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How to Pronounce ALL Vowel Sounds in British English (+ Vowel Comparisons)
How to Pronounce ALL Vowel Sounds in British English (+ Vowel Comparisons)
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Hello and welcome back to pronunciation with Emma,
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or welcome if you're brand new to my channel.
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In today's English pronunciation lesson you're going to learn how to pronounce all the
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vowel sounds in British English.
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We'll cover how to pronounce all the Mononpthongs,
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the Dipthongs and the Tripthongs in English,
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then at the end of this lesson we will practice 15 different vowel minimal
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pairs so you can hear the difference between very similar sounds
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and learn how to understand
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and pronounce them.
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So, if you confuse sounds like ee
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and e or eh
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and ah or ah
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and aah then that section of the video will be very very useful for
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you!
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So, at the start of this video I said British English pronunciation
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but what does that mean?
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I basically mean Received Pronunciation and Modern Received pronunciation.
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However, I will be making references to Northern accents
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as I'm from Yorkshire
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and there are some interesting vowel differences
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that you may like to know
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that will help you with your understanding,
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if you ever come and visit the UK.
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To help you improve your English pronunciation faster,
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I highly recommend you download today's free pdf the free pdf contains all of
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today's lesson notes as well
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as some extra activities to help you practice your pronunciation of the vowels in
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English,
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just click the link Down Below in the description to download your free pdf!
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Now it's time for today's lesson please make sure
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that you're in a quiet space where you can listen to this lesson carefully
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and speak aloud.
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Feel free to also use a mirror
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so you can see your mouth
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and make sure you're doing the correct positions.
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Are you ready?
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Let's go!
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Let's start with the Mononpthongs.
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There are 12 Monpthongs in English
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but in this lesson I'm going to show you 13
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and I'll explain why in a moment.
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Let's start with the first vowel sound - this one is "ee", ee.
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I like to call this one the smiley e
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because you smile as you say it.
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To make this sound make sure
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that you're smiling - "ee"
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so your lips are spread
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and your tongue is very flat.
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Try not to raise your tongue at the back
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and don't curl your tongue make sure it's very very flat.
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If you find that the sides of your tongue here are touching your top
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teeth that's also completely normal okay keep it very very flat - ee,
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ee.
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And try to imagine
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that you're pronouncing the sound towards the front of the mouth
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so you're not saying like eh
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but "ee".
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It's towards the front of the mouth.
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For example, eat eat, feel feel, see see.
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The next sound is "ih".
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This one I like to call the miserable ih
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because I'm not smiling this time - "ih".
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So, with this sound make sure your mouth is a little bit more relaxed
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so we're not "ee",
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we're not smiling like the first sound but "ih" - it's more relaxed.
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With some students I say put your fingers like this
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and if you feel
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that your mouth,
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that your lips, are spreading past it like "ee"
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-then it means that you're doing the other sound,
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the one we just looked at.
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Make sure your lips stay inside - "ih".
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Your jaw may also just drop down a little bit as well - ih, ih,
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ih.
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When it comes to the tongue placement,
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make sure the back of your tongue comes up just a little bit - "ih".
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For example - inside, inside.
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Kitchen, kitchen.
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Now there are no words in English
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which end with "ih" what you'll find instead is they end with a shorter
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version of the sound we looked at before
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and this is going to be our third extra vowel,
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the one I mentioned
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that shouldn't be really here
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but I've included it
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as an extra sound.
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So, if you remember the first sound we looked at was "ee",
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it was smiley and very long,
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the third sound that we're going to look at is just a shorter version
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of that so we're still going to smile
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but we're going to make the vowel weaker.
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Now, this shorter version this "i" sound does not appear in the British Phonemic
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chart and that's because it's just the same sound
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as the first vowel we looked at,
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but I've included it here
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because it's still an important sound for you to learn.
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This sound only really appears at the end of words in weak syllables,
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especially words that end in a "y".
