Hi Emma. My name is Katarina. I am Australian. Original I come from Croatia. I am pensioner over 70 and want to improve my English. I love your way of teaching. Thank you for your help.
My petsonal experience has beeneverything in english see english movies tslk and jokes on english and english speaking enviroment read writes english with similar surroundings so immersed in it is more like second nature
Dear Mrs. Emma; I wanna express with all my heart, You're the best english teacher of all time. Also very pretty, always very polite, very intellectual, very understanding, always very sweet... You're an angel. God bless you and your family...
@@mmmEnglish_Emma You're a very precious and clean-hearted person. Your face is very clean and pure heart. Many thanks for your efforts. One day somewhere in the hope of meeting you and your family. Respectfully yours, Princess Emma Jakobi... greetings from Turkey... (my dream countries are Canada, Australia, Norway and New Zealand)
Hi Emma I have started your lesson from today I am good in English but while speaking fastly my words mix up and I stammer a bit like very little ,how to improve it and be fluent
Native American English speaker here. I swear, that Australian accent is killing me; making me second guess the way I pronounce things lol I stumbled across this video in my Japanese pronunciation studies, curious about the differences between the two languages...and to think that I've been doing this automatically for years without even thinking about it, makes me give lots of kudos to people learning English as a second language. If they can learn a hell of a language like English, then I can definitely learn Japanese!
English is my second language. I have been learning English for the past 50 years. You are one of the best English as a second language teachers. You explain the schwa sound really well. You're a STAR teacher.
Hey Hi woman very beatiful and hot how are you going to today because Ivanilson like She's miss University Emma She's a teacher of lingua English for new years best.I have been working on video for almos an hour's drive from my House and has posted Speak Spoks Hello how are you going to today because Ivanilson I to want Study College out University at Having See Study Portuguesa Escola Britannica for work e studying in the United States In the news the future of English What's new? years Business Easy speak Portuguese to €29,90 Did you Get The Office of lingua English for new years of how much It's it?
Hi ! This idea of a golden time is great. After many years of teaching English, I have come to the conclusion that the main difficulty with speaking a foreign language is that the students must get used to hearing themselves speaking this language, which means uttering different sounds. Their body is not used to it, their ears find these new sounds strange. It is the physical aspect of it which is a problem.
Brilliant! Thank you so much. I never realized that I was adapting my shwa sounds to adapt to accents! I now have to teach the shwa as an ESL teacher but had never, ever heard of it before. Your lesson was super comprehensive and I can easily adapt it to the US accent. Thank you, Emma! Absolutely brilliant!
I often listen to every English teachers from every corner of the world, among them you are the one of my favorite teacher I learn a lots of things from your teaching, Love you Ma'am
Hello, Emma. I am a singing coach, American born and raised. I just taught a lesson to a chorus last week including the schwa. But we use two sounds for the schwa, ih and uh, mostly interchangeably. My favorite word for demonstrating this is the name of the city on the river in Michigan where cars are built - Detroit. Properly spoken the stress is on the last syllable - deTROIT. The schwa substitution can be either dihTROIT, or duhTROIT. Good video!
After years i copmeletly understand what is the shcwa sounds...my teacher mever clared this for me...thnks a million...i feel better about pronounciation now⚘⚘
I'm new to online teaching and I find your videos so, so helpful. The way you explain tricky concepts in such a clear and engaging way is incredible. Language learning should be fun but sometimes, as a teacher, it is hard to make it fun. Your lessons are a great resource and inspiration, thanks!
I am from Turkey. Living in New zealand, i like to improve my pronunciation . most difficult part for me.but when i start to watch your video, i feel getting better. Please, more video 🙏🙏🙏
I am really happy to improve my speaking or pronunciation from your lessons and I have more confident during the talking with native speakers. Thank u too much Emma ❤❤🌷
Hi Emma! You're such a very decent teacher.... I always look up to you. You're stunning, intelligent, & humble. All your videos are essensial for me as one of the English learners from Jakarta, Indonesia. You made me become a talented woman. Thanks a lot for everything, do appreciate that. May GOD pay you forward more than you've done to us Aaamiiin3x... Keep producing your videos, they're all useful for us as an English learner.
