English Pronunciation | The Letter 'E' | 11 Ways to Pronounce the Letter E in English!

hello and welcome back to easy english with james today we're going to have a look at the letter e this is a special letter because it's the most common letter in all of english and there are more ways to pronounce the letter e then there are ways to pronounce any other letter in english so if you want to know exactly how to pronounce this letter and you want to master your pronunciation stick with me as we learn all about the letter e [Music] okay so the letter e it's a vowel letter the vowels in english are a e i o and u the letter e is the second vowel letter in english after the letter a if you want to learn more about the letter a check out my video up here okay the letter e is a vowel letter that is actually the most common letter in all of english so it's super important maybe the most important letter for you to learn actually in english 13 or 14 percent between 13 and 14 of all english writing is just the letter e that means if you read a book or a newspaper 13 of the letters is just the letter e okay it's the letter e is everywhere nearly every word in english contains a letter e okay it's really really important so how many ways do you think there are to pronounce this letter have a think and today we're going to go through all of those different ways and i'll give you advice on your pronunciation we'll talk about some vocabulary that you can use some really long words some crazy words and hopefully by the end of this lesson you'll know all of the different ways to pronounce this and we'll have a little test at the end okay so let's start with number one okay so number one nice and easy to start with the letter e obviously can be pronounced e this is how it is pronounced in the alphabet a b c d e e we make this sound watch closely e e your lips widen a little bit and your tongue sort of hovers e e e sometimes people call this the long e but don't always use that because it doesn't have to be very very long it can be e e e okay but the important thing is that your mouth gets wide e e e we find this in really common words it's very important because it's found in super common words like he or she or we or me and also the verb to be okay practice with me he she we me and to be to be okay if you want to practice that better or faster try going through all of them he she we me he she we me he she we me okay and you'll get that sound really really natural really really natural okay we can also pronounce the letter e as e in words where it is a stressed syllable so take a look at the word female female okay female the stressed syllable is the first part of that word fee and you can see the letter e there that's the stressed part e so often in many words in english when the e is the stressed part we pronounce it e take a look at evening evening evening okay and female and even secret secret okay female secret evening in those words one syllable is stressed the syllable with the letter e at the beginning is stressed so we pronounce it e be careful because there are many exceptions to this rule but in many words when the e is stressed we pronounce it e okay you'll also find this pronunciation of the letter e in words like chinese or vietnamese or japanese okay e-s-e any word with e-s-e that e-s-e is pronounced ease ease okay this is because of something called magic e don't worry magic e we're going to look at at the end of today's lesson but for now look at words like theme and you can also see they have e then a consonant and then another e that final e is called magic e okay and that's one of the reasons why we pronounce these e japanese chinese okay vietnamese and theme and scene okay practice those words we also pronounce the letter e as e in greek words that means words in english that come from the ancient greek language okay words like hercules you know the really famous strong man hercules hercules okay but also plurals of greek words so the single word oasis if you change that to the plural which means many of you just add es oases same with crisis becomes crises and thesis becomes theses okay that es on the end of words here is always pronounced ease ease because they're taken from greek okay so practice hercules hercules and feces and crises and oases also we often pronounce the letter e as e in words where it appears next to an a so the letters e a together if you look at words like jeans genes or meat meet meet or even teacher teacher teacher teach okay and reach that ea here together is pronounced as the e e okay so practice with me teacher teach jeans a nice pair of jeans and meat meat okay this is the same when we have two letter e's together e e in words like free everybody loves free stuff right free and agree agree and the animal b okay the buzzing b b agree and free so when you see words with two e's together it's normally pronounced long e sound e agree be and free sometimes when you see the letters e and i together e and then i in words like protein protein sealing sealing and receipt receipt okay when you go to buy something you will get a receipt the e before the i is sometimes not always be careful because there are many exceptions sometimes e before i is also pronounced e in english e the best way to learn this is to listen to each new word okay ask a native speaker or look up on an online dictionary for the sound of each word when you learn it so you know is this e i pronounced e or not okay so protein ceiling and receipt