🎉Great news!🎉 Our brand new Sounds American website is up and running!🚀🎊 There's lots of content on pronunciation.🤓You can start with the article about the /ɝ/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/rcolored_vowel_sound_ur_as_in_first
I love your videos!! They're really useful. And, for example, I've never heard about R-colored vowels and now I'm really happy because I've been able to understand better each sound, improve my pronunciation and now I feel more comfortable and confident about English speaking.
I love you guys! Thanks for teaching me how to master songs and I'm watching again all of your videos, I think there's always space to improve even better.
THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!!!! Juan YOU ROCK!!! Thank you so much for creating these videos! Seriously, the best help so far with this hard central vowels.
@@SoundsAmerican when you see at the publisher of the video it says Juan Esteban Garica lol! sorry if it’s incorrect! I was just so excited to found the video!
Hi everyone, I wanted to give my feedback after months struggling with this sound with a Canadian friend helping me. I finally got there ! I'm french (from France) so my experience may help especially french people as they will encounter the same problems. Some other latin rooted speaker might benefit of it too though. So here is what I did : 1 - I had a meeting every week with a native Canadian speaker (I was there for 6 months but you very probably can practice on the phone) who wanted to learn french and he told me whenever I was pronuncing correctly or not. 2 - I wrote down every single word presented in this video and read them loudly in front of him, trying to put as much as I could of an american accent and they were all wrong. 3 - MOST IMPORTANT POINT : The first very very wrong thing I was doing is I was making it a diphtong, that's to say instead of saying a single sound, I was actually making the sound "e" (first voyelle of "ago") and then "r" which is completely wrong as the right sound is a single sound that you should be able to hold for a bit. To tell you how important it is, at some point I deseperatly said "feu" (fire in french pronunced "fe") with pure french accent instead of "fur" and my friend got so exited telling me it was so much better, not there yet but way better. To be honnest it hurts lol. 4 - I realized I was trying to make the sound but without hearing it anymore. That's to say I was so focused on the shape of my mouth and tongue that I realized I was just trying random tongue positions expecting to find the good one. The right way to do it was to play this video in my headphone again and again, try to repeat, record myself on my phone each time, listen to the recording at the end, cry, get back to it trying a different shape of mouth and tongue. 5 - I tried every possible position of tongue before I finally found one that really gave me the good result. I curled my tongue way more back than I thought I should. That's to say, see how the hard palet is made : teeth, then alveolar ridge then let's say hard palet. Instead of pointing my tongue toward the alveolar ridge I pointed it way more back. When closing my mouth while making the sound, the tip of my tongue would touch behind the alveolar ridge not touching IT. The sides of the tongue are curled too and touch the upper teeth at the bottom. When doing this, on the recording, I felt that it sounded better : there was this kind of resonance and it's something you want. 6 - When meeting my friend now, I used to just pronunce the 5 first words of the list and then he would tell me it wasn't good and I stopped and tried to change something and say these 5 words again. HUGE MISTAKE : The 5 first words of the list "bird" "burst" "clerk" and "curl" are the hardest ones. When I said the whole list, my friend finally spotted one word that I was pronuncing perfectly : "earth". Eventhough all the others were wrong, this one was pronunced good (confirmed later by my canadian housemates : earth was the only one good but it WAS good lol). I know it is weird because this one should be the hardest one as none of the sounds it contains exist in french (th doesn't exist in french) but maybe that's the reason : no native language influence. 7 - Before saying any word from the list that I would hear from my speaker, I would say "earth" first to put my tongue and mouth in the right position. After a while, my friend told me that he couldn't hear my accent on most of the words of this list. 8 - Still, "bird" , "clerk", "word", "world" don't sound totally correct, I have no idea why. The "d" and the "k" after the sound seem to mess all up. Hope it helps and let you save time with your learning. :) Here are a few tips : - App : Voice recorder for checking your pronunciation (it's all red with a white circle inside, I can't find it anymore on the google store though) : two button, one to record, the other to listen. Each recording erase the previous one which is trust me a really good thing as you will end up with so many recordings in the end. - www.conversationexchange.com/ which is the best site I found to meet people who want to practice language with native. That's where I found my friend. - Crying is ok
+CompoteDePomme X , What a feedback! Thanks a lot, we really appreciate it. Seems like you've got it! Your pronunciation is getting better, which is the most important thing. We couldn't be happier 😊. One tip from Sounds American, it should help you with your "hardest" words ("bird," "clerk," "word," and "world"): In these words, the /ɝ/ sound follows other sounds, the /b/, the /k/ and the /w/. The word "earth" is easier since the /ɝ/ comes first. So, your tongue and your lips need to switch from one position to another really quick. Try to pronounce those words this way: "word": /w/ - /ɝ/ - /d/ -> /wɝd/ "clerk": /k/ - /l/ - /ɝ/ - /k/ -> /klɝk/ and so on. Don't rush it, these words ARE very difficult to pronounce. Remember, it doesn't matter how fast you say them. The key is to pronounce them correctly. BTW, did you know that we always provide the list(s) of words we use in our practice exercises in the Description section? You can copy it for your practice. One more tip: you can record yourself while doing practice exercises in our videos. This way you can compare your pronunciation with the pronunciation of the Sounds American speaker. The only problem is you can't do that using your headphones, you need to use the speakers on your computer/mobile device ((. Yes, crying is OK 😊. We cry a lot when making our videos. No pain, no gain 😊.