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For example, "happy".
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Some more examples are - coffee, coffee.
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Lucky, lucky.
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So, we're not using the first vowel we're not saying - "happee", "luckee", "coffeee".
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It's not a long sound,
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we're still smiling but it's much shorter and the second one.
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The miserable "ih" isn't quite the same because it's more relaxed, we're not smiling,
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so if you use
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that in place of this sound here these words would sound like - "happih",
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"coffih", "luckih", and that sounds a little bit like you're from the North of
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England almost!
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That's a vowel sound
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that they use at the end of these sorts of words.
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So, if you're interested in having more of a Northern twang to your accent
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or perhaps you maybe live in the North of England
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then you will definitely hear these
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and you can say them this way
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as well so you can say "happih",
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"coffih", "luckih" or "lockih" - we'll talk about
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that vowel the other vowel in a moment in "lucky".
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The next sound is "ouh".
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This time your lips are very round,
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round your lips like you're going to give a kiss,
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and imagine that the sound this time is further back in the mouth.
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Your tongue is also going to come up a little bit at the back.
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Make sure that you are also not curling your tongue like this otherwise you
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get a sound like "ou",
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and that sounds like a sound used more in French, for example,
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so don't curl your tongue!
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Just raise it at the back
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and make sure your lips are nice
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and round - ouh,
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ouh.
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For example - put, put.
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Into, into.
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Now, I might be saying
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that one a little bit weird
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and that's because we usually say "into" - we usually use an "ooh" sound,
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which I'm going to get to in a moment,
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however in Rapid Speech what you will hear is this word changes to "intouh"
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like,
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"I went into the building" - so,
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it becomes the short "ouh" sound when we use it quickly in Rapid Speech.
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So, if you're thinking "Emma, it sounds weird when you say it there", like,
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yeah it does sound weird it's normally said
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as "into" when it's in a sentence.
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The next sound is "ooh".
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This one is very very similar to the "ouh" sound,
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and with my beginners I usually just say treat "ooh"
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and "ouh" as basically a long
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and short form of the same sound,
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but if you're wanting to be very,
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very specific they're technically not the same sound.
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The reason why I teach beginners
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that they are just a long
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and short version of each other is
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because they don't usually cause
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that much confusion,
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and there's no way for you to really say a bad word, like,
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for example, with "ih" and "ee".
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But the difference here is that "ooh" is higher in the mouth,
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so you move your tongue just a little bit closer to the top of
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your mouth and make sure
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that the vowel is long - ooh,
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ooh.
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Make sure that you are not - do not! - curl your tongue,
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just like the last sound.
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So, it's not "oou", "oou", okay, but "ooh".
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It's a lot more relaxed but your tongue does come up quite high - ooh.
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For example, ooze, ooze.
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Unusual, unusual.
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Blue, blue.
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The next sound is "eh".
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With this one you drop your jaw and you smile - eh, eh.
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Try to imagine as well
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that you're pronouncing this sound towards the front of the mouth - eh.
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So it's here, eh.
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For example - every, every.
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Bed, bed.
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The next sound is the famous Schwa Vowel Sound.
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This sound is completely relaxed,
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so if we think about the previous sound we were smiling
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and lowering our jaw - eh,
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eh - with this one we're not going to do anything, completely relaxed.
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I know that sounds
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so alien to some people cuz they're like
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"but it's a vowel,
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you must have to do something?" - no, it's a completely relaxed central vowel - "euh".
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So, imagine you're pronouncing it in the middle of your mouth - euh, euh.
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For example - about, about.
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Banana, banana.
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Doctor, doctor.
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The next sound is "uhh".
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So, keep this very, very relaxed.
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This is very similar to the sound that we just looked at,
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it is a central relaxed vowel.
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So, imagine again you're pronouncing it in the centre of your mouth
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and keep everything very relaxed
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but just make the sound longer "uhh".