receipt okay also we can turn it around instead of the e before the i we can put the i before the e and that combination of letters is also pronounced e in words like peace peace and briefcase briefcase when you go to work you carry a briefcase also in the word believe believe you'll see the final syllable there leave is iev so ieve believe believe okay so e before i can be pronounced sometimes e and also i before e can sometimes be pronounced e2 okay believe peace and briefcase finally there are some special words in english where e is at the end of the word and it's pronounced e usually they're words that are borrowed from other languages especially japanese so words like karate karate or karaoke karaoke both of those end in e but they're borrowed from another language so we put the e at the end as a e e sound okay practice again karaoke karaoke and karate karate okay so let's try some practice sentences with this pronunciation of the letter e she is free to believe there is a bee on the ceiling she is free to believe there is a bee on the ceiling practice with me she is free to believe there is a bee on the ceiling your turn okay she is free to believe there is a bee on the ceiling you'll see all of the different spellings in that sentence and hopefully the more you practice that sentence you'll be able to get a good feel for when we pronounce the letter e as e okay you can also try this sentence we see chinese genes on the beach we see chinese jeans on the beach okay practice with me we see chinese jeans on the beach your turn okay well done let's have a look at the next way that we can pronounce this letter okay the next way that we can pronounce the letter e in english is as an e e watch closely my jaw goes down e e you'll know this from words like egg okay this one is really simple to remember the letter e is pronounced er very often in words that end in the letter e and then a consonant so look at the word get you've got the letter e and then a consonant the word met or bet or set or even longer words like hotel hotel they all have the letter e followed by a consonant at the end of a word okay there are exceptions to this rule too of course in english but a good rule to remember is that if you see the letter e followed by a consonant and it's at the end of a word especially short words like bet met set and let it's usually pronounced practice with me hotel hotel get get set set and met met okay well done you'll also see the letter e pronounced air in words where you see the letter e followed by a consonant and then another vowel so look at the word exit exit you've got the letter e then you've got a consonant x and then you've got another vowel i okay exit look at the word never or ever or level okay all of these words have the letter e followed by a consonant followed by another vowel sometimes it's another e like in never or ever or level okay when you see that often in english it's pronounced e e never level okay ever well done also you'll find this in words where the letter e is followed by th okay things like weather as in whether it rains or not okay and together together they both have the letter e followed by t h together whether okay often in words like that the letter e is pronounced e other exceptions where we also pronounce the letter e as a are words like else else and center okay both of these have that e pronunciation also the letter e can be pronounced e in words with e a again remember before e a was pronounced e well in english ea can also be pronounced e okay so e a in words like dead dead or bread or breakfast okay in dead you can see the letter e followed by the letter a again e a but this time it's not pronounced e this time it's pronounced er there's a really good example of this with the word read read in the present tense is i read a book but in the past it's i read a book but the spelling is exactly the same i know english can be a little bit crazy sometimes but i read in the present and i read in the past so ea can be pronounced e or air and in many many cases ea is pronounced e try these words weather weather head head dead and breakfast breakfast practice with me weather weather head head dead dead and breakfast breakfast all have that e pronunciation try these practice sentences with the letter e as a every hotel breakfast i have in bed every hotel breakfast i have in bed okay lots of words with air with the letter e pronounced air one more time every hotel breakfast i have in bed okay let's look at the next one number two is get to the exit or else you'll be dead get to the exit or else you'll be dead okay get to the exit or else you'll be dead number three is the bread gets wet in bad weather the bread gets wet in bad weather try and say this one as fast as you can the bread gets wet in bad weather the bread gets wet in bad weather and you'll get a really good feel for that e e sound okay practice with me the bread gets wet in bad weather okay the next way number three the third way that we can pronounce the letter e in english is uh er okay it's a really relaxed sound we start with our mouth in the same position that you make the schwa sound in english but this time we make it a little bit longer make sure you're vibrating your vocal chords uh uh imagine it's trying to continually push that sound out of your mouth not uh but uh okay uh okay we pronounce the letter e as uh in really common words like her and were and person okay you'll notice that e and r together e and are in her or were or person or even