Hi Emma! I've seen this video and others related to the schwa sound in other UA-cam channels and I see that there's something hidden that I still cannot get. I'm Spanish and for me this sound is kind of an unstressed "e" (what I consider the real sound of this vowel sound). However, I see that depending on where this sound is placed it sounds differently for me. Let me put you some examples: (when I refer "a" "e" "o" sounds I mean how these vowels are pronounced in Spanish, we only of one sound for each of them, much less complicated than English haha) In words ending with -er (better, butter, deeper ...) I hear the sound pronounced like an unstressed "a" sound (like the ^ sound). I think this is extremealy noticeable in British and Aussi acents since the final r sound is omitted. In words ending -al like chemical, principal the sound I hear is similar to an unstressed "o" There are more examples but I think you see my point. As I see it, depending on the vowel is being unstressed by replacing it with the schwa sound I find the pronunciación different. I would like know if this thing that I've mentioned is indeed real and if there is a reason behind. For me it makes no sense since the sound for the schwa must be unique. I am looking forward to hearing from you to gain insight into this topic. Thank you for your time reading me and your videos
Ivan, that is some great insight. I am not Emma, but I also speak German and Spanish and can see where you are coming from. I hope you see this and this helps. In words like "chemical, principal, etc" think of the sound not as an "o" from Spanish but more like the sound you would use at the beginning of the words "class/clown/climb" the "cl". It might be easier for your brain to not try to hear any kind of vowel sound in this instance. The shwa is so short it nearly drops off entirely. I hope this helps.
If you are eager to improve your English pronunciation, 👀 watch this lesson next ua-cam.com/video/wCkONOv2JJM/v-deo.html to practise another tricky English sound!
Hallo emma...im from indonesia.. 👋 actually i hated all about english when i was high school 😂. but now, im enthusiastic to watch all of your videos..n i just finished downloading some of your videos..now i can practice how to pronounce well from you. Youre my real teacher...I hope someday i will have a chance to speak english with a native speaker directly.. n get moreeee lessons about english 😂😂😂
Good video on schwa is really important for learning how to pronounce words. Then the teacher's voice sounding like she had an opportunity for her voice to be observed by the listeners as an aesthetic asset that may be a rare experience, bringing together the class across the world to improve pronouncing English words correctly. This is where Emma is a must -listen. Moreober,. Australian accent attracts more than the others do and the reason is its soothing the ears. Islamabad Pakistan.
Hi Emma ..My favorite lesson was the Schwa sound lesson, it helped me to understand many words I used to get confused when I hear them but now they’re pretty clear for me also it improved my pronunciation. Would you please add more lessons about pronunciation? Thank you 🙏🏻♥️
I re-watch this and use the imitation technique with it. And it's very useful for understanding how to pronounce phrases and sounds. Sooner I just listened it and learned to recognize english speech. But now (with imitation technique) it works in another way. Thank you for this lesson.
It seems to me that most people pronounce them pretty much the same. "Accept" is supposed to be pronounced with the short A like in "addition". But some people pronounce 'addition' and 'edition' the same too. Technically, they're different.
When you said it's a lazy sound, I'm totally agree. English is not my first or second language. So when I tried to speak like "American", when they pronounce every "R" at the end of the word, it's actually more tiring. So I prefer using schwa.
Hi, Emma. I'm from China. First of all, thanks for all your great lessons, I've learned a lot from them. I really like your bonus practice part since it can help us practice in the real life situation. Besides, I hope that you could bring us more about grammar learning. I can understand almost every sentence you speak, but I just can't say something fluently in English. Often what I'm saying is grammatically wrong. I'm a little bit upset. Hope you can help me. Thanks again.
Hi Emma!! You're the best!! I'm a colombian girl, and I'm living in Melbourne one year ago. I just discovered you 2 months ago and i love every lesson. A big hug for you, happy new year. I'll continue seeing you, you're a great teacher and every lesson is awesome and really interesting!
@@mmmEnglish_Emma at the moment I'm studying in the advance English classes, but my weakness is speak, I can't connect my brain with my tongue. I have learnt a lot of grammar and vocabulary but it's difficult for me speak correctly, for that reason improve my speaking will be my goal the next year. I'll need you to achieve it!!
