How to Pronounce /æ/ & /ʌ/ + "Rubbish" Explained  

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Rubbish? I remember Hermione Granger😃 -Her cat killed Scabbers! (Ron) -Rubbish! (Hermione)

I love that you use IPA! Helps us visual learners.

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It makes me feel so good your voice

Thanks a lot this is really helping me making my English sounding better

I asked a half-pint yet at a pub and this video was pretty useful. The barman got it quick and easy. Now I just got drunk easier every Friday, here in Manchester. Thank you, Elliot.

Thanks for clarifying these points, Elliot. I, too, am very fond of pronunciation.

I was wondering how native speakers say the word 'very' so naturally but that's not the case with me. Now I got the logical reason from you. The mistake I have been doing so far is putting equal force irrespective of position of /v/ in the words. Thanks .

You are a Great Teacher Elliot😊 it's been a while I have been following you. I am glad that I discovered recently, it is quite helpful. Can you kindly do a Pronunciation of some hard or common words which we non native pronounce wrong.

Great vid

You are amazing teacher! Thank you so much! Big love!

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Hi Elliot, Can you please make for us an videos for the different between letter P and B and how to pronounce it it's really difficult for us to distinguish between each of them and thanks for your amazing videos it's really helpful for us please keep going.

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This goes beyond an English course! 🙂

thank you

Nice video!

Hi, Elliott. I'd like you to comment on the variations of phoneme /ʌ/. Depending on the following vowel sound, it may sound a bit different. Particularly before a dark /l/ (as in culture, indulge, dull, result) it sounds to me rather like a schwa.

Best explanation ever! Thanks!!

Is there any PERFECT RU-vid channel like this for American accent?

here we learn even if you do not wants! mastering Elliot! thank you!!!

Hello Elliott , love your voice and your pronunciation a lot , here is the thing , i can easily tell the difference of the pronunciation between CAN&CAN'T in American accent , but i am little bit confused of it in British accent , is that ok you put it in your video maybe next time please?? thanks a tons.

please set the difference between e and ʌ thanks

I think English should be mostly taught be people who have done the language learning journey. Although pronunciation is fair. Rly appreciate your content.

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Which pronunciation you use of those words?

Finally a normal haircut and (a?)good shaving! always shave your beautiful face! thank you in advance :) still, a struggle for me when to use 'a'...:( and yes, your lessons are great! subscribed!

My son is 5 years old and he love to watch only this guy.

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I fancy you, sir. ♡

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For russian and Ukrainian speaking people it's more confusing to hear the difference between bat and bet, and between cart and cut :/

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Hi Elliot 🙋🏼‍♀️ I’m in love with British accent 😍

Hello Eliot, I am pronunciation teacher at The Queen's English House. I have been following you for about a year or so and I enjoy watching your pronunciation lessons.

4:20 it's okay, you can say "bullshit" to explain it. We'll still love you anyway

I love your ways of saying "Bye"! :) Thank you!

Actually, Elliot, I have been confusing about the differences in the pronunciation of /æ/ and /ʌ/ and /ɑ/. Can you help me out, explain a little more detail? Many thanks

Your lessons are always interesting. Thank you Elliott!

I working in Phuket with my starter English .. I really like to use British accent.. This way I just like it.. But a few days ago .. I met Indian guy who got citizens he poked my heart by his words " the way your pronounce it's funny " but the way he push me want to back to your Chanel agian and agian I promise I never give up

Szkoda, że nie miałem takiego nauczyciela w szkole, świetnie tłumaczy. It is a pity that I did not have such a teacher at school.

I think pronouncing /æ/, /ʌ/ and /ɑː/ is my greatest weakness in English pronunciation. After studying this for some time I hear the tiny difference, but it's still incredibly difficult to pronounce them correctly and show this difference. Some time ago I didn't even know there are so many different vowels, I wasn't aware of the difference between them and I thought it's the same, as in my first language we only have one "a" sound, so this is really tough to start noticing that they are not the same... I'm glad I've found your channel and course.

Oh! This is a video of this century! I was waiting for it I don't know how long. Because in the Russian language we don't have a sound /æ/

Hi Elliot Your pronunciation make me better to other person. Thank you.

I love British accent

The English vowel sounds are my biggest struggle in my learning journey.

I glad to listen your lessons, Best teacher

The British accent is so great and soulful

Thank you for sharing! I'm learning and practicing British accent and your videos help a lot. Cheers!

My teacher hates my british accent 🤣 more he hates it more I trying to do it .

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I could really learn British accent and improve my English from your channel Elliot 😊 Thank you, from Malaysia

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Thanks

Thank you so much crack, I'm from Colombia and l understand you almost perfectly, thank you for the information.