verb the e and the r together usually means that that is pronounced so if you see a word with e-r like refer refer you see the e-r and you know it's pronounced uh practice with me person person verb her and were well done also in words where you see the letters e a and r together you'll love this e a can be pronounced in so many ways in english this time e a and r together is pronounced uh so in words like earth we all live on planet earth earth e-a-r here is pronounced er er so if e-a-r is pronounced uh then words like learn learn and early early okay uh lee early also words like search search okay e-a-r is often pronounced uh practice with me earth earth make sure you get that th sound at the end of the word earth earth then search search search and then learn learn and early early there are also some loan words from french that have really weird spellings in english so words that are a little bit longer that you see ending in e u r they're not common words in english they're very rare but these are words that english has borrowed from french words like saboteur saboteur and you can see that t-e-u-r-tur is pronounced tur with that er sound so eu here is pronounced uh saboteur other words like this are connoisseur connoisseur you can be a connoisseur of wine a connoisseur of wine and one of my favorite words in english because it's really difficult to pronounce is entrepreneur entrepreneur okay on tr pro no entrepreneur okay what does entrepreneur mean write that in the comments below if you know the answer what is an entrepreneur okay but remember e-u-r on the end of those words is also pronounced er in english uh e equals uh practice this sentence with me to practice that pronunciation of the letter e her search of the earth for the perfect person her search of the earth for the perfect person okay her got that er search e-a-r earth ea again and perfect person her search of the earth for the perfect person practice with me her search of the earth for the perfect person your turn okay number two the saboteur learned the verbs early the saboteur learned the verbs early the saboteur learned the verbs early okay practice that one as fast as you can the saboteur learn the verbs early and you'll really get a feel for again the ea the eu and also those er combinations that make us pronounce the letter e as uh uh okay well done let's move on to the next way to pronounce the letter e okay number four the fourth way we can pronounce the letter e in english is as ear this is a diphthong sound a diphthong vowel sound if you want to know all about the diphthongs in english check out my video up here the sound ear the vowel sound ear is a way that we can pronounce the letter e and it's very common in english usually again when you see e and a together okay in words like here and near and fear now very quickly remember e a is a diphthong that means we slide from one vowel sound into the other we start with e and we slide into ear ear it's one vowel sound not two we don't say e uh it's one sound that we slide that's why we call it a diphthong ear practice these words near fear year here and really really okay so it's very common again in words with e and a idea idea really here near fear okay with ea it's really common but you can also see the letter e pronounced ear in words with two e's like beer or korea or engineer engineer also when you say cheers to someone cheers this is especially true in the british english accent where we say cheers cheers okay and engineer engineer but make sure that you're getting that diphthong slide engineer engineer beer beer is a really good one to practice this because it has two it's a short word with two e's but you'll hear the beer beer and korea okay you'll also find this in words with e followed by the letter r e and r together can sometimes be pronounced with the default ear so look at words like algeria algeria it's not algeria and it's not the long e either we don't say algeria we say algeria and hero hero okay especially strong in british english hero hero words like serious serious okay and era era practice with me algeria algeria hero hero sirius sirius and era era okay era that's a cool word some words where the e comes before the i again can be pronounced with this diphthong sound words like weird weird where you've got e i and it's pronounced ear weird weird okay also in words with eo like theory theory okay these are exceptions they're exceptional rules here so don't worry they're not very common but you should learn them sometimes eo is ear theory okay and e i in weird weird also again with that magic e that we talked about before please don't worry we will explain magic e properly at the end in words like atmosphere atmosphere or really simple words first like here here you have e r e but if you take that e away at the end and throw it away you just have her so h e r her with that er sound that we learned before but h e r e here so you can see the magic e at the end changes the first vowel sound from er in her to ear in here okay that is the power of magic e okay here atmosphere atmosphere and severe severe okay practice with me here here atmosphere atmosphere and severe severe practice this sentence to practice this pronunciation it's a really bad idea to drink beer here that's a tough one it's a really bad idea to drink beer here it's a really bad idea to drink beer here okay it's a really bad idea to drink beer here really cool sentence okay practice that one as fast as you can until you get a feel