Hi everyone and welcome back to Pronunciation with Emma. In this video we're going to be
looking at the sound /ʌ/. So we're going to look at how we pronounce this sound, how
it's pronounced in words, and then how we pronounce it in sentences, then you can do
some listening and repeating exercises with me. So let's start firstly with how we pronounce
this sound. It does should very similar to a schwa, I know, but this sound is normally
stressed, not always, but it is normally stressed, which a schwa, which we'll look at in another
video, a different day, is always always unstressed. So if we take a schwa, we know that it's completely
relaxed. /ə/. You don't do anything, okay? Also, it's very similar to the /ɜː/ sound,
which is essentially, in very basic terms, a schwa but just a long schwa. The /ʌ/ sound,
however, you shouldn't really open your mouth, but you should drop your jaw ever so slightly.
So a schwa is completely relaxed, /ə/, you do nothing. However, this /ʌ/ sound, my jaw
drops /ʌ/ /ʌ/. Unlucky. Unlucky. What a lot of speakers do, in particular Spanish,
Italian, and Portuguese speakers is they tend to open their mouth with this one and they
say something like pab, pab. Instead of pub, pub. Only your jaw should drop. Your mouth
shouldn't really open, it's not an /æ/ sound, we'll look at that in another video. But it's
more, I wouldn't say more closed, it's just a but more relaxed, and the only thing that
moves is your jaw. Up up. Pub pub. Not pab and ap. Let's look at some words. Up up. Undo
undo. Unlucky unlucky. Then in media position, pub pub. Careful, not pab, pub. Luck, luck,
don't get confused with this one, cause a lot of students think that look and luck are
pronounced with the same vowels. However, in look, as in to look for something, this
is with a different sound. We'll look at this in another video. And the last one much, much.
Now I couldn't find any words where this /ʌ/ sound appeared in final position of a word,
so if you do find one then let me know in the comments. However, I've been searching
high and low and I couldn't find a word anywhere that had this in final position. Cause normally
it's with a schwa at the end, not with this /ʌ/ sound. Okay, so some sentences. I'll
read the sentence for you three times, I'll read it naturally, and then I'll read it very
slowly, and then I'll read it naturally again. Then you can listen and repeat as many times
as you need to. So the first one, a pub lunch. A pub lunch. A pub lunch. And the next one,
They didn't have much luck. They didn't have much luck. They didn't have much luck. That's
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