The Magic E. This is a very simple English pronunciation rule that's going to make it so much
easier to know how to pronounce short one-syllable words with an e at the end. Hello and welcome back
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Pronunciation Pro! The link is in the description. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. So in English when we
have a word that's one syllable and it consists of a consonant sound, a vowel sound, and then
another consonant sound, we know that that vowel sound is pronounced very short. For example,
rat. I don't say 'reit', I don't say 'raat' I say rat, ah, rat. Another example is pet. I don't say
'peet', I don't say 'paat'. I say e, pet. Again a very short sound. Here are some other examples:
sit, i, short vowel, sit. Not, o, again short, not, and cut, u, cut. So,
so far it's quite simple, right? Now let's add an e at the end. What's now going to happen to that
short vowel sound that we originally had is it's going to change into how that letter sounds when
we pronounce it in the alphabet. So very quickly, we have A, E, I, O, U. That's how we pronounce
them in the alphabet. If you're not sure how to pronounce the letters in the English alphabet,
then I do have a video on my channel about that. I will link it in the card above as well as in
the description. Go and watch it if you don't know this. Now, let's go back to our word rat, we know
that that a is very short, a, then if we add that e at the end, we're going to change that a so that
it sounds like the letter of the alphabet. And what is this letter of the alphabet pronounced as?
'ei', rate, rate. The same thing happens here. Pet. So that e, we put an e at the end,
it changes, that vowel sound in the middle is going to change to the sound of the letter of the
alphabet. And what's that letter pronounced as? e! A B C D E F... etc., right? Pete,
Pete. Now we have sit, if we change it to the pronunciation of the letter of the alphabet,
sight, sight. Not is going to change to note, note. And our last one, cut, cut, becomes cute,
cute. Let's practice some more examples together. So we have the word mat. We know it's a, it's
a short vowel sound because we have consonant + vowel + consonant sound. mat. Now, let's add an e
to the end, we're going to change that vowel sound in the middle so that it sounds like the letter of
the alphabet which is... 'ei'. Mate, mate. Another example, hat, hate, hat, hate. I hate your hat.
I hate your hat. That's a bit of a mean thing to say, but for the purpose of practicing,
it'll do. Kit, change that middle vowel into how it sounds when it's the letter of the alphabet,
'ai', kite, kit, kite. Pin, pine, pin, pine. I have a repair kit to fix my kite.
I have a repair kit to fix my kite. Pet, Pete,
pet, Pete. Pete has a pet dog. Pete has a pet dog. Rob, robe, Rob, robe. Hop, hope, hop, hope.
They rob my robe every time. They rob my robe every time. Here's another example.
Luck, Luke. luck, Luke. So notice I'm not saying 'Lyuke', I'm not adding that 'y' in there. So
watch with some certain sounds and certain words, we don't add that 'y', Luke. Another example,
duck, duck. Short sound, we add that e to the end, duke, duke. Now that 'y' comes back in.
You may also find some native speakers saying this as 'duke' so that /d/ and /j/ combine and create a
/dʒ/ sound /dʒu:/, duke, duke. Good luck, Luke. Good luck, short sound, Luke, Luke. Good luck,
Luke. Now it's time for a little test. I'm going to put a word on the screen and I'd like you to
tell me how it would be pronounced if we added an e to the end of it. So, let's start with this one,
lit. We've got that vowel in the middle. I nearly said it. We've got that vowel in the middle. Think
about how we pronounce that in the alphabet. 'ai', so, lite, lite. How about this one? Not, we add
that e to the end, change that vowel so that it sounds like the letter of the alphabet, M N O PQ
R, etc, etc. Noten note. And the last one, what about this? We have wok, it's a type of pan. Wok.
Add the e to the end... woke, woke. So, we're changing that vowel to the letter as we pronounce
it in the alphabet. Woke. If you've enjoyed this video and you'd like more practice with the Magic
E as well as other pronunciation rules that we have in English, then go and check out my course
Pronunciation Pro. I will leave the link down in the description. Would you like to say goodbye
as well, Freyis? Do you wanna say goodbye? No? There we go. Say bye bye! Say bye bye! That was
a big yawn, you've been sleepin. all afternoon. You've been sleeping all afternoon.