for that ear ear ear sound number two his idea of a really serious career is an engineer in a theater his idea of a really serious career is an engineer in a theater okay practice that one too as many times as you need and i promise that sound will get really easy okay let's move on to the next way to pronounce the letter e in english okay the fifth way that we can pronounce the letter e in english is as the short vowel sound e be careful don't get this sound confused with the longer e sound e okay if you want some help with the difference between those two sounds check out my video up here e okay if is a short vowel sound watch closely it's the same sound in words like tin and bin okay it's a really short e sound but here in english we can sometimes pronounce the letter e as an you know this because you're studying english english in the word english the letter e is pronounced in the word england where i'm from also in the word pretty pretty you'll find it sometimes but not always where the syllable is stressed where that e is stressed england english and pretty okay in some words where you stress that e we pronounce it as the short sound practice with me english england and pretty pretty don't say england or pretty that sounds really silly in english but pretty english and england okay you'll also find the letter e pronounced i in words that have two or more syllables but the if syllable is unstressed the syllable with the letter e is not stressed so look at words like defend defend and that word believe again be leave the first either is not stressed believe believe okay the leave is stressed so believe that means that the first e we pronounce respect believe defend okay practice with me respect respect relieve relieve receive receive and believe believe and finally defend defend you'll see that letter e at the beginning again is unstressed so we pronounce it defend respect relieve okay here's some special words that you should also practice because they're very common and they also have the letter e pronounced try these words emotion emotion okay and enough very common word enough i've had enough i have enough of this okay enough enough and result result result okay also the word 11 the number e11 we're going to look at the number 11 later because there's lots of letter e's in that word but in the word 11 the first e is pronounced i 11 we don't say 11 or 11 we say 11 11 okay okay also the letter e can be pronounced in past tense regular verbs that end in t or d so past tense verbs that end in t or d like wanted or needed or loaded okay you'll notice that it finishes in a d or a t want is the t and need for the d so in the past we add edi and we pronounce that e as did one tid lo did hated okay practice with me needed wanted loaded hated okay needed wanted loaded hated again remember that ed here is pronounced id with that short i sound okay a practice sentence for this one is i believe he wanted to defend england i believe he wanted to defend england really good sentence to practice that short it sound here as the letter e i believe he wanted to defend england okay i believe he wanted to defend england now try this one 11 pretty english women 11 pretty english women it's difficult because there's lots of letter e's in there but we're going to focus on just the ease pronounced i so 11 pretty english women okay women is also pronounced with that again 11 pretty english women 11 pretty english women say that as fast as you can 11 pretty english women and the faster you can say that the easier this sound will become so practice as much as you need to okay let's move on okay the letter e can also be pronounced as a schwa sound the schwa sound is uh it's really relaxed and in english the schwa sound is never stressed that means it's never a part of a sentence that we stress it's always unstressed if you want to know all about the schwa sound i have a really long lesson up here that you can watch to learn and master the schwa sound but today remember the letter e is very often pronounced as a schwa sound okay in words like happen or open or often okay the e and the n there is pronounced an with a schwa so the letter e here is so you'll find this in words that end in en like open and often and happen open often and happen you'll also find this very often in words that end in e-n-t like parent or moment or present or accident okay parent moment present and accident all of them end in ent and it's unstressed so we pronounce that letter e as a parent accident or president the president of the united states president okay practice that parent moment president and accident okay well done okay but the most important time that you should remember to pronounce the letter e as a schwa as a sound is in the word the the okay the man the boy the girl the car it's super important because that word the is said really quickly really fast and that's because we're using the schwa the man the boy the car the girl okay the so remember that most of the time in english when you see the it is pronounced the only time it's not is when the next word starts with a vowel so in the boy the next word boy starts with b a consonant but if we say apple it's not the apple it's the apple the apple so it's very important that we look at the word the as having two different e pronunciations it can be uh or it can be e that long e sound the boy but the apple okay because apple starts with a vowel so orange what would that be orange that starts with a vowel so we would say the orange