I am glad that you are progressing, but imagine being a native speaker with these issues. It is relatively the hardest sound in the English to pronounce. If you can only imagine the back of tongue fighting with the front tip to stay down, you have probably experienced it too.
I have a helpful remark for this vowel sound: This vowel sound, which is considered murmured or even "mute", is a variation of the rounded short "u" as in "good", but unrounded. According to IPA, this vowel is an unrounded open "o". In French, you have something similar: the rounded "é" as in "feu", and its open variation as in "coeur". Greetings from a Spaniard who speaks English, and even French!
it's so usefull. I've tried all video on youtube but i still can't do it. i think i've found a new way. I propaly make the same mistake that i curled my tougue way too much. Thank you very much (sorry for my bad grammar but i think you can understand :)))) )
Finally!!! Where have you guys been? Now we're talking about pronounciation. Very good. Not only am I going to share these videos with my students, I am going to use them in class as well. Thank you.
@@SoundsAmerican You are welcome. Believe me i've been the best student in English along my academic study course until I've graduated. I did like English since my childhood and although my field is Computer Science and programming, it helped me a lot to learn so quickly especially being the most useful resources in English. Now I'm after improving ny pronunciation to sound like a native American. In fact I am improving and I think this channel is what I've been searching for. What do you think about my gramnar and vocabulary?
We're not experts in teaching English as a Second Language, especially in teaching English grammar, but the entire team agreed that your English is just great. 👍
People who are learning to pronounce a word also imitate the intonation as they repeat. When one word has a rising inttonation and the other has a falling intonation, rather than another rising intonation, that may be internalized as well. But never mind... It’s a good video
You're absolutely right, people imitate the intonation when they repeat words after the speaker. That's why we use a falling intonation in our exercises. We experimented with different intonations for this particular extract (2:05 - 2:22), and we thought that the "list" (rise - fall, rise - fall) intonation just sounded nicer. 😊
Oh! Awesome. I have never watched a video of how to pronounce that i feel such impressed😗. I want to save this video to my playlist so more people know, because it's so cool👍. I look forward to seeing your response💜🍀. Thank you for sharing🌷🌷🌷
Personally, I consider all colored sound as two sounds combination, vowel sound + /r/ sound. And I strongly recommend adding /ʊr/ in “poor”, “tour” into the r-colored sound list too. I know some replace this sound as /ɔr/, but not everyone. Anyway, good job. Can’t thank this channel enough.
The /ʊr/ sound is used in the US, but we don't believe it's used in General American English. We don't have this sound in our inventory and we've never used it either, so we can't teach it. :)
@@SoundsAmerican Got it, by the way, I just realized the /ʊ/ symbol has different pronunciations from British English and American English. So the word 'poor' /pʊə/ is good in British English, but in American English, it should either be /pɔr/ or /pur/. /pʊr/ in American English just can't add up, Americans don't speak this way as I heard. Gotta say, today's dictionaries really do a poor job on modern American English's pronunciation symbols. A lot of them even don't bother to distinguish /i/ and /ɪ/, /u/ and /ʊ/.
Well, the position of the speech organs is almost the same, the difference is that /ɝ/ is a vowel. Your mouth should be open a little more for /ɝ/ so the airflow is less obstructed. Check out our interactive IPA chart for more details: soundsamerican.net/ (for simplicity's sake we use the /r/ symbol for the /ɹ/ sound)
2:39 you said ( Also, note, that the /ɝ/ is used in stressed syllables ONLY. ) what about /ɝ/ sound it can be stressed as in bird /bɝd/ and unstressed as in thirteen /ˌθɜɹˈtin/ and outburst /ˈaʊtˌbɝst/ - what do you think?
There's secondary stress on the syllables with /ɝ/ in those words. Check the transcription you provided, this symbol: / *ˌ* θɜɹ ... / is the secondary stress.
"Unstressed" means "not stressed." "Secondary" stress means that it's an additional stress to primary, that is, there are two stresses in a word, one is primary and the other is secondary.
@@SoundsAmerican I am doing translation in some videos here on youtube . I wish I could have a chance to translate these videos to my language ( portuguese) so, many people could have acces in my country. This option as I click on Translate doesn´t give me the option, Unfortunetely it is not available
@@deborasantos3488 Thank you for offering this! We consider the translations of the subtitles for our videos to be very important and we treat them as serious projects. And they are big projects too. At the moment we have more than 70 videos on our channel, so it takes a lot of time and effort to translate all the subtitles. If you're still up to it, please send us a mail to team@soundsamerican.net and we'll discuss this matter in more detail.
