Sound more natural in English: Learn and practice 5 FRONT VOWELS
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- Do you want to improve your pronunciation? Do you want to sound more like a native speaker? You need to work on your vowels! In this video, I will teach you how to pronounce five vowels that are common in both British English and American English. These vowels are known as front vowels. I'll help you pronounce these vowels correctly by showing you what your mouth and lips should look like during pronunciation. We will practice the vowels together and compare them to each other. Watch my mouth as I pronounce different vowel sounds and make sure you're doing the same with yours. Many English learners have a hard time with pronunciation because English is not a phonetic language. So I will show you the different spellings of these sounds in English. You will also learn the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols for these vowels.
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Hi there. My name is Emma, and in today's video I am going to teach you about pronunciation, specifically how to pronounce front vowels. Okay? So, you might be wondering: "What is a vowel?" first question, and: "What is a front vowel?" So these are very good questions. So let me show you first what a vowel is. So we have here: "a", "e", "i", "o", "u", and "y". In English, these are our vowels. Okay? So, they're different from consonants. What a consonant is is a consonant is a sound such as: "t", "d", "r", "s". So, these are vowels in green, and what you see in purple, there's a lot more of them, they're consonants. So anything that is not one of these is called a consonant.
Okay, so first thing I want to look at is: Where are the vowels in these words, and which are the consonants? We have the word: "king", so where is the vowel here? If we look up here at our list, we have "i" here, "i" here. So this is the vowel, whereas "k", "n", and "g" are consonants. If we look at our next word: "cake", what is the vowel in this word? If you said the "a", you're correct. "Cake". Now, the "e" in "cake" we don't pronounce, so it's not a vowel because we don't actually pronounce the sound. We have here the word: "sheet". What's the vowel in "sheet"? You said an "e", you're correct. Okay? Whereas "s", "h", and "t" are all consonant sounds. Okay, we also have the word here: "ship". Here is the vowel, the "i". And again, "s", "h", and "p" are consonants. What about "happy"? What's the vowel in "happy"? If you said the "a" and the "y", you're correct. These are the vowels. Okay? Whereas "h", "p", and "p" are consonants.
So in English, we have: "a", "e", "i", "o", "u", and "y" are the way we spell vowels. But here's the problem or here's the thing that's really difficult for a lot of people: If you look at these two words, we have "a" here and "a" here, both vowels. These a's, even though they're spelt the same way, they have the same spelling, we pronounce them differently. Okay? So for example, this, I would say: "Mat", "mat", just like the word "at", "mat". Whereas this word is actually: "Mate", "mate". So, "mat" and "mate". So they have different sounds even though they have the same "a" in the spelling. So what does this mean? This means that for each of these symbols they have multiple sounds. There are different vowel sounds for each of these. Okay? So, this, for example, is an "a", it can be pronounced: "awh", it can be pronounced: "ah". There's different pronunciations for it. So, in today's lesson I'm going to explain some of these different pronunciations. Okay?
So before we begin, I want to talk about how to pronounce vowels. Okay? What you should be really thinking about when you're pronouncing these sounds. The first thing you really should be thinking about is what your lips are doing. Okay? So these are your lips. So when you make a sound, you need to think: Are your lips spread like this, are they very...? Like, for example: "e", you see it's very big and spread, or is it like this, round, like a circle? "O". Okay? "E", "o". Do you see the difference in what my lips are doing? So that's one thing to really think about when you're pronouncing vowels.
You also need to think about how big your mouth is. Is it very small, the hole in your mouth? For example: "Oo", there's not a big hole, there's a small hole. Or is it really big, like: "Ah"? Okay? So think about: How big is the opening of your mouth? Is it big or small? Okay, this... I don't know if you can tell what this is... These are your lips, your teeth, and your tongue. You need to know what your tongue is doing in order to pronounce vowels correctly. So is your tongue at the very front of your mouth, close to your teeth? Like, for example, in an "e" sound? Or is your tongue far away from your teeth, is it more towards the back of your mouth?
In today's lesson we are only going to be looking at front vowels, vowels which are close to the front... Where your tongue is close to the front of your mouth.
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The letter Y can be used to represent different sounds in different words, and can therefore fit either definition. In myth or hymn it's clearly a vowel, and also in words such as my, where it stands for a diphthong (a combination of two vowel sounds). On the other hand, in a word like beyond there is an obstacle to the breath which can be heard between two vowels, and the same sound begins words like young and yes. (Courtesy: Oxford Dictionaries)
What about "W"? It is not a "stand alone " vowel, but serves the same purpose as the "U" in "OU" = "OW" and "U" in "AU" in "AW". If it generates the same diphthong sound, why wouldn't it ALSO be a diphthong vowel. Alternatively, in "bow" (Robin Hood's) it also serves the same vowel purpose as "silent E" It's not "Nau-wuh", it's just now (diphthong). (Had a good third-grade teacher! She knew I needed these things and WOULD need them! She wasn't scared, either, not one iota, that I might eventually get confused about it. She saw I couldn't read because I wasn't sure what the sound signals were... so she TAUGHT me, and she taught me WELL! God BLESS her!
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06:16 "i" as in green
11:46 "I" as in silver
15:04 "e" as in gray
17:38 "ɛ" as in red
19:55 "æ" as in black
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Great video! especially for us, spanish speakers, because we have the same five vowels but only five sounds. Thanks!
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Thanks a lot for sharing an important international phonetic alphabet
Great explanation! Thank you so much for sharing!! What helps the most, is to watch your mouth when you utter each sound. Loved it!! What about the central & back vowels? Thanks again!!
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I was learned what: the open a is (ei), long the e is (i:) Thank you for the original pronunciation.
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Congrats for the video Emma. Though you are young it seems you are experienced in teaching foreign students.
One of the best and most helpful moments is the anatomical sketch of the mouth showing the position of the tong and teeth and the sound they produce.
Would it be practical for you to relate short and long vowels (like cut and hat) with duration in time, (e.g.) like drawing the long vowels wider?
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I see a lot of comments asking why is 'y' a vowel. Think of it this way, vowels are actually sounds and not just the letter symbol. So, sometimes the 'y' is a vowel, sometimes it is a consonant. Depending on what sound it makes in the word. For example in the word 'by', 'bye' or 'why' it is a vowel. In the word 'yellow, or 'yard' it is obviously a consonant.
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Y is traditionally called a semi-vowel in that it is used sometimes as a consonant and sometimes as a vowel. It is also called a special vowel. Almost similar is W. It is also a semi-vowel. So, in English there are 19 consonants, 5 vowels and 2 (W and Y) semi-vowels or semi-consonants.
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