but what about house house that starts with a consonant the house the house okay so remember the man the boy but the apple and the orange okay okay so can you write two more examples of that in the comments can you give me one example of v and one example of the just so i know that you've learned it okay for now i want you to remember that the e in the can very very important try this practice sentence the president's accent is often a problem the president's accent is often a problem how many uh sounds are in that sentence the president's accent is often a problem can you write in the comments how many how many uh schwa sounds are in that sentence how many times can you see the letter e in there where it's pronounced uh the president's accent is often a problem okay let's see who can get that one right number two the parents were in the recent accident the parents were in the recent accident okay practice with me the parents were in the recent accident okay okay let's move on to the next sound but before we do that i want to ask you if you're enjoying this lesson if you're learning something please hit that like button and subscribe to my channel so that you don't miss any of my future lessons we still have f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y xyz to go so there's lots more to come so make sure that you have subscribed and you've hit that like button if you enjoy this lesson okay okay the seventh way that we can pronounce the letter e in english is as the diphthong sound a a a you'll often find this sound in words where e and i are together again like wait and freight okay e i in english is very often pronounced a remember this is a diphthong sound so we glide one vowel into another but it's one sound a a so weight weight and freight freight and vein vein the veins in your arm or the number eight eight okay so remember the letter e e i here can be pronounced a a ate weight freight and vain vein you'll also find the letter e pronounced as an a in words where the letter e comes together with a y in words like they they also gray gray even in the really common greeting hey hey e is followed by the letter y and this in english is pronounced a so this time the letter e is pronounced a a what about words like obey obey okay so practice these words with me gray gray pray pray obey obey hey and they they okay you'll also find the letter e pronounced a in really rare exceptional words like pate and cafe not many words look like this in english because in english we don't normally use these accent markers these little things that go above the letters they're usually words borrowed from other languages like french okay pate and cafe but here that e on the end with the accent marker is always pronounced a a cafe and pate okay try this sentence there's eight and they are gray there is eight and they are gray okay there is eight and they are gray try this one the gray prey animals obey him the grey prey animals obey him the gray prey animals obey him okay gray pray obey the gray prey animals obey him and finally remember that other e with the marker i bought pate in the cafe i bought some pate in the cafe do you like to eat pate okay most people in england will have pate on toast for christmas okay it's really common pate on toast either for breakfast usually as part of a christmas dinner pate on toast okay pate on bread okay the eighth way that we can pronounce this letter in english the letter e can be pronounced i i and this one is super confusing because it's often in words that are spelled the same as words that are pronounced a a we looked at words like ate and weight but sometimes the e i and especially e i g can be pronounced i look at words like height height how tall someone is height we don't say hate we say height and also slight slight luckily this is not common normally the pronunciation of e-i-g-h-t would be eight weight freight okay but in some cases the letter e here can be pronounced i as in height or slight okay remember height and slight you'll also see this in a really common word i i and eyes okay one eye two eyes here the letter e is pronounced i i it's the same sound when you say i am i i do i am okay i let's practice all three of those words again height slight and eye eyes okay practice this sentence she is a nice height and she has lovely eyes she is a nice height and she has lovely eyes she's a nice height and she has lovely eyes okay okay number nine the ninth way to pronounce the letter e in english is air it's another diphthong sound another diphthong vowel sound air okay the two sounds glide into each other okay you'll know this from words like there and where very common in words with e r e there and where these are two really common words so make sure that you pronounce these correctly they're very commonly mispronounced practice them with things like where is she she is over there where is he he is over there okay where and there where there where is she she's over there okay you'll also find the letter e pronounced air in words with e a r again i said before there are many ways to pronounce ea in english and here is another one in the word bear bear and pear and even where as in i'm wearing clothes wearing clothes where with e-r-e and where clothes are exactly the same in english okay they are pronounced identically that means exactly the same where e-r-e and where i'm wearing clothes so e-a-r can sometimes be pronounced air in english practice with me bear pear and where where try this sentence