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For example - early, early.
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Girl, girl.
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Fur, fur.
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The next sound is "ohh".
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I want you to imagine that this is still quite relaxed like the "uhh",
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sound but we're going to round our mouth slightly.
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So, if we take an "uh"
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and round it it sounds like
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but we're going to pronounce it,
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instead of in the centre we're going to pronounce it further back in our
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mouth so we get "oh".
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So, hear the difference - "ohh".
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For example - "always", "always".
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Born, born.
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Core, core.
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So make sure the vowel is really long.
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The next sound is "ah".
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Notice that this one is very open
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so your jaw drops all the way down - ah.
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And make sure you're opening your mouth wide as well,
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I want you to imagine with the sound
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that we're pronouncing it towards the front of the mouth
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so we're not saying "agh" at the back
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but we're saying it
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as ah,
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ah.
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Imagine it's here - ah.
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And keep your tongue quite flat
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as well you may feel it go up a little bit at the back
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and that's completely normal.
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For example - apple, apple.
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Cat, cat.
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The key thing here is
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that you're not smiling otherwise you're going to get the "eh" sound.
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So you got "eh", "eh", "ah, "ah".
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So make sure you're not smiling otherwise you're going to get the other sound
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"eh".
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The next sound is again a central sound like the schwa we looked at.
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So think about the schwa,
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we relax our mouth "uh"
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but this time I want you to drop your jaw down a little bit
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more so it becomes "uh",
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"uh".
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For example - under, under.
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So here we have the schwa at the end "duh"
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and then the "uh" sound in the first syllable - under,
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under.
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Stuff, stuff.
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So make sure you're dropping your jaw for this one "stu", "stuff".
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This is a sound
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that I also had to learn
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because in the North of England in Yorkshire where I'm from this sound is
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not used,
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it doesn't exist we replace this "uh" sound with "oh"
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so "under" sounds like "onder"
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and stuff sounds like "stoff".
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So, be prepared for people to say things like "pob"
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and "boss" if you go to the North of England
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because "uh" just doesn't exist!
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The next sound is "ahh", "ahh".
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So this sound I usually teach it
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as just being a longer version of the "uh" sound the
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that we just looked at
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but again if we're being more specific like we are in this video it's
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actually a tiny bit further back.
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So "uh" is very central
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and more relaxed in the mouth with just the jaw dropping down
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but "ahh" is pronounced a little bit further back in the mouth,
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it's also a longer sound as well. "ahh" - arm, arm.
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Not um, um.
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So you can hear the difference here in the vowel length.
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"Ahhrm".
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Here are some more words - start, start.
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Car, car.
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Again, I'm not pronouncing the "r" letters in these words
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so bear that in mind.
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The next sound is "oh".
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To make this one make sure that your lips are rounded - o, o, o.
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And make sure that you're pronouncing it at the back of your mouth "oh".
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For example, on on.
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Lot, lot.
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Now for the dipthongs!
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There are eight dipthongs in English.
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Dipthongs are a combination of two vowel sounds together
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that sit in one syllable
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so when you pronounce a dipthong make sure
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that you're transitioning from one sound to the other,
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don't try to pronounce them as two separate vowel sounds try to connect them.
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Our first dipthong is "ei".
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So we're gonna start with, e, e, e and move to an i - ei,
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ei.
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For example - eight, eight.
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Face, face.
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Play, play.
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The next is "ai", ai so we're transitioning, it's not a i,
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for example ice, ice.
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Time, time.
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Cry, cry.
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The next dipthong is my favourite one it's "oi".
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So, you're going to start with your lips very round "O"
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and then transition to an "i" - o i.
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For example, oil, oil.
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Choice, choice.
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Boy, boy.
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The next is "ow".
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So start very open "ow", then go into a kind of kissing face, "ow".
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Out, out.
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Here are some more examples mouth,
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mouth so make sure you're transitioning between the vowels - mouth.