Thank you for your kind explanation! It helps me a lot! I’m not a native speaker of English, so I want you to help me understand one thing. In AEP, it says schwa has two r-colored manifestations: [ɚ], and [ɝ]. As you mentioned in this video, the latter is used in the stressed syllable. However, I’m a little bit confused because schwa may be a phoneme of [ɝ] according to this book and is always used in the unstressed syllable. How its r-colored phonetic production can be used in the stressed syllable?🧐
The /ɚ/ and /ɝ/ are essentially the same sound. The difference is really subtle. The /ɚ/ sound is relaxed and is pronounced with relaxed tongue and lips. The /ɝ/ is pronounced with the tense tongue and lips. In all words in this very video, the /ɝ/ sound is used in stressed syllables. And here's the video about the /ɚ/ sound, it's used in unstressed syllables in all of the examples and exercises in this video: ua-cam.com/video/AzNRoSGBh44/v-deo.html Does this help? Please let us know.
my friend can you give us the pdf of all the word examples used in the 49 videos since most dictionaries don't have correct IPA transcriptions. Thank you
Great videoes! It would be much better if you can attach a pic aside to show the meaning of the word so that I can learn to pronouce the word and learn the word meaning at the same time.
If we were to add pictures, we'd be making a dictionary, but we don't teach English as a second language. Our expertise is only in teaching pronunciation.👋
This channel is wonderful. I finally found what I was looking for. But I was wondering which dictionaries use these phonetic notations and what's your suggestions? Since online versions of MW or Oxford American and Cambridge dictionaries differ in their phonetic alphabet.
I definitely like your videos. But I was wondering if you could make another one which explain how to pronounce the word little and important. I have many difficulties to pronounce them correctly. Thanks a lot.
Bonjour, dans le mot courage, est-ce que c’est les lettres /-our/ qui font partir du son /er/ ou seulement /ur/? Merci beaucoup! J’aime bien votre méthode.
In American English, the word "courage" is pronounced with the /ɝ/ sound: /ˈkɝ·ɪdʒ/. And it's the entire 'OUR' combination that is pronounced as /ɝ/. Hope this helps!
when do we all have this app? i really give myself a lot of trouble with the "R" sound and besides i intend to speak like an American. Thanks for your useful videos.
Love to learn about the r-colored vowel as this makes a real big difference! Am I understanding correctly that essentially the vowel “r”, the “r” in the words first and the “r” in the word after are pronounced exactly same? Thank you!
Hello, Sounds American. How do you doing? Well back! Now, from this point, talking about the last part of the video. You said that, there are monophthongs sounds with the R-Colored Vowel Sound. Also, there are Diphthongs and finally there is a Triphthong with the American R-Colored Vowel Sound. I'm not so clear about this topic. For me it's very confusing. Can you give me more explanation about it? Or can you recommend me a text that can help me, please! By the way, I would like to know what's your name? And finally, thank you for your passion about the English and Phonetics sounds.
+ Angello Ferreira , Hello there, Angello! Let’s start with some explanations of what monopthongs, diphthongs and triphthongs are. A monophthong is a single (or pure) vowel sound. It means that when you pronounce it, your mouth, lips and tongue retain the same position from start to end of that sound. A diphthong is a sound that is formed by two adjacent vowels in the same syllable. To pronounce a diphthong, you start with making one sound and then glide to the other. So, your mouth, lips and tongue move from one position to another. A triphthong is a sound that is a union of three adjacent vowels in the same syllable. When you pronounce such a sound, your mouth, lips and tongue move from one position, to another and then pass over to the third. Now, the R-colored vowels /ɝ/, as in “first” and /ɚ/, as in “teacher” are single distinct sounds. As described in our video, while making the /ɝ/ sound, you place your mouth, lips and tongue in only one position from start to end. You don’t have to move your tongue or your lips to another position to make the / ɝ/. The same is true for the /ɚ/ sound. R-colored vowel sounds /ɪr/, as in “fear”, /ɛr/ as in “bear”, /ɑr/ as in “bar”, and /ɔr/ as in “for” are diphthongs, as with each of them you have to first pronounce the first vowel sound and then glide into the adjacent /r/ sound. For example, to pronounce the /ɑr/ vowel sound, you start with opening your mouth as wide as possible and placing your tongue very low in your mouth for the /ɑ/, then you raise the tip of your tongue to the alveolar ridge, curling the tip of your tongue back, as you do for the /r/ sound. This has to be a smooth movement, as you glide from the /ɑ/ to the /r/. The only r-colored triphthong is the /aɪr/ sound, as in fire. To make it, you have to start with pronouncing a diphthong /aɪ/ (moving from the /ɑ/ sound to the /ɪ/ ) and then glide into the /r/, so your mouth, lips and your tongue change three positions to make one sound - /aɪr/. Hope it helps! :)
Hello friend, Your videos are great! Why are vowels followed by r considered diphthong? I don't understand. Some authors consider diphthongs only /aɪ/ /eɪ/ /ɔi/ /aʊ/ /oʊ/ . And /ʊr/? Is not diphthong? sure /ʃʊr/ secure /sɪˈkyʊr/ europe /ˈyʊrəp/ mature /məˈtʃʊr/ tour /tʊr/ thanks
+ChiP , hello there! The tongue placement and position are similar for the /ɝ/, /ɚ/ and the /r/ sounds. The difference is in the tenseness of the the tongue and throat. For the /ɝ/ sound your tongue and your throat should be very tense, you should feel this tension when pronouncing this sound. For the /ɚ/ sound your tongue and your throat should be relaxed, as this is a very relaxed vowel sound. The /ɝ/ and the /ɚ/ are very similar, basically, it's the tense and the relaxed version of one sound. The /r/ is a consonant sound but it's pronunciation is very similar to that of the r-colored vowel /ɝ/. The tongue placement and position is similar, as well as the tenseness of your tongue and throat. The difference between the /r/ and the /ɝ/ is that when you are making the /r/, you hold it less in the very beginning. Try to start pronouncing the /ɝ/ as if you're in a hurry and you don't have enough time to hold it at the beginning :). Hope it helps!
