🎉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 /æ/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/vowel_sound_ae_as_in_cat
Sometime at around 2020 when I was 14 or 15, I thought about how different vowel sounds are made and I thought of the vowel placement as a one dimensional thing with one criterion instead of two. I was younger and I didn’t study how phonetics really work yet until around the start of this year. I perceived the vowels as being produced with vibrating different parts of the throat because I thought I was feeling vibrations in different heights of the throat depending on the height and backness of my tongue, as I didn’t realize the tongue was the thing that creates all the vowels sounds. In 2022, I had my final thought that the height of vowels in the throat from top to bottom were /i/, /ɪ/, /ɛ/, /æ/, /ʊ/, /ʌ/, and /ɑ/, while all the other vowels consisted of one of the 7 vowels that I perceived as pure vowels with a /w/ or a /j/ at the end. I didn’t know the phonetic symbols until this year, but those were the symbol for the ones I was thinking of. It took a little bit this year for me to comprehend what it meant that the vowel placement is actually a two dimensional thing with two criteria and it’s based on the position of your tongue, not the place you vibrate your voice. So basically, the pure vowels that I recognized when I perceived the wrong criterion from top to bottom actually go high front, low front, high back, and finally low back.
👍 Acoustic analysis of vowel sounds is a very complex subject; here's an article you might find interesting: corpus.eduhk.hk/english_pronunciation/index.php/2-2-formants-of-vowels/
I am beyond words grateful for this video. What the hell did I learn in high-school. I want my money back. Finally, I am learning how to pronunciate this sound right. It helps me to open up more and talk more to other people. Thank you, much love to you and your team.
Hi, I want to express my appreciation for your great work! It is always the little details that add on to cause you having an accent. Your videos are concise and hit the point, which help me better understand which sound I make mistakes. Thank You So Much! And I can't believe your lessons are free. Thank You So Much!
Привет из России. Всегда, когда учу английский в транскрипции вижу эту гласную. У меня постоянно с ней были проблемы, но это видео мне помогло, спасибо)) Hello from Russia. I always see this vowel in transcription when I learn English. I always had problems with it, but this video helped me, thank you)) ♥️
The English language is very complicated. One would believe that it was constructed to keep outsiders out or so that they will immediate know who is a local and who is not. I have noticed that your method allows improvement on other various pronunciation of short a. I mean other instructors pronounce it a little different than you, but still similar. You allow me to calibrate my short a sound. I thank you for it. Other instructors on UA-cam say to keep the back of the tongue up and the front touches the front teeth. However, I have found more success with your method. Some short A sounds in speakers are more tense than others I noticed.
Glad that our video was helpful! One important note: there's no "short a" sound in American English. The thing is, any vowel sound can be long or short depending on the following consonant. We talk about this in detail in one of our videos: ua-cam.com/video/GQa9w__GqLc/v-deo.html
@@SoundsAmerican You are telling that vowel lengthen before voiced consonant and vowel sounds, and shorten before non-voiced. I am sure that there is some variation in there.
Muy buenas noches ,hace poco inicie a practicar ,me gusta porque estoy aprendiendo la pronunciación,mis nietos me animaron a estudiar, ,ellos también,practican el ingles,me gusta no es aburrido ,los felicito
English phonology is very rich and unique, and the /æ/ vowel sound does not exist in any other language. That's why it can be difficult to produce it correctly by moving my jaw, lips and tongue forcefully. English is not my native language and some pronunciation mistakes and obstacles come out, but that doesn't discourage me, I don't really pretend to sound like a native speaker and I'll continue to enjoy and improve my English skills so regularly. Thank you so much for your valuable pronunciation tips. ❤😊
These are PRICELESS! I will post everyone of these to my ESL page on Facebook and share with my students! Great work! I try so hard to get good pronunciation out of my students, but there's only so much time in a class... Thank you for your excellent work!
+Eric Kephart , thank you very much Eric! Glad to hear our videos can help. We want our videos to be resourceful and useful for teachers, so if you have any ideas for other topics, let us know! We welcome suggestions :).
No, thank you! As I said, you're videos are priceless, an absolute invaluable resource for teachers and students! IF I have some ideas, I'd be sure to send them your way! I'm in Mexico, so pronunciation issues (from Spanish to English) have their own set of problems, like V, TH, R, Y, etc...
