g'day you mob pete here from aussie
english today we have an advanced
pronunciation lesson where we are going
to go through
the two vowel sounds e and ah
are you ready let's go
all right so today's episode is courtesy
of my
wife who is from brazil and finds these
two sounds
incredibly difficult to differentiate
between
so kel this one is for you and obviously
anyone else who finds these sounds
difficult just before we get into it
guys
in the description below there is a free
pdf lesson worksheet for today's
lesson that you can download and print
so that you can
read and write and take notes as we go
so go check that out so today's lesson
is going to be broken up into
four different parts in part one we're
going to go over the vowel
sound e in part two we're going to go
over the vowel sound
in part three we're going to do a
comparative pronunciation exercise
using minimal pairs these are words that
will only differ
in whether they have the air vowel sound
or the a
vowel sound so this is where you will
learn to pronounce the differences
and then in part four we're going to
train your listening skills to be able
to differentiate
between these two sounds when you are
listening in english
if you'd like access to the detailed
video tutorials that i've created to
show you how to position your mouth to
say the vowel sounds
e and ah make sure that you keep
watching in this video because i'll tell
you how to do that later on
all right so let's get into part one so
in part one here we're first going to go
over the
e vowel sound which is represented by
this symbol
in the international phonetic alphabet
remember for those of you listening to
this episode as a podcast
check out the youtube videos so that you
can see what i'm displaying
on screen so e is a short vowel sound in
english and you'll
hear it in words like bet
men and said the vowel sound will
usually be spelt
in these different ways i'll display
them on screen but you can see that
there are about
eight different ways that this vowel
sound can be spelt
so let's practice this sound in this
exercise i want you to listen and repeat
after me
i'm going to first pronounce the vowel
sound f three times and then i'm going
to say
10 different words that have this vowel
sound in them you ready
let's go
bed
head
set
x
dead
fed
net
merry
guests
kettle
good job now it's time for part two
so now we're going to go over the vowel
sound ah which is also a
short vowel sound in english this is
represented by
this symbol in australian english ah is
a short vowel sound and you'll hear the
sound at in
words like bat map
and lad the vowel sound will usually be
spelt
one of three ways which i'll display on
screen now
note there's a long vowel sound version
of
ah which is said as and you'll hear this
in words like
sad man and
land we'll cover the long
ah vowel sound in another episode so
let's practice the sound
app i'm going to say this sound three
times and then i'm going to go through a
list of 10 different words that have the
a vowel sound in them you ready let's go
ah ah
bat
had
sat
acts
dad
fad
nat
marry
gast
cattle
now it's time for part three so in this
section we're going to work on our
pronunciation of these two sounds side
by side using
minimal pairs but before we get into
that
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i'll see you in there anyway back to the
lesson
so minimal pairs are incredibly
important for learning how to pronounce
the differences
the distinct differences the subtle
differences between two different sounds
in english in this exercise i'm going to
repeat
10 different words the first one will
have the short
e vowel sound and the second one will
have the short
ah vowel sound are you ready let's go
bet bat
head
had
set
sat
x
axe
dead dad
fed
fad
net nat
mary mary
guest
gast
kettle
cattle
how'd you go not easy huh
all right now it's time for part four so
in this last section
we're going to test your listening
skills to see if you can differentiate
between these two very similar sounds
e and ah in australian english don't be
discouraged if you find
this difficult just repeat this exercise
multiple times and it'll get
easier and easier this is how you're
going to train your ear to hear the
difference between these two
very similar sounds so i'm going to
display the two different minimal pairs
for each word pair
on screen but i'm only going to say one
of each one of these
i want you to write down which one you
hear or write down the letter a
for the e vowel sound and the letter b
for the a vowel sound
and then i'll give you the answers at
the end so you're ready to go
let's do it bet had
set
axe
dad
fed
net
mary
gast
cattle
good job guys and for those of you
listening to this episode as
a podcast the answers were a
b a b b
a a a b b
how'd you go so that's it for today's
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