hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to look at some American English
pronunciation points now in the past recent videos we've done a lot of
pronunciation all the different sounds in American English before that we went
through all the vowels long and short how to pronounce them now we're going to
start to look into some other ways of pronouncing words are not other ways for
an awesome but things you need to know to help you pronounce them easier when
you're reading how to pronounce them if you can see it in your mind it's a lot
easier to get it out of your mouth Wow die grass vowed I graphs what are Bob
digraphs two vowels ayeee i owe you sometimes why but two vowels and they
may be of the same letters together that make one vowel sound so here are six
pairs of vowels that make a vowel sound AI what do you think a the long a sound
a why the long a sound e a the long e sound EE same thing long e sound in
these cases OA the long o sound you e ue we're going to have a new kind of a
sound coming from that one now I'm going to show you some examples of words using
each of these sets of ball doctrines let's take a look at a eighth
ooh ooh hey I can be used in many words now these are just a few examples brain
a brain chain waist 8ai together a long a brain well I hope we all have one we
need it to think with in our head chain well perhaps you had your car break down
and someone cooked a chain onto the bumper of your car and had to pull your
car to get it to a garage a chain a waste well your waist is down around
here right mine used to be much smaller but I don't know why it seems to have
grown we have a why long a play now what is clay well it's it's a form of soil
dirt it's kind of gooey sticky semi-solid you can actually make pottery
out of clay play a crayon have you ever heard of Crayola crayons coloring in a
coloring book you use crayons a day wow there's seven days in a week and today
happens to be one of the best days in our lives we woke up this morning how
about you e 400 now if you were to look at blue you see the sound double O with
a line a bar across the top of it be a long ooh sound true are you true to your
friends are your loyal to your friends are you true blue to your friends
blue the color blue cruel cruel what is cruel well someone who's mean a bad
person maybe they beat their dog with her wife who knows what it is but they
do bad things to people who did their mean they're bad don't be cool now let's
look at the next 37 now I said there were going to be three sounds but no
three sets of letters another three but only two sounds we have EA e long e e
long e 0 a 1 0 e é o remember for the vowels the long vowels sound like
they're vowel sound are their letter name I need to say and short vowels they
have a different sound okay here we have the word clean bleach each okay what is
clean well perhaps you like to have nice clean hands and you wash up good before
you eat dinner clean you want a clean face clean here clean clothes now help
your clothes look clean when you put them in the washing machine you may add
some bleach in the washing machine for your white clothes only to make the
whites look whiter and brighter but if you put the bleach in with something
dark colored you're gonna end up with faded awful looking clothes don't do
that each hmm well after you bleach your clothes you could take out your White
Sox your white shirts and look at them and say oh each of my pieces of clothing
are clean each each one look so bright and nice II free
well everybody likes things that are free they don't cost anything you get
them for nothing whoo cheese how about free cheese you like cheese hmm made
from milk semi-solid has a really great taste great in sandwiches on pizza free
cheese would even be there I'm a Swiss cheese man myself sleep at night you go
to bed you close your eyes and you sleep sleep Oh boat a boat you put it in the
water you're in it and you're floating around out on the river or lake the
ocean a boat a load a load perhaps you have a load of fish in your boat you
were successful fishing a load what something carries a load of something
toast when you get up in the morning you have breakfast do you take a couple
slices of bread and put them in a toaster and they pop up and you've got
some nice golden brown toast hot toast butter maybe some peanut butter jam with
your coffee tastes pretty good toast so that's foul digraphs and that's the end
of this story it's the end of this video thank you for watching this lesson and I
look forward to seeing you at our next lesson goodbye for now