And I'm editing my first comment, because I'm ashamed to say that, well not really ashamed, to say that my English is, how do I say, arrrghhhh! I speak Spanish here in Mexico (in and mostly outside of the classroom), as I have studied it for many years, and I have found myself making silly grammatical and spelling mistakes in English, it happens...weird, but it does, even for English teachers...when your mind is activated using another language funny things start to happen...
El mejor canal que he visto sobre como articular los sonidos del inglés americano, además me gustó que utilice los símbolos del IPA para que así sea fácil saber la pronunciación que vienen en los diccionarios
Thanks for your amazing explanation. I get to get rid of my dilemmas because of people like you. Carry on, we're with you. Hope you'll be with us for a long time and we'll be able to know about what confuses us. I'd be grateful if you made videos about nasalized flap(I severely have doubts weather I should pronounce a true t or nasalized flap or no t in words like ninety, integration, Internet, doesn't ) yod dropping, weak vowel merger(another dilemma, reduced short i or schwa? ), Yod-coalescence.
Hello there, Mehedi Hasan! Thank you for your kind words! Thank you for your great suggestions too! We'll add them to our plan for future videos. Stay tuned! :)
I am a native speaker from SE USA but my accent has "neutralized" (whatever that means) since i moved abroad to teach English. Still, both from hear your own speech, observing others', and analyzing my own, the vowels that you mark as /æ/ that come before nasal sounds are distinctly different. It sounds a lot more like either /eə/ or /ɛə/. If I intentionally make the /æ/ sound in any case before a nasal consonant, it isn't the same sound and sounds like some people from the NE of the USA and some other regions. My French student even noticed how different the vowel you were saying was to the one presented. Can you clarify this please? Thank you :)
Hello there! First of all, you're right, the /æ/ sound may sound slightly different when it occurs before a nasal consonant. This is called "nasalization" of a vowel sound. When a vowel precedes a nasal consonant (like the /n/ or /ŋ/ ), it's affected by this consonant and is pronounced with a slightly lowered velum (the soft palate). However, phonemically, the /æ/ is still the same sound, just slightly nasalized, if that makes sense. :) By the way, kudos to your French student, they have a great ear. Hope it helps!
Hello there friend. My name is Angello. I have a question for you. Any phonetics book that you recommend me about American English pronunciation? Excellent job! I love your UA-cam channel. It's very precise.
Hello there, Angello! Thank you! About a book on phonetics: the choice would really depend on what you’re looking for. There’re a lot of “fundamental” books on American phonetics, they are more useful for speech therapists or teachers. Here’s a good book for people who want to reduce their accent. It's comprehensive and useful, with lots of practical exercises: goo.gl/JQeb0m Hope it helps! Stay tuned for new videos! :)
For example in the words cat, abstract, act, add it sounds like an "a" but in words like and, an, ankle it sounds quite different and it is like and "e"
The ae sounds seems to have 2 way of pronunciation i noticed the 1st way you pronounced like A sound but when ae follow letter n, nt, m it's sounds like an ea sound more like an E sound.
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!
🎉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 /æ/ sound:
soundsamerican.net/article/vowel_sound_ae_as_in_cat
Nice website
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We love this channel.
Ok
Hello guys! Do you have any app?
This is by far one of the best videos about phonetics. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Ricardo!
Sometime at around 2020 when I was 14 or 15, I thought about how different vowel sounds are made and I thought of the vowel placement as a one dimensional thing with one criterion instead of two. I was younger and I didn’t study how phonetics really work yet until around the start of this year. I perceived the vowels as being produced with vibrating different parts of the throat because I thought I was feeling vibrations in different heights of the throat depending on the height and backness of my tongue, as I didn’t realize the tongue was the thing that creates all the vowels sounds. In 2022, I had my final thought that the height of vowels in the throat from top to bottom were /i/, /ɪ/, /ɛ/, /æ/, /ʊ/, /ʌ/, and /ɑ/, while all the other vowels consisted of one of the 7 vowels that I perceived as pure vowels with a /w/ or a /j/ at the end. I didn’t know the phonetic symbols until this year, but those were the symbol for the ones I was thinking of. It took a little bit this year for me to comprehend what it meant that the vowel placement is actually a two dimensional thing with two criteria and it’s based on the position of your tongue, not the place you vibrate your voice. So basically, the pure vowels that I recognized when I perceived the wrong criterion from top to bottom actually go high front, low front, high back, and finally low back.