Dear Elliott, Thank you for your cool British accent videos. I am interested in a number of approaches of how to teach best English pronunciation to students of some other origin with a mother tongue so different from English, there being Russian or Ukrainian, in my case, of the East Slavic languages. If you do not mind it, I would just like to discuss some thuoghts all about the middle, so-called murmur vowels: 1) [ə] the schwa sound, a neutral middle vowel, 2) [ɜ:], an open-mid central unrounded vowel, 3) [ʌ], an open-mid back unrounded vowel. It is a pity that NO BOOKS on English phonetics I have been encountering so far have offered any shorter, reasonable terminology for these two latter sounds I mentioned above for the students to easily remember them. You would come to know why I have been so regretful of that a bit later. The schwa sound is quite understandable and can be acquired very soon. Only on my fifteenth year of constantly listening to the BBC Radio (doing “shadowing” as a technique of repetition of what has just been said) did I realise exactly what was that that made these two last vowels stand so drastically weird to the Eastern-Slavonic ear. This WAS and IS- and this was immensely important - the use of some special muscles located in your oropharynx, which is behind the oral cavity, apart from merely laying your tongue flat and still at the bottom of your mouth, as all instructing guidelines might suggest to us. The muscles fell out of use in these Eastern-Slavonic languages long ago. With an epitomic loss of the sound represented by the letter «ѣ» (equivalent to Latin ě). It has gripped me by the throat actually. Therefore, in order to ease the process of coming to grips with this particular muscle group, all I could think of was to use a looking glass while producing these sounds. So I could clearly see and follow the movement of the superior wall of my oropharynx and control it by finding the proper way of operating it as the English do. I have found that wielding the muscle that operates this wall is KEY to acquiring a correct pronouncing model of the [ʌ] sound. I have called this sound “the little roof” because it helps my students remember it as they do their practice and always have it in mind. So this pharyngeal upper part consists of the inferior surface of the soft palate and the uvula. Only when a student can consciously move up this farthest part of the soft palate (together with the uvula) will he or she be able to produce the sound the way it has to be produced in English. Period. Secondly, although the IPA symbol for [ɜ:] takes its form after a reversed Latinized variant of the lowercase epsilon, ɛ, it does nonetheless look like the Cyrillic small letter (з) (which is a phonetic equivalent of “z”). There is something behind it, by the way, and well it might be one. So the word I have invented for the other sound [ɜ:] is “zievik”. It is a diminutive form of the Russian «зев» (“ziev”) which stands for “pharynx”. Students do find it useful when a teacher is representing it as having a name and appropriate meaning. Now, what is the actual difference between [ʌ] and [ɜ:]? I think the solution lies in the way you stretch your lateral pharyngeal muscles, so to say, further sideways, making it a more oval and wider throat. You can’t see how wide it is in the looking glass, though. The training method for this is so simple that one wouldn’t believe it. YAWNING. The exercise is this, a student makes a conscious attempt at yawning, stops this process as fast as he can and remember how the muscles of the lateral walls are positioned at the moment of yawning. Learn to repeat it without making any yawning. The soft palate and the uvula being not so high as in the little roof [ʌ], you will get the zievik [ɜ:]. Period.

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I am absolutely happy to listen to you, repeat after you and sound more and more like a native speaker! Thank you!

Hi Elliott please make videos about connected speech

Ae : I think is the first a in the word LANA, and the other A is in the word CARO.

Hi Elliot.. can u explain what is the meaning of "catch-22" is it an British Idiom?

I love your "cheers, byee!" haha awesome

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Hi Elliott could please do a video about pronunciation of words ending wuth S and starting with TH such as "I waS THinking"...do I have to drop the S in connected speech? Thank you

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Oh! This is a video of this century! I was waiting for it I don't know how long. Because in the Russian language we don't have a sound /æ/

Hello Elliot, I just came across your helpful pronunciation tutorials and I liked the lessons on Rubbish, Negotiate, Schedule etc. Please could you say when we could use the sound /a/ and /ei/. How do we say the words in this sentence. "Elliott is a great Pronunciation teacher". Is it /ae/ or /ei/

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Speaking of 'negotiate', one similar pronunciation pair is 'sexual' with a ksh or ks, which is so Stephen Fry and, frankly, quite disgusting XD

The /^/ sound, I mean the U in words like rubbish, cut, Sunday. I would like to learn British pronounce it. Its different from the same sound in American English. I hear like if it was /a/ & /u/ together. Its difficult to explain but I'll master it soon :)

Abuse. can you pronounce this word and explain some examples please and Thnx❤

I'm watching this because I asked Siri to play "back in blood" and it played "back in black" instead 😅😭

Am South Sudanese I need to improve my Pronunciation correctly bro

Your British accent is very good.you are very confidence.But I am not confidence.It is big problem to me.

I speak American English as I learned it in the U.S. But I want to learn British accent 'cuz it sounds too sexy to me 🤗😁

Elliot, you are the number 1

Nice class thank you so much

first syllable of "vaccine" is pronounce /æ/ or /^/, please?

Hi my name is khaled from saudi arabia and I am trying to learn English.

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Sir waiting for your new video please make more video if you can

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You’re awesome!! Love your voice

Thanks a lot for all your lessons! Keep going)

I love the way you teach! Many thanks!!😉

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you look sound more handsome 😂

Have a good weekend teacher .

Good video! Thank you

Oh! This is a video of this century! I was waiting for it I don't know how long. Because in the Russian language we don't have a sound /æ/

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When to use can & could?