hello I'm Jill at engvid.com and today's
lesson is on the pronunciation of the
letter R okay so this is in British
English pronunciation in American and
Canadian English it's sometimes a little
different where the r is pronounced in
american and canadian where it's not
pronounced in british english in the UK
so I'm showing here the British English
pronunciation z' and our mention when we
come to it
where it's different from American and
Canadian okay so this is sometimes
confusing for people because sometimes
the R is sounded so Rara like that other
times it's completely silent and you
just get a vowel sound instead okay so
I've got several examples here to
illustrate the different variations so
first of all this section here above the
line are all the words which are the the
R is pronounced and below the line where
they're not pronounced the R is not
pronounced so let's look at the top
three first where the R is pronounced so
right at the beginning of a word so a
word like rain red run and also you
probably know that sometimes there's a
word beginning W R which is you don't
make the W sound you just make the R
sound so it's right wrong like that so
to make the R sound at the beginning of
a word you have to push your mouth
forward
rah-rah-rah like that so that's how to
make the sound I know in some languages
the our sound is more at the back of the
throat but in English British English
it's right at the front of the mouth and
you push your lips forward so it's rain
and read and run right wrong okay so
that's words beginning with our the our
is sounded
also if the our is a second letter of
the word following a consonant okay so
with a be bread bread and with a d drink
and with an F from with a G green and
with a pea prize okay and there are
other consonants as well these are just
a few examples so the R has to be
pronounced there in combination with the
the first letter the consonant sound so
bread drink from green and prize okay
and it's still at the front of the mouth
pushing your lips forward okay right and
then that you can see the letter R is
moving through the word it's the
beginning then it's the second letter
and now it's more into the middle of the
word so with a word like current current
it's a double it's spelt sometimes
double are sometimes one are but it's
the same sound really so current
the our falls on the second syllable
current current so the our is sounded
there and garage garage again it's the
second syllable garage sorry sorry
second syllable again sorry
and very very second syllable and
worried worried worried second syllable
so that's where the R is in the middle
and it's still sounded in the same way
for all of those three okay so now let's
move on to look at the ones the words
where the R is not sounded in British
English and this is where it differs
sometimes from American speakers and
Canadian speakers I'll try to
demonstrate that so if it's in the
middle of a word but the vowel sound is
quite long sometimes so with bark the
sound that a dog makes bark an American
person might say bark bark but a British
person just says an R sound and open are
like this ah back and we don't even try
to do an R sound
it's just bark so you've got the B and
then an R sound and then the K sound at
the end so this R is not pronounced it's
just in the spelling but it's not
pronounced okay the same with this word
farm so F and then R and then M no our
so
American might say farm farm it feels
very strange for me to say say it that
way but it's just in British English
farm just open an open vowel sound our
farm like that okay and then with this
one
garden garden so just the R sound again
garden
and this one mark just R M R and then k
mark no our this one more so with the or
this is an or or vowel sound it's a
different vowel sound but it's still a
long vowel sound not a short vowel sound
and or a long vowel sounds so more and
for more or or you again it's a bit like
rough but it's all or so you push your
lips forward again to get the aw sound
more but no R sound there okay and then
this one similar normal normal normal
okay
and this one we're back to our again
Park Park just an open are and then the
K Park and then this one this is an a
sound vowel sound like that work work
so no are just the K sound at the end
work okay good and
and finally where the outcomes at the
end of a word often words that end a are
and o are sometimes their professions
like baker banker dr. farmer or other
words like mother water
so it's just like uh uh uh at the end
it's some a bit like that ah if you're
asking a somebody what's going on huh
it's that sort of sound so Baker uh uh
Baker and banker and doctor a doctor and
far we've got to here haven't we
we've got the are the farm farmer farmer
so the there are two R's in farmer and
both of them are silent farmer okay
mother uh uh uh
mother mother and water are like that
water water water okay so I hope that
helps to clarify where the are is
sounded and and where it's silent so
that's the first half of the lesson and
now we're going to go on to the second
part with some sentences for you to
practice on okay so let's have a look at
some practice sentences and see if you
can decide which words need to have the
are sounded and which have the silent
are so the first sentence if you'd like
to look at that before I say it
okay so the baker ram to wrap a loaf of
bread
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okay so i've underlined the r which is
pronounced bread wrap ram but baker is
just at the end so no are there the
Baker ran to wrap a loaf of bread okay
let's have a look at the next one so try
to say this before I say it okay so the
bird oh so no are there that's a silent
one drank that one is pronounced water
uh-uh
so no sound there from that one's
pronounced the pond in the garden not
pronounced so the bird drank water from
the pond in the garden okay right next
one try to say this before me
okay so we drove that's pronounced the
car just are not pronounced to the
garage pronounced for or or so that's
not pronounced repair ah
so we've got repair air air so that one
isn't pronounced at the end that one is
that one isn't so it's re
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open sound at the end repair okay we
drove the car to the garage for repair
okay next one you first okay so this
cream so that's pronounced cake nice
cream cake is a treat pronounced let's
have some more or so not pronounced it's
just an open or sound this cream cake is
a treat
let's have some more okay next sentence
you first okay so this orange rough so
that's pronounced orange
drink is rather so that one's pronounced
that one isn't rather rather bitter ah
that one's not pronounced so this orange
drink is rather bitter okay and finally
you first okay so green grass is
normally normally or or or so that's an
open vowel sound no are normally very
rough very pronounced relaxing
pronounced and restful pronounced okay
green grass is normally very relaxing
and restful okay
so I hope that was fun and I hope that's
helped you to work out when to pronounce
the R and when not to pronounce it so if
you'd like to go to the website in
vidcom there's a quiz there to test you
on this one and so thank you for
watching and hope to see you again soon
bye for now