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Now, now.
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The next one is "Oh",
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"uooh" so we're starting from a very relaxed position "uh"
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and then moving to an "oo",
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"uooh", "Oh".
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Now, this pronunciation is Received Pronunciation.
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Another way that you may hear this,
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which may be a little bit easier for you,
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is the Modern Received Pronunciation which is just slightly different.
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The Modern received Pronunciation is "uoh", "uoh".
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So instead of starting from a very relaxed position oh you're going to open
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your mouth a little bit more
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and drop your jaw more - oh,
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oh.
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I'm teaching you both the Modern Received Pronunciation
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and the Received Pronunciation here
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because you're more likely to hear the Modern Received variant,
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so you're more likely to hear "oh" than you are "uooh"
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which is perceived as being a little bit more Posh.
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So let's practice the Modern Received Pronunciation version "oh" in some words - only, only.
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Boat, Boat.
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No, no.
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And now the Received Pronunciation - only, only.
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Boat, Boat.
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No, no.
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The next sound is "ieh" so we're starting from "ih" and relaxing "e".
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For example - ear, ear.
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Earring, earring.
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Near, near.
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The next sound is "eah", "eah".
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So we're moving from a smiley "eh" to a more relaxed schwa "eah".
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However what you will hear a lot of people do is instead of saying
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"eah",
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they will say "ehh".
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So they take that first vowel and they just make it longer.
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For example, in the word "air", air, as in the air you breathe.
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Some other words are fairy, fairy - fairy, fairy.
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Where, where - where, where.
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The difference is very, very subtle,
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but you will hear more people using the "ehh" variety.
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You will hear more people using the "ehh" variety than "eah"
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as "eah" is perceived
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as a little bit more Posh.
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The next sound is "ooer", "ooer".
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Now depending on where you're from in the UK,
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or depending on where you are, you may hear this pronounced in different ways.
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So, in the north where I'm from a lot of people say it
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as "ooer".
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So a lot of people say "shooer", "tooer", "looer", "cyooer".
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And it's a really strong "ooer" sound.
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However in Received Pronunciation it's a little bit softer
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so it sounds more like "shuer",
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"tuer", instead of "tooer", "cyooer" - it's not as strong.
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Here are some more words to practice.
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You have - curious, curious.
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Pure pure.
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Now one interesting thing that's happening with this "ooer" dip thong is
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that many people are starting to transition to pronouncing it more like
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"or",
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especially when it's at the end of words,
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so if you take words like "tour",
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"sure" and "cure" they can sound more like "tor", "shor" and "cyor",
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depending on the person.
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So, if you hear
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that keep that in mind
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that it's not a different word,
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it's just a different pronunciation of this dipthong.
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Next we're going to look at the tripthongs in English.
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There are five tripthongs in English.
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Tripthongs are where we pronounce three vowel sounds together.
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They typically comprise of an existing dipthong,
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so an existing two sounds that go together with a schwa sound.
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Some people say that tripthongs in English don't exist however we can't deny the
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fact that English does have words
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which have three vowel sounds together
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and sometimes this can be difficult for English Learners to pronounce
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so we're going to cover them in their own special tripthong unit in this
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lesson.
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Our first tripthong is "aiyuh", aiyuh.
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So, this is the combination of the dipthong "ai " with the schwa "uh", "aiyuh".
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Now a really good question
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that one of my students asked me was Emma I can hear a little
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"Yuh" when you say this
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and you're not crazy you are hearing a "yuh",
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"aiyuh".
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And that's the transition between that "ih" and the schwa - "aiyuh".
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Let's practice in some words - iron, iron.
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Diet, diet.
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Fire, fire, fire.
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The next is "aowuh"
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so we're going from "aow"
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and then relaxing to "uh" - aowuh,
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aowuh.
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For example - hour, hour.
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Powerful, powerful.
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Tower, tower.
