Pronunciation Tutorial 3: English Vowels and the International Phonetic Alphabet
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
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Reddit's Anki Language Learning Community: / ankilanguagelearning
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The third video tutorial on the International Phonetic Alphabet and English Pronunciation. This one covers the English Vowels and vowel characteristics in general - Height, Rounding and Backness, with the eventual goal of helping you learn your target language pronunciation based on better understanding your native language.
I just graduated with a 4 year degree in musical theatre, and I cannot believe IPA was never introduced. Wish I would have studied this myself a lot sooner; thanks for the great instruction!
He even sings and whistles to make his point clearer: A great teacher.
12:49 i
12:51 ɪ
12:52 ɛ
12:53 æ
12:55 u
12:57 ʊ
12:58 ɔ
13:00 ɑ
13:02 ʌ
13:04 ɜ
13:07 ə
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This is a real gem, I always wondered about the inconsistency of same IPA symbols between different languages, but this video explains it very clear. Thanks!
Gabriel, you are world class! You rescued me from despair in my attempts to 'hear' French. Thank you for providing this incredibly valuable resource.
He is world class.
This is the ONLY video I've found that clearly explains and goes through all of the placements of the English vowels, their placements in the chart, and their symbols. Thanks you!!
I fully agree.
Thanks for everything, you taught in these three videos what teachers didn't in years.
He is by far the best of the best, he approaches his teaching from several angles, which makes his tutoring understandable to a detail. Good job!
We're happy to hear you found the video helpful!
Gabe, this is absolutely wonderful. I teach speech in a theatre program in Chicago and have yet to find something as cogent aurally and visually as this. Thanks for making and posting this excellent resource.EXCELLENT IPA vowel lesson by a classical singer. NO ancient Edith Skinner crap. Lots of cross reference to other languages and dialects. GREAT placement of front and back vowels. NO nasalization. Clear differentiation of IPA as descriptive and its application to language and lexical sets.
I'm so glad to find your videos when searching for IPA tutorials. What a gem!
I've started learning Tibetan about a month ago, and decided to pick up IPA again when I realized I was struggling with the Tibetan consonants. I learned IPA some two decades ago but didn't really understand half of it and have very bad pronunciation with English. I speak Chinese, English with a bit of Malay. After watching your videos and reading your website, I feel both inspiring and encouraging.
Thank you very much indeed for this great piece of work. I've been studying English language for the second year and this video helped me very much with understanding what we learnet during the first year of phonetics and phonology course at my university. The clear and logical way that you presented the vowel diagram made me realize and appreciate full power and amount of information it carries. Thanks again and best regards from Poland.
Am really grateful Sir.... I most confess that this very tutorial has remove my fear of general phonetics....I'm now ready and willing to become a phonetician or a phonologist.... thank you very much sir.
Super useful for an American trying to understand the IPA. I've studied so many languages without learning the IPA, and it's great to finally learn what some of these terms mean. (Don't give in to the people who say you should slow down--this is perfect for natives of English learning the IPA, which I think is your intention.)
I don't think that his intention is to teach Americans how to use the IPA. I think hist intention is to teach anyone who is interested in phonetics or linguistics or a particular language. His pace is not a trouble to me. I could hear every word he was pronouncing. Though, I am not an English native speaker. So, this is super useful for anyone.
If you can speak Spanish, remember, never neutralize the vowels; that is a mistake I heard a lot among those speaking Spanish as a second language. Neither in Italian the vowels are neutralized.
Thank you for the series of videos. I have seen three so far. Imagine all the time I wasted as a child learning a second language's pronunciation without your videos. Now I just to review your method.
This is such an amazing tutorial. Thank you!
You deserve way more views and subscribers.
Also, I think Schwa is my new favorite term in lunguistics. It just sounds hilarious.
(Not the phone itself, but the name given to it.)
Thank you for sharing your incredible talent and for the best IPA video on UA-cam!
Really helpful. Thank you very much!
Very very very good ! Now, I understand everything. Gracias.