+Rolando Quirós, yes, we used our own app, but it's not publicly available yet. We're going to release it soon, so please, stay tuned! We'll announce it here on this channel.
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
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🎉Great news!🎉 Our brand new Sounds American website is up and running!🚀🎊 There's lots of content on pronunciation.🤓You can start with the article about the /ɝ/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/rcolored_vowel_sound_ur_as_in_first
you're the best channel for America accent
This is the best channel I've found to learn and practice pronuntiation
This is so useful. I'm glad I found this channel.
+Kirill V., thank you!
same
I love your videos!! They're really useful. And, for example, I've never heard about R-colored vowels and now I'm really happy because I've been able to understand better each sound, improve my pronunciation and now I feel more comfortable and confident about English speaking.
+Jerry J. Vindas M. So glad to hear this! Let us know if you have any questions!🖖👋
Good video. I need some practice.
Thank you so much for your hard job with pronunciation. We are highly appreciated.
No problem! By the way, we also made a website with tons of pronunciation materials, check it out: soundsamerican.net/
You are genius to solve my years question
Very clear and easy-to-understand description of R-coloring! Thank you!
Glad to hear that! 😊👋
"R-colored vowel". It exactly defines simpliar sound.
Didn't meet this definition before.
Thanks for useful lesson
I am looking for this type of channel for learning American English Pronunciation many years, now, I found it, it is great, thanks so much.
+William Kong, you're welcome! Don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications about our new videos.
I love you guys! Thanks for teaching me how to master songs and I'm watching again all of your videos, I think there's always space to improve even better.
Awesome! Thank you!
Crystal clear explanation.. This channel deserves more than 1million subscribers.Thankyou
Totally agree. 😀
Very useful información. Thanks
what a wonderful video, thank you a lot for sharing 🥰🥰🥰
I'm very grateful for this video. I learned a lot.
Especially about the explanation "R-colored vowels".
Thanks!!
Go on.
+Rosiane Cumam, thank you! We're glad that you found it helpful! Yes, new videos will be published very soon. Stay tuned!
This R-colored vowel is a new concept for me.
THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!!!! Juan YOU ROCK!!! Thank you so much for creating these videos! Seriously, the best help so far with this hard central vowels.
Who is Juan? 😊
@@SoundsAmerican when you see at the publisher of the video it says Juan Esteban Garica lol! sorry if it’s incorrect! I was just so excited to found the video!
You mean, on this channel? The publisher is Juan Esteban Garica? Can you please give us a link?
Great lesson thank you sir
+Svetlana Litvinova , you're very welcome! Stay tuned!
Thanks for the lesson now I can distinguish this sound :D
Great!
Really thankful to you u cleared my one of biggest confusion regarding R-vowel
You're welcome! Glad to hear that!
Buenísimo. Increíble, no había visto que inclusive tenía transcripción, vaya, se sobraron. Gracias, gracias y muchas gracias.
+J G Duarte 😀👋
Thank you a lot everybody to made it👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you teacher again
Hi everyone, I wanted to give my feedback after months struggling with this sound with a Canadian friend helping me. I finally got there ! I'm french (from France) so my experience may help especially french people as they will encounter the same problems. Some other latin rooted speaker might benefit of it too though.
So here is what I did :
1 - I had a meeting every week with a native Canadian speaker (I was there for 6 months but you very probably can practice on the phone) who wanted to learn french and he told me whenever I was pronuncing correctly or not.
2 - I wrote down every single word presented in this video and read them loudly in front of him, trying to put as much as I could of an american accent and they were all wrong.
3 - MOST IMPORTANT POINT : The first very very wrong thing I was doing is I was making it a diphtong, that's to say instead of saying a single sound, I was actually making the sound "e" (first voyelle of "ago") and then "r" which is completely wrong as the right sound is a single sound that you should be able to hold for a bit.
To tell you how important it is, at some point I deseperatly said "feu" (fire in french pronunced "fe") with pure french accent instead of "fur" and my friend got so exited telling me it was so much better, not there yet but way better. To be honnest it hurts lol.
