Hey Rachel, helping people reduce their accents when speaking English is truly your strength, and it’s what sets you apart from other teachers! In my 10 years of living in an English-speaking country, I’ve noticed that people tend to be less patient when hearing accents that differ from what they’re used to. I think this might be because technology has shortened attention spans, and perhaps even due to political factors, as many countries are becoming less welcoming toward immigrants. This is why accent reduction is becoming more important for those looking to establish themselves in an English-speaking country. Thank you for all your hard work on this channel - it’s greatly appreciated!
Vowels sounds can be both monophthongs ( one vowel sound with only one mouth position) and diphthongs ( two vowel sounds within the same syllable : two mouth positions.). Diphthongs are vowel sounds too.
20:44 approx, "You have to break the mental connection between letters and sounds... when studying American English." The route I take as a teacher is to ADD associations between letters and sounds. For example, most of my students arrive in my classes with a strong association between the letter a and the a sound in father. What I help them break is the habit of making that association exclusive, i.e., one letter, one sound. The letter name sound is generally the first additional association that I help them establish. Then we notice the short vowel sounds (second sounds in my classes). Perceiving those three categories for each vowel letter reveals most of the vowel mysteries to them. Once we're that far, exceptions like again or busy can be explained and marked diacritically in terms of categories already established, with IPA or other symbols. And by the way, what is the opinion you expressed about the IPA symbol for the cat vowel? What I heard did not match the captions. Do you or don't you like using that a stuck to an e? And finally, I kept trying to figure out what audience you had in mind when you planned, recorded, and edited this. You held my attention throughout, partly because I can apply a few different frames to just about everything that went on. But I'm a pretty small niche.
Well. Most frequency vowel of Englishis ə wich is just a reducing sound not vowel at all. Native don't about it but they shouldn't. There are exist letters and allophones for example Russians don't recognise short and long vowels not becouse they don't feel diference just becouse in Russian words don't exist pair of words like ship sheep slip sleep and so on. So letters in English only 25 but sounds much more. There are eight diphtongs wich is vowels too. So letter and sounds is not quite the same.
Try getting native speakers to use pairs of words like buddy and body in phrases. Cup, cop, up, op (as in Black Ops, short for operations) I tell students to REALLY exaggerate the openness of the sound in body. However, by the time they perceive the usefulness of distinguishing cup from cop, they've usually got a long-established pattern of using one approximation (Spanish a, in my classes) for both sounds. Opening their mouth wider to exaggerate the sound in body feels foreign and ridiculous to them. And besides, they prefer to use Spanish o in words like body and project etc. You're working against layers of difficulty, and the first part is REALLY experiencing the whole category of words in which o represents AH. Product, operation, honest, Donald, Beyonce etc. Then try something like "cooperate." Each o in that word is a different category of o. Biology, geology, chaos. To get these words anywhere close to American pronunciation, you need the association between the letter o and the AH sound. Good luck.
There is no such thing as "USican" (there are 35 countries in "America") pronunciation. There are hundreds of dialects in N. America alone and thousands in the world. The sounds of the vowels are the same in every dialect. The difference is what vowel sound is used. Japanese has one sound for basic vowels such as A, E, I, O, U (usually almost silent) and others such as other for other vowel sounds: EI (as in bay) and such For three incorrect pronunciations using vowels are Nikon, Japan, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Nee/cone, Jawpawn, Nawgawsawkee and Heerosheemaw are the 100% correct way. Many words are mispronounced/misused: adult, schedule and address come to mind immediately
Hey Rachel, helping people reduce their accents when speaking English is truly your strength, and it’s what sets you apart from other teachers! In my 10 years of living in an English-speaking country, I’ve noticed that people tend to be less patient when hearing accents that differ from what they’re used to. I think this might be because technology has shortened attention spans, and perhaps even due to political factors, as many countries are becoming less welcoming toward immigrants. This is why accent reduction is becoming more important for those looking to establish themselves in an English-speaking country. Thank you for all your hard work on this channel - it’s greatly appreciated!
You're welcome @sigez95 and thanks for sharing!
Vowels sounds can be both monophthongs ( one vowel sound with only one mouth position) and diphthongs ( two vowel sounds within the same syllable : two mouth positions.). Diphthongs are vowel sounds too.
Thanks for sharing @brunopinheiro5456!
20:44 approx, "You have to break the mental connection between letters and sounds... when studying American English."
The route I take as a teacher is to ADD associations between letters and sounds.
For example, most of my students arrive in my classes with a strong association between the letter a and the a sound in father. What I help them break is the habit of making that association exclusive, i.e., one letter, one sound. The letter name sound is generally the first additional association that I help them establish. Then we notice the short vowel sounds (second sounds in my classes). Perceiving those three categories for each vowel letter reveals most of the vowel mysteries to them.
Once we're that far, exceptions like again or busy can be explained and marked diacritically in terms of categories already established, with IPA or other symbols.
And by the way, what is the opinion you expressed about the IPA symbol for the cat vowel? What I heard did not match the captions. Do you or don't you like using that a stuck to an e?
And finally, I kept trying to figure out what audience you had in mind when you planned, recorded, and edited this. You held my attention throughout, partly because I can apply a few different frames to just about everything that went on. But I'm a pretty small niche.
Useful for kids, thanks!
You're welcome @16StarsEC!
What a good lesson this is!!!!!
I’m glad you enjoyed the lesson @MetaMan9745!
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Ma'am please tell us the pronunciation of No and know ..
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Teacher what the meaning of this idiom to spew over
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11:40 Sergeant comes from the French word “Sergent”
Well. Most frequency vowel of Englishis ə wich is just a reducing sound not vowel at all.
Native don't about it but they shouldn't. There are exist letters and allophones for example Russians don't recognise short and long vowels not becouse they don't feel diference just becouse in Russian words don't exist pair of words like ship sheep slip sleep and so on. So letters in English only 25 but sounds much more. There are eight diphtongs wich is vowels too. So letter and sounds is not quite the same.
Thanks for sharing @victoradamenja9032!
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Try getting native speakers to use pairs of words like buddy and body in phrases. Cup, cop, up, op (as in Black Ops, short for operations)
I tell students to REALLY exaggerate the openness of the sound in body. However, by the time they perceive the usefulness of distinguishing cup from cop, they've usually got a long-established pattern of using one approximation (Spanish a, in my classes) for both sounds.
Opening their mouth wider to exaggerate the sound in body feels foreign and ridiculous to them. And besides, they prefer to use Spanish o in words like body and project etc.
You're working against layers of difficulty, and the first part is REALLY experiencing the whole category of words in which o represents AH. Product, operation, honest, Donald, Beyonce etc.
Then try something like "cooperate." Each o in that word is a different category of o.
Biology, geology, chaos. To get these words anywhere close to American pronunciation, you need the association between the letter o and the AH sound. Good luck.
Thank you! I'll give it a try!😊
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Hello there @NoHairBeardAndMustache!
There is no such thing as "USican" (there are 35 countries in "America") pronunciation. There are hundreds of dialects in N. America alone and thousands in the world. The sounds of the vowels are the same in every dialect. The difference is what vowel sound is used. Japanese has one sound for basic vowels such as A, E, I, O, U (usually almost silent) and others such as other for other vowel sounds: EI (as in bay) and such For three incorrect pronunciations using vowels are Nikon, Japan, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Nee/cone, Jawpawn, Nawgawsawkee and Heerosheemaw are the 100% correct way. Many words are mispronounced/misused: adult, schedule and address come to mind immediately
That's right-sit an seat sound the same to an untrained ear.
Thanks for sharing @timon7376!
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