Thank you very much for this great explanation
Thank you SO much for your IPA videos, and in particular the first two. I'm reading A Brief History of the Spanish Language by David Pharies, and your videos have given me a good start toward learning the IPA symbols that apply to Spanish.
Spanish, like Italian, is a totally phonetic language. The hard part to it is its verbs: Those of us raised in Spanish-speaking nations from second grade on had the teachers making us repeat the conjugations for each important verb, particularly irregular verb conjugations which are hard even for native Spanish-speakers.
Oh my gosh thank you so much for these videos! I never though about learning IPA! I had like my own IPA ( for perro I would do something like 'pair-oh' by the word to remember how it sounded lol ). My mom made me in my brother learn to read with 'Hooked on Phonetics', so we could "sound-out" words we didn't know growing up and now I can sound out french words! It's so cool, It's like that moment when you a kid and all those foreign symbols turn into words and you can read, I'm so excited! :)
Thank you so much ~ I really want to study vowl sounds correctly. Thank you so much !
So clear, thank you.
interesting note re: schwa characteristic and accents. excellent video. thanks.
Great video!
I have a quick question that bugs me though: you mention in the video that you don't have the ɔ vowel at all. That bugs me a little and would be curious to know how you pronounce these words:
Broad, law, cause, fall, talk.
And what about north, four, etc.?
How do American cot-caught mergers pronounce these words in general?
Thanks!
This tutorilas helps me a lot.... I wish I could get a job from one of the biggest BPOs here in the Philippines....Tnx
Excellent video! Like another comment said, it was much clearer and concise than my university lectures. Is there any chance of you doing that Italian pronunciation video?
Thank you for these videos!! They are so helpful for my phonetics course. Best wishes from Taiwan :D
Finally a very usefull video, Thank you master
This is great! thanks a bunch
I gave very good idea.......
I will follow it
great hepl. Thank you very much!
Very well done! thanks lot.
Awesome explanation
that was f**king fascinating
"Freaking" is acceptable in everyday speech.
It helps me alot .Thank you
As far as I know, /ʊ/ is usually placed to the right of a dot/bullet in the IPA. So it would be rounded too.
Thank you very much for the video.
Excellent! Your program has been extremely helpful and the ideas and method behind learning a language "your" way make a lot of sense. I am already proficient in Spanish, so I decided to go all the way and try to learn Mandarin. I've only just begun with pronunciation, but it's, shall we say, hard.
Any other tips on learning the sounds of a language like Mandarin?
Also, How do I do an English-less Google search for a foreign word that I can't spell, so as to put it into Anki? Start with Pinyin?
This is one of the great and nice piece of work someone have done in pronunciation. Thank you so much.
Very happy to help!
Great video, I hope you make more videos.
Thanks for sharing this! It is helpful!
We're happy to hear you found the video helpful! 😀
Thank you!
great video,thanks a lot!!
Thank you so much for these fantastic videos! Love the clear explanations and examples - this will definitely help me in my phonetics class.
Just wanted to ask you where you got your mid sagittal diagrams from... I need to learn how to draw them for each consonant for my exam, so if you could let me know - I'd really appreciate it!
Many thanks
English phonetics are very difficult, it has taken me living in the United States for over three decades to be near mastering them: This video helps a lot.
Beneficial content! I do appreciate your help! Could somebody explain me if the inconsistency of IPA across different languages refers only to vowels or to consonants and other symbols too? I am new to linguistics but so I would appreciate some help!
thanks for this helpful video. I just got a question. when you are explaining how to pronounce from i to u, that means you have to pull back your tongue order to pronounce the u. I'm asking this silly question cuz in other sources they say to press the tongue agains your bottom teeth.
hope you can reply. THANKS!!
i will include this on our project :) thanks
i thik it is a very scientic way to learn the pronuncciation,lingustic ,you are very professional
Deserves the Nobel Prize! You have a real talent, thank you very much for sharing it! :)
If there was a Nobel for teaching phonetics, indeed.
