Hello hello hello everybody my name is Steve Ford and welcome to learn English speaking 8
Today we have two sets of words that a lot of people get mixed up using these words
And I hope that my lesson can help you
First let's go to the answers from our quiz from learn English speaking lesson 7
So today the words that we're going to be studying are: beer/bear, beard/bird
So let's go to that clip
Do you wanna beer?
Do you wanna bear?
You wanna make sure that you're offering the right one
So if we look at beer, what makes this difficult actually is not the vowel sound
So you can hear that ee, that's a long ee sound, can you hear it? ee...ee
And when we put the r on the end "eer" "eer", we've got a lot of things going on in the mouth
So when I say ee I'm working my muscles here ee
And then when I go eer, you can see my tongue... The back of my tongue
It to relaxes and the tip starts to go up a little bit
The next word is bear, bear
And that sound is eh
That's actually a short "e" sound "eh" "eh"
As in bet, as in bed, bear
The next two words we have here are bird and beard
Beard, can you hear that? That's that ee that long ee sound
Maybe some guy is in a bar and he's got that long beard and he's maybe drinking some beer
And he's got some beer in his beard
Now with bird, we have an "i" at least an "i" is written there
But it is totally swallowed up by the "r" sound...bird, bird
And in fact when we're really cold here
And that is especially true for us here in Canada we say brrr, brrr it's very cold outside
Okay everybody, I hope that you could understand the differences between these words that a lot of people get mixed up
And let's go to our quiz
I promise that I will post the answers in our next learn English speaking lesson
Bye for now