4 - I realized I was trying to make the sound but without hearing it anymore. That's to say I was so focused on the shape of my mouth and tongue that I realized I was just trying random tongue positions expecting to find the good one. The right way to do it was to play this video in my headphone again and again, try to repeat, record myself on my phone each time, listen to the recording at the end, cry, get back to it trying a different shape of mouth and tongue.
5 - I tried every possible position of tongue before I finally found one that really gave me the good result. I curled my tongue way more back than I thought I should. That's to say, see how the hard palet is made : teeth, then alveolar ridge then let's say hard palet. Instead of pointing my tongue toward the alveolar ridge I pointed it way more back. When closing my mouth while making the sound, the tip of my tongue would touch behind the alveolar ridge not touching IT. The sides of the tongue are curled too and touch the upper teeth at the bottom. When doing this, on the recording, I felt that it sounded better : there was this kind of resonance and it's something you want.
6 - When meeting my friend now, I used to just pronunce the 5 first words of the list and then he would tell me it wasn't good and I stopped and tried to change something and say these 5 words again. HUGE MISTAKE : The 5 first words of the list "bird" "burst" "clerk" and "curl" are the hardest ones. When I said the whole list, my friend finally spotted one word that I was pronuncing perfectly : "earth". Eventhough all the others were wrong, this one was pronunced good (confirmed later by my canadian housemates : earth was the only one good but it WAS good lol). I know it is weird because this one should be the hardest one as none of the sounds it contains exist in french (th doesn't exist in french) but maybe that's the reason : no native language influence.
7 - Before saying any word from the list that I would hear from my speaker, I would say "earth" first to put my tongue and mouth in the right position. After a while, my friend told me that he couldn't hear my accent on most of the words of this list.
8 - Still, "bird" , "clerk", "word", "world" don't sound totally correct, I have no idea why. The "d" and the "k" after the sound seem to mess all up.
Hope it helps and let you save time with your learning. :)
Here are a few tips :
- App : Voice recorder for checking your pronunciation (it's all red with a white circle inside, I can't find it anymore on the google store though) : two button, one to record, the other to listen. Each recording erase the previous one which is trust me a really good thing as you will end up with so many recordings in the end.
- www.conversationexchange.com/ which is the best site I found to meet people who want to practice language with native. That's where I found my friend.
- Crying is ok
+CompoteDePomme X , What a feedback! Thanks a lot, we really appreciate it.
Seems like you've got it! Your pronunciation is getting better, which is the most important thing. We couldn't be happier 😊.
One tip from Sounds American, it should help you with your "hardest" words ("bird," "clerk," "word," and "world"):
In these words, the /ɝ/ sound follows other sounds, the /b/, the /k/ and the /w/. The word "earth" is easier since the /ɝ/ comes first.
So, your tongue and your lips need to switch from one position to another really quick.
Try to pronounce those words this way:
"word": /w/ - /ɝ/ - /d/ -> /wɝd/
"clerk": /k/ - /l/ - /ɝ/ - /k/ -> /klɝk/
and so on.
Don't rush it, these words ARE very difficult to pronounce.
Remember, it doesn't matter how fast you say them. The key is to pronounce them correctly.
BTW, did you know that we always provide the list(s) of words we use in our practice exercises in the Description section? You can copy it for your practice.
One more tip: you can record yourself while doing practice exercises in our videos. This way you can compare your pronunciation with the pronunciation of the Sounds American speaker. The only problem is you can't do that using your headphones, you need to use the speakers on your computer/mobile device ((.
Yes, crying is OK 😊. We cry a lot when making our videos. No pain, no gain 😊.
I am glad that you are progressing, but imagine being a native speaker with these issues. It is relatively the hardest sound in the English to pronounce. If you can only imagine the back of tongue fighting with the front tip to stay down, you have probably experienced it too.
I have a helpful remark for this vowel sound: This vowel sound, which is considered murmured or even "mute", is a variation of the rounded short "u" as in "good", but unrounded. According to IPA, this vowel is an unrounded open "o". In French, you have something similar: the rounded "é" as in "feu", and its open variation as in "coeur". Greetings from a Spaniard who speaks English, and even French!
it's so usefull. I've tried all video on youtube but i still can't do it. i think i've found a new way. I propaly make the same mistake that i curled my tougue way too much. Thank you very much
(sorry for my bad grammar but i think you can understand :)))) )
Thanks so much for your feedback. It's really helpful for me too
Very informative thanhs you👍
Thanks a lot
Great explanation. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
love this channel. ɪ practice with these tutorials everyday.
Great to hear!
Yeah, I'm doing it as well
very good
+giorgi meliqishvili , thank you! Glad you liked it! :)
Finally!!! Where have you guys been? Now we're talking about pronounciation. Very good. Not only am I going to share these videos with my students, I am going to use them in class as well. Thank you.
+English Forever Yes, please. And don't forget to say "hi" to your students :). Sincerely yours, Sounds American. 😁👋🖖
I will. Thank you. Can you tell us your name? Or would rather be know as Saounds American?
+English Forever Sounds American. That's actually our name :).
Nice. This presentation is awesome. It is creative and active. It is always shifting screens. Congrats!!
