I stumbled upon your channel accidentally when I was looking for English pronunciation videos ( I have been training at home for 2 years to sound more native ), and gods how am I SO THANKFUL I found your channel. I have been watching your content for the entire day and I do sincerely hope you get more followers. Thank you so much for helping us, teacher. ❤❤
I just tried two videos plus yours and this is the one that helped me in less than 03 minutes! It's the one that helped me pronounce "good" well for the first time. Thank you!
Great video!! The instructions for the lax 'u' (or high schwa as you call it, I like how you name this sound) are clear and very easy to follow👍 Thanks a lot!!
Do you have a video on consonant ‘r’? Does the ‘r’ take same position as this vowel given the lifting of back part of the tongue and rounding of the lips? I felt like it is the same as in ‘r’, but in ‘r’ we pull the tongue back more and stretch the sound more.
The vowel "r" and the consonant "er" are made the same way as each other, which I talked about briefly in the lesson on the vowel "er", but I'll probably be talking specifically about the consonant "r" later. As for any similarity with the high schwa, as you can see on the chart, it's kinda close, but they are NOT the same position. When I make these two sounds, they feel very separate. The tongue position for "r"/"er" is farther forward and slightly lower than the high schwa. The only real similarity between these two sounds is the lips
1) old video (I wasn't even aware of the pit/dip pressure at this point); 2) this is a rather standard diagram that you might see for the schwa, at least based off what I've seen online, and it turns out it's actually quite misleading, though not necessarily innacurate if we're talking about a true schwa, but with what I know now, I would never use this image. Many older lesson diagrams are fine, but not nuanced enough. In fact, I'm including comparisons with these more "normal" maps for each sound in the upcoming lesson and highlighting the fact that the postural elements are still there, but these maps do a terrible job of showing it. They're limited to mere sound articulation, and sometimes don't even do a good job of that.
@@NativeEnglishHacks, Your phase 2 is really taking some time. You've been working on it for like 7 months, I think. Interestingly, my question about center, Walter, etc. Apparently, what's happening is that the speaker is using uh + r. So, they make distinction between the r sound as in red and the r sound as in Walter. They make it a diphthong(uh + r). This is my explanation. If they don't make a distinction, the t will be colored by the r instead of the schwa. From what I heard, most speakers make uh + r. I hope phase 2 comes out soon since many of my questions seem to be answered somehow by it. Looking forward to seeing it.
@iiAbdullah635 hmmmm, not sure I completely agree with the analysis, though it could just be the way it's phrased. To put your analysis a bit differently perhaps, there's the possibility to R-control the T or not, instead keeping the UH center of gravity until the last moment (not producing an actual UH before the ER, just keeping the T normal; definitely no uh+er diphthong, though when producing the er as a vowel that is possible but has nothing to do with this case specifically). I'd agree with the second part, but I really don't notice anything significant enough in this T + R combo to give it a special label or to say it can even be R-controlled/colored to begin with. Especially since if that happened, we'd probably hear a bit more of a CH than a T. I hear a 99-100% normal T followed by an R, hardly different than if it were followed by whatever other sound that wouldn't trigger a change in the T's pronunciation. I'll definitely give it a closer listen before I finish the R/L video, but as of now, I'm just super confused why you think anything special is happening here Remember, though, this next video doesn't include R and L. Those will be in a special video after. But don't worry. Part of why this has taken so long is due to personal issues and some days (sometimes multiple days in a row) just not having the energy or mental balance to work on it. It definitely won't take as long for the R/L video.
@EnglishHacks , It seems to be uh + r what people say in words like: teacher, center, water, better. This includes almost every speaker of American English. Though they raise the schwa. There is still the possibility to not say the schwa, but that would mean that you have to color the t which is something that might happen seldomly(It's very irrelevant). This whole topic is honestly just a misunderstanding on my part what I was hearing was a schwa + r sound. It's worth mentioning that many people may not color the t in the second case but actually say ch + r. I hope my writing has improved a little.
I stumbled upon your channel accidentally when I was looking for English pronunciation videos ( I have been training at home for 2 years to sound more native ), and gods how am I SO THANKFUL I found your channel.
I have been watching your content for the entire day and I do sincerely hope you get more followers.
