Hadar you are a gifted teacher. I use what I learn from you to better teach my Native English dyslexic learners. Sound production explained via minimal pairs was never introduced to me in any of my courses for teaching reading. So thankful for your perspective and love the Meryl Strip story.
Wow. Powerful lesson. With my french speaking influence i have serious vowels confusing problems. Thank God for the way you put it, I understand that all I need t is to work hard on it. Sweet cheers Coach. You're a angel.
Finally, I found the teacher I needed! I really like your charisma, your way of explaining! Thank you for your time, for your dedication to teaching and helping others. Pronounce the vowels it works, but “tt”, no, I can’t repeat it, no matter how hard I try🤭
I'm basically a native bilingual in English & Spanish so idk why I'm watching this but it was a great video!! Your face is very expressive, you do a great job of enunciating, slowly demonstrating even with your hands so that the viewer can get a solid sense of what you mean-and your IPA representations were spot on! If I were to be super nitpicky I would say that the schwa sound is not the same sound as in cup, though that vowel and schwa are effectively merged in american english, the sound in cup is closer to [ɐ] than to [ə] For that sound think [wɑɾɚ] vs [wɑɾɐ] or Ros[ɐ]'s vs ros[ə]s Your story in the intro reminded me of this time I was probably like 5, I pronounced mosquito in a very anglicized way, I nativized the word as /məskɪtow/ my family never let me live it down lol anyway keep up the good work!
We, in EU, have so many English lessons at school ! And we keep learning new vocabulary. At the end of high school I was able to read Dickens all day long. But nobody taught us about these differences in pronunciation !
True. I used to go to the libraries, back in the ‘90s. I have been listening to tapes, then created a notebook for writing down words and practice it at home. I haven’t been having difficulties on learning Latin languages, especially Italian and Spanish, because my native language is mostly derived from Latin.
Wow.. This lesson was amazing. I’ve been struggling with words “want” and “won’t” . So, I almost always use the base form “will not”.. but I’ll practice more. Thank you a lot!☺️
That lesson was outstanding, thank you, Hadar. As a Brazilian and Portuguese speaker, it is easier to think of the "i" in Ship as "ê" (with that little hat on it) and the "ee" in Sheep as our "i". Learning a second language made me fall in love with our diacritics 😅.
It's really an extremely great class. Thak you so much classes like that and, be sure you are helping so many people that for some reasons can't afford to join an English course.
The most difficult for me is short vs long u, like foot - food. And as my first language I speak Polish. Thank you so much for your work and that you said you appreciate your listeners. It's really "building" (i don't know whether in english a word "empowering" would exactly mean "building confidence, self-esteem" etc so if anyone knows it correct me please)
What a great video, thank you for drawing your attention to gave out this relevant video because there’re some pinpoint that this video contained and thank you for that, really appreciate for it.
I thought it pronounced as "Meryl Strip /strɪp/" and I just got to know it's "Meryl Streep" 😅 Thank you Hadar for saving me from further embarrassment :D Also, bin-ben pairs are tricky for me.
This is a very helpful video! Thank you so much! My first language is Spanish and this is helping me a lot. My main struggle is with the sheep-ship and pool-pull sounds.
In all my english schools they told me that foot, book, facebook had to be pronounced as food ("oo"). Thanks for correct my pronounciation beautiful lady. 💓💓💓
I thought I can be struggling with pull and pool but, suddenly I changed my mind completely and Thought. What about Pull and the name Paul.. they sound more like the same to me.. by the way thanks you for taking the time to read us here
I think the interesting thing is that the american english sound in "father" and "cot" (used for both ah and o) is used a lot in british english where an "a" is present, as in pass, path, past, but is not used for the same letter in pass(ive), path(ology), past(el), which are like the american pronounciation. The "o" sound in british english seems to not occur in american english. I would be interested to know if americans make the same sound for "saab" and "sob", or for "maam" and "mom", because to me "ah" feels very different to "o". Similarly, does "father" rhyme with "bother"? for me, "father" rhymes with "bather" (if that's a word for someone bathing), and sounds nothing like "bother".
Hadar, your anecdote about Meryl makes me think about how people back in the eighties were always complaining about how touchy the French were about pronunciation. You make it sound like NYC was the Paris of the new millennium.
Hi Hader .Thank you for your excellent video. See, city and simple, those are most difficult words for me. If you would like to help with these words, that would be great.
At 9:27 you're confusing people with that set, because there's honest and job on the one hand and coffee and office on the other hand and those are different vowel sounds, unless the cot-caught merger happens
Thanks Hadar for all the advice and the tios that you gave us to improve our pronunciation. I would love to see a video on how to pronounce « committee » Bitter / better/batter Moroccan follower from Canada 😍
Hi Hadar. Does the schwa sound exactly the same in every syllable? In words like "government," "occurrence," "concurrent" "covenant" and "current", which are all schwa phonemes, do they sound exactly the same?
Yes and no. Technically yes - the tongue is always in the same position, but also no - because it is such a short vowels it may be slightly affected by sounds around it especially Ls and Rs
Brazilians think the vowel æ like in apple , cat , reaction , classic , jave a sound as É. They say ə , then their sound has no difference between bed and bad , bag and beg , they think is the same sound and dont realize that æ is just an high Á.
Sheep - ship Green - grin Leap - lep Peach - pitch Seek - sick Bin - ben Chick - check Disk - desk Middle - medal Bed - bad Head - had Left - laughed Bitter - better - batter Bus - boss Cup - cop Luck - lock Color - collar Pool - pull Food - foot Who'd - Hood Luke - Look Fool - full Boat - Bought Law - low Lawn - lown Want - won't
I am a Russian native speaker, and the only pairs that are easy for me to differentiate are bin-ben and boat-bought. Ship-sheep, luck-lock, bad-bed, pool-pull pairs are very tough. I order to be certain which one was said I need context, and then I can figure out which one makes sense.
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