hi this is SEMA and today I will be
teaching you a new lesson on vowel
sounds well what exactly are vowel
sounds well most of you are probably not
native English speakers and therefore
you have a problem a constant problem
with pronouncing words correctly well
today we we we'll help you to pronounce
words correctly by identifying certain
distinct sounds in English which Aid you
with its pronunciation called the vowel
sounds well uh whatever language you
speak uh maybe Hindi or Chinese or
Japanese or even Korean uh I'm sure that
each language has a distinct sound in
itself but uh being a non-english
speaker what you try to do is you try to
you know bring those sounds and apply
them into the English language uh but
but unfortunately English is not
pronounced that way but once you kind of
dis earn the vowel sounds once you are
able to identify and clearly distinguish
different vowel sounds you will
definitely see a vast uh Improvement in
your pronunciation and you will see that
speaking correct English is not going to
be difficult anymore uh for example uh
vowel uh we all know that the main
vowels in English are a e i o
u and uh the rest of the alphabets are
consonants but vowel sounds there are
there are 15 main vowel sounds even
though we have several vowel sounds
there are 15 main main vowel sounds
which help us enunciate or pronounce
words correctly and we're going to deal
with these 15 main vowel
sounds so that
you can pronounce English in a better
way um for example uh words like
Hill and
heel two very commonly used words you
you hear them all the time you read
about them all the time um
but the word Hill is a short I it's an i
sound it's it's like a hill or
a
fill on the other hand you have a heel
so it's a long e
sound okay so you have a h a short sound
and you have a heel a long e sound okay
let's do that again it's it's a hill a
short sound and a heel it's a long e
sound consequently you have a Phill a
short I sound and a
feel which is a long e sound
again so these words all of them have
completely different
meanings but their pronunciations are
also different and and you use them in
different contexts so let us identify
the main vowel sounds so I'll be right
back with some more vowel sounds for you
all right so now we're going to look at
the 15 main vowel sounds in English well
when you read a dictionary and uh you
know you come across a certain word uh
you will have a symbol at the front of
it or maybe at the end of the
explanation what is that symbol yes that
particular symbol uh signifies the usage
of a particular vowel sound uh well I
have put in a a few symbols that you
constantly see when you read a
dictionary let's look at the first one
okay uh the symbol looks a bit like this
okay um but let's get the pronunciation
right because that's what we're after
aren't we um the first word
teach it is a long e the E is
almost elongated you know you stretch
your e so you say
teach I
say feet I don't say fit I say feet so
can we do that
again a teach we elongate the E so it is
the long e sound okay so remember when
you read the dictionary you look at this
symbol you automatically understand that
it is the elongated form of the E so it
is a teach it is a
feet similarly you have a seed not a sid
a
seed a
teach a
feat and a
seed okay for
example a sentence please read your
notes before you teach
well all the words which have now been
uh pronounced
using this symbol and with the elongated
e let's identify them what are they the
first word please does it sound like
we've used the
E yes we certainly have
so this is the this is the e sound so
it's a
please
read definitely we've used the
E your notes not not quite before no you
teach yes there's another word here
teach so from this sentence we've used
three words with the e sound so it's
please read your notes before you
teach okay so uh we need to practice
these words a little bit more identify
the symbols and pronounce them
accordingly okay let's move on to the
next word which
is it now this symbol signifies the I
sound so it is the I sound but it is a
short I sound so it's not I
it's can we do that again it is I so I
have an it I don't have an eat
I don't have a you know it I've got an
it it's a short
sound it's not a give it is a give a
short
sound this is not th this is thick come
to thick a
short sound okay and you have a pck you
don't have a peak you have a p a
short I
sound so it is very important to
identify the short ey sound with this
symbol when you read the dictionary
moving on to a sentence that we've got
for example which is my sister will live
in this house well if you've kind of
caught on to the I sound you will
identify the i words correctly my first
word my oh I don't think this has got
the S sound is
it
sister did I just say sister yes I did
so the the part of the sister definitely
has the short eye sound that I just
spoke about so my
sister will yes the short I sound the
will it's it's a short sound live
live so it's a short eye sound in again
a short eye sound this
house sound okay so it's not sister it
is my sister will live in this house if
you um notice the words are quite brief
you know they they're short quick words
and that is what you need to remember
when you're kind of you know uh
identifying for this symbol in your
dictionary moving on to the next sound
uh the symbol of which looks like
this okay for example the words are
take so yeah you've got to identify for
a a sound a a okay let's do that a it's
not a it's not e it's not e e we did an
E and A I this is an a sound okay so
let's do a so the first word is
take the second word is
late the third word is
main can we do the a sound
again take the a sound late the a sound
again and a m
moving on to the sentence which is
K did I just do an a sound yes I did
Kane
plays and a sound again good music for
his
age the a sound again
okay so whenever you come across such
words with this symbol you know how to
pronounce them so your pronunciation
should always be an a and not an e or an
e or an e Okay so we've done the E the
long e we've done the I the short I and
we've done the a moving on to the next
vow sound which looks like this the
symbol looks like this but the
pronunciation is
an eh an e sound okay so it is this is
an I sound and this is an e sound so you
have an i and an e an i and an e can we
do that so set an e
sound a symbol a symbol like this would
would be pronounced as sit so can we say
sit and a set an eh and a an eh and a eh
a set and a sit a set and a sit you have
another word said you don't say s you
know a non English speakers sometimes
pronounce this word as s it's not an a
sound it is a e sound so it is a said an
eh sound and eh the e sound for example
you have my friend went to the
wedding the S sound let's look for the s
sound okay my friend did I say friend e
end e
went to
the wedding that's right so my
friend friend my friend the e sound went
e to the weding that's right so this is
the Sy and the sound you've got to
identify the eh sound which is very
different from the I sound or the short
I sound moving on to the fifth vow sound
we've got
the symbol which looks like this quite
complicated to look at but the
pronunciation should be quite simple I
presume um the first word is last so the
pronunciation is an a
not an ah it is an a an a can you do
this an A so I have
last I've got fast a fast
car a good
answer okay answer can you say a
answer last she comes last in class he
drives a fast and Fast fast the a the
fast
car a good answer okay for example I say
he
passed the S sound yes very much so
first first does not have a s sound does
it no it doesn't class yes it it
definitely has an S sound so he
passed the a sound he passed
first
class
class in the
test okay so we will pronounce these
words more often we will try to get
these sounds in our system and try to
pronounce English perfectly which I know
you all will
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