Excellent video content i love its much.
The graphic at 11:05 is intriguing, how do I understand it? Hz is a unit of frequency (events per seconds) but "bark"? like a dog?
why your videos didn't go viral ? This is a very informative tutorial.
It is too advanced for most learners of English as a Second Language.
knowiedgeble and useful to learn
Excellent
Thanks !!
nicely described sir..i need to know the types of vowels like Monophthong,Diphthongs etc
Where can we find some of the mimic recordings online?
thank you
thanks, good video
Wow! Amazing
Thank you so much ☹️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is great!! Thank you!
I did notice, though, that you can hardly pronounce the "caught" vowel. Even when you tried to demonstrate it, you didn't quite get it!
I'm from CT and we pronounce that vowel all day, even in words like "ball" and "fog", so... :)
(Ran out of space) Thanks again! Keep it up! I want to buy your book.
awesome thank you :)
If you sound out the diphthongs, you can figure out what the components are.
In my dialect of American English:
/day/ - [dɛi]
/my/ - [mɑi]
/boy/ - [boi]
/no/ - [nʌu]
/now/ - [næu]
It certainly seems like the wiki page is showing for example [noʊ] as the pronunciation for GA
but that doesn't strike me has the broadcast dialect. On television etc, I generally hear people
pronouncing it [nʌu]. RP is similar but more fronted so you end up with [nəʊ]
(You also pronounce it in your video as [nʌu])
Any thoughts on why this dialect is referred to as General American?
I am constantly confused by lessons on IPA for American English diphthongs. The way you wrote them is the way they sound to me too. In videos like these, the speaker always pronounces the individual sounds correctly, but then when put into a diphthong I swear that two totally different sounds are used than what they are represented by in IPA. I'm not an expert but as a native I would definitely say the diphthongs they show as ending in /ɪ/ really end in /i/, and what they show as ending in/ʊ/ really ends in /u/ It confuses and frustrates me so much. I want to understand this discrepancy.
thanks for uploading that very very helpful besides I really like the California Accent
I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but in General American 'pot' has /ɑ/, not /ɔ/. The only words written with 'short O' that have /ɔ/ in GA are almost all in final syllables ending in voiceless fricatives other than /ʃ/ (off, moth, loss), inconsistently in final syllables before voiced velars (dog, song), in multisyllabic derivatives of the previously mentioned words, off- words (office, coffee) and a few words that don't follow the rules like 'chocolate' and 'on'.
'Short O' in GA is /ɑ/ in those scenarios in a few rarer or later-introduced words like 'ping pong' and 'King Kong', but it's almost always /ɑ/ before all the stops but /g/ (cop, rob, pot, trod, rock), before /n/, /m/, /l/, and /ʃ/ (don, bomb, doll, posh), and in multisyllabic words and their truncations (possible, donkey, Gothic, goth).
Check out the lot-cloth split for better details.
I say lot and cloth with the exact same vowel. Pot, chocolate, office, moth... all the same, as well.
Excellent ...
If for a high vowel like /u/ the tongue is made to completely obstruct the airflow, then a velar consonant is produced. If in the high vowel /i/ the tongue is made to fully obstruct the airflow, what consonant is produced? palatal?
why is it the short in the vowel chart is in the front close side of the trapezoid where if we pronounce the short i is little lower and further back in the mouth?
Oh! My God! This is a lot of formation to swallow. But really I need it because my conversation is terrible.
Thank you FLUENT FOREVER.
English as a Second Language requires a lot of patience to master. Listening to music in English helps.
Weslaaam Mister explanation is very wonderful and beautiful and what a wonderful performance والله استاذ انا ا كثير استفدت من حضرتك اشكرك مستر
feel like I finally learned british accent lolol thanks Gabriel... cant believe I only just found this now...
nice video. Thank you.
Thank you! 😊
Wonderful I love this because I have such an ugly pronunciation and mainly is because my first, and second language is not English. I am following your videos to learn more. Thanks for sharing this !!!
