okuru I run it I have something that oh
my god this is amazing
honestly this lesson will change your
life it changed my life when my good
friend Leif told me about this leaf
thank you grandma god you are
pronunciation God Leif awesome so I've
been trying to figure this out for ages
years maybe a hundred years because I'm
a vampire and I got it thank you
are you confused about the pronunciation
of vowels in English so for example we
have a long vowel sound and a long vowel
sound means that the vowel sounds like
it's alphabet name so for example a but
in English we also have R and different
ways to pronounce the vowels one of them
is a long vowel sound so a is pronounced
like a then we also have a short vowel
sound where a is going to be pronounced
like ah and how do you know when you
read a new word to say it like a or uh I
have the answer oh it's amazing
I okay I get really excited about things
a little bit too much but this I'm just
super excited about it and I want to
teach you this and jeez it's gonna
change the way that you read things the
way that you learn English so give me
some money or something
just enjoy listen it's amazing so we
have some guidelines now I want to make
perfectly clear that people like to say
grammar rules and Ronnie hates rules I'm
Ronnie I do not like rules because
they're made to be broken
and in English there's always exceptions
to rules so you study your rule and you
learn it and then you go out but no
sorry that's an exception
and then you say why maybe you ask so
maybe you ask your teacher teacher why
and she goes I don't know so please
think of these as only guidelines
life-changing guidelines okay telling
you so we have words that have two
vowels okay so a e i o u and sometimes
why are vowels but this is our guideline
if in the word you have two vowels the
first I'm sorry the first vowel sound
the first vowel in the word is going to
sound like it's alphabet name or it's
going to sound like a long vowel sound
the second vowel it's silent we don't
even say the second vowel crazy so in
English there's an e at the end of the
word we don't say it in all of the other
languages of the world we say all the
vowels but English oh no the e is silent
we don't say that so if you have two
vowels in the word for example a and E
we're going to say the first vowel like
it sounds like in the F of it so a we're
gonna say BAE and we do not say baekje
we say Baek so the first vowel is going
to sound like the alphabet Baek what
about this one
we don't say Fahmy like ah we say Fame
and again we don't say the last vowel in
the word so this works with two vowel
words the a we pronounce like an A and
the E or the second vowel is silence one
more time the rule it's life-changing
the first vowel sounds like itself a bit
name the second vowel is silent we don't
say it let's try this again so this is a
the next letter what's this vowel sound
for what's this sound in the English
alphabet
II so we say these we don't say the the
sir
thus look at the there kid does they get
these so again we're gonna say the e
like an e and the second e is silent
this is amazing
this word so you look duh Rihanna I had
an amazing day rearm last night I was
flying but it's actually just a dream
so one vowel we're gonna say e the
second vowel is silent so we don't say
Durham we say dream I had a dream did
you have a dream last night or now are
you imagining this no no no this is real
get back into this it's amazing
let's see with this letter what letter
is this now this is hard for you guys
because in your languages maybe this is
and this is e huh but in English this is
I so watch this trick put an eye on your
eye so this is the pronunciation of the
letter I so this word is pi we don't say
pie yi I'd like some pie Yi please this
word is ice we don't say icy or easy
okay
so again we're gonna say the I like an i
and the e is silent PI ice oh this is
making sense I wonder who made this
guideline why didn't they tell me before
this were a drone do you know what a
drone is do you know what PI is it's
delicious but a drone is something that
like a remote control aircraft that you
can make fly mm-hmm and find aliens what
if you don't know what a drone is Google
it because I'm not Google so or Yahoo
whatever a drone we're gonna say the O
sound Oh
so I'm gonna say drone not Droon not bit
and use up again we're gonna pronounce
this like an over gonna say drone
whatever this word this is confusing
English soap and soup hmm again these
are guidelines so soap
we don't say so app I use some so up
yesterday it was delicious we say soap
so we don't even say the e because the
second vowel is silent we only say the
first vowel it doesn't have to be an e
at the end if there's two vowels
together we're gonna say the first one
here and we're not gonna say the second
one damn this is great great content
Ronnie the next one oh so cute cute
again ooh you you you you you're cute so
cute
is si ute so we say cute what's this
word this is a girl's name it's soo it's
also a verb so we say u su and cute
again we're not gonna say the e at the
end of the word you getting this this is
fun this is easy I love this now English
just became easier for me and I can
imagine you too I hope
so let's go to the second one so
remember if in one word you have two
vowels together or two vowels the first
one is going to sound like it's alphabet
name and the second one is silent we
don't say it okay if we have one vowel
so if we have a word that only has one
vowel then our game is a little bit
different and again this is a guideline
not a rule the vowel sounds like a
relative now it's not your aunt or your
uncle a relative means as I said the
short vowel sound so instead of having a
it's aa
so we don't say hade we say had because
there's one vowel it's going to be the
short well we don't say Jame we say oh
hi James
we don't say Jame we say JM so these
dolls are ah not a because there's no
vowel there's there's no two vowels
there's one next one I'm going to go to
bed I'm not going to go to bead but I'm
going to go to bed if we set it like
this it would be bead and this would be
beamed which sounds like I'm from New
Zealand now so a bed a bent there's only
one vowel so you're gonna say it like a
short vowel bed bent next one it's a
band and it's him yeah
this word pin a pin I have pins have
safety pins as a bracelet don't steal my
idea him uh and pin we don't say oh I
can't even see this he he Haim Haim Haim
did you see I'm this pine is amazing so
we say him and pin in this letter O if
it's at like the alphabet it's O
but when it's like this is aa so it more
sounds like this Oh some people if
you're cute dude if you say oh you're
cute so this word is hot it's awesome
and this is snot do you know what's not
means it's one of my favorite or it's
not as something that comes out of your
nose if you have a cold
this liquid like nose water we don't say
nose water in English we call it's not
yep so snot whoo-hoo mucus we don't say
smoked you say it's not like the word
not we don't say soon we say a some so
we don't use the you use a and we don't
get on the boss began the
so we have some and burrs do you
understand this I hope so
I think the most difficult one is the
two vowel guideline that one has been
plaguing me for years I am teaching you
English but I'm not taught you English
I'm only teaching you so if you'd like
to grab a cup of tea and review this I
promise it will make your pronunciation
of English words when you're reading new
words like I'll breeze which means very
very easy and again thanks to leave Wow
and thanks to everyone out there for
watching I'm Ronnie and I will teach you
soon no I mean teach bye