I don't know how you native English speakers even know how to write something down if you hear a word for the first time. Let's say you watch a movie in the cinema and then want to write review about it and u ended up not knowing how to even spell the name of a mountain for example because your language isn't phonetic. LOL
Can someone explain how You native speakers cope with that? It really blows my mind that one would create such a language. For a very long time I couldn't grasp an idea of spelling contests for kids in school and I was always confused how on Earth it would be a thing at all. For me it was so silly because spelling a word is a normal and super easy thing to do. You are almost always right with few exceptions of course. Then I started learning English and I finally understood the whole idea "why" but it was even more shocking because of this. It's sooo much easier to hear a word and have a set of letters which simply correspond with the hearing sound and voila you can write down what you hear and 100% of people will be able to pronounce it the correct way just from watching what they have written on paper. For me it's a basic rule of language so English is soooooo confusing to me. No wonder Americans on movies always ask a person to spell their name which also was so silly to me when watching movies. I was like - " why they ask that?! Isn't it obvious?!". Damn, I wish English was like my language, it would be much easier to learn. Now it's like a mystery code you will never be able to fully decipher 😥🙉
In my (h) opinion, it makes sense; look at it this way: firstly came language, any language, SPOKEN language; and later on, after a long long time, the group using it arrived at an agreed graphic way of representing sounds (the WRITTEN language); being those sounds either single letters, or groups of letters. From that on, it is taught, usually at early ages, and takes quite a while, to learn it. You learn to represent this sound: /'səːkəs/ in this way: "circus" that is it. You just find more 'natural' the system you already know (your native language), than other different. It may well be easier to use a system of 'one letter one sound', but that is not the case with English; it has 44 sounds, as Emma said, and they are represented graphically (written) with only 26 letters. That is why IPA came into existence, to assign one graphic symbol to one sound so there can be no confusion.
Modesto Fernandez I guess there is some truth in what you are saying here. Maybe I need to find a basic lessons for native English speaking kids that deal with learning how to read and by that I will comprehend more of a nature of English pronunciation. I hope there is something like that out there because I never stumbled upon such a course.
@@Barelo I think the reason they ask to spell names in movies is because some differently spelled names sound the same. For example, shawn, shaun, sean, etc..
C'est le son de l' "e" instable française qui est utilisé, par exemple, dans les monosyllabes tels que "me, te, se" ... etc... Thank you so much! You´re just amazing and charming!
I could listen to you till the end of the world and one day longer.( I was in Australia many years ago and I do like Australian people and their accent). Greetings from Poland.
Thank you Emma for the video, cleverly presented and superbly organised with problems and solutions in the end. Another one excellent video from mmmEnglish, tough stuff presented and analysed in simple terms. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ALERT: a tough lesson on advanced pronunciation, pause the video and listen again and again and practice. Schwa The following include the schwa amazing, adventure, carrot, complete, attack umbrellA celEbrate circUs carrOt princIpAl Unstressed structure words A At An And thE jUst In sOme On yOUr at 08:23 for normal stressed pronunciation at 08:36 for reduction to schwa sound (when they aren't stressed) Example: AN appLE A day keeps THE doctOR Away 09:05 unstressed syllables thee following have the 1st syllable unstressed, the 1st sound is the schwa America Ability Another Allow Again Adventure Apply Ago About Accept 09:42 unstressed syllables womAn sYringe studEnt elephAnt vegetAble initIAtive sUpply infOrmatIOn 10:54 extrA cultURE visA adventURE weathER hiRE nevER liAR aftER colOUR 10:40 going to --> gonnA want to --> wannA got to --> gottA should have --> shouldA ----------------------------------------------------------- problem 14:11 are you feeling better today? solution at 14:50 aRE you feeling bettER tOday? problem 14:59 do you want a piece of banana cake? solution 15:14 dO yOU want A piece of bAnanA cake? problem 15:24 I need a knife solution 15:31 I need A knife Oh, it's under the toaster solution 15:38 Oh, it's undER thE toastER problem 15:42 I can't remember how much butter I need solution 16:05 I can't rEmembER how much buttER I need problem 16:19 Can you pass me some more water for the cake mixture? solution 16:38 CAn you pass me sOme more watER fOR thE cake mixtURE? problem 16:53 I've got to get this cake into the oven solution 17:00 I've got tO get this cake intO the ovEn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Emma's imitation video ua-cam.com/video/T91p6pTPpSY/v-deo.html
No matter how complicated things are, Emma always makes it easier for us to understand. Every video of her is always helpful and entertaining as well. Please accept my sincere apprecation and thanks for your help. 💜
The whole lesson is absolutely awesome! The head part is very clearly structured and the latter part is with real Engish practice in life. Great combination it is!
This is a great lesson. You are one of a kind. Comment: Spanish is my mother tongue and comparing with English I find it much more predictable. My daughter at age 10 learned Spanish pronunciation in about 15 minutes, all vowels and consonants are pronounced always the same. English is all over the map. My conclusion is that Spanish must be a more evolved language. Thank you , you are the greatest.