Thank you so much for helping us, teacher. ❤❤
Awesome! So glad to hear that 🙂
I just tried two videos plus yours and this is the one that helped me in less than 03 minutes! It's the one that helped me pronounce "good" well for the first time. Thank you!
Great video!! The instructions for the lax 'u' (or high schwa as you call it, I like how you name this sound) are clear and very easy to follow👍 Thanks a lot!!
Great! Thanks for the feedback! Always glad to help 😊
Hello Josh. Yes, the minimal pair recording to practice the shwa and the ʊ would be so helpful!
That's planned! I'm going in order through all the sounds and either redoing or creating minimal pair videos ☺
@@NativeEnglishHacks Great! Looking forward to it!
0:06 uh uh..it'd be great a minimal pair exercise between the schwa vs high schwa
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You could make a video about the difference between Luke, lock, look and luck
Will do ☺
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Thank u so much, you're the best
Do you have a video on consonant ‘r’? Does the ‘r’ take same position as this vowel given the lifting of back part of the tongue and rounding of the lips? I felt like it is the same as in ‘r’, but in ‘r’ we pull the tongue back more and stretch the sound more.
The vowel "r" and the consonant "er" are made the same way as each other, which I talked about briefly in the lesson on the vowel "er", but I'll probably be talking specifically about the consonant "r" later. As for any similarity with the high schwa, as you can see on the chart, it's kinda close, but they are NOT the same position. When I make these two sounds, they feel very separate. The tongue position for "r"/"er" is farther forward and slightly lower than the high schwa. The only real similarity between these two sounds is the lips
Well this digram doesn't align with the other digram. 1:01
1) old video (I wasn't even aware of the pit/dip pressure at this point); 2) this is a rather standard diagram that you might see for the schwa, at least based off what I've seen online, and it turns out it's actually quite misleading, though not necessarily innacurate if we're talking about a true schwa, but with what I know now, I would never use this image. Many older lesson diagrams are fine, but not nuanced enough. In fact, I'm including comparisons with these more "normal" maps for each sound in the upcoming lesson and highlighting the fact that the postural elements are still there, but these maps do a terrible job of showing it. They're limited to mere sound articulation, and sometimes don't even do a good job of that.
@@NativeEnglishHacks, Your phase 2 is really taking some time. You've been working on it for like 7 months, I think. Interestingly, my question about center, Walter, etc. Apparently, what's happening is that the speaker is using uh + r. So, they make distinction between the r sound as in red and the r sound as in Walter. They make it a diphthong(uh + r). This is my explanation. If they don't make a distinction, the t will be colored by the r instead of the schwa. From what I heard, most speakers make uh + r. I hope phase 2 comes out soon since many of my questions seem to be answered somehow by it. Looking forward to seeing it.
@iiAbdullah635 hmmmm, not sure I completely agree with the analysis, though it could just be the way it's phrased.
To put your analysis a bit differently perhaps, there's the possibility to R-control the T or not, instead keeping the UH center of gravity until the last moment (not producing an actual UH before the ER, just keeping the T normal; definitely no uh+er diphthong, though when producing the er as a vowel that is possible but has nothing to do with this case specifically). I'd agree with the second part, but I really don't notice anything significant enough in this T + R combo to give it a special label or to say it can even be R-controlled/colored to begin with. Especially since if that happened, we'd probably hear a bit more of a CH than a T. I hear a 99-100% normal T followed by an R, hardly different than if it were followed by whatever other sound that wouldn't trigger a change in the T's pronunciation. I'll definitely give it a closer listen before I finish the R/L video, but as of now, I'm just super confused why you think anything special is happening here
Remember, though, this next video doesn't include R and L. Those will be in a special video after. But don't worry. Part of why this has taken so long is due to personal issues and some days (sometimes multiple days in a row) just not having the energy or mental balance to work on it. It definitely won't take as long for the R/L video.
@EnglishHacks , It seems to be uh + r what people say in words like: teacher, center, water, better. This includes almost every speaker of American English. Though they raise the schwa. There is still the possibility to not say the schwa, but that would mean that you have to color the t which is something that might happen seldomly(It's very irrelevant). This whole topic is honestly just a misunderstanding on my part what I was hearing was a schwa + r sound. It's worth mentioning that many people may not color the t in the second case but actually say ch + r. I hope my writing has improved a little.
@iiAbdullah635 Can you restate/edit that? A bit hard to follow
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