English is a phonetically complex language, after three decades in the United States I still struggle with the vowel sounds.
amazing video.
We're really happy to hear that you found it useful! 😊
Very useful video! Just be careful when you give the example of the two Italian words (rosa, cosa): You're still pronouncing them with a very closed O (rósa, cósa), when they should be: rɔːza, kɔːza.
Quick question, if the /ɔ/ doesn't exist in your dialect, what sound do you guys use to say "force"? I'm pretty sure it's not /fɑrs/
force is just /fors/. I've never heard it any other way...
But many places in the US have the cot-caught merger so words that would use /ɔ/ use /ɑ/. So dog becomes [dɑg] and bought become [bɑt] (like robot), etc.
Force: [foɹs].
In rhotted or you use the o which is really just my Russian relaxed oh you don't have lol
Fantastic, very well explained. A bit of a bummer that IPA vowels are not consistent across languages (isn't that the point of IPA sounds :)? ) - but not that big of a deal to learn anyway!
Hi Gabriel. Thank you for taking the time to get back.
It is an excellent system indeed. I have been using your anki deck cards (the $3 deck) for a few days already, together with the English > German pronunciation package and, somehow magically, it is making my learning experience quite /ˈaɪ̯nfaχ/ :)
I live in Minnesota, and this whole "say" and "boat" having diphthongs thing baffles me. Supposedly we don't pronounce them as such, but I have difficulty spotting a difference between my "A" and "O" and a that of a speaker of GA or RP. I figured out "I" after not too long, but this confuses me. Does anyone have any advice?
I once heard a man born and raised in Minnesota talking and asked him, "Where are you from?" because he sounded foreign, is this common in that state?
Hi,
Oh my God.....its really really the best one.Please help us to figure out these symbols sound in words,that's the part we always stuck...
i feel like the only way to learn this is keep watching the video multiple times :/
He has his anki cards available on his website
@@dangelocarias4796 is it free?
@@jacklynmercado4484 It's $3
He says "you can use my anki deck or make your own" but links to SPEAKADA in the description. Are they related?
Hi there! Speakada is just one of the resources for learning English. However, If you're interested in Gabe's IPA deck or other products, you can check out our webshop here: fluent-forever.com/shop
I just made an "alveolabial fricative"... it looked ridiculous. Or perhaps is was an alveolabial approximant. I put my lower lip close to my alveolar ridge and blew air through the small space.
If this occurs in any natural language I would be surprised. _Really_ surprised.
Gabe, I’ve decided to revisit the IPA since you’ve inspired me to become a polyglot, so I need to understand the IPA! One slight problem, I speak in a northern English dialect, not RP, and when you refer to how southern English sounds (btw you sound great! Just really posh :p). But since my dialect isn’t there, I feel slightly isolated but I can’t wait to learn everything.
Where exactly does one dive into the ocean? Answer: doesn't matter. Just get started somewhere.
I know an American who twenty years ago visited Australia and was asked if he was a Canadian because some people there assumed that everyone in the United States used President George W. Bush's southern accent.
I don't know which accent of Italian you used in your example, but in Standard Italian we say /'kɔsa/ and /'rɔza/ which is a different vowel from words like /'dove/ or /'kome/.
P.s. I guess nowadays it has become acceptable to say /'kɔza/...
It is one of the few phonetic differences between Italian and Spanish: The strong "z" sound does not exist in Spanish.
I would say the e in plural words ending in "-es" sounds more like a short i like in "is" than a schwa, general American accent
What wallpaper is that
Hi ...so i wanted to practice consonants and vowels sounds to develop proper pronouncing and good english accent.
So how should i practice.?..is practicing these sounds daily makes difference or what should do additionally for better accent and pronunciation.?
Please provide some guidance
Hi there, on our webshop at fluent-forever.com/shop you will be able to purchase the English pronunciation trainer which will help you practice your English pronunciation.
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Thank you for replying.
