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Thanks to your videos, I have greatly improved my pronounciation and also my understanding people speaking around me. I keep watching your videos, learning and improving my pronounciation.
wow.. thank you soo much...wow...this really really helped....it just didnt feel right the way I was saying my "r"s still I saw this and wow.. it almost feels like a relief... thank you so much. The best American accent teacher!
Hello there! Yes, we do, but they are not inexpensive. If you want, you can send us a request at team at soundsamerican dot net or contact our speech-language pathologist directly (darren@packardcommunications.com). Here's our post with his info: ru-vid.comUgz0Tjb_4jWofX9-hOh4AaABCQ (When contacting Darren, please, mention that you've been provided with this information on our RU-vid channel.)
Who are you guys? This is one of the best, most comprehensive, and useful presentations of American English pronunciation I've ever seen. But I can't find any information about your company. The video shows this great record and compare tool but where is it? I'm an ESL teacher and this is something I've been looking for, and cobbled together, but here it is, all in one place.
+Ubu English Glad to hear you liked our channel! We love having teachers in our community. We hope our videos can become a helpful tool for you. The "record and compare" tool that you mentioned is our own app. We haven't released it to the public yet, but we hope to do it soon. We'll announce the release on this channel. BTW, where do your students come from? We mean, their first language? If you have any suggestions for the new content on our channel, let us know. Stay in touch! 👋
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Hello! I enjoy watching your video. But I just noticed that I don't see any of "pure, cure, sure, and so on" in R-colored vowels in this video. These words are also R- colored vowels, right?
Thank you very much for your excellent videos. This is the best help I have found for learning the r-colored sounds. Perhaps one additional feature could be yet more helpful: If it were possible to get access to the recording patterns of the users for comparing them with yours? Thank you very much in advance for your kind attention. Noel Leon
The first thing is that I am excited to have found this channel and I thank you very much, on the other hand, on this subject it is not clear to me the difference in how they are pronounced in American and British English, that is, you comment that many people do not pronounce them good but ... how can they be pronounced wrong, if it is only to add the r sound to the vowel sound, excuse my ignorance on this
thank you sir your Chanel had help me a lot i watch every one of your videos dozen of times a year ago it really help practice those sound now i have a good pronunciation thank to you . people comment about how my English is good =) thank just one note if you can add sentence exercise it will be great you know like those tongue twisting thanks
+hafid boudar Thank you for sharing this! We're glad to hear that our videos have been helpful and your pronunciation have improved! Yes, we plan to make such videos as you suggested, stay tuned!
Hey guys, I'm leaving a message here because I don't know where else to leave it! I have two questions; one have you heard of the color vowel method for American English pronunciation? I think it's pretty interesting. and two, do you keep statistics about which pronunciations for American vowels are more common for the most popular American English words (on your website)? I think I saw you post about that before. I was thinking about linking those statistics to the color vowel system (corresponding colors). Cheers!
Sounds American Okay I am gonna ask, on placing adverbs, so my question is, 1. Apparently, she is in trouble. (so here why do you choose to put this adverb at the beginning? 2. She is in trouble, apparently. (so here why do you choose to put this adverb at the end? 3. She is apparently in trouble. (so here why in the middle? 4. She apparently is in trouble. (so here why after SHE or before IS? well, why I am asking you this is because I think these four sentences are different, a little. I mean there is something that you feel before you choose an adverb to add to a sentence that you are gonna say. So you, as a native speaker, tell me what do you feel when you put an adverb at the beginning, at the end, in the middle, and after a pronoun? and I know there is something that you feel.
Hello. Thank you for video. But could you explain some inconsistency in logic. 1. Why does /ʊr/ as in "cure", "pure" or "secure" not fit into this category? All American dictionaries have phonetic transcriptions without dividing this sound into separate syllables. 2. Why doesn't /ær/ as in "comparison" fit into this category? American Heritage: (kəm-părʹĭ-sən); Random House Webster's Unabridged: /keuhm par"euh seuhn/. 3. What about /aʊr/ as in "power" or "hour", /ɛɪr/ as in "layer", /ɔɪr/ as in "lawyer", and /oʊr/ as in "lower"? Dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster and New Oxford American give following transcriptions: \ˈpau̇(-ə)r\, [ˈpou(-ə)r], [ˈlou(ə)r]. So if we are dropping schwa should we assume /r/ as syllabic /r/ [ˈpʰaʊ.ɹ̩̩]? 4. Does it correct to use IPA symbol "˞" like tail in /ɚ/ or /ɝ/ instead of /r/ to represent R-colored vowels? For me /ɪ˞/, /ɛ˞/, /ɑ˞/, /ɔ˞/, /aɪ˞/ (and maybe /ʊ˞/, /aʊ˞/, /ɛɪ˞/, /ɔɪ˞/, /oʊ˞/) look more logical and easier to distinguish.
first-furst as in cup fever - fee-vur as in cup fear - deer as in green fare - fAr as in gray far - for as in bronze for - fOr as in rose (stressed) fire - fIr as in white
The /ʊr/ sound is used in the US, but we don't believe it's used in General American English. For example, we pronounce the words "sure" and "poor" as /ʃɝ/ and /pɔr/, but you may hear some people saying them with the /ʊr/ sound. The word "tour" or "pure" is /tu·ɚ/ (two syllables) and "pure" is pronounced as /pjɝ/. Check out this post where we talk about the pronunciation of the 'URE' combination: ru-vid.com/show-UC-MSYk9R94F3TMuKAnQ7dDgcommunity?lb=UgzznOErPV0t7_jAQRd4AaABCQ
@@SoundsAmerican thank you very much for the clarification. And yes, it's true, I've heard some American people use the /ʊr/ sound, that's why I was asking (I thought it was the usual). Again, I love the channel... I have learned a lot 💕.
