Fix Your English Pronunciation Mistakes in 30 Minutes!

right Eiland good day hi everybody my name is Alisha welcome back to our weekly live stream this week we are going to talk about English pronunciation tips English pronunciation tips so as you join please don't forget to like and share the video and as always we have free stuff for everybody you can get free PDF lessons from the link below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook we're going to wait a couple of minutes so other people can join and then we're going to begin today's lesson I'm going to cover three kind of big topics I'm gonna talk about voiced and unvoiced sounds and how to understand the difference I'm going to talk about vowel sounds with lots of examples and then I'm going to talk about something called minimal pairs minimal pairs so today's lesson will be focused on pronunciation and the pronunciation will be American English pronunciation this is American English pronunciation not British English so British English will have some different pronunciations especially vowel pronunciations so we're going to start in just a moment I think we are waiting Facebook hi everybody I see you on Facebook Sunday and marina and Koh Ling Fang now zod hello everybody there YouTube is YouTube okay okay YouTube school hi so send a comment when you arrive we'll get started in just a moment in the meantime I have one announcement to share if you checked the channel last week on Friday maybe you saw this we have a big announcement we have officially launched YouTube memberships so YouTube memberships are like a special way to support the English class 101 Channel in our case and part of our membership is you get emojis in our membership so if there are members in the livestream chat you can use these emojis right now so they are me I can't believe it it's kind of crazy but this is part of the membership the YouTube membership on our Channel so if you want some more details please check out the join video on the English class 101 YouTube channel to find out more about memberships I see everybody on YouTube now hi there thanks for coming oh yeah our chat desk just sent a bunch of the emojis in the YouTube chat hi everybody there's new yen and Qing and quiet Jia Raphael Rosie and Carlos and nemecio ashraf hi everybody thanks very much for joining great lots of people okay I think we have everybody ready now so again today's topic is English pronunciation tips we really appreciate it if you like and share the video so other people can find it I am going to share the video and then I am going to start the lesson okay so let's get started today I'm going to begin by explaining the difference between voiced and unvoiced sounds voiced and unvoiced sounds what are these things so let's get started voiced and unvoiced sounds are the two sounds the two types of sound that we can create so how do we know if a sound is voiced or unvoiced this is a tip that you can use when you practice your pronunciation so when you make a sound touch your throat as you make the sound so for example like ah is a sound if you touch your throat and you feel vibration so vibration is like the movement your vocal chords the parts of your body inside your throat move to make the sound if you touch your throat and you feel that vibration that's a voiced sound a voiced sound we call it a voiced sound so like ah is a voiced sound and II those are voiced sounds if however you make the sound and there is no vibration for example like an H sound or like an F sound there's no vibration there that's an unvoiced sound and unvoiced sound so these are the two sounds or the two types voiced and unvoiced sounds this is how you can decide is this a voiced sound I'm making or is this an unvoiced sound I'm making so when you're practicing your pronunciation at home if you're not sure you can use this to check voiced or unvoiced so I want to use this to begin today's lesson by practicing a sound that is difficult for many learners the th sound the th sound th there is actually there are two ways to make a th sound th is a little bit special it has a poised and an unvoiced version so voiced th sounds so that means we use our vocal chords to make the sound our words like these this those although neither other so these th's are voiced th --is this so when you make this sound you should put your tongue between your teeth a little bit think this that that's true for both of these so put your tongue between your teeth to make the th sound be careful not s sound many learners say like for example this so maybe a Z sound or sync instead of think something like that actually that's an unvoiced I talked about it in a minute but make sure that you're not making a Z sound or an S sound with this so to do that put your tongue between your teeth to practice and make a sound or the sound this is a voiced th so these words are kind of what we think of as structure words so we use these words to help us make the grammar of this sentence so these words are like connecting words for example or they're like kind of helping words in many cases these words don't tell us a lot of information about the content so in most cases usually these kinds of th are voiced th sounds voiced th sound so again this those although and you can touch your throat again to see if you're making a voiced sound or an unvoiced sound neither other let's compare this then to unvoiced th sounds unvoiced th sounds so an unvoiced th sound we do not use our vocal cords to make this sound it's words like think bath theater everything so here I'm not using my vocal cords I'm making like an air sound only it's hard to hear can you hear that so think bath again make sure this especially the unvoiced th sound this should not be an s so not sink so when I make the S sound sink my teeth are together sink that's not correct