So i know good grammar ,I can understand English speakers in live and movies....
I can pronounce words fair enough while reading...and can correct my pronounciation upon correcting.
But I couldn't communicate verbally with others...I couldn't establish a proper communication with them.
My mother tongue influencing my pronounciation while speaking..and my accent is awful.
I want to improve my accent and want to sound like a good english speaker...also want to learn and sound like American accent.
Can you help with this specifically..?
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I don't wanna learn from the start.
It's the verbal thing I am getting lagged.
In my head...I can make a good sentence and while speaking out..i couldn't.
You can definitely improve your pronunciation with the Fluent Forever pronunciation trainer, as that is an important part of our method. For more information about how the method works, please take a look at fluent-forever.com/method/
Wonderful video, Gabriel. Could you kindly add clarification on your example in Italian? Since "o" is realized as either open or closed in Italian, depending on the word, your examples of cosa /ˈkɔsa/ and rosa /ˈrɔza/ are both fine examples of open o- as opposed to, for example, molto /ˈmolto/ which is closed.
Purtroppo oggigiorno è accettabile anche dire /'kɔza/ :(
Hey! I loved the video! I was wondering if you could make a video solely about Californian English? That'd be a good reference for everyone who wants to speak like us Californians :)
The singer of Rage Against the Machine, from California, pronounces 'public' "pæblic," if I hear him right.
Waiting for you to release English on Fluent Forever app
Hi Andrew! We have started work on English for the app. We hope you'll try it out once it's ready and added. 😊
That's right
Affricate consonants are not covered here. Any new video for these?
Hi Vithal! currently we don't yet have any new videos for these.
Fascinating video to be included in my adventures in learning Russian but what is with RP? Here in England we are English and we speak English. Not RP, not British English but English.
Well, from the standpoint of World Englishes, English for you is still technically/phonologically referred to as BrE or RP, at least for the standard variety. I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to ask here, or if you're whoosh-fishing.
Russian does not require to open the mouth, and neither some European languages, most of them I believe.
Garbiel you're the man! Where is the Russian video you promised?! I'm about to do a semester abroad to study Russian I'm in desperate need of pronunciation help!!!
***** Glad to hear it! Keep up the good work, I think what you're doing is truly groundbreaking.
Will you also make Anki decks for Russian pronunciation? With minimal paris, etc.?
Gabriel,
I don't know how far along you are with your Russian pronunciation trainer, but I have a few things that might be helpful. First, I have a packet of minimal pairs that my Russian teacher gave me, as well as some pretty good resources for Russian phonetics (this teacher has a very thorough understanding of Russian phonology, and all my native Russian-speaking friends say that he sounds like a native, although he's actually American). You seem to know more about phonetics than I do, so you may already have some of this stuff figured out, but here is a very cool website that shows a picture of how (almost) all Russian sounds are articulated: www.study-languages-online.com/russian-articulation.html
Let me know if you would like those minimal pairs. I'm working on getting recordings for them as well. Once I have recordings I'll send them your way, although you have more experience with this sort of thing so you'd probably be able to get them faster.
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What about Latin or Hispanic english, is it a idiom, dialect, tong or language?
Hispanic English can be Spanglish if it is mixed with English, if so it is a dialect. Otherwise, it is a language like in Spain. The French of Québec, Canada, is not a dialect but the same language used in France or the French-speaking African nations. Latin is usually described as a dead tongue or language.
Why is the A transcribed as ei?
The German e is like the Scottish A sound, which sits between the ɛ (as in bed) and the i: sound.
So the English A should be transcribed as ɛi. That's how we pronounce it.
The German e doesn't even exist in English except Scottish or indian accents. Have I got this wrong somehow?
I am more confused now :(
You are so good but also tooooo FAST explaining those precious lessons.
Download the video and play it in VLC, there's an option to adjust the speed freely. Hope it helps.
It is because you are not still at the advanced level he teachers. Use other channels first and then come back to this one.
I still confused, It is hard to find the correct position for me.