I am from the UK and in British English the schwa is used more frequently, like pronouncing the city, Norwich, it’s not pronounced like nor-witch, it is more like nur-ridge and you’ll notice the schwa in there. There’s tons more examples of the schwa, also there is a town in New York called Nesconset, on Long Island it is pronounced NES-CON-SET, but in British English it is pronounced NES-CUN-SET
Hi Emma. My name is Katarina. I am Australian. Original I come from Croatia. I am pensioner over 70 and want to improve my English. I love your way of teaching. Thank you for your help.
Hi Katrina, Can we collaborate to improve English? I believe it will be helpful for both of us.
My petsonal experience has beeneverything in english see english movies tslk and jokes on english and english speaking enviroment read writes english with similar surroundings so immersed in it is more like second nature
You are very sweet Katarina, greetings from Costa Rica!
Teach thanks for this lesson please,Jesus loves you so much.I got many difficulties about the schwa but today you revive me I love you!
You are very welcome!
Dear Mrs. Emma;
I wanna express with all my heart,
You're the best english teacher of all time. Also very pretty, always very polite, very intellectual, very understanding, always very sweet...
You're an angel. God bless you and your family...
Thank you, Ali. I hope that my lessons continue to help you improve your English skills. Best wishes to you!
@@mmmEnglish_Emma You're a very precious and clean-hearted person. Your face is very clean and pure heart. Many thanks for your efforts.
One day somewhere in the hope of meeting you and your family. Respectfully yours, Princess Emma Jakobi... greetings from Turkey... (my dream countries are Canada, Australia, Norway and New Zealand)
Hi Emma I have started your lesson from today I am good in English but while speaking fastly my words mix up and I stammer a bit like very little ,how to improve it and be fluent
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You are, without a shadow of doubt, the best english teacher in the whole world...!
You are so kind Santiago 😍
Native American English speaker here.
I swear, that Australian accent is killing me; making me second guess the way I pronounce things lol
I stumbled across this video in my Japanese pronunciation studies, curious about the differences between the two languages...and to think that I've been doing this automatically for years without even thinking about it, makes me give lots of kudos to people learning English as a second language.
If they can learn a hell of a language like English, then I can definitely learn Japanese!
English is my second language. I have been learning English for the past 50 years. You are one of the best English as a second language teachers. You explain the schwa sound really well. You're a STAR teacher.
Thanks so much Hur!
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I have been working on this video for almost an hour to note, to understand, to practice. This helps me a lot! Thank you, Emma
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Hey Hi woman very beatiful and hot how are you going to today because Ivanilson like She's miss University Emma She's a teacher of lingua English for new years best.I have been working on video for almos an hour's drive from my House and has posted Speak Spoks Hello how are you going to today because Ivanilson I to want Study College out University at Having See Study Portuguesa Escola Britannica for work e studying in the United States In the news the future of English What's new? years Business Easy speak Portuguese to €29,90 Did you Get The Office of lingua English for new years of how much It's it?
Hi !
This idea of a golden time is great. After many years of teaching English, I have come to the conclusion that the main difficulty with speaking a foreign language is that the students must get used to hearing themselves speaking this language, which means uttering different sounds. Their body is not used to it, their ears find these new sounds strange. It is the physical aspect of it which is a problem.
Brilliant! Thank you so much. I never realized that I was adapting my shwa sounds to adapt to accents! I now have to teach the shwa as an ESL teacher but had never, ever heard of it before. Your lesson was super comprehensive and I can easily adapt it to the US accent. Thank you, Emma! Absolutely brilliant!
I often listen to every English teachers from every corner of the world, among them you are the one of my favorite teacher I learn a lots of things from your teaching, Love you Ma'am
I can always listen to you Not as a teacher, you have a very nice conversation. Try everything very simply and beautifully give the listener😍❤️❤️
I'm really please to know that you enjoy my videos, Violeta!
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@@mmmEnglish_Emma Can I say "I'm really please to..." ? I think it should be "I'm really pleased to ..."
@@minhtuanle3792 I'm really pleased to.....(verb) know you/see you
You're right classmate😍
Hello, Emma. I am a singing coach, American born and raised. I just taught a lesson to a chorus last week including the schwa. But we use two sounds for the schwa, ih and uh, mostly interchangeably. My favorite word for demonstrating this is the name of the city on the river in Michigan where cars are built - Detroit. Properly spoken the stress is on the last syllable - deTROIT. The schwa substitution can be either dihTROIT, or duhTROIT. Good video!
I really love the way you teach pronunciations. Your every lecture is superb.
