hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about more American English
pronunciation are you ready let's begin consonant blends we're continuing on
with more words that we can use consonant blends in there we go FL FL
blah blah blah f-fuck ba l la la oat oat now float you get on the rack you get
out of the boat you float on the water maybe you get on a big inner tube and
float down a river in Wisconsin they have a place called the Apple River and
it's very popular people go there they pay to rent a big truck inner tube tire
inner tube which goes inside entire and then they float down the Apple River
it's fun float now Oh a key is the word oat oath put an
s on the end you have oats have you ever heard of oatmeal oats are a grain rice
is the grain wheat is a grain barley on and on so is oat oat now you took away
FL and put on a B what do you have boat
float float FL am ii flop flop flop a lot can you hear the blend truck
love-love-love la aim aim remember I mentioned this letter has a
long sound because we have that e on the end not always does a letter have a long
sound a long vowel sound ae IO or you because there's an e at the
end of the word but when there is a e at the end of the word and we have a
consonant between this vowel in bat vowel typically usually this will have a
long sound whether it be all you what have you so a M is booked and the e
isn't giving this much of a sound but it's making a difference on the sound of
this letter flame flame if we took off the e it would sound like slam slam slam
isn't a word right it isn't the word but that is what it would sound like a.m.
sounds like am slam but on the e flame what's a plane well you know what a
candle is perhaps you like to light the candles on your birthday cake and the
fire that's burning we call that fire a flame of flame or in
a campfire there were many large flames coming up
from the logs FL fluff-fluff woo eval you sounds like ooh ooh
you see many words oo in it and in many words
not always it sounds like wool but here we have flu FL flu it's the past tense
for the word fly FL why a bird a bird may fly into the window oh my goodness
look at that how bird just flew into the window past tense for the word
why FL I mean I'm sorry F our fuck rough front front front for a run for a Rob
can you hear the blend ash ash remember he asked sound like s right s H fresh
fresh ash ash fresh what is fresh well something that's new right boy it
smells so good when my mother used to bake fresh bread she baked bread right
well bread that's a day old that smells nice but not like fresh bread that just
comes out of the oven fresh cookies fresh bread maybe you have a very
youthful fresh looking face freedom from e here sounds like e deep
duh om sound like um dum-dum but a different meaning not like stupid
freedom what is freedom freedom means you can do what you want to do for the
most part right do you live in a free country if you do then you're very proud
of the fact that you have freedom you're a free person right if you don't have
freedom you'd probably like to but the United States that's our big thing
freedom right freedom front front ack ack ack ack tea cure
cure you are e your chore fracture now this ends up sounding like a CH right
kind of life CH fracture fracture fracture that's really how it sounds a
fracture is something that didn't actually break but it cracked it's
fractured if you get in an accident and the doctor says your arm has been
fractured that means the bone inside isn't broken
apart two separate pieces it means that it's cracked a fracture and it could be
other things not just bones gee L got luck good luck good luck la fronte FRA I
mean that's la la la ass ass a SS ass
alright the LOB ass glass we had the word earlier class CLA SS
class I'm giving their class on English as a Second Language glass okay the
window has frames of glass in it right the last glass maybe you're drinking
from a glass tumbler you're having a glass of water glass GL ad good luck ad
ad sounds like an ad ad D would be add two numbers together one in one equals
two ad is also a short abbreviation for the word advertisement right so if you
are looking for a sale you might see an advertisement someplace people will just
say it's a and goal add means like you're happy the
lab here's happy here's sad here's glad right we have a
saying in the United States that oh that guy went from happy to glad real fast
in other words he found out they support quite as great as he thought they were
but they weren't terrible so he was sad he was his glad he was he was a little
better than okay right but not quite happy Breen
grah grah een he sounds like he and sound like no no in in green it's a
color green grass is green perhaps you know someone who's Irish and they have
green eyes right growing if there was only one
II hear this sound would be when he and sounds like n but EE and sounds like een
een now grin that's not a word it's just a sound but that's what this
would sound like grand right tingly green gras ah do it do it do it graduate
graduate grad do it what's a graduate how about a graduate student that's
someone who's going to a university and they're probably just about to get their
master's degree or they just have their master's degree they're called a
graduate student right now the next level up above a graduate student would
be someone who's going for their PhD their doctorate below a graduate below
the master's degree we say it's a bachelor's degree that's typically four
years at a university okay graduate
how about the word graduate if you're going to graduate from high school or
something same spelling graduate graduate grumpy we have grumpy okay
gr grah grah um um put pup pup makes a piece ound why sounds like I in this
word so it's pup I pot pie I'm sorry it sounded like an e puppy pee pee pee so
it actually sounds like the letter P because the AI is there Sally like it II
groan pee um um grumpy take away the why what would it sound like what do you
think about grump a grump there's an old man who lives on the
street he's always yelling at people he doesn't like anyone he's a nasty mean
old man he is such a grump and we would say that he is grumpy grumpy he's
irritable he's always acts angry he's not happy he's grumpy an unpleasant old
man BL um here's um grumpy here's PL P Papa L la la la la la
can you hear the pn y el pollo um um plum what is that it's a fruit yes yes
indeed it's a fruit and let's see it's it's bigger than it great but about the
same color is what we call a purple grape a red grape right a purplish color
great they are typically what I think of as plums
they're different kinds my big of them is purple
not that big around they have a soft inside delicious fruity taste plum taste
and they have a very large pit they'd seed in the center it's very hard you
have to be careful you don't hurt your teeth if they're like chew around it if
you dry them out do you know what a plum is it's called a prune like a grape if
you dry out a grape it's called a Mason if you dry out a plum is called a broom
Oh a prune okay PL plot a c/e ace ace if you play cards in a typical deck of
playing cards you will see the ACE it's a big deal in the cards the ace all
right now a CD ace and then PL plop plop place place okay place well what place
which place is yours oh I live in that place over there
a place right okay some place whose place is that let's go someplace let's
go to a restaurant let's go to a movie theater now the e makes this a sound
long ace place if we took off to eat we have plak plak now not saying this a
correct spelling for plaque but the sound plaque is something that builds up
on people's teeth because they don't brush properly in overtime to get plaque
on their teeth it's a bad thing but PL plus eight plus eight plus eight now
take away PL you have the word eight past his for the words eat did you eat
yet yes I ate an hour ago I I I ate this morning I've already eaten
would be the best participle ate is a simple past eighty e
makes the a sound long if we took a lot than e we'd have plak plak plant is not
a word but it would sound plat okay so a sounds long because this e plate if we
had a tea by itself it'd just be the word act at okay he is
at school right now plate now what's the plate
well usually a plate with so many thinks of it it means different things right
but basically think of a dish when you sit down to eat a meal and you have a
flat round object of eat on not a bowl but a plate that's almost flat compared
to a bowl it's flat now many people say it's a dish it's a dish well in other
word is the plate okay now that's the end of this lesson I look forward to
seeing you at our next lesson goodbye for now