How to Pronounce /æ/ (and /e/ - "bad" vs "bed")
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In this video you will learn how to pronounce the /æ/ sound in British English. I also also compare the /æ/ and /e/ sounds, so you will learn the difference between words like "mat" and "met", "bad" and "bet", etc. We'll look at the sound in isolation, then in words, and then in sentences.
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I can hear the difference quite clearly, with most British people. When it is Americans speaking, I really can't hear any difference.
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Não sei se você é brasileiro, mas se for o caso realmente fica mais perceptível para nós no sotaque britânico, pois as vogais parecem mais claras. No inglês estadunidense eles parecem "relaxar" mais, o que dificulta a percepção.
@@Joao-oo8yj, eu sou brasileiro e nunca tive essa dificuldade, eu sempre ouvi muito claramente a diferença, mesmo quando eu estava começando nem conseguia fazer direito os sons.
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Emma’s videos let my really understand and get how to pronounce AA vowel. I have been pronouncing it wrongly for more than 30 years.
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Thankyou I am a native english speaker and I have used this to help me to understand some finnish letter sounds. a and ä.
a as in Car Far Bar
and ä as in Man Ban Can.
it has realy helped me.
Emma, you're really helpful.
Russian speaker is here, you are right we have problems with thos sound. Thanks for your video! It also can help with my Tatar language ("æ" sounds like Tatar "ә")
You are superb in teaching. I understood well fast than any other places I tried to learn this sound æ.
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Emma you are such a great (not only) pronunciation teacher, thanks a million!
Yes, I am Russian and do confuse these 2 sounds. Thank you Emma
99.9% говорят ошибочно эпл, гэлэкси, бэд, и так далее, хотя в этих словах нет "э", спорить с этими людьми бесполезно
I'm from India indeed your teaching style is fantastic
Thank you Emma. Another great lesson. I have always struggle with words like "pan" and "pen", "man" and "men". This lesson is useful for me to practice these 2 sounds.
Thank you
I like this video. I used to get confused with these pronunciations.
And also love your pretty and natural smile
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very useful for my current struggle with pronunciation.
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Thank you Emma. I had difficulty to pronounce this sound.
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Thanks my confusions are clear now
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You are a wonderful teacher. Aethelflaed Could please tell me how to pronounce Aethelflaed accurately?Thanks
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I think this video is very nice😁
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Hey Emma. Thanks for teaching us the best of British English, as always!
I found out that I mispronounced that sound previously in one of your lesson on ETL, but this video is so great! It's short and all necessary information is here. I've saved it and going to rewatch😃 Thanks a bunch, Emma, I really liked it😊
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I got. Thank you very much.
We have both sounds in Swedish. We use the letter "Ä/ä" for "æ" sound. It must help a lot of people out there.
Really useful thank you so much
Dear Emma, congratulations for your pronunciation lessons and sessions. They are very useful. You are good at finding sufficient details forming necessary explanations, and producing sounds yourself.
You told me that a position of my mouth was incorrect in respect of a couple of vowels. To make corrections, it is not easy, but you really help by providing tips.
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Hi Emma. Thank you so much for your lessons. They are very helpful.
I 'm from India(knowing Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, so, I can pronounce All Consonants,and vowel, diphthongs sound
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Great, clear
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Dear Emma, your videos are grest. I have a question that's been bothering me for a while. You know how there are 3 ways to pronounce 'ed' at the end of verbs in the past simple. So we would have /t/, /d/ and /Id/. But what about verbs like carry, marry or rally, where we say something like /id/ at the end? Is the /id/ considered another way of pronouncing 'ed'? Many thanks!!
They end with /d/ :)
Love your British pronunciation!
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Why do you pronounce sound s after t? Sounds like mats, pats?
Thank you
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Good work
Thank you so much for this useful lesson, I am from India, I'm too confused in both sounds
Your video helps me a lot! I have been confused about how to pronounce /æ/ for a long time!!
Thanks for your video, I corrected my pronunciation and finally knew how to pronounce /æ/!
My example sentence; The fat cat met the ant on the mat.
This is a motivational lesson. Thank you.
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Hello! It's an awesome video! Everything is clear. And now my cheeks are aching from practicing [æ] sound 😅😅
Could you please make a video without explanation, like test for differentiating those sounds in words?☺️
Good idea. Next time I ask for requests, please remind me of this :)
Hello Elena, are you a teacher of English in Russia? I'm asking cus I'm a teacher in Russia, I work mostly with kids and their parents can't stop complaining about the way I pronounce apple, cat, bat, dad etc.. with an /a/ instead of /e/, I've told them severally that I can't change my pronunciation to an /e/ since it doesn't sound natural to me but it has continue to be a problem reason being that the kids always correct their teachers at school. I'm confused on what to do. Russian learnt this sound as /e/ and it's difficult to make them understand it's actually an /a/..what do you suggest..I'm tired of the parents trying to make me pronounce it as /e/ instead just so that their wards can get good grades at school.
Emma...have you a video about syllabic consonants: syllabic n and syllabic l ? Thank you.
Not yet
Than you Emma
thanks a lot
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Thanks!
So uhh, this is quite wrong. the letter originally is a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae and the letter æ is used by us danes among a few other languages. You pronounce æ exactly the way bed is pronounced in danish. It is only correct if you purely look at the britsh pronounciation which is pretty weird considering that it is primarily scandinavia that uses it.
This video is teaching the British phonemic chart's sounds. It's nothing to do with Danish or other languages. Purely the British phonemic chart.
This is the sound I was waiting for. Thank you. Personally I have difficulties between the sound of bat and but.
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Anibal Mansilla check out this video to learn the difference between BAT and BUT! :) ua-cam.com/video/KCWNFNy7qZE/v-deo.html
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hi Emma, how to pronounce mention and mansion? if you don't mind
so what z difference between cat n cut ?
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Thank you, dear Emma, for this useful lesson. You know, I've come up with another exercise on this topic:
"It's so bad to lie in bed
a whole day like lazy cat"!
By the way, I have a question that I've been wanting to ask a real English-speaking person for a long time: is it permissible to skip the article for the sake of preserving the rhyme, as I just did?
And another question that appeared just now. I used the construction "I've been wanting..." Is it correct? Maybe I should use "I wanted"?
I thank you in advance, dear Emma...! Greetings from Moscow...
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How did you do it?
Professor Emma, you have created a great problem - both sounds I have been saying incorrectly: AE versus E - but you have proposed some new approach. More difficult for me is to say more or less correctly Cup versus Apple. Can you understand my problem? Isn't it strange for you? It hurts me fighting with pronunciation. My misery.
Wonderful
Thanks a lot!
I love this sort of thing.
Let us learn more in the future. Thank you.
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