Hi everybody, welcome back to Pronunciation with Emma in this video
I'm gonna be joined by a very special guest her name is Sabrah and she is one of the
teachers from love English. Today we're going to be talking about vowel vowel
linking which will help you sound more native, more fluent, and also help you
understand native speakers a lot better. Firstly though before we get started if
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well. Thank you very much for having me on your fantastic channel, Emma. Let's get
going with the lesson. Now today Sabrah and I will be talking about vowel vowel
linking this will make you sound more native, as I said earlier, and it will
also help you understand native speakers so much better. There are three rules
that we're going to talk about. Sabrah is gonna cover two of them and show you
some tricks and also I'm gonna talk about the final rule and that's pretty
much it. Firstly though, we're going to listen to a conversation between Sabrah and I, it
is a telephone conversation and I'll be highlighting some of the linking here
then after we'll explain the rules for that linking, we'll practice together
and that's it. Let's go! Hey Sabrah, how are you? Hi Emma I'm great,
how are you? I'm good. you know, I went to go see the new Lion
King film at the weekend and I cried at the end. Can you imagine how embarrassing
that was? Oh no, my friend saw that and she also cried at the end. So don't worry
we also saw a show at the theatre on Friday evening. Oh, I haven't been to the
theatre for about two or three years. How was it? It was great, I definitely
recommend it. We had so much fun. *doorbell* Sorry Sabra, there's someone at the door. I'll
give you a ring back in a minute, okay? okay, no worries, I'll speak to you in a
bit. Bye Emma. So the rules for the W and Y sound when they intrude in
English. Now, what we mean by this is that they appear in the middle of two words,
not necessarily in an exaggerated way, but in a way that we can hear them and
if you want to speak correctly and sound like a native speaker, then you need to
start inserting them. So basically when a word ends in a vowel sound and the next
word starts with a vowel sound either W or Y will appear in the middle. Now
W tends to happen when we have sounds like au oo uh that is when we will often
get a W sound in the middle so the more rounded vowel sound so your mouth
will be more rounded more like oo oo *laughs*.
Now, the Y sound will appear for vowel sounds like i ee e ai oi.
So there we will often get a Y sound in the middle. Now Emma has a great tip
that she shared with me on this and I really really love it. She said that
basically that the vowel sounds which cause us to smile
so like ee i e our mouth is wider it's a more of a smile, this is where you
will get that Y sound, so remember it like
that guys, smiley vowels, vowels that make you smile will actually make you get
that Y sound in the middle and for W it will be a more rounded shape of
the mouth like oo au. In the conversation I had with Emma I said "how are you?" "how
about you?" "how are you?" "how about you?" can you hear
but a W sound intrudes? "How are you?" "how are you?" "how are you?" another example
was "can you imagine" "can you imagine" "can you imagine" "can you imagine" again can
you hear that W sound. "who is your favourite actor?" "who is your favourite
actor?" "who is" "who is" you will hear that W sound. Now let's look at Y, some
examples from Emma and I's phone conversation would be "she also cried at
the end" "she also" "she Y also" "she also cried at the end" and that is because we
have that ee sound, that smiley vowel, "she also cried at the end". Another example
would be "why am I the last one?" "why am I the last one?" "why Y" "why am I the last
one?". That is because we've got that ai sound "why am I the last one?". Another
example would be "I ate the apple" "I ate the apple" can you hear there is that
little Y sound in the middle "I ate the Y apple" "I ate the Y" "I ate the apple" "I
ate the apple". So now you know two of the rules, let's talk about the final one
this one is when we're linking with a R sound. Now you may come across the
terms Linking R and Intrusive R. Today I'm not going to talk about the
difference I want to save that for another video, today I'm just going to
talk about sounds. Now, if that first word ends aa oh ehh uh ia ea or ua, or uh, I always
miss that one, then we link it with a R, but remember
the next word must start with a vowel. It doesn't matter which vowel it is, the
important thing is the ending of the first word.
So Sabrah said "we also saw a show at the theatre on Friday evening"
notice that with "saw a" I don't say "saw a" I say "sawR a" because saw ends with one
of those vowels and "theatre on Friday" isn't pronounced like that, is it?
It's "theatre R on Friday" "theatre R on Friday". I add that R. As well, I also
said "I haven't been to the theatre for about two or three years" "for R about" "for R
about". So I'm adding that R there to make it easier to transition to the next
word which starts with a vowel. Some other examples are "law and order" I don't
say "law and order", I say "law R and order" "law R and order". Or "flour
and water" "flour R and water" "flour R and water". I hope you've enjoyed this video,
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having me on your channel, Emma, and, guys, we have a video on our channel on silent
letters which Emma also features in so join us now move over to our channel the
link is below to watch a video all about the rules of silent letters shh.
So now we've looked at. So you've already looked at W and R. No you've not.