hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about American English
pronunciation we're looking at consonants you probably know that ABC's
well out of the ABCs we have bottles and we have consonants a e i o u are vowels
now why is a while sometimes too but many times it's a consonant and we're
going to talk about it as though it were a consonant in this lesson okay here's
the important thing this video playlist specializes in pronunciation so let's
not worry about abcdefg I think you know that if you don't go back to an earlier
earlier video on this playlist and you can learning with me there but here
we're concentrating on the sounds how to pronounce the sounds in words so here
they are we're going to make the letter sound and then we're going to put some
words up here to use that letter sound in the word okay now but please repeat
it with me but as in by bicycle come come as in the word cat meow a cat also
it could sound like a the S sound as in the word celery celery c e LD ry celery
that's a vegetable how about the good dog do you have a dog those your dog
a holes in the backyard duh buh huh we have first I'm the first one in line at
the bank I'm lucky number one first four fine can you find your glasses yep good
good good we have the color green group good good or better yet we have another
one like the word give get good give okay Green yeah that's another
conversation let's stick with good alright with no lar after it give please
please give him a cup of coffee we have Oh sometimes gee sounds like a J like
there's Gary and there's Jerry gerald it can be spelled with a gee it sounds like
a J it happens we have we have the letter H which sounds like huh huh house
do you live in a huge huge house huh ja ja ja okay now ja we said ji ji
sometimes sounds like a J right so they're little confusion there but the
word giraffe giraffe hmm look that one up how do you spell that is it a jira j
but when we're talking about the judge up Jason how about we say just a moment
please just a moment or my mother got so much joy out of baking Thanksgiving Day
dinner for her family jump Cup Cup Cup okay how about that have you ever met a
lady named Kate Kate have you ever flown a kite a kite look
leave me alone let's take a left turn up ahead nah it's getting late la mama his
name is mike i saw a mouse run across the floor ma no no in the month of
november no no no November November he said no no no no ha ha please please
pup-pup period period at the end of a sentence of period q we have now Q
doesn't do a whole lot without you after it so the sound could be like the
American coin a quarter 25 cents quick quick quick quote that's what we would
usually think of here we have row row we talked a lot about our views are a lot
in English the are sound ruff ruff ray are you ready to go for a run with me
run the good old s sounds we put that on end of so many words not only is it in
the middle and at the beginning of a lot of words but it gets put on the end of a
lot of words to remember and we need to use that sound a lot you must be able to
make it and it shouldn't be a stewed no sound it's just ears my sister is a
beautiful woman I'm going to tell you a story I have six
chairs in my dining room toe shirts a little too tight a little too tight how
tall is that man how tall to the book the letter B he's very tall but but and
that nation not sound like a bee or a pea it's it's own sound you put your
lower lip under your upper teeth b-but very berry tell you what what what why
are you here where did he go way over there look way over there and you'll see
it whoooooa 1x now X a lot of times it sounds and it will be silent a lot of
times it sounds like an S s think of the word xylophone it sound like a Z in sila
phone right xylophone kind of an S sound kind of the Z sound okay the Y how about
the word yo yo yo yo it's a kid's toy yeah a lot of belts play with them too
but a yo-yo it's round it's not a string how about an egg yoke yoke the yellow
center part of an a of an egg is called a yoke y 0 ke yo yo this is zip zip zip
maybe you go to the zoo z oo to see the zebras zebras at the zoo you have a
zipper on your jacket is it broken no I don't pitch it ok so there you have
those are the sounds those are the sounds now let's look at some words
let's take a look at these words we have build okay now we're looking at
consonant sounds right consonants we've got we have B but in the word bill to
build a house I would like to build a business relationship with you but we
have C okay now see sounds like either cup in the word call call please call me
tonight or the word or the sound of a statists right sophie has in case as an
S now as I mentioned before celery celery would be a good one right okay
the vegetable we have duck on dog do you have a dog is it a big dog or a small
dog we have fun fun find find ya can you find the newspaper I left on my desk
could you find out and bring it to me please how about G go in the word golf
you play golf are you a golfer okay the game the sport call sometimes gee sounds
like Jay Chuck Chuck what are we thinking here what are we thinking about
the word giraffe giraffe that animal in Africa with a very long neck a giraffe
that's fellow the G but it's not like it's yeah okay we have h ha ha help
could you help me please juggle juggle
jay jay jay okocha juggle juggling balls maybe when you're at the circus you saw
the clown's juggling balls to juggle we have kind kind cuca
he's a very kind man uh what kind of coffee do like this la la loose loose
your dog has been running loose all over the neighborhood please tie him up he's
making me crazy loose oh the shirt is too loose ensure is too tight now it's
too loose we have ma ma ma ma ma ok you a noun is a mop it's something you use
has a handle on it bunch of strings in the bottom and you use it to mop the
floor right and then it's a verb when you're mopping the floor mum we have n
how about never I never mop the floor I just don't like to do that I'm kidding I
always have to mop the floor ok push please push those boxes to the other
side of the room push push the door closed push we have Q and as I mentioned
qu goes together right well here we have quick quiet quiet q doesn't really do
much by itself but please be quiet I'm trying to read I'm trying to study quiet
don't make noise rah rah really really are you really ready to go now really oh
you're not you're not ready well tell me when you're really ready so we can go
okay really for certain
silly silly oh what a silly little dog look at him Liam Liam trying to chase
that car catch it yeah it's not going to happen silly how about tea to tuk tuk
hole now the little dog was chasing the car and trip it's it's tumbled and
tumbled across the street but it didn't get her tumble perhaps you have a glass
that's called a tumbler if you're hurt tumblers type of drinking glass we have
the various there are various types of glasses that we used to drink rum right
small glasses tall glasses wine glasses whiskey glasses shot glasses water
glasses 8-ounce glasses various types and we have one for winter one of the
seasons of the year Oh winter time right when the snow falls the leaves are gone
from the trees it's cold outside mmm waiter and then come spring now we have
the letter X and X might just sound like its own name right like x-ray but it can
sound like Z like in the word xylophone xylophone I mentioned xylophone earlier
but Texas isn't that popular at the beginning of words okay we have Y as was
mentioned y can be a ball but here we're talking about consonance the word yo yo
yo yes yes yes I'd like to get a yo-yo yes i love the yolk of an egg mmm good
yes and then we have finally the letter Z this is up here 0 the number 0 there
aren't any we have 0 left in the refrigerator zero right the
temperature is zero it's very cold outside and that concludes this lesson
thank you for watching this video and I look forward to seeing you at our next
lesson goodbye for now