hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton
in this lesson we're going to talk about American English pronunciation are you
right let's begin specifically we're talking about are not the letter but the
sound languages that do not carry the R sound in it makes it very difficult for
those people who speak that language as a first language to learn English as a
second language because we use our alive so the R sound if you have a problem
with the R sound think about this two O's now that sound in a lot of English
words is boo boo and in many languages that do not have the R sound or
ruff-ruff they do have the O sound now do you notice something similar between
who and rah look at my lips my lips when I make the R sound like in the word
ready let's get ready to go my lips are circular my tongue is back ready ready
are ready ooh hmm let's see what's in a sound how
about the word smooth smooth like maybe the the skin on your arm is
smooth SM ooth well if you put mu and you can dummy if you can say woo you can
say rah the R sound because your lips are going to go the same way let's look
at this word ready I mentioned ready so let's go our e a d
Y ready ready now here's the part that's going to be fascinating to you you will
be really surprised how easy it is for you to make the r sound now you take
this you put it right in front of the R sound so you can make the sound now this
is true in a lot of the Asian countries I know
Japan Korea they don't have that are sound all right but I know in Korea they
have this symbol that simple is ooh so who is in the language now say ooh ooh
and then slide right into ready ready Oh ready all ready all ready
don't hesitate between ooh and the R sound already already you've already got
your lips in the position for our when you say oh that makes sense
kind of exciting isn't it I know so many people have a problem with pronouncing
the R sound now what if you had a word with are
inside of it what are you going to do well let's take this word let's take the
word carat
okay now we're going to take the ooze sound and we're going to put it right
there right in front of that RR so we're going to go care rut care ooh
carrot carrot carrot
are you trying it are you practicing it say it with me
carrot Care rut now of course you're going to work your way into just going
care right care right pretty good huh go back to the word ready ready
Oh ready or ready ready does that work well that back that is a good trick it
really works and it always works practice what I'm saying let's take up
another word how about if you're driving down the street and you have to make a
right turn okay turn right turn oh right whoo right isn't that something how easy
that is ready oh right it's fantastic it really is I just can't get over how easy
that is when you really think about it it's the sounds it isn't that you can't
make the sound it's that you don't know you can make the sound whoo ready
hmm let's look at another one another easy one how about instead of ready we
say really oh really really oh really so easy isn't it oh really
now it's not just Asian countries that have problems they don't have the R
sound even in the United States on the East Coast there's an area called
Boston Boston Massachusetts now in general people United States say that
there's a Boston accent a Boston accent they do not pronounce the R sound so if
they're going to say the word c AR c AR see a R that's the word car like you
drive a car but they're not going to say R they're going to say ha ha like that
so it isn't only asian countries there are other countries any country that
doesn't have the r sound in their vocabulary has a problem pronouncing the
r sound because they didn't have to learn it when they were a child that's
all so it's not that you can't do it it's that you don't know you can do it
alright so same thing with car no do you want to just say car no no that's not
the other sound you're not saying it correctly you want to say car car no we
have ha ooh cow cow cow you see my let's say the same Carl Carl Carl Carl you get
that fool worked in front of the Ark and a little bit you've got the are coming
out perfectly if you don't even worry about you don't
have to worry about the right but to start off with it's a great way to learn
already already carrot carrot carrot
Carl come taru okay in other words that you can think up we talked about how
about the word Russ I had a rough day at work right so we
could say ruff ruff just like that all right thank you for watching this lesson
and let me know go ahead and post your comments at the bottom of this video and
let me know if that helps you or if you know some other little secret that you
think other people would benefit by and I can make a video lesson for that one
too that's the end of this ESL video lesson
thank you for watching and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson
good bye for now