i'm wearing nice clothes i'm wearing nice clothes or i like to wear nice clothes now try this super sentence where should i wear the bear costume where should i wear the bear costume maybe you're going to a party and you're dressing as a bear where should i wear the halloween bear costume where should i wear the bear costume okay practice that one now try this over there where ah there over there where ah over there okay that's a really good one for practicing the intonation in english over there where ah there okay practice that and try and copy my intonation as well and you'll really start to sound exactly like native english speakers do when they're speaking the sentence like that okay number 10 is the letter e pronounced as ah thankfully i only know one word in english where the letter e is pronounced r and it is in the word sergeant sergeant okay this is the only time i know in english where the letter e is pronounced sergeant okay so just remember that one word sergeant is somebody in the army okay somebody it's a rank in the military sergeant okay sergeant okay the final way that we can pronounce the letter e in english is we don't pronounce the letter e at all it's silent okay it can be silent but sometimes with magic e it can also change the word so look at past tense verbs like play stay and kick or stop when we put them in the past played stayed kicked and stopped they have the letters e d but we don't pronounce the e the e is silent okay in past tense regular verbs the ed is pronounced it does not include the e we don't say stop head we say stop we don't say played or played we just say play okay that d on the end is good but we don't use the e letter the e is silent the only time the e is not silent is when it's following a t or a d at the end of the original verb for example in wanted and needed and loaded where we pronounce it as we learned that before okay but in most regular past tense verbs the e is silent practice with me kicked kicked played played stayed stayed and stopped stopped okay remember past tense regular verbs the e is silent we don't pronounce the e at all unless it's after t or d t okay sometimes native speakers when we're speaking really fast also like to make a silent e in a word we like to delete or remove or take away the letter e so in words like camera camera when native english speakers are speaking really fast we might just say cam ra camera camera we don't say camera we just delete that e and say camera we do this also with words like interest in trest it should be pronounced interest into rest but instead when we're speaking really quickly we'll just say interest interest the same with different it should be different but when we're speaking very quickly we don't have time we take that letter e and throw it away we just say different different this will really help you to speak more quickly in english camera camera different different and interest interest practice with me camera cam interest interest and different different remember if you're speaking more slowly you can pronounce the letter e different interest and camera but when you're speaking really quickly outside you don't need the letter e camera interest different try this sentence this camera is different i'm interested this camera is different i'm interested your turn this camera is different i'm interested okay also we find silent e in words where the e is after a v so in words like movement movement and improvement that e in the middle is completely silent it's move with the and then movement likewise improvement improvement okay finally we also find silent e in something someone somewhere and somehow okay any word where you have some and then another word and we combine them together somewhere somehow someone something that e is silent okay practice with me somewhere somehow someone something somewhere somehow someone something okay the letter e there is completely silent so whenever you see some and then another word combined with it someone somewhere something somehow you'll notice the letter e is silent okay okay now magic e magicky is special it's silent but it still has power magic e can change the pronunciation of the other parts of a word let's have a look look at the word car car c-a-r but if we put magic e on the end we don't have cara we have care care so magic e is silent but it changes the a from r to air it goes from car with no magicky to care with a magic e look at the word h if you have h e r her you can hear that er sound that we learned before but if you add magic e it changes the word to here her here her here okay that is the power of magic e it goes on the end of a word and it changes the pronunciation of the word but it's still silent it's like it's invisible but it has the power to change things car becomes care her becomes here okay pet becomes pete lots of different amazing ways the letter e the magic e can change the rest of the word okay okay so many times in english the magic e will change the pronunciation of the first syllable the first vowel sound from a simple sound either short or long vowel sound to a diphthong so in words like hop and then you add magic e and it becomes o which is a diphthong hope hope in ah car to air okay so we take a short vowel sound and we make it into a diphthong vowel sound car care her here okay we can also use this with things like quit and quite i qui okay quit and quite hop and hope okay let's try some practice sentences with magic e and you'll get a good feel for when we use