world*
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these vowels are difficult to learn than science...
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This is how you can tell if a person learned their English in a British class or an American class. The British “r” is pronounced ahh, like when you realize something important and say aha! An American “r” is said with curled lips and sounds like an angered cat saying grrrr!
Me sirve para la tarea de ingles 😎👊
Why do i hear it as "Ö" like in Turkish( lips-relaxed version) although it is described as long schwa sound?
what about /ɛ/ ?
Nice . 😍😍😀😀🙄🙄
What does it mean " your tongue in the middle of your mouth"?
Is this the shwa?
Conveniently, in internet emotes, it is also representative of a sad or pouting cat. So think
" 3: is a pouting cat. it makes the 'errr' sound, to voice its annoyance. "
Thats a great way to remember it. Thanks
So it's like a schwa sound but longer, right?
Yes :)
Can I ask a question
I know that the / ɜː/ sound is a combination of two sounds one of them is R anyway does the R sound in this combination change and become a trill r or Denti-alveolar r ,I am not sure if I named it right,
See in a nutshell I can't pronounce the english r and it's even harder to pronounce it in such combination as /ɜː/ so i was hoping that it's changed when it's pronounced in the /ɜː/ sound
A year late, but the answer is that in most British English accents from England, the /r/ in these words is not pronounced, it simply changes the vowel.
For English people, the "r" in her, sir, fur, word, bird etc. is not pronounced as a consonant at all, "sir" is just /sɜː/
Hope this helps.
In American and Irish accents for instance, the /r/ would be pronounced in these words.
@@Muzikman127 If I'm not mistaken, the R is pronounced in England in the so called West Country.
@@oraziodrago2126 correct, most but not all. Google "rhoticity" if you want to find out more
@@oraziodrago2126 I do believe all the currently existing native English accents are non-rhotic; as Wikipedia stated so in its 'Regional accents of English' article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English). Only the post-vocalic (not directly followed by a vowel sound) 'r' sound is not pronounced, and only the 'r' sound that is directly succeeded by a vowel sound is pronounced; such as the pre-vocalic and inter-vocalic 'r' sounds.
i swear this sound had different symbol in my school days idk was it ə: ?? i dont remember but imsure af the little 3 didnot exist
Oki
thanks bruh
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how is pronounced girl
it seems to me /ɜ:/ is used when there's an unpronounced R in the syllable, is this true?
Not really. He speaks with a standard British accent, which tends to be non rhotic (that is, do not pronounce the r after a vowel sound)
@@TheDaiiiiiiii you're a bit late there bud, i am already a bachelor of english now :D still, thanks
Haha, Sorry! :-) I didn't notice this was written 2 years ago.
@@TheDaiiiiiiiiYOU HAVE 2 CHANNELS?!?!
please tell me how to discriminate /ər/ vs /ɜ:/
i hace a question i can use "bruh" with the /ɜ:/ Sound?
(have) sorry mi orthography is bad :C
hellos, what about ɛ sound?
It is seen in: k_e_ttle
w_e_t
m_e_tal
Here are a few words with /ɜː/ at the end:
Her
Per
Purr
Stir
Fur
Fir
Sir
Slur
Blur
Spur
Occur
Recur
Refer
Infer
Confer
Prefer
Deter
Demur
Concur
Saboteur
Entrepeneur
Amateur
Hauteur
Voyageur
Chauffeur
Connoisseur
Thanks
ɜ: actually sounds like ă in my language
What is your language? We dont use ă in English.
What is the difference between /ə/ and /ɜ/ (not /ɜː/)?
ɜː more back of tongue
Dux Nihilo's question, though, was about "/ɜ/ (not /ɜː/)".
Mouth is more open.
hɜː (her)
Hi, I found that the phonetic symbol of “girl” was wrong.
girld
UK
/ɡɜːl/
Why do they say that it is unrounded? It's rounded, isn't it?
Give me the phonetic sound of long z
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mgrfh
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0:18 ....yeah, let's go with 'ugh' sound then.
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ɚɚɚɚɚɚɚɚɚ its *ɚ*
I call it the vampire
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2:19 Girld??!!
I guess it makes sense for British people to make the ‘r’ silent when Americans make the vowel silent
your English is British or american?
i think it is british
Definitely British
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The writing of the world girl that is in your video is wrong
Isn’t there even a single example of this sound NOT being immediately followed by the r sound?
Actually there are several obvious ones, at least in American English. Wood. Book. Good. The double ‘o’ words.
I correct myself. ʊ is the sound responsible for the “oo” sound in double o words like ‘book’.
ɜː is supposedly the “silent phone”, as I’d call it, that precedes the sound made by English r in any case where the English r sound isn’t already followed by a REAL phone that actually exists.
I assert that such a way of categorizing phonetics is asinine. r (the English r sound in question) should itself be classified as a vowel, as it is potentially syllabic, and words like bird or world should be phonetically spelt brd or wrld, instead of us pretending that r isn’t a vowel and that there’s some sort of silent syllable between the first consonant and the r.
Moreover, words like “terror” that are commonly pronounced with very little phonetic vigor between the two sets of r sounds DON’T violate the explanation I just put forward, because the sound between the two sets of r sounds is agreeably an ʊ sound, once again, like in the word ‘book’, even if it’s pronunciation is very minimal.
TLDR: ɜː doesn’t make sense as a phonetic element and shouldn’t exist as a concept, r should be a vowel cause it’s syllabic, and if we treat r as a vowel and spell out words as such, the ɜː we theoretically use before the r sound, if necessary, is just some other vowel sound. As such, words like bird should just be spelt brd, even though it looks wrong to our biased brains. And I am indeed insinuating that the committee that regulates the IPA are doing vowels entirely wrong. And no, I don’t have any credentials to justify this, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong, so if you wanna discredit such a claim for that reason you can eat me.
Hi Thanks for your comment. I think that although the letter 'r' follows this sound when we spell it, the /r/ sound does not follow the /ɜ:/ sound as it is incorporated within it. What do you think? Let me know.
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aka: rug
Британцы с филологическим образованием произносят этот звук заметно иначе, например,ы BBC.
the Shy emo sound
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I wonder if "girl" is spelling correct?
British language
like si eres latino y no vives en un tiroteo escolarXD
Too much tough...... 🙁🙁🙁
This vowel is too different between British English and American English
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭difficult 😭
you need to know 'occur' but not 'stir' or purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
baby face
Phonetics is the most shitiest subject have to watch all this tupes of video #bannedphonetics
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