👍 Acoustic analysis of vowel sounds is a very complex subject; here's an article you might find interesting: corpus.eduhk.hk/english_pronunciation/index.php/2-2-formants-of-vowels/
The best phonetics course I've found on the whole internet. Thanks for this. Cheers from Venezuela. :D
+Jesús Bassbreaker Thank you! 😄🖖
I'm still working in this sound. Gimme 3 days for more and I'll achieve it! ;)
+Jesús Bassbreaker , awesome! Keep us posted on how it goes! :)
Do you have another good channel like this??
This was the best explanation ever! It was so cool to finally hear myself saying it properly. Thank you for being so academic
Thanks!
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I am beyond words grateful for this video. What the hell did I learn in high-school. I want my money back. Finally, I am learning how to pronunciate this sound right. It helps me to open up more and talk more to other people. Thank you, much love to you and your team.
+TheSunshinefee, thank you for your kind words, we're glad this video is so helpful!
Been studying English for long time, phonetics included, and this is by far one of the most difficult sounds for me. But I'm gonna get there :D
I speak english, I always have, I’m just really bored.
Thank you vey much for this video. It was the only one that can help me.
I love you guys videos! Very helpful with detailed diagram on the pronunciation mechanism. The bonus tongue twister at the end is also ingenious!!
Thank you!
It true
Hi,
I want to express my appreciation for your great work!
It is always the little details that add on to cause you having an accent.
Your videos are concise and hit the point, which help me better understand which sound I make mistakes.
Thank You So Much!
And I can't believe your lessons are free. Thank You So Much!
Thanks!
We can't believe it either 😁
Привет из России. Всегда, когда учу английский в транскрипции вижу эту гласную. У меня постоянно с ней были проблемы, но это видео мне помогло, спасибо))
Hello from Russia. I always see this vowel in transcription when I learn English. I always had problems with it, but this video helped me, thank you)) ♥️
Мы очень рады! ;)
I'm very glad that I found this channel ! I really want to improve my pronunciation, thank you soo much sir. I'm escatic! Yeah.
Awesome! BTW, we also have a website with tons of info on pronunciation and exercises: soundsamerican.net/
i'm from Vietnam. This video is very useful with me. Thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the explanation, it was very good.
The English language is very complicated. One would believe that it was constructed to keep outsiders out or so that they will immediate know who is a local and who is not. I have noticed that your method allows improvement on other various pronunciation of short a. I mean other instructors pronounce it a little different than you, but still similar. You allow me to calibrate my short a sound. I thank you for it. Other instructors on UA-cam say to keep the back of the tongue up and the front touches the front teeth. However, I have found more success with your method. Some short A sounds in speakers are more tense than others I noticed.
Glad that our video was helpful! One important note: there's no "short a" sound in American English. The thing is, any vowel sound can be long or short depending on the following consonant. We talk about this in detail in one of our videos: ua-cam.com/video/GQa9w__GqLc/v-deo.html
@@SoundsAmerican You are telling that vowel lengthen before voiced consonant and vowel sounds, and shorten before non-voiced. I am sure that there is some variation in there.
Muy buenas noches ,hace poco inicie a practicar ,me gusta porque estoy aprendiendo la pronunciación,mis nietos me animaron a estudiar, ,ellos también,practican el ingles,me gusta no es aburrido ,los felicito
Thanks and best of luck with your practice! 🤝
Thanks so much
I love the teaching
English phonology is very rich and unique, and the /æ/ vowel sound does not exist in any other language. That's why it can be difficult to produce it correctly by moving my jaw, lips and tongue forcefully. English is not my native language and some pronunciation mistakes and obstacles come out, but that doesn't discourage me, I don't really pretend to sound like a native speaker and I'll continue to enjoy and improve my English skills so regularly. Thank you so much for your valuable pronunciation tips. ❤😊
It also exists in Afrikaans, Arabic and much more languages. English isn't the only language including the /æ/ sound.
WOW! Amazing job 👏👏👏👏👏👐👐...impeccable
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
Best videos about phonetics!!!
Thanks alot!
Thanks a bunch
😀🖖👋
These are PRICELESS! I will post everyone of these to my ESL page on Facebook and share with my students! Great work! I try so hard to get good pronunciation out of my students, but there's only so much time in a class... Thank you for your excellent work!