put your tongue between your teeth or when you get more comfortable knit like native speakers do we quickly touch our tongue to the back of our teeth to make this sound think so think bath again bath not bath where my teeth are together but bath so focus on that position for your mouth think bath theater so no vocal cord use here theater theater just air to make this th sound so it's very quick very short these are unvoiced th sounds you'll notice these words are like content words so with these words we understand like the action as in think or it's a noun bath or theater so these words are giving us information key information about the sentence these are unvoiced th sounds voiced th sounds are our structure words so they're helping us to make the sentence unvoiced words are giving us the information about the sentence so these are our first sounds I will come back to this at the end of today's lesson a little bit to review so this is how I want to begin today's lesson think of this voiced and unvoiced tip especially for consonant sounds a reminder consonant sounds are the words or sorry the letters consonant consonant sounds are the letters other of an AE I owe you why those sorts of those sorts of letters so those this is important for your consonant sounds when you're making consonant sounds yes it is really live okay let's get started oh sorry let's go to a break then let's go to a quick break so today as always we have free stuff but I know today is a pronunciation lesson so I think if you want to focus on your pronunciation it's maybe a good idea to begin with words that are important to you so you can practice with the words that you are actually going to use so you can choose if you check the link below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook there are lots of free pdf so we're gonna go up here right now okay so there are lots of free PDF that you can download this one's about like romance and relationships this one's about food my personal favorite maybe so there are lots of vocabulary words here and phrases for going to like a restaurant in this case or for food and so on so I would suggest if there's something if there's a topic that you are interested in like pets or animals and so on choose one of these are a few of these and use these to practice your pronunciation so this is about your pets for example types of pets that's a good pronunciation Siamese cat Siamese cat that esta so choose a couple of these to work on your pronunciation choose something that you use in your daily life or that you know you are going to use more in the future so I think this would be good for your pronunciation using the words you're actually going to use for your studies so you can find that from the link below the video on YouTube or above the video on Facebook if you're watching on Instagram please check instant radiance TV tube or Facebook if you're watching on Instagram okay so yes we do we have a second camera that sometimes sometimes is in our live stream okay good and if you have any questions please send them in the live stream chat throughout the lesson as well I will try to check all right let's carry on so if you're just joining today's topic is English pronunciation tips English pronunciation tips so I'm going to continue to the second part bowels but please don't forget to like and share the video if you haven't already we really appreciated okay let's go along to parts two part two I'll stand here for now part two I want to focus on vowels for part two vowels so vowels are the other group of letters I talked about consonants briefly with voiced and unvoiced sounds consonants are the letters other than vowels vowels are the AE I owe you and a schwa which I'll talk about so here I have a list of example words that use the different sounds for each vowel so let's go through one by one and listen to how we make these sounds and think about how to make these sounds more clearly let's begin with a a so there are many a sounds I want to talk about in this lesson first let's look at this word mad mad mad this a this is a short a sound mad so we make the short a sound when a comes before a consonant like at the end of a word and it's not followed by E so mad or dad or bad that ass that's the short a sound compare this to this a sound date date this a sound this is the long a sound date so we make this long a sound when we have a consonant and an e at the after the consonant so date or mate or late this is one of the rules for making the long a sound another a sound we have is this one in autumn autumn autumn has this sort of ah sound ah it's not quite an O sound it's like aw almost ah ah so autumn autumn a common spelling for this sound is au au autumn autumn so those are three different sounds so mad date autumn ah eh oh those three two points up for those of you I know many of you struggle with the R sound the R sound so let's focus on a to R so if going starting from an a sound going to an R sound like art art our earth art so this a sound goes slowly art to an R sound and when you make the R sound your tongue should not touch anything in your mouth art art your tongue is just like relaxed kind of in your mouth art so art and a different a to our sound isn't a word like chair chair it's out here it's just like air air so chair chair so these are five different a sounds to think about here mad date autumn art chair okay let's move on then to Esau n--'s and compare the differences between these so the first isse ound is net net net this is a short e and that's the short e sound is Mette ii ii sound this is the long e sound heat heat heat so this is one spelling heat EA but be careful not all words spelled with EA are pronounced with a long e sound for example bear b EA are that's pronounced bear bear so heat is pronounced differently so be careful there are some