After years i copmeletly understand what is the shcwa sounds...my teacher mever clared this for me...thnks a million...i feel better about pronounciation now⚘⚘
I'm new to online teaching and I find your videos so, so helpful. The way you explain tricky concepts in such a clear and engaging way is incredible. Language learning should be fun but sometimes, as a teacher, it is hard to make it fun. Your lessons are a great resource and inspiration, thanks!
I am from Turkey. Living in New zealand, i like to improve my pronunciation .
most difficult part for me.but when i start to watch your video, i feel getting better. Please, more video 🙏🙏🙏
You are the best teacher ever
Native English speaker here! Trying to help my kids with phonics homework and had no idea that this was a thing ✌🏽☺️
Best lesson ever, Emma. Thank you from all of my heart.
Extravagance .extrovert.
Really,abrain storming,session
I'm not a native English speaking person and I learned so much from this channel. Thank you Emma.
you are the greatest teacher all of the world
thanks a lot
So the SCHWA is never stressed; this helps with pronunciation. It is then a lazy sound. Thanks for the lesson.
Yes it's like a 'lazy Friday afternoon' sound 😆
Thank you, Emma; On Fridays afternoons we are 'lazy' indeed.
Hi Emma.I like to hear you.You teach casually and yet effective. Luv from Singapore.
Thanks!
Mrs. Emma,
You speak clearly the english language to learners. Easy to understand it. Thank you so much.
I felt like a thousand schwa sounds after a hard day I'd had,but I was watching this particular lesson with increasing interest)))
I am Indian. Your pronunciation, accent and method is very very excellent.
I am really happy to improve my speaking or pronunciation from your lessons and I have more confident during the talking with native speakers. Thank u too much Emma ❤❤🌷
Fantastic to hear!! Keep up the hard work 😃
I am a student of BS but i did not like the subject english but now i just love it because of you emma Love you
Never realized the Australian accent is the most beautiful accent out of all accents! I enjoy learning IPA.. Keep making more pronunciation lessons
Sorry can I chat we u to improve my English plz
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Your lessons have improved my children greatly.Thanks a lot.
That's awesome to hear! What other topics would you like me to teach on my channel?
Hi Emma!! Magnificent lesson just like each and every one of your amazing lessons. Thanks for sharing.💗💗💗👌👌👌
Thank you, Susan! x
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Sure! We can talk!!
@@susanlawless1168 i am an etern i dont have a freind who intrested to learen english just me can you help me
@@susanlawless1168 i dont have any wrong idea about you be sure
Hi Emma!
You're such a very decent teacher.... I always look up to you. You're stunning, intelligent, & humble. All your videos are essensial for me as one of the English learners from Jakarta, Indonesia. You made me become a talented woman. Thanks a lot for everything, do appreciate that. May GOD pay you forward more than you've done to us Aaamiiin3x...
Keep producing your videos, they're all useful for us as an English learner.
Please Emma make more videos like that its was amazing
Glad you liked it Lidio!
Hi Emma please more videos
Because I like that its was
It has just been such lovely and profitable time I spent in learning the schwa sound . Thanks a lot for all your support
Hi Emma! I've seen this video and others related to the schwa sound in other UA-cam channels and I see that there's something hidden that I still cannot get. I'm Spanish and for me this sound is kind of an unstressed "e" (what I consider the real sound of this vowel sound). However, I see that depending on where this sound is placed it sounds differently for me. Let me put you some examples: (when I refer "a" "e" "o" sounds I mean how these vowels are pronounced in Spanish, we only of one sound for each of them, much less complicated than English haha)
In words ending with -er (better, butter, deeper ...) I hear the sound pronounced like an unstressed "a" sound (like the ^ sound). I think this is extremealy noticeable in British and Aussi acents since the final r sound is omitted.
In words ending -al like chemical, principal the sound I hear is similar to an unstressed "o"
There are more examples but I think you see my point. As I see it, depending on the vowel is being unstressed by replacing it with the schwa sound I find the pronunciación different. I would like know if this thing that I've mentioned is indeed real and if there is a reason behind. For me it makes no sense since the sound for the schwa must be unique.
I am looking forward to hearing from you to gain insight into this topic.
Thank you for your time reading me and your videos
Ivan, that is some great insight. I am not Emma, but I also speak German and Spanish and can see where you are coming from. I hope you see this and this helps. In words like "chemical, principal, etc" think of the sound not as an "o" from Spanish but more like the sound you would use at the beginning of the words "class/clown/climb" the "cl". It might be easier for your brain to not try to hear any kind of vowel sound in this instance. The shwa is so short it nearly drops off entirely. I hope this helps.
