hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about American English
pronunciation are you ready let's begin sound 26 of the 44 sounds that make up
American English we have one two three four five six seven eight
letter combinations most of which are vowels as you can see W is not what's
the sound could it be O kind of a long o sound
it's about it we have EA u Bureau of Bureau now Bureau
know the sound Bureau could be like the the Bureau of federal investigations
could be an office of some sort of agency right
how about so so a farmer shows his crops he he plants the seeds she sews the
seeds to grow a crop perhaps you sold your clothes when they get a tear in
them to repair them o yoke yoke have you ever seen pictures of water buffalo
pulling a wagon through a farmer's field and they had on their back a yoke cross
the back of their neck pulling against that yoke a yoke could be an egg yoke
also the yellow part inside the egg how about toast toast do you like to take
bread put it in your toaster in the morning have a little toast for
breakfast toast how about
oh ho you may have a garden and you go out you take your hole which is the hand
tool and you hold between the rows so that your vegetables grow ahold how
about a brooch BR oo CH brooch you know what a brooch is have you ever seen a
lady with a decorative piece of jewelry on her jacket or on some top that she's
Larry it's called a brooch and that's how it's spelled
oh you oh but older bolder a bolder yeah like a base stone or rock probably one
that's kind of rounded off from the rain hitting it or perhaps instead in a
riverbed it's sort of round looking usually but it could not it could be
that it isn't rounded but usually that's what you see on television in the movies
Oh W here Oh W sounds like Oh slow slow maybe somebody's telling you
hey you should slow down and think about your finances before you buy that house
slow down a little here we have eight different Sun eight different letter
combinations to make the sound of oh that's the end of this lesson
thank you for watching this video and I look forward to seeing you at our next
lesson goodbye for now