exceptions to this but sometimes the EA spelling is pronounced with this long e heat heat finally again another vowel to R sound cheer cheer so G so ear ear you can imagine this is like this part of your body the ear ear so we're moving to that are sound again when you make this our ear your tongue is just it's like at this angle inside your mouth so there's it's hard to be it's like this in your mouth so there's nothing like touching your tongue when you make the R sound earth earth your tongue is kind of back in the mouth a little bit too so cheer chair cheer chair any sound with that in mind let's continue on to I as well I I sounds again short I sound lip lip e so this is the short I lip again you'll see here with these short sounds the vowel comes before a consonant at the end of a word mad net lip these short sounds are just before a consonant at the end of a word the long I sound lie lie lie is here lie so you'll see this with like a vowel sound at the end of a word for example like pile as well so there's an e at the end of the word sometimes with a consonant here too as in my example pile - okay others okay I'm checking your your questions and comments in the chat this is an interesting I sound it's foil foil I've put this in the I sound it's like it's like an O and I together oil oil this is what's called a diphthong so a diphthong is when we move from one sound to another sound in the same syllable foil foil that's called a diphthong so foil foil you may hear this with words spelled with o il like oil or oil as well to foil someone says how do you say though though like that though yeah some people lots of people have trouble with world world it's that RL transition where we'll break that down into three parts were Oh duh and try practicing those individually to begin with and then try to connect those okay let's go on to oh there's a lot to talk about here Oh first is the short o sound box box so again before a consonant at the end for a consonant at the end so box ah ah that's the short o sound box second is the long o sound mode mode so again we see Oh in this case o comes before a consonant followed by e at the end of a word mode mode so O is the long o sound o is the short o sound ah oh let's look now at this one though this is sound sound so sound this is similar to this a you sound I talked about autumn autumn it's like an O sound like a w almost this is similar ow ow the spelling here is sound s oh um D so there's an O you spelling but please be careful this is different from words like should or could or would should could this is different from these words but sometimes you will hear this oh you pronounced as an owl sound in these cases it's pronounced as an ood sound should would so please be careful the spelling the spelling rules and pronunciation are quite tricky and I'll talk more about this in the future finally this sound here for for this is another example of a different sound with this oh you spelling sound for sound for those are totally different sounds right but the spelling is similar so try to remember it's it takes some practice of course and reading and listening practice but remembering these words that have kind of these different spelling and pronunciation rules will help you to become a more affluent and natural the speaker I think ok with that then let's move on to the last vowel and then are kind of tricky vowel to let's go to you you so you are short you sound is here cut cut uh-uh that's our short u sound long u sound here not even a u this is an E n e W you knew that's a long u sound but the spelling does not use a u so this is a great example you'll also hear it in a word like you you that's a long you sound so there are different spellings short you a long you ooh nu nu let's look at this one though this one many of you have asked about this the double O sound this is a very tricky sound tricky means difficult this is a tricky sound because there are many pronunciations for this spell so here good good not good but good good this is the pronunciation let's compare this to these two words flood and blood so same spelling oooo different pronunciation compare good good with flood blood good so and I hear different pronunciations continuing this group then boot Bo ot boot moon spoon again different so here we got good and here we have uh and here we have ooh there are three different pronunciations here finally floor floor floor so there are four here I've I've introduced four different pronunciations for this spelling the oo spelling is tough I know and it's one that with practice and with time you'll start to remember the most common the common words that use these different pronunciations so I chose a few today but there are more so this is an important spelling to be careful of in your reading and in your listening to okay finally I do want to mention the word cure cure here cure cure this is an interesting used out that cure cute cute it sounds like the letter Q Q but we pronounce it in this word as cure cure so please be careful of this you sound as well so this is a very quick introduction to all the sounds we make or most of them with vowels please keep in mind that there are many different ways to pronounce these vowel sounds or rather many different spellings for pronouncing these vowel sounds let's end this part with this one what's called the schwa the schwa I didn't include it in this part because the schwa is sort of like in the middle of all of these verbs the schwa is a special bowel sound because we use it in unstressed syllables unstressed syllables so what does that mean in English we have stress we have this rhythm to our speech for example the word beautiful that has three syllables three beats in the word beautiful yeah so beaut too full but when we say it we have stress so that means one part is stronger than the other