English Forever 😁👋
i need the same but for british english! the way you explain how sounds should be articulated is awesome!
+k0tenych Some day, maybe :)
You are really amazing! All my support. Wish you best of luck. greetings from Algeria.
Thank you so much!
@@SoundsAmerican You are welcome. Believe me i've been the best student in English along my academic study course until I've graduated.
I did like English since my childhood and although my field is Computer Science and programming, it helped me a lot to learn so quickly especially being the most useful resources in English.
Now I'm after improving ny pronunciation to sound like a native American. In fact I am improving and I think this channel is what I've been searching for.
What do you think about my gramnar and vocabulary?
We're not experts in teaching English as a Second Language, especially in teaching English grammar, but the entire team agreed that your English is just great. 👍
@@SoundsAmerican Thank you so much for such a motivating comment.
I definitely will thanks again
+Svetlana Litvinova 👍
Svetlana Litvinova lip
I've always had problem how to pronounce word .now I got it .
Thank you
I've been watching a lot of videos about the schwa sound, this one has been the most helpful on how to place your tongue correctly for it!
Glad to hear it!
People who are learning to pronounce a word also imitate the intonation as they repeat. When one word has a rising inttonation and the other has a falling intonation, rather than another rising intonation, that may be internalized as well. But never mind... It’s a good video
You're absolutely right, people imitate the intonation when they repeat words after the speaker. That's why we use a falling intonation in our exercises.
We experimented with different intonations for this particular extract (2:05 - 2:22), and we thought that the "list" (rise - fall, rise - fall) intonation just sounded nicer. 😊
yeah this video is cool, thank Sounds American for post.
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Oh! Awesome. I have never watched a video of how to pronounce that i feel such impressed😗. I want to save this video to my playlist so more people know, because it's so cool👍. I look forward to seeing your response💜🍀.
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Gosto de pronunciar bem as palavras, é o meu hábito. Obrigado professor pelo seu ensino de inglês!
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Excellent video🙋
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Thank you so much. This really helps me to improve my pronunciation :)
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Personally, I consider all colored sound as two sounds combination, vowel sound + /r/ sound. And I strongly recommend adding /ʊr/ in “poor”, “tour” into the r-colored sound list too. I know some replace this sound as /ɔr/, but not everyone. Anyway, good job. Can’t thank this channel enough.
The /ʊr/ sound is used in the US, but we don't believe it's used in General American English. We don't have this sound in our inventory and we've never used it either, so we can't teach it. :)
@@SoundsAmerican Got it, by the way, I just realized the /ʊ/ symbol has different pronunciations from British English and American English. So the word 'poor' /pʊə/ is good in British English, but in American English, it should either be /pɔr/ or /pur/. /pʊr/ in American English just can't add up, Americans don't speak this way as I heard. Gotta say, today's dictionaries really do a poor job on modern American English's pronunciation symbols. A lot of them even don't bother to distinguish /i/ and /ɪ/, /u/ and /ʊ/.
That is amazing videos it's help me a lot on my pronunciation, thanks very much for your support .
Glad to hear that!
Bonjour, vos vidéos sont très enrichissants, mais dommage que la transcription en Français n’est pas disponible. Merci et bonne journée!😊
Thanks! Our subtitles are made by great people who love what we do and volunteer to take part in our work.
thank you ❤
Thank you for your video. Can you explain the difference between r-collored [ɜ] and consonant [ɹ]? I've been taught that they're the same.
Well, the position of the speech organs is almost the same, the difference is that /ɝ/ is a vowel. Your mouth should be open a little more for /ɝ/ so the airflow is less obstructed. Check out our interactive IPA chart for more details: soundsamerican.net/ (for simplicity's sake we use the /r/ symbol for the /ɹ/ sound)
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2:39 you said ( Also, note, that the /ɝ/ is used in stressed syllables ONLY. ) what about /ɝ/ sound it can be stressed as in bird /bɝd/ and unstressed as in thirteen /ˌθɜɹˈtin/ and outburst /ˈaʊtˌbɝst/ - what do you think?
There's secondary stress on the syllables with /ɝ/ in those words. Check the transcription you provided, this symbol: / *ˌ* θɜɹ ... / is the secondary stress.
@@SoundsAmerican is the secondary stress as same as unsressed. Same loud and fast.
"Unstressed" means "not stressed." "Secondary" stress means that it's an additional stress to primary, that is, there are two stresses in a word, one is primary and the other is secondary.
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😀👋 Glad you liked it!
@@SoundsAmerican I am doing translation in some videos here on youtube . I wish I could have a chance to translate these videos to my language ( portuguese) so, many people could have acces in my country. This option as I click on Translate doesn´t give me the option, Unfortunetely it is not available
@@deborasantos3488 Thank you for offering this! We consider the translations of the subtitles for our videos to be very important and we treat them as serious projects. And they are big projects too. At the moment we have more than 70 videos on our channel, so it takes a lot of time and effort to translate all the subtitles. If you're still up to it, please send us a mail to team@soundsamerican.net and we'll discuss this matter in more detail.