it number one i don't care about my car i don't care about my car okay you've got care and car the only difference is that magic e care with the diphthong air and car i don't care about my car number two her car is not here her and here her car is not here practice with me her car is not here her car is not here number three i will quit if it's quite boring i will quit you've got quit and quite with the magic e quit and quite i will quit if it's quite boring you go to a new job and it's really boring you may tell your friends i will quit i will leave this job if it's quite boring quit and quiet i will quit this job if it's quite boring number four i hope you hop over to the shop later i hope you hop over to the shop later you've got hope and hop i hope you hop over to the shop later hop here means to go it's a special way that native english speakers use to mean to go it means to go really quickly i hope you hop over to the shop later you might ask someone can you hop round to the shop for me and get me something can you hop around the shop for me and get this can you hop around the shop okay it doesn't mean literally to hop on one leg it just means to go somewhere quickly i'm hopping to work i'm hopping there okay it means to go really quickly so practice with me again i hope you hop to the shop later i hope you hop to the shop later okay okay well done so remember there are 11 ways that we can pronounce the letter e have a look on the screen now and you'll see the different 11 ways that we can pronounce the letter e number one is the e in we she and c number two is the e in bet head and let number three is uh in her and were number four is ear in here near and fear number five is i in pretty or english number six is the schwa sound the uh in the word the and movement number seven is the a sound in they an eight and number eight is the i in i and height number nine the air in their and bear number ten the ah insargent and number eleven the silent e in kicked or also the magic e in care and movement okay so let's practice some words that have many e's or some long words with the letter e number one eleven everybody knows this it's a number after ten ten eleven okay eleven has three different e sounds okay there are three ways that we pronounce the letter e in the word eleven you've got e at the beginning then e in the middle and then the schwa at the end eleven eleven so practice that one if you want to practice three of the different sounds at the same time eleven eleven eleven eleven eleven okay eleven number two is the word expedient ex be dent lots of different e pronunciations in there expedient expedient okay it's a long word practice with me expedient expedient expedient means when you do something that is not really proper probably not right but it's very convenient it's a convenient way to do something okay expedient expedient number three is exceeded exceeded lots of letter e's in here too and you've got a double e in the middle xc did xc did you've got e exceeded exceeded to exceed means to go beyond to go further than to exceeded you'll hear this in the sentence he exceeded my expectations that means he was better than i thought he would be he exceeded my expectations exceeded exceeded number four benevolence this is one of my favorite words in english benevolence you also have benevolent okay benevolence benevolence see if you can tell me what that word means by writing your answer in the comments benevolence benevolence okay and finally number five is a really long word defenselessness defenselessness defenselessness how many e's are there in there how many different ways can you hear to pronounce the letter e defenselessness defenselessness defenselessness okay write that in the comments below okay to finish this lesson we're going to have a super practice sentence in this sentence are all 11 ways to pronounce the letter e so this is the sentence you should practice 100 times until you're really really good at it okay okay this is the sentence sergeant there were 11 grey emus here with eyes closed sergeant there were 11 grey emus here with eyes closed sergeant there were 11 grey emus here with eyes closed okay all 11 different ways to pronounce the letter e are in that sentence listen one more time sergeant there were 11 grey emus here with eyes closed sergeant there were 11 grey emus here with eyes closed and here look now we can see all 11 of the different sounds all the different ways to pronounce the letter e okay sergeant there were 11 grey emus here with eyes closed thank you very much for joining me today i hope you enjoyed this i hope you learned something from this lesson if you want to learn a little bit more make sure you hit that like button and subscribe so that 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Channel: Easy ENGLISH with James

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Keywords: english speaking practice, english vowel sounds, british english vowel sounds, the sounds of english, english pronunciation, british english pronunciation practice, english pronunciation course, english pronunciation lessons, the schwa sound, british accent, received pronunciation, english vowels, english sounds, Sounds of the letter E in English, Silent E, Magic E, How to pronounce E in English, E english pronunciation, modern RP, The letter E, Diphthongs, Monophthongs

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Length: 61min 2sec (3662 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 12 2021