+Eric Kephart , thank you very much Eric! Glad to hear our videos can help. We want our videos to be resourceful and useful for teachers, so if you have any ideas for other topics, let us know! We welcome suggestions :).
No, thank you! As I said, you're videos are priceless, an absolute invaluable resource for teachers and students! IF I have some ideas, I'd be sure to send them your way! I'm in Mexico, so pronunciation issues (from Spanish to English) have their own set of problems, like V, TH, R, Y, etc...
And I'm editing my first comment, because I'm ashamed to say that, well not really ashamed, to say that my English is, how do I say, arrrghhhh! I speak Spanish here in Mexico (in and mostly outside of the classroom), as I have studied it for many years, and I have found myself making silly grammatical and spelling mistakes in English, it happens...weird, but it does, even for English teachers...when your mind is activated using another language funny things start to happen...
+Eric Kephart 😉🖖
+Eric Kephart As they say, it happens to the best of us! 👋
I like this it very easy understands ❤
great lesson. thank you
Glad you liked it!
Useful!
Thank you teacher
You are welcome
Wow thanks respected sir
You're very welcome!
pretty good. i enjoy your pronunciation videos.
Thanks! 😃
Thank you so much 💓💗
You're welcome 😊
Thank,now i know the sounds æ
El mejor canal que he visto sobre como articular los sonidos del inglés americano, además me gustó que utilice los símbolos del IPA para que así sea fácil saber la pronunciación que vienen en los diccionarios
Thank you! Glad you liked our channel!
Very nice 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
muchas gracias
Thanks for your amazing explanation. I get to get rid of my dilemmas because of people like you. Carry on, we're with you. Hope you'll be with us for a long time and we'll be able to know about what confuses us. I'd be grateful if you made videos about nasalized flap(I severely have doubts weather I should pronounce a true t or nasalized flap or no t in words like ninety, integration, Internet, doesn't ) yod dropping, weak vowel merger(another dilemma, reduced short i or schwa? ), Yod-coalescence.
Hello there, Mehedi Hasan! Thank you for your kind words! Thank you for your great suggestions too! We'll add them to our plan for future videos. Stay tuned! :)
Keep uploading. I'm looking forward to it. :)
Mehedi Hasan Bipul yeah nice suggestion . this is also my dilemma, nasazilation and schwa
Thankyou 👍
No problem 👍
What is the website which you use to practice pronunciation's vocabulary, please
Thank you.
Finally I understood this sound
+MAGM , you're welcome! Happy to hear that!
Awesome video !
Uff! This sound is super challenging!
It will get better with practice, promise! Let us know if you have any questions.
Wow i appreciate ur channel because it's benefit 🙂
Thank you! Glad that our channel is helpful!👋
Excellent. Thank you
Glad you like it!
Thanks
No problem!
Very good video, with the æ it is also pronounced was?
Nope, "A" in "was" represents a different sound: /wʌz/ ua-cam.com/video/X1utTZqC3AI/v-deo.html
Wow great help.. incredible
Glad you liked it
Wow, I really love this!
+Erasmo Barahona Glad to hear it! 😁👋
this is awesome :) thanks for sharing. hugs
I have been practicing this sooo long and now I am making some progress
Great! Very glad to hear that!
The video is very useful 👌
uuu i love that
very nice, best way to learn. thanks
+Ubaid Rehman Glad you like it! You're welcome!
Superb and interesting
+Jagadish Shiddappanavar Glad you liked it! 👋
I really love your channel!!!
great video.
Thank you for making this amazing video!
You're welcome 😊
Great 👏👏👏👍👍👍
thank you so much. i never got this sound right and you taught me how to do it right
You're very welcome!
@SoundsAmerican when you say "you're on the air" , is it true? Are we recorded?
thanks very much😃
+ amar hadouelhadj You're welcome!😊👋
VERY VERY THANKS SO MUCH
+ISABEL ANGELICA you're very welcome! Glad you liked this video 😊.
Good 👍
Very very very nice.
+Lakshmi Kundu, glad you liked it! 😀👋
A difficult and challeging sound. Thanks for the practice and explanation.
Glad it was helpful!
I am a native speaker from SE USA but my accent has "neutralized" (whatever that means) since i moved abroad to teach English. Still, both from hear your own speech, observing others', and analyzing my own, the vowels that you mark as /æ/ that come before nasal sounds are distinctly different. It sounds a lot more like either /eə/ or /ɛə/. If I intentionally make the /æ/ sound in any case before a nasal consonant, it isn't the same sound and sounds like some people from the NE of the USA and some other regions. My French student even noticed how different the vowel you were saying was to the one presented.