Thanks for the quality videos, they are really good, so I have come back time by time! I wonder : 2,400/10,000 is about a quarter , in this sentence "mispronounce every fourth word " can I say every four word / every four words?
I noticed something while I was mimicking you in reading comments in this video(your voice are clear and accent is great!). When you say "pronounce" , you stress the second syllable really lightly compared with the pronunciation in dictionary such as merriam-webster, or google pronunciation. I don't know how is that difference happen?
The way words are pronounced in dictionaries can be different from how they are pronounced in real life. In dictionaries, words are enunciated which doesn't usually happen in conversation. That may be the reason for the difference you noticed.
pls talk 'bout ju sound like in fuse fjuːz and when the S is Z in the third person he\sh\it like in says pronounced sayz or iz like in brace breɪsɪz I have noticed that some verbs ain't just S are there any rules? it would be cool if you made videos about these things
Hi there... Sounds American... As usual, your videos are amazing and very complete. However, I have a doubt... The diphthong /au/ as in house can be an R-colored diphthong in the words *flower*, *our*, etc.?
+José Miguel Flores Baldera , hello there! Great question! It's not an r-colored diphthong, but a combination of a diphthong /aʊ/ and an r-colored vowel /ɚ/. Take a look: "flower" /ˈflɑʊ·ɚ/ "our" /ˈaʊ·ɚ/, "tower" /ˈtɑʊ·ɚ/, etc. Hope it helps, let us know if you have any other questions!
Heya, do you have any course. I like your videos so much. It's not like that I saw a video on English phonemics for first time. I am following all individuals in RU-vid and I like your videos a lot. But you have not uploaded all category videos, only few are available.
+Manas Behera Glad you like our videos. What do you mean only a few videos are available? We have published about 60 videos, it's plenty :). Anyway, more are coming, stay tuned!
@@SoundsAmerican yes, its plenty still its not covering all areas as I need to watch other videos. Still it's take time to make good videos. I was struggling with R sound. Your videos helped me to master it. Thanks a lot.
Hi there! :) With the help of your marvelous videos I'm trying to sort out all the sounds and their categories. I'm wondering: if there are 5 diphtongs (I chose to believe there're 5 insted of 3, because if you don't choose here you'll drive yourself crazy, lol) such as /eɪ/, /oʊ/, /aʊ/, /aɪ/, /ɔɪ/-can we say there are actually plus 4 that are R-colored diphtongs in American English? So, 9 in total. Thank you for your answer in advance :)
Yes, that's correct if you consider the /eɪ/ and /oʊ/ to be diphthongs. By the way, we have a playlist for diphthongs and a separate one for the R-Colored vowels: ru-vid.com/group/PLYJV5Moz9cfxq8vOGW5ru42qEdyYaXzY9 ru-vid.com/group/PLYJV5Moz9cfymC5YbeHTY7fNcarXYc7z- If you open them on your computer, check out the descriptions that we made for them - we added the lists of the vowels that may help with the classification and will keep you from going crazy. 😋
I am confused! Diphthong is "a vowel sound in which the tongue changes position to produce the sound of two vowels". The letter R is a consonant. How does a vowel sound + R (/ ɪr /, /ɛr/, /ɑr/ and /ɔr/) make a diphthong?
Greetings. If a triphthong is the union of three vocal sounds together because in American English the word "fire" has a triphthong? If your phonetic symbols are /faɪr/ and there are only two vocal sounds together? And also, if a diphthong is the union of two vocal sounds together because the union of phonemes /ɪr/ is a diphthong? If there is only one vocal sound, the /r/ is the sound of a consonant. You don’t understand its logic. Thank you very much!
Hello Sounds American team, question after long time! Just now I came across with the pronouncing pattern of the word "sure" and I get /ʃʊr/ in Cambridge Dictionary. So, the question is, is there another R coloured vowel sound /ʊr/ apart from the 7 you taught?
There are NO R-colored sounds in GA English. According to the rule the word ‘sure’ should be transcribed /shoor/ oo as in food but it is usually pronounced with the schwa /shuhr/
There's no such r-colored vowel sound in American English. The vowel in words like "moor" and "your" is the /ɔr/ sound and we already have this video published on our channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZbDrxmP4_S4.html
sir. Is there no other r-colored vowel? I think 'ur' have another sounds when it is stressed. for example capture has /ɚ/ sound ; but mature or curious has /ʊr/ sounds in a dictionary of Longman. it it false?