I normally don't place Comment, but I think it is the best lesson that I have ever learned in English. Thanks a lot
If you are eager to improve your English pronunciation, 👀 watch this lesson next ua-cam.com/video/wCkONOv2JJM/v-deo.html to practise another tricky English sound!
Hallo emma...im from indonesia.. 👋 actually i hated all about english when i was high school 😂. but now, im enthusiastic to watch all of your videos..n i just finished downloading some of your videos..now i can practice how to pronounce well from you. Youre my real teacher...I hope someday i will have a chance to speak english with a native speaker directly.. n get moreeee lessons about english 😂😂😂
I love everything about you. Your lessons, your look , your style etc. You are perfect.👍💞
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It's helpful to listen to the schwa and stress words of the sentences, letting us easily comprehend the accent.
You are the best teacher
Thanks, Sahardiid!
Thank you a lot Emma for your wonderful lessons. I'm from Democratic Republic of Congo. May God bless you...
I really like your way of teaching I have learnt a lot of things from you .
Hello Emma
I from the Dominican Republic. I love you. Thank you to teach this important topic.
You're so welcome Higinio!
@@mmmEnglish_Emma thank you
Thank you. I learned a lot in this lesson.
ஹாய் எம்மா சிம்ப்ளி சூப்பர்ப்
(hi emma simply superb)
Good video on schwa is really important for learning how to pronounce words. Then the teacher's voice sounding like she had an opportunity for her voice to be observed by the listeners as an aesthetic asset that may be a rare experience, bringing together the class across the world to improve pronouncing English words correctly. This is where Emma is a must -listen. Moreober,. Australian accent attracts more than the others do and the reason is its soothing the ears.
Islamabad Pakistan.
Emma actualy i love your face expression.
The lesson is interesting but I've spent much time watching the teacher his beauty
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Hi Emma ..My favorite lesson was the Schwa sound lesson, it helped me to understand many words I used to get confused when I hear them but now they’re pretty clear for me also it improved my pronunciation.
Would you please add more lessons about pronunciation?
Thank you 🙏🏻♥️
Really glad you liked the schwa lesson! I will definitely have more pronunciation lessons in 2019 ✨
mmmEnglish Many thanks and wishing you a happy new year
Lovely and good teacher
Hi Emma as always your videos are excellent and very useful
I love your accent thanks so much
Have a lovely Friday my beautiful teacher 😉
You too!
I love English so much and like English people , too. They look nice and generouse. I like them. In my opinion, they can make me happy all the ways. I am really happy to whatching mmmenlish every time.
Very good,keep up my teacher. .✍️
I'm glad you liked it!
Hi Emma I love you someone's successful in your lesons
Love you Emma. You are the my best teacher i have found
Hi Emma! You ar absolutly amazing teacher. Thank You. Have a nice Day :)
Thanks, Daniela! It's a pleasure to be here and teaching you!
Thanks:)
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I re-watch this and use the imitation technique with it. And it's very useful for understanding how to pronounce phrases and sounds. Sooner I just listened it and learned to recognize english speech. But now (with imitation technique) it works in another way. Thank you for this lesson.
Emma, I love you!
One of the best explanations of the schwa sound on UA-cam! 👍
Wow thank you Marco! 😊
Hi Emma, great and useful lesson as always. Thanks for your efforts :)
Glad you liked it, Muhammad!
emma is beautifull and clever,, do you agree?
Hi, Emm. I was great !!
Thank of you i understand phonetics prononciation great Mrs Emma you're a kindest woman
Thank you miss Emma for this great lesson! 😍😇
I was wondering about the difference between "except" and "accept" in writing using IPA charts .
It seems to me that most people pronounce them pretty much the same. "Accept" is supposed to be pronounced with the short A like in "addition". But some people pronounce 'addition' and 'edition' the same too. Technically, they're different.
Hi Emma. You are the best teacher, my English is getting better after watching your videos. Keep going!!
“That’s not a knife”! “This is a knife”! 😂😂
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hi ma'am I feel relax when we pronouce
father , again , culture
in the last part er , a ,ure
thank u maam for teaching us
My darling, I was in trouble.
But now , I'm well ❤️
When you said it's a lazy sound, I'm totally agree. English is not my first or second language. So when I tried to speak like "American", when they pronounce every "R" at the end of the word, it's actually more tiring. So I prefer using schwa.