Can you clarify this please? Thank you :)
Hello there! First of all, you're right, the /æ/ sound may sound slightly different when it occurs before a nasal consonant. This is called "nasalization" of a vowel sound. When a vowel precedes a nasal consonant (like the /n/ or /ŋ/ ), it's affected by this consonant and is pronounced with a slightly lowered velum (the soft palate). However, phonemically, the /æ/ is still the same sound, just slightly nasalized, if that makes sense. :)
By the way, kudos to your French student, they have a great ear.
Hope it helps!
@rachelsenglish explains it in her video for short a :)
thank you!! now i know that i am not crazy
You get a new subscriber. Great video. :3
Welcome aboard!😊🖖
Thank you very much, I had problems with that sound
You're welcome!
Thank you so much!!!!
You're welcome!
Happy New month
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@@SoundsAmerican ^-^
Hello there friend. My name is Angello. I have a question for you. Any phonetics book that you recommend me about American English pronunciation? Excellent job! I love your UA-cam channel. It's very precise.
Hello there, Angello! Thank you!
About a book on phonetics: the choice would really depend on what you’re looking for.
There’re a lot of “fundamental” books on American phonetics, they are more useful for speech therapists or teachers.
Here’s a good book for people who want to reduce their accent. It's comprehensive and useful, with lots of practical exercises: goo.gl/JQeb0m
Hope it helps!
Stay tuned for new videos! :)
thanks
+林俊傑 Miller Lin You're welcome!
Thank you!
nice, thanks
thanks a lot
Welcome!
Couldn't they have only 5 vowels :( What a way to complicate life.
+Magno Gómez , we know, right! It's such a long story :).😕
@@SoundsAmerican The Great Vowel Shift
we are complicated beings with complicated intelligence, if you're otherwise then you must be a defective human being
@@masterxmasterx7197 But we create things to simplify our lives, otherwise Latin wouldn't be dead as it is today.
Imagine when you talk to almost deaf people like grandparents 👴 👵 . in the Italian language we only have 5 vowels 🤩
Thank you very much 💕
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thank you very much . it is useful to my education
+Marcus Juan Soberano Glad to hear that! You're welcome!😀
Sounds American hopefully about common misspelled words
Great!
Glad you liked it!
Thanks finally I found you.
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I love this Channel. Where is the app? ❤️
Working on it.
This video was very helpful. I enjoyed it.
+Isaac Eguizabal Glad to hear that! 😊👋
Sometimes it seems like you are making the sound like "a" sound and sometimes more like an "e" sound,I notice a slight difference each time
+Juan , could you please give examples of those words?
For example in the words cat, abstract, act, add it sounds like an "a" but in words like and, an, ankle it sounds quite different and it is like and "e"
Valentina Pineda i HAVE TO AGREE
@@valentinapineda9417 I think that's because after the letter A comes an N
Estoy de acuerdo.
Very good!
+Arlison Mao Thank you!
You're an angel to me
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LOVE IT!!! pretty accurate!! thank you! im gonna watch all your videos!
Yay! Thank you!
Loved this! Thanks a lot for posting it!
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this videos are very helpful, very detail.. thank you. pls continue to make.videos that will help us lo learn english
+je mojica , thank you! We're glad you like them!
Great explanation regarding ae sound. Thanks:)
Glad it was helpful!
Very useful thank you
+Svetlana Litvinova 👍😀
Very well this channel. thanks. I love it.
Thank you!
The ae sounds seems to have 2 way of pronunciation i noticed the 1st way you pronounced like A sound but when ae follow letter n, nt, m it's sounds like an ea sound more like an E sound.
Los felicito por este gran trabajo que hicieron.... me encanta la pagina.... tienen APP? me encantaria
Thanks a lot 👍!01.06.23
How can I found that website in the video?
Wow! This is truly usefull. Thanks a lot!
Glad to hear that! You're welcome!
Thank you, it was very useful 👍😀
+Jorgelina Gomez Glad to hear that!
very helpful. thanks
+Victor Ch , :) you're welcome!
So you pronounce this vowel with tense lips or relaxed ones?
Thank You very much for these videos, How can I get that app please?
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!