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This is extremely helpful
+Andrew Wehren, glad to hear that! 👋😀
I can hear the difference in mu pronunciation after practicing this lesson 👌🏻
+Ilona V Very glad to hear this! Let us know if you have any questions.
This is most beneficial English instruction I ever had
Thank you so much
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@@SoundsAmerican spelling rules ?
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I'm still waiting for that app.
Yeah we are still waiting
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Thank you for your kind explanation! It helps me a lot! I’m not a native speaker of English, so I want you to help me understand one thing. In AEP, it says schwa has two r-colored manifestations: [ɚ], and [ɝ]. As you mentioned in this video, the latter is used in the stressed syllable. However, I’m a little bit confused because schwa may be a phoneme of [ɝ] according to this book and is always used in the unstressed syllable. How its r-colored phonetic production can be used in the stressed syllable?🧐
The /ɚ/ and /ɝ/ are essentially the same sound. The difference is really subtle. The /ɚ/ sound is relaxed and is pronounced with relaxed tongue and lips. The /ɝ/ is pronounced with the tense tongue and lips.
In all words in this very video, the /ɝ/ sound is used in stressed syllables. And here's the video about the /ɚ/ sound, it's used in unstressed syllables in all of the examples and exercises in this video: ua-cam.com/video/AzNRoSGBh44/v-deo.html
Does this help? Please let us know.
I’m American but I’m here because I’m super dyslexic and bombing this linguistics class 😭
Check out our website, you might find it useful soundsamerican.net/
it is fantastic lesson
+Safaa Hanna Glad you liked it!
Thanks so much. I hope you will make more videos . Sr my grammar's is not good
We will, stay tuned!
Could you please give me a link to the webpage from this video to practice pronunciation?
thanks
Gracias.
Me has ayudado mucho.
Me siento muy agradecido porque no puedo pagar profesor y quiero perfeccinarlo por mi mismo, como lo he hecho siempre.
+William González , you're welcome! Glad our videos help you! Stay tuned, we'll be posting more :).
@@SoundsAmerican What is the translation?
I've learnt today in 10 min what I didn't in 3h classes for one week.
Awesome!
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Plz where is the spelling graphic with the percentage ir, er, ur, ear, wor, or, our?
ua-cam.com/video/ZJnrTGH3aXo/v-deo.html
@@SoundsAmerican thx 👍 alot
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my friend can you give us the pdf of all the word examples used in the 49 videos since most dictionaries don't have correct IPA transcriptions. Thank you
We'll see what we can do. 👋🤗
Can i ask? What's the difference between this vowel and the Ir as in Hero?
Your videos are awesome! Which software do you use to create your content?
+Romi , thank you! We use our own app, it's not publicly available yet, but we're going to release it very soon.
Oh wow that's fantastic! Can't wait:) Thank you for all the hard work!
+Romi , :) we'll announce the release here on this channel, so stay tuned! :)
Absolutely! Keep it up! ;)
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Great videoes! It would be much better if you can attach a pic aside to show the meaning of the word so that I can learn to pronouce the word and learn the word meaning at the same time.
If we were to add pictures, we'd be making a dictionary, but we don't teach English as a second language. Our expertise is only in teaching pronunciation.👋
Practicing a lot to get the R coloured Vowels sound right. I know how to make them but they’re not integrated into my speech
This channel is wonderful. I finally found what I was looking for. But I was wondering which dictionaries use these phonetic notations and what's your suggestions? Since online versions of MW or Oxford American and Cambridge dictionaries differ in their phonetic alphabet.
The Cambridge Online dictionary doesn't differ much, as well as the dictionary.com. These are pretty similar.
it 's very helpful to me !
+Eunice chen , glad to hear that! 👋
Большое спасибо
I definitely like your videos. But I was wondering if you could make another one which explain how to pronounce the word little and important. I have many difficulties to pronounce them correctly. Thanks a lot.
+emo loic , yes, we plan to make videos for the flap and glottal 'T' sounds that are used in these words in a couple weeks. Stay tuned!
It is fine to make the r in r colored vowel voiced retroflex approximant [ɻ]?
Bonjour, dans le mot courage, est-ce que c’est les lettres /-our/ qui font partir du son /er/ ou seulement /ur/? Merci beaucoup! J’aime bien votre méthode.
In American English, the word "courage" is pronounced with the /ɝ/ sound: /ˈkɝ·ɪdʒ/. And it's the entire 'OUR' combination that is pronounced as /ɝ/. Hope this helps!
when do we all have this app? i really give myself a lot of trouble with the "R" sound and besides i intend to speak like an American. Thanks for your useful videos.
+Nguyễn Bòy , thank you! Glad you like our videos! We're working hard on our app, we'll release it very soon, please, stay tuned!
when can I get this app
when can I get this app
very great，I LOVE this video，it helps me a lot
Glad to hear this!😊👋
good! I need the app off Sounds American on Appstore :)). thank!
We haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
Love to learn about the r-colored vowel as this makes a real big difference! Am I understanding correctly that essentially the vowel “r”, the “r” in the words first and the “r” in the word after are pronounced exactly same? Thank you!
