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 our R is about our look what happened here
goodness R is about controlled vowels are control vowels
now what do we mean by that well we have two vowels together by the way in the
previous video I talked about wow if diphthongs and you notice that the two
letters weren't all vowels and I mentioned that but the way those
combinations work is if it sounds like a bottle if they don't sound like revolved
and it wouldn't work right but in the examples I showed you those are involved
in thunks because of the sound okay our control valves we have a R what is a R
sound like our just sounds like a long R so we have the word car perhaps you
drive your car to work every day right you have a big con or a small car no car
maybe you take the bus star twinkle twinkle little star you look up in the
sky and you wonder where you are right okay a star
perhaps a star on television TV stars a movie star are you a star I'll bet you
are Park you could park your car I mind a
park over there across the street or maybe you're going to walk to the park
to enjoy a nice Sunday afternoon with your family or friends are our Park er
there we have two miles what is er sound like it sounds like a
herb in the English language American English we use her
phenomenal a tremendous amount in the language you speak as the first language
if you don't have the sound like in Korea Korean there's no Purcell so they
have to learn to make that sound sounds unusual but it's true any language that
you speak may not have all the same sounds as some other language that you'd
like to learn to speak then you have to learn those sounds pretty difficult for
some people but you can do it er er a person I'm a person you're
probably a person aren't you yes yes you are all right a person one person two
people alert are you an alert person hmm alert means you're paying attention you
notice something or perhaps there's an alert a siren goes off in your town
alerting the public of some kind of a problem that is occurred right Alert
dinner dinner probably you probably eat dinner at 12 o'clock some people call
dinner the six o'clock in the evening yell nice evening you like all that
dinner but dinner you sit down to eat it's not lunch it's not a snack it's a
full meal it's dinner where do you eat dinner perhaps you eat it in a dining or
take off one end and you have a diner a diner would be like a cafe a small
restaurant er I mean I are we have the word herb herb a game bird bird okay you
know what a bird is they have feathers they fly around they make nice sounds
right chirping singing poop on your car yeah Birds birth birth what is your
birth date what year were you born in birth perhaps you have a cat and she has
recently given birth - five or six cute little kittens birth
shirt I'm wearing a shirt are you wearing a shirt hmm okay sure I are now
we have or all by itself are is the word or would you like coffee or tea but put
an agent and end around it and what do we have whether word form no horn could
be what grows out of a cow's head a horn could be with somebody
honk honk sandy when they're driving their car they honk their horn
maybe there's up who got horn on your bicycle or fork okay there may be a fork
in the road the road divides goes to swing that way that's not actually a
corner it's a fork in the road perhaps when you eat dinner tonight at the diner
you're going to use a fork to eat with as opposed to a spoon store well maybe
you saw a squirrel running around out in the leaves and it was going to work it
was working at storing nuts for the winter right or maybe you want to buy a
bag of nuts some peanuts so you walk down to the store the corner store a
grocery store and bought a bag of peanuts
maybe efendim to the squirrel so the squirrel could store them turkey it's a
bird a domestic fowl bigger than a chicken very popular at Thanksgiving
time in the United States to eat for Thanksgiving Day dinner gobble gobble
right heard about the pilgrims they had dinner with the American Indians way way
back when and Turkey came into the picture turkey they had wild turkeys
then we had turn okay you're driving your car you're
going to make the left turn if you're going to make a right turn turn right
maybe you're going to turn around to get a better view curl do you know anyone
who goes to the beauty parlor to curl their hair they like to have curly hair
but their hair really is naturally curly so they want to get a curl in your hair
they built to the beauty shop to have their hair curl or they get a permanent
probably that's a better way to say it but a curl right straight hair curly
here that's the end of this lesson our controlled balls thank you for watching
this video and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson good bye for now