hi everybody and welcome back to love English the channel where we want to
make you fall in love with learning English I'm Sabrah and I'm a British
University English teacher today we are looking at the most important tool for
improving your English pronunciation and that is of course the phonemic chart guys
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improving your English now you have probably figured out guys that English is not a
phonetic language English is a language where we cannot tell how to say
the word from how it looks from the spelling we have to learn the
pronunciation the spelling and the pronunciation differ hugely let's have a
look at a couple of examples of this let's have a look at this word from
looking at this word you might think it was said th g h if you were trying to say
it phonetically thowgh which of course would be very wrong as we know the
pronunciation is though let's have a look at another example if you looked at
this word and tried to say it phonetically it would probably be yakt
or something like that but we know that the pronunciation is in fact yacht so
this is why you need the phonemic chart or the International phonemic alphabet
because you need to understand which sounds you need to say otherwise how do
you know how to say it sometimes you'll be guessing and then you might learn it
incorrectly so the phonemic chart is made up of 44 phonemes 44 sounds in the
English language the phonemic chart is not the same as the letters of the
alphabet although some of them look similar and some of them are similar to
the letters which they look like these are symbols for sounds so don't mistake
them for letters so today guys we're going to look at all the monophthongs the
pronunciation of all the monophthong so the monophthongs are some of the symbols
for the vowel sounds in English and they are some of the symbols for the
sounds which have just one sound unlike the diphthongs which we'll do next week
which have two sounds so what I'm going to do guys I'm going to say the phoneme
then I'm going to give you examples of the words where the phonemes appear and
then I'm going to give you the phonemes in a phrase so you can practice those so
the first one is eee you have to really open your mouth quite wide to make this
sound eee almost as if you're smiling e as in country tree worried easy see a
country across the sea a country across the sea second one is i this one comes
from the base of your throat if you put your hand here as you make the sound you
should feel the base of your throat moving if it moves you know you're
making this sound correctly it's i as in fish as in English as in
busy as in kiss six busy fishes six busy fishes number three is e again coming
from here e as in egg as in said as in suggest I suggest the poached eggs
I suggest the poached eggs the fourth sound is a a as in Apple as in cat as
in can as in matter what's the matter with the cat what's the matter with the
cat the next sound is ah this sound is a little bit like when you go to the
dentist and they say open your mouth wide and say ah at least in the UK
that's what they say so it's R as in can't banana father glass an important
point to mention here guys is that in the north of England words like glass
for us they will be said with a not ahh this is a regional difference
so they will say glass grass bath if you want to see more about the different
accents and the effects they have on the phonemes then do check out my video on
all the different accents and their linguistic features I can't eat bananas
I can't eat bananas number six is uh uh as in up fun done come it's fun to
run it's fun to run the next sound is 'o' o as in clock as in forgot
as in yacht as in shot there's only one clock on the yacht there's only one
clock on the yacht number eight is a longer sound orrr orrr
as in horse thought caught resort I thought about that resort I thought
about that resort okay the next sound is oh oh this sound
is in words such as pull book cook could I wish I could cook I wish I could
cook okay the next sound is ooh ooh as in ooh that's nice this sound is in
words such as boot cute fruit suit what a cute boot what a cute boot the
next sound is errr oh I don't like that errr that doesn't taste nice errr as in bird
word heard first have you heard about the bird that spread the word have you heard
about the bird that spread the word the final sound is the schwa which is ah ah
and this is the sound that our mouths make when we are relaxed water
computer teacher letter support banana it's more of a short uh as in
uh in up support sup ah very quick up uh longer but they are quite similar in
their sounds my teacher wrote me a letter
my teacher wrote me a letter okay guys they were all the monophthongs now we're
going to quickly go through the sounds again to see if you remember them so be
ready to try and repeat them back with me ee iii e a ah uh o or oh ooh errr ah did you
remember all of those we could try them a bit more quickly ee iii e a ahh uh o or oh ooh eerr ah practice these
at home maybe listen to this video as you're getting ready to go to work or
school or things like that to get used to these sounds any questions about
these sounds or the phonemic chart then please do comment below and also guys
you can pick other words that have these sounds and tell me below in the comment
don't forget guys that next week we are looking at the diphthongs so make sure
you tune in for that next week thank you very much for watching everybody
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