Yes, the're almost the same, the /ɚ/ in "after" is a little more relaxed, as it occurs in unstressed syllables.
Hello, Sounds American. How do you doing? Well back! Now, from this point, talking about the last part of the video. You said that, there are monophthongs sounds with the R-Colored Vowel Sound. Also, there are Diphthongs and finally there is a Triphthong with the American R-Colored Vowel Sound. I'm not so clear about this topic. For me it's very confusing. Can you give me more explanation about it? Or can you recommend me a text that can help me, please! By the way, I would like to know what's your name? And finally, thank you for your passion about the English and Phonetics sounds.
+ Angello Ferreira , Hello there, Angello!
Let’s start with some explanations of what monopthongs, diphthongs and triphthongs are.
A monophthong is a single (or pure) vowel sound. It means that when you pronounce it, your mouth, lips and tongue retain the same position from start to end of that sound.
A diphthong is a sound that is formed by two adjacent vowels in the same syllable. To pronounce a diphthong, you start with making one sound and then glide to the other. So, your mouth, lips and
tongue move from one position to another.
A triphthong is a sound that is a union of three adjacent vowels in the same syllable. When you pronounce such a sound, your mouth, lips and tongue move from one position, to another and then pass
over to the third.
Now, the R-colored vowels /ɝ/, as in “first” and /ɚ/, as in “teacher” are single distinct sounds. As described in our video, while making the /ɝ/ sound, you place your mouth, lips and tongue in only one position from start to end. You don’t have to move your tongue or your lips to another position to make the / ɝ/. The same is true for the /ɚ/ sound.
R-colored vowel sounds /ɪr/, as in “fear”, /ɛr/ as in “bear”, /ɑr/ as in “bar”, and /ɔr/ as in “for” are
diphthongs, as with each of them you have to first pronounce the first vowel sound and then glide into the adjacent /r/ sound. For example, to pronounce the /ɑr/ vowel sound, you start with opening your mouth as wide as possible and placing your tongue very low in your mouth for the /ɑ/, then you raise the tip of your tongue to the alveolar ridge, curling the tip of your tongue back, as you do for the /r/ sound. This has to be a smooth movement, as you glide from the /ɑ/ to the /r/.
The only r-colored triphthong is the /aɪr/ sound, as in fire. To make it, you have to start with pronouncing a diphthong /aɪ/ (moving from the /ɑ/ sound to the /ɪ/ ) and then glide into the /r/, so your mouth, lips and your tongue change three positions to make one sound - /aɪr/.
Hope it helps! :)
Hello friend,
Your videos are great!
Why are vowels followed by r considered diphthong? I don't understand. Some authors consider diphthongs only /aɪ/ /eɪ/ /ɔi/ /aʊ/ /oʊ/ .
And /ʊr/? Is not diphthong?
sure /ʃʊr/
secure /sɪˈkyʊr/
europe /ˈyʊrəp/
mature /məˈtʃʊr/
tour /tʊr/
thanks
非常棒地英语频道，可惜国内没有
Yes, that's unfortunate. We also have a website with tons of information on American pronunciation, check it out: soundsamerican.net/
Can you tell me if this is the same than the "schaw" sound, I'm a little bit confused...
are the /ɚ/ and /ə/ ever occur in a stressed syllable?
Not that we're aware of :).
Im yet to comprehend R sounds ... could you provide more detail on the last part of the video, please
Are you going to have lessons on Intonations and rhythm?
Sure.
It IS awesome!
Glad you liked it!
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Aula muito boa!!!
Parabéns!
+Rosiane Cumam, thank you! :) Glad you liked the lesson :).
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Hi, i don't understand the difference in mouth, tongue placement from the other two r, r (run) and r(after). What is it that differs from the others?
+ChiP , hello there! The tongue placement and position are similar for the /ɝ/, /ɚ/ and the /r/ sounds. The difference is in the tenseness of the the tongue and throat.
For the /ɝ/ sound your tongue and your throat should be very tense, you should feel this tension when pronouncing this sound.
For the /ɚ/ sound your tongue and your throat should be relaxed, as this is a very relaxed vowel sound.
The /ɝ/ and the /ɚ/ are very similar, basically, it's the tense and the relaxed version of one sound.
The /r/ is a consonant sound but it's pronunciation is very similar to that of the r-colored vowel /ɝ/. The tongue placement and position is similar, as well as the tenseness of your tongue and throat.
The difference between the /r/ and the /ɝ/ is that when you are making the /r/, you hold it less in the very beginning. Try to start pronouncing the /ɝ/ as if you're in a hurry and you don't have enough time to hold it at the beginning :).
Hope it helps!
Thank you :)
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Hi, did you use an app for the video? What is the name?
+Rolando Quirós, yes, we used our own app, but it's not publicly available yet. We're going to release it soon, so please, stay tuned! We'll announce it here on this channel.
what is your website or app?
We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!
How can I get the application that you test your pronunciation?
+سامر السالم we haven't released our app yet, we're working to make it happen soon! Stay tuned!
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