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I found this video quite interesting because the dark l is the one phonemic difference in my German dialect that is still carried over when people speak high German because it is easy to understand even when the light l is replaced by a dark l. Other differences such as /g/ -> /j/ , /eɪ/ -> /ɪ/, /n/ -> /ŋ/ , /a:/ and /ʌ/ to /æ/ , or the addition of sounds like /e/ or /ə/ make it much more difficult to understand for those not familiar with the dialect. Example: wine -> Wein /veɪn/ -> Wing /vi:ŋ/ Edit: Had to edit the above a bit after going through your video on vowel sounds.
Thanks Billie. I still have a doubt. Consider the word "colour". The "l" belongs to the first syllable and is dark. It seems to me that we also link the "l" to the second syllable schwa. I feel like I first pronounce the dark L then the light one with the schwa.
@@pablohuet3270 When I say the word "colour," I feel that it is light. But according to dictionaries (more than one!), the "l" after 'o' belongs to the first syllable. Then by definition, it should be dark. That's where I am confused.
[l - ɫ] Prof Daniel Jones, a British phonetician, the father of British English phonetics, once said that these speech sounds were named "clear l" and "dark l" respectively. I live in Indonesia. Most Indonesians here in Jakarta are moslems. To moslems, our first foreign language is not English, but Classical Arabic. It is the original language of The Quran, our Holy Book. We start to learn the phonetics of Classical Arabic when we are seven years old or, in other words, when we enter elementary school. Here, in Indonesia, the two kinds of "l" speech sounds are very famous and they are called "light l" and "thick l" respectively. In Classical Arabic, that "dark l" occurs only in the name of God "Allah" [ˈɑɫːɑːɦ] when it is pronounced in isolation. When that word is preceeded by [a] and [ʊ], as in "innallaaha" (=in fact, God...) and "rosulullaah" (=Mohammed), it is also pronounced with a dark l, thus: [ˈɪnːˈɑɫːɑːɦa] and [rɑsʊˈlʊɫːɑːɦ] respectively. However, when it is preceeded by [ɪ] as in "lillaah" (for God), a clear l should be pronounced: [ˈlɪlːaːɦ].
Thank you 😊 Indeed, this is my classroom and you are all my students! 💛 I'm using the IPA symbols for British English, the ones most European course books use as well. There are a few symbols that are a little different in IPA, if you search for the chart from Adrian Underhill, that's the one most of us use in Europe (and its for British English).
Why is "Ally" being pronounced different? I know "Ally" as "You are my ally in the battle", this sounds like "Ellie" to me, the character from the game The Last of Us.