Hi, Emma. I'm from China. First of all, thanks for all your great lessons, I've learned a lot from them. I really like your bonus practice part since it can help us practice in the real life situation. Besides, I hope that you could bring us more about grammar learning. I can understand almost every sentence you speak, but I just can't say something fluently in English. Often what I'm saying is grammatically wrong. I'm a little bit upset. Hope you can help me. Thanks again.
Love from Vietnam. Greatest teacher is here
Hi Emma .great video. ..Love from India 🇮🇳
Glad you found it useful!
5.09 it is surely connected with the proper character of the Englishman, who makes of indefinition his more valuable, dear and inalienable posession
and they call it liberty
Can you make a video how to use english tenses?
Here are a couple about the present perfect tense: ua-cam.com/video/XGw2-p2WuJk/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/TVVn9MddtmM/v-deo.html
I just fall in lobe with u, u must to be the most beautiful teacher in the world.
I just amazed to know that you're an Australian wow
She sounds super Australian!
Hi Emma!! You're the best!! I'm a colombian girl, and I'm living in Melbourne one year ago. I just discovered you 2 months ago and i love every lesson. A big hug for you, happy new year. I'll continue seeing you, you're a great teacher and every lesson is awesome and really interesting!
Thank you Isabel and happy new year! 💕
What are your English goals for 2019?
@@mmmEnglish_Emma at the moment I'm studying in the advance English classes, but my weakness is speak, I can't connect my brain with my tongue. I have learnt a lot of grammar and vocabulary but it's difficult for me speak correctly, for that reason improve my speaking will be my goal the next year. I'll need you to achieve it!!
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Hi Anna! It's so nice to see you here 😊 I hope you enjoyed the lesson!
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Thanks Emma. It was absolutely practical. It should be seen as much as we can.
In the word "principal" I can clearly hear 2 different sounds for the schwa. Do native speakers perceive it as the exact same sound?
You are the most beautiful and best teacher of the world. I love you Emma. Greetings from Turkey. 😃👋
I still have a difficult with pronunciation 😭
me too
I don't but I can't pronounce so fast like her
Emma you are an outstanding language teacher. Wish your enthusiasm grows with time!
Which accent ur speaking
I speak with an Australian accent 😊
شكرا جزيلا
I don't know how you native English speakers even know how to write something down if you hear a word for the first time. Let's say you watch a movie in the cinema and then want to write review about it and u ended up not knowing how to even spell the name of a mountain for example because your language isn't phonetic. LOL
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Can someone explain how You native speakers cope with that? It really blows my mind that one would create such a language. For a very long time I couldn't grasp an idea of spelling contests for kids in school and I was always confused how on Earth it would be a thing at all. For me it was so silly because spelling a word is a normal and super easy thing to do. You are almost always right with few exceptions of course. Then I started learning English and I finally understood the whole idea "why" but it was even more shocking because of this. It's sooo much easier to hear a word and have a set of letters which simply correspond with the hearing sound and voila you can write down what you hear and 100% of people will be able to pronounce it the correct way just from watching what they have written on paper. For me it's a basic rule of language so English is soooooo confusing to me. No wonder Americans on movies always ask a person to spell their name which also was so silly to me when watching movies. I was like - " why they ask that?! Isn't it obvious?!". Damn, I wish English was like my language, it would be much easier to learn. Now it's like a mystery code you will never be able to fully decipher 😥🙉
In my (h) opinion, it makes sense; look at it this way: firstly came language, any language, SPOKEN language; and later on, after a long long time, the group using it arrived at an agreed graphic way of representing sounds (the WRITTEN language); being those sounds either single letters, or groups of letters. From that on, it is taught, usually at early ages, and takes quite a while, to learn it. You learn to represent this sound: /'səːkəs/ in this way: "circus" that is it. You just find more 'natural' the system you already know (your native language), than other different. It may well be easier to use a system of 'one letter one sound', but that is not the case with English; it has 44 sounds, as Emma said, and they are represented graphically (written) with only 26 letters. That is why IPA came into existence, to assign one graphic symbol to one sound so there can be no confusion.
Modesto Fernandez I guess there is some truth in what you are saying here. Maybe I need to find a basic lessons for native English speaking kids that deal with learning how to read and by that I will comprehend more of a nature of English pronunciation. I hope there is something like that out there because I never stumbled upon such a course.
@@Barelo I think the reason they ask to spell names in movies is because some differently spelled names sound the same. For example, shawn, shaun, sean, etc..
