hello once again from London it's Anna
here from English like a native and now
we are doing our 10-minute pronunciation
practice as you know I promise to do
this every single day Monday through to
Friday 10 minutes practicing our English
British English pronunciation and Here I
am with today's 10 minutes so let's get
straight onto it
hello everyone who's joining me again so
this week we are looking at long vowels
only and we've already done two long
vowels we previously have covered what
we cover to cover the earth vowel and
we've covered the ooh vowel so today we
are looking at the our vowel so take a
look here is the phonetic symbol for our
and this sound is produced with the
mouth wide open our and you'll see my
tongue is flat the sound is produced a
little further back we don't want an air
you want our air is what I hear a lot
and this is wrong and we want our
imagining you're at the doctors and the
doctor says open your mouth and want to
see in the back of your throat ah ah so
this is the long vowel are its present
in words such as car you'll notice I've
colored in a and R and that's because
that covers the whole vowel sound the
letter R is not sounded we don't say car
car you keep it open car do you drive a
car I Drive a car do you have a car I
have a car so car is nice and open and
tens ten thousand and thousand and says
father yes father has this vowel sound
in nice open
father father thank you thank you for
that suggestion so we also have it
present in the word ah and this is the
whole word this sound takes the whole
word we don't say R we say ah how are
you how are you how are how are you how
are you and then we can see it also in
the word dark again it takes up the a in
the R so we don't sound the letter R we
just say dark dark now it's nighttime
here in London it's getting dark it's
starting to get dark and then we have
the sound at the beginning of the word
after after so we don't say after we say
after this is the very big difference
between American English and British
English and if you remember we actually
covered this sound last week so this is
a revision lesson for those of you who
are present with me last week and you'll
remember the Americans say after a and
British English is our this is the one
of the biggest differences between
American English and British English
Americans are British are so those four
words again car are dark and after good
let's try putting them into a sentence
so we have after dark the car park was
scary
ooh I haven't done this one have I let
me do this one turn this one purple so
we don't miss that sound after dark the
car park was scary after dark
the car park was scary notice how I'm
saying was rather than was that's
naturally how we say was within a
sentence
after dark the car park was scary after
dark the car park was scary let's have a
look at the next sentence are you after
me or my husband are you after me
or my husband this phrase to be after
someone is to be trying to get hold of
them trying to communicate with them if
it's an action movie that you're
watching and someone is chasing the
other person then they are after them
he's after me quick run quick hide me
he's after me
I mean someone is trying to get you but
sometimes we mean it just to communicate
like if I'm trying to phone my mum I'm
after my mum and if my dad answers the
phone he would say are you after me or
you after mum and I'll say I'm after mum
please so are you after me or are you
after my husband do you want me or do
you want my husband and then we have
would you rather would you rather drive
my car
this means would you prefer which one
would you like which one do you prefer
would you rather would you rather drive
my car would you rather drive my car hmm
and then the next sentence the barn was
far from Arthur's house Arthur is a
boy's name the barn was far from
Arthur's house the tunnel eternity the
barn
was far from Arthur's house the barn was
far from Arthur's house careful not to
constrict that H nice and breathy house
then we have if you have chance to dance
then do if you have chance to dance then
do let's see that
if you have chance to dance then do and
the last sentence is my aunty my mum's
sister my dad's sister my aunty loves
the locks in the park a lock is a type
of bird my aunty loves the locks in the
park let's see that once my aunty loves
the locks in the park
alright let's just read all of them once
more we have car are dark after after
dark the car park was scary are you
after me or my husband would you rather
drive my car the barn was far from
Arthur's house if you have the chance to
dance then do my aunty loves the locks
in the park and of course I finished off
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okay guys I hope you found it helpful
let's have a quick look at some of your
comments did you do lots of you here
lots of you still here so the standard
British accent is non-rhotic is we don't
do an error unless the art begins the
word or it's after like a th T a G like
great three tree then if it's in the
middle of a word at the end of a word we
don't pronounce it they do in some
accents across the UK but not in
standard general British English hello
in Tunisia hello in Spain Helen Greece
Brazil Malaysia and Pakistan India was
very late in
India you're welcome those of you saying
thank you lots of you up saying thank
you up a bead a bead says how would you
pronounce after Arthur so they're both
the same beginnings after Arthur after
Arthur good night in Spain I hope you
have a pleasant night's sleep thank you
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would find it helpful and Murray said
please can you pronounce far away far
away so we would then put little R in
there far away because of the vowel
following it far away far away far away
it's very late in Malaysia or should we
say very early in Malaysia thank you for
joining us
goodness me 3:00 3:00 a.m. and shout out
to Brazil hello in Brazil if you're
watching from Brazil I hope the
weather's nice there how do you
pronounce part part I need a new part
from my car in the British accent how do
you say genuine genuine hello in Turkey
hi in Turkey what else we have
kaka kaka hi ismael hello mm Jordan it's
10 p.m.
whoa not that far not that far different
to us we're 8 8 p.m. now and Anna you
you're my you are my favorite English
teacher is the best way to write that
but thank you very much and how can you
say how do you pronounce it switch which
is a town in the UK it switch if switch
I hope you found that helpful all right
guys well we've exceeded 10 minutes so
I'm going to say goodbye I'm going to go
and do my gymnastic training and I hope
that you will join me again in the
morning
I'll be here around 10:30 doing
tomorrow's live pronunciation practice
fingers crossed that everything runs
smoothly from now on I hope you have a
pleasant evening guys thank you very
much
love from London MA