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The next is "eiyuh", eiyuh.
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Again you're going to hear
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that "yuh" sound in there a little bit
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as well so you're not crazy for thinking there's a "yuh" in there
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if you do think
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that.
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So we say it like eiyuh, eiyuh.
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For example - layered, layered.
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Player, player.
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The next is "oiyuh", oiiyuh.
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So again that "yuh" is there, oiyuh, oiyuh.
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For example - loyal, loyal.
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Lawyer, lawyer.
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And our last tripthong "ouwuh", ouuwuh, ouuwuh, ouwuh.
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Now of course if we're doing the Modern Receive Pronunciation,
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it changes slightly to "ohwuh" ohwuh, so ouwuh - ohwuh.
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For example - lower - lower or lowed - lowed.
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Slower - slower, slowed - slowed.
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The difference there is
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so subtle so doesn't matter
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so much if you can't hear the difference between "ouwuh"
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and "ohwuh",
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okay, that's fine!
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Now we're going to talk about minimal pairs.
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Minimal pairs in English are where you have two words where only one sound
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is different.
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So if you have difficulties with for example "ih"
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and "ee" or "ah"
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and "eh",
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don't worry in this section we're going to cover them you can also use
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the time stamps down below to find the sounds
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that you more easily confuse
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so you can go
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and watch those sections
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and practice those minimal pairs.
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We're going to start with the most commonly confused minimal pair
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which is "ee" and "ih"
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so the smiley "ee"
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and the miserable "ih".
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Remember with the first one it's very spread very smiley and very long, ee,
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ee - sheep, sheep.
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But with "ih", it's very, very relaxed - ship, ship.
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So in this minimal pair we have: sheep, sheep - ship, ship.
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Here are two more: leave, leave - live, live.
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Heat, heat - hit hit.
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The next minimal pair is "eh", "eh", a smiley eh, and "ah", "ah",
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so you're relaxing your mouth a little bit more
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but it's still very open. "eh" is pronounced further forward in the mouth,
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"eh", while "ah" is pronounced further back and it's wider,
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with "ah" we don't smile.
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Let's have a look at these minimal pairs we have: bet, bet - bat, bat.
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Met, met - mat, mat.
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Men, men - man, man.
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Next is "ouh" and "ooh".
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Now as I mentioned before with beginners I usually just say don't worry about
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getting these perfect,
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just make sure you're getting the length - that's the most important thing.
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But if we're being very specific here, which we are in this video,
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make sure that you're doing the "ooh" sound a little bit more closed with
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your tongue higher up
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and remember we don't curl our tongue for "ouh"
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or "ooh",
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okay, we're not saying "ou" or "ouu",
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we're going to keep it more relaxed "ouh", "ohh".
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For example: full, full - fool, fool.
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Would, would - wooed, wooed.
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Could, could - cooed, cooed.
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The next is "uh" and "ah".
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So remember "uh" is very very relaxed,
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we're just going to drop our jaw "uh", "uh".
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While "ah" is a much more open vowel sound, and remember it's further back.
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"Oh" is more central, "ah" is further back - "oh", "ah".
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For example: luck, luck - lack, lack.
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Cup, cup - cap, cap.
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Cut, cut - cat, cat.
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Next we have "oh" and "ough".
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Now with my beginner students, I usually just say don't worry about these,
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one is long and one is short, it's the same sound,
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and that's because really the difference is so subtle,
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but actually with the "oh" sound your jaw drops down a little bit more
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so "oh" and "ough" are both pronounced at the back
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but "oh" is a little bit further down meaning,
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it's more open, that's what I want to say,
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it's not down in the mouth, it's more open, okay?
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So "oh", "ough" - "oh", "ough".
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For example: cot, cot - caught, caught.
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So second one is much longer.
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Here are some more examples: not, not - naught, naught.
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Bot, bot - bought, bought.