C'est le son de l' "e" instable française qui est utilisé, par exemple, dans les monosyllabes tels que "me, te, se" ... etc... Thank you so much! You´re just amazing and charming!
So where you from Emma?
I'm from Australia!
mmmEnglish G’day mate! Love your video! Thanks for all it’s so useful
None of these words have schwa sounds. You're just saying eh and uh or ah.. I don't get it
I am brazilian. My name is Nilton. Eu moro em Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil. Queria conversar com alguém dos USA
She is just teaching u so pls appreciate 😊 thank you
Very helpful your videos, thanks for you, I'm Bangladeshi now at DUBAI
I could listen to you till the end of the world and one day longer.( I was in Australia many years ago and I do like Australian people and their accent). Greetings from Poland.
Thank you Emma for the video, cleverly presented and superbly organised with problems and solutions in the end. Another one excellent video from mmmEnglish, tough stuff presented and analysed in simple terms.
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ALERT: a tough lesson on advanced pronunciation, pause the video and listen again and again and practice.
Schwa
The following include the schwa
amazing, adventure, carrot, complete, attack
umbrellA
celEbrate
circUs
carrOt
princIpAl
Unstressed structure words
A At
An And
thE jUst
In sOme
On yOUr
at 08:23 for normal stressed pronunciation
at 08:36 for reduction to schwa sound (when they aren't stressed)
Example: AN appLE A day keeps THE doctOR Away
09:05 unstressed syllables
thee following have the 1st syllable unstressed, the 1st sound is the schwa
America Ability
Another Allow
Again Adventure
Apply Ago
About Accept
09:42 unstressed syllables
womAn sYringe
studEnt elephAnt
vegetAble initIAtive
sUpply infOrmatIOn
10:54
extrA cultURE
visA adventURE
weathER hiRE
nevER liAR
aftER colOUR
10:40
going to --> gonnA
want to --> wannA
got to --> gottA
should have --> shouldA
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problem 14:11 are you feeling better today?
solution at 14:50 aRE you feeling bettER tOday?
problem 14:59 do you want a piece of banana cake?
solution 15:14 dO yOU want A piece of bAnanA cake?
problem 15:24 I need a knife
solution 15:31 I need A knife
Oh, it's under the toaster
solution 15:38 Oh, it's undER thE toastER
problem 15:42 I can't remember how much butter I need
solution 16:05 I can't rEmembER how much buttER I need
problem 16:19 Can you pass me some more water for the cake mixture?
solution 16:38 CAn you pass me sOme more watER fOR thE cake mixtURE?
problem 16:53 I've got to get this cake into the oven
solution 17:00 I've got tO get this cake intO the ovEn
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Emma's imitation video ua-cam.com/video/T91p6pTPpSY/v-deo.html
Hi Emma I'm from Mexico. I follow you videos. I've learned too much english with you.
Well-explained! Producing the schwa is usually the most difficult sound to produce by my students. This is helpful.
Honestly your demonstration is really fascinating .Thanks a lot
No matter how complicated things are, Emma always makes it easier for us to understand. Every video of her is always helpful and entertaining as well. Please accept my sincere apprecation and thanks for your help. 💜
Aww thank you for your compliments! I'm so glad to be part of your English-learning journey 💕
The whole lesson is absolutely awesome! The head part is very clearly structured and the latter part is with real Engish practice in life. Great combination it is!
This is a great lesson. You are one of a kind.
Comment: Spanish is my mother tongue and comparing with English I find it much more predictable. My daughter at age 10 learned Spanish pronunciation in about 15 minutes, all vowels and consonants are pronounced always the same. English is all over the map. My conclusion is that Spanish must be a more evolved language. Thank you , you are the greatest.
Hi Emma, the practice session is as good as it can be. Please go on continue more of it in the upcoming videos!
Yes! I'll definitely still be doing the extra practice sections 😊
I am from the UK and in British English the schwa is used more frequently, like pronouncing the city, Norwich, it’s not pronounced like nor-witch, it is more like nur-ridge and you’ll notice the schwa in there. There’s tons more examples of the schwa, also there is a town in New York called Nesconset, on Long Island it is pronounced NES-CON-SET, but in British English it is pronounced NES-CUN-SET
Thank you Emma and friends for this very didactic and creative lesson on the schwa sound!
The best memorable schwa sound teaching I ever meet. Thank you so much!!
Wow, thank you, Patama!
Emma my teacher said that no one is completely perfect excpt you and her
So thank you both 😍😘😚😙