Hi guys, welcome back to English with Max. Several people have requested this video,
so here it is. Frank is very excited as well. In this video we are going to look
at the 20 vowel sounds in standard British English,
in other words, Received Pronunciation.
Are you shocked because I said 20?
Did you think there were only five?
Well, yes, there are five vowels in the English alphabet: A, E, I, O, U.
And Y is sometimes included.
But there are 20 vowel sounds in British English, and that's not taking
into account regional variations.
First let's look at the twelve monophthongs.
A monophthong is a vowel in which the tongue stays in the same position.
These are the seven short monophthongs.
These are the five long monophthongs.
We call them long vowels because they are normally longer than the short vowels.
The two dots indicate a long vowel.
There are also eight diphthongs.
A diphthong is a vowel in which the position of the tongue changes.
Basically it's a combination of two vowels.
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