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Next we have "uooh" or "uoh" and and "ough".
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So the key difference here is with "uoh",
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I'm going to use the Modern Received Pronunciation here just for ease,
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but we have "o" the key thing is that you're moving your mouth - uoh,
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uoh, with the second sound "ough", it's just one straight long sound nothing moves,
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"uoh", "ough".
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For example: code, code - cord, cord.
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Boat, boat - bought, bought.
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So, so - saw, saw.
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Next is "oh" versus "uoh".
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Now again I'm going to teach the modern receive pronunciation version, "uoh",
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just for simplicity, and because you're more likely to hear "uoh" than "uooh".
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So "oh", is very short and it's just one sound "oh", while "uoh", "uoh".
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You're moving from "uh",
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to "ooh," so there's movement in your mouth with that second sound.
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For example: bot, bot - boat, boat.
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Cot, cot - coat, coat.
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Not, not - note, note.
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Next we have "eih" and "aih".
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"Eih" starts more smiley, "eih", while "aih" starts more open.
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Here are some examples: late, late - light, light.
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Vain, vain - vine, vine.
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Maine, maine - mine, mine.
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Next we have "eh" and "euuh".
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"Eh" is very short and make sure you're smiling, eh, eh, eh, eh,
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while "euuh" is completely relaxed, remember it's a central vowel, completely relaxed,
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and very long "euuh".
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For example: bed, bed - bird, bird.
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Head, head - heard, heard.
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End, end - earned, earned.
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Next is "ih" and "eh".
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So with "ih" it's a bit more relaxed, remember it's the miserable, "ih",
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it's very miserable, so no smiling, and very short.
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"Eh" is more open so drop the jaw more and make sure you're smiling,
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"eh", "eh".
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"Ih", "eh".
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For example: bit, bit - bet, bet.
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Big, big - beg, beg.
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Sit, sit - set, set.
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Next is "uh" and "euuh".
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Now "uh" is very relaxed, remember it's in the middle,
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but we just drop our jaw a little bit - uh, uh.
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While "euuh" is very relaxed and it's a very long sound - euuh, euuh.
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Here are some minimal pairs: cut, cut - curt, curt.
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Luck, luck -lurk, lurk.
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Shut, shut - shirt, shirt.
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The next is "eh" and "eih".
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"Eh" this one vowel sound make sure you're smiling "eh", while "aih",
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is a transition from "eh" to the miserable "ih", "eih".
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So make sure you're moving your mouth as you're doing this one - eh, eih.
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In minimal pairs we have: sell, sell - sail, sail.
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Wet, wet - wait, wait.
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Let, let - late, late.
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Number 13 we're nearly at the end!
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This time we have "ahh", "ahh",
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drop the jaw and "uhh" relax it's in the center "uhh" and completely relaxed,
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"ahh", "uhh", and they're both long sounds as well.
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For example: heart, heart - hurt, hurt.
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Barn, barn - burn, burn.
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Star, star - stir, stir.
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Next we have "uh" and "ahh".
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Now "ahh" is a much longer sound, "uh" is also more central.
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You just drop your jaw - uh, uh.
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While "ahh" is a little bit further back
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and it's much longer
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so you have:
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uh, ahh.
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Uh, ahh.
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For example: cut, cut - cart, cart.
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Hum, hum - heart, heart.
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Come, come - calm, calm.
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And our final minimal pair, we are nearly done with today's lesson,
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I can tell this video is going to be a beast!
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It's "euhh" and or "oughh".
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Keep it relaxed "oughh",
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round the mouth and remember it's at the back of the mouth "euhh" it's
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in the center it's very relaxed,
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"oughh" is at the back.
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Now you can do this as the final set of minimal pairs: learn,
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learn - lawn, lawn.
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Work, work - walk, walk.
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Firm, firm - form, form.
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Well done you have made it to the end of this English pronunciation lesson
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on all the vowels in English!
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