We don't have the /ʊr/ sound in our accent. We know that it's used in the US, but we believe not in General American English. We pronounce the word "mature" with the /ɝ/ sound. Check out our post on this topic: ru-vid.comUgzznOErPV0t7_jAQRd4AaABCQ
@@SoundsAmerican but...I hear /ʊr/ in words of cure, pure, curious, furious, etc... when invisible y is included in vowel u, I think it is open vowel. I'm shocked.
According to the rule, the word mature should be muh-TOOR but in American English it is said muh-CHOOR or muh-CHUHR curious KYOO-ree-ʸuhs or KYUH-ree-ʸuhs
Thanks a lot for this great effort and I wish you could make a video about the dark "L" . I really found it difficult to recognize the difference between it and the light one another time #Thanks_alot
The /ʊr/ sound is used in the US, but we don't believe it's used in General American English. For example, we pronounce the words "sure" and "poor" as /ʃɝ/ and /pɔr/, but you may hear some people saying them with the /ʊr/ sound. Check out this post where we talk about the pronunciation of the 'URE' combination: ru-vid.com/show-UC-MSYk9R94F3TMuKAnQ7dDgcommunity?lb=UgzznOErPV0t7_jAQRd4AaABCQ
+ Hibbert Jahlil The word "shore" is pronounced as /ʃɔr/ and the word "sure" is pronounced as /ʃɝ/, These words are pronounced with two different r-colored vowel sounds.
@@SoundsAmerican I saw to different pronunciation in IPA for sure. The first is /ʃɝ/ and the second is/ ʃʊr/. I know how to pronounce the first one, but I don't know how to pronounce the second one. And the word your has three different pronunciation in Merriam Webster .\yər\ \ˈyu̇r\ \ˈyȯr\. I don't know how to pronounce the second-way \ˈyu̇r \. And for the word moor, the IPA and Merriam Webster are same.T hey are all \ˈmu̇r\,not /mɔr/.I'm so confused!Thank you for your help, Professor. Here are some video about /ʊr/ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6VyVNyau9f4.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-262ep4N6wTM.html
We'd love to provide subtitles for all world languages but that's impossible. This video has subtitles in several languages, including English and Vietnamese, maybe those can help.
We're not experts in British pronunciation, but most British accents today are non-rhotic. A non-rhotic accent is an accent that typically drops the /r/ sound when it occurs after a vowel. To put it simple, there are no R-colored vowels in non-rhotic dialects.
@@SoundsAmerican But what does r-colored mean? And how is this unique to America? Let me ask it differently. What would a non-r-colored, but still rhotic, accent sound like? I'm American as apple pie but I am not understanding what this color phenomenon is.
@@SoundsAmericanYOU’RE WRONG! There are NO R-colored vowel sounds in GA English. The Rr is ONLY a consonant in GA English. The Rr is both a vowel and a consonant in SSBE=British English.
Thank you Sounds American for your concern. I really appreciate it. I kind of feel like I'm over the basics and have mastered all the sounds of AmE. I focus more on practice and minute details of pronunciation like weak vowel merger, intonation and more. Also, I'm a junior and studying Engineering, so I'm very busy with my studies. But, anyway, thank you. P. S. I have noticed you don't use weak vowel merger in your pronunciation symbol, which, I think, is more common these days in General American, e. g. Victim, Eleven etc.
Sounds American Speaking of victims, I would like to offer my prayers and condolences to the victims of the Florida school shooting. Be safe sounds american.
+Mehedi Hasan Bipul, sure, np! We don't use it to avoid confusion since for many people IPA is already confusing enough. But you're absolutely right, this merger is common in General American.
@tricky_english I want you to produce a syllabic [ɹ̈] and then a [ɚ] and tell me the difference. I've only heard SOME broad Southern US accents (usually from the Appalachian region) that pronounce the [ɚ] as [ɝ ~ ɜʴ], but that's only in stressed syllables
+Hibbert Jahlil When the letter 'r' occurs at the beginning of words or syllables or after a consonant, it's a consonant sound (for example, "run," "scratch"). When it occurs after a vowel in the same syllable, it's forms an r-colored vowel ("her," "car").
First I am sorry for my bad expression,my English grammar is too bad.How about these two words,Siri and Hero? The R between two vowels.In that case.Is R an vowel or a consonant?I hear a y sound between the vowels.It looks like vowel to vowel linking.For example,the Siri sounds like /si(j)ri/,hero sound like /ˈhɪ(j)roʊ/
+ Hibbert Jahlil You need to watch out for syllables: if 'r' is in the same syllable as a vowel before it, then they make an r-colored vowel. There's no /j/ sound in words "Siri" or "hero." The /r/ in the word "hero" is part of the r-colored vowel /ɪr/: /ˈhɪr.oʊ/.
+Victor Hugo , glad to "see" you again! Thanks! Well, we're not there yet, still covering phonemes. We'll make videos on speech melody, intonation and eventually on fluency, but it'll happen much later. In the meanwhile, we can recommend JenniferESL channel, she has excellent videos on this topic: ru-vid.comvideos