parts beautiful this is how native speakers say this word beautiful so beautiful s tip has no stress ful has a little bit of stress so there are three different levels of stress in English that give it kind of this rhythm so beautiful has this schwa sound unstressed syllables no stress on the word take this schwa pronunciation here too - that's the schwa sound it it that's what it sounds like beautiful so because this doesn't follow a spelling rule it follows a stress rule we see it in many words for example here in this word separate separate so we don't say separate in everyday speech this a right here becomes a schwa separate separate separate so it's a very quick short sound yeah that's the schwa it's not like any other vowel another example this a in again again got sound again that's a schwa one more this e in camera Kim or we don't say the e sound in camera in fast speech we say camera camera it's that again this is called the schwa the rule is to use it for unstressed syllables so listen to the stress how much emphasis is being put on the and you can find out where the schwa go okay we'll take I guess one more soup or a quick break and then we'll go to the very last short part of today's lesson okay so I mentioned earlier that we have free stuff as always for you from the link below the video on YouTube above the video on Facebook I showed on the other camera a couple of these already I mentioned for today's lesson which is about pronunciation I was thinking it's a good idea to practice your pronunciation with words you are going to use so I showed like food and pet related PDFs vocabulary and phrase cheat sheets these are PDFs you can download I'll show a couple more for travellers especially maybe business travelers or I guess for fun hotel related words so this is hotel vocabulary and on the back our sentences that you can use in a hotel so some of the pronunciation points we are talking about today are included here another example is shopping shopping so if you like shopping and you want to practice shopping words in English please check out this PDF so there are lots of vocabulary words and phrases that you can use and I think it's a good way to practice your pronunciation using the words that are important to you so please check these out check these out my over here please check these out you can find these from below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook okay let's move along to the last part of today's lesson then the last part of today's lesson I'm going to focus on some very common points of difficulty for learners and a few ideas for how you can fix those so let's take a look I want to look at what are called minimal pairs pairs after this lesson if you want to know more search for minimal pairs in English a minimal pair is a pair of words two words they have the same maybe spelling or the same sound except for just one sound just one sound is different this is called a minimal pair a minimal pair so some common difficult what should I say these are some minimal pairs that many learners have trouble with let's begin with this group L and our minimal pairs L and our I have three examples first pair is glass and grass glass and grass so here the difference is this L sound and the R sound glass and grass the second one fly and fry fly and thrive again L sound and R sound are different here finally rice and lice rice and lice lice is like izi is a bug that you find in your hair if you don't shower enough of this bad lice so again R and L sounds so these are difficult because many students have trouble making the L sound and the R sound differently like they sound the same so a tip to help you make these sounds more clearly is to focus on your L sound so I talked earlier the R sound your R sound your tongue should not touch anything inside your mouth so when you make the R sound your tongue is like just inside your mouth in the center of your mouth just not touching anything however the L sound when you make the L sound your tongue should touch the top of your mouth so you can exaggerate it and then when you make the sound release your tongue look glass or fly or sorry lice lice so practice making the L sound very clearly your tongue has to touch the top of your mouth and then release it outward look left practice making that sound so we can clearly hear a difference between your L sound and your R sound this is one tip that I hope can help lots of people from lots of countries I know many different languages have different kinds of struggles but this is one that many people I think have trouble with so please try that to improve your elf pronunciation I know it feels strange at first but it's correct like my students often giggle when I would tell them like make this sound the th sound put your tongue between your teeth they do it and it's perfect but they laugh because they feel uncomfortable but it's correct it's correct so don't feel embarrassed don't feel embarrassed it's the correct sound so this is a tip for L and R sounds as I mentioned this s and th minimal pair is another one that's difficult for many students so let's look bus bus bath bath so this isn't a true minimal pair there are two sounds that are different but bus here we have a vowel sound change bus and bath so vowel sound changes yes so actually there are two sounds different here but the S sound bus is different from the bath sound this is an unvoiced th sound we talked about this at the beginning of the lesson bath bath bus bath so make sure your s sound is different from your th sound as I said at the beginning of the lesson your s sound your teeth should be together bus to make the bath sound your tongue should be between your teeth bus bath bus bath finally sink and think so many of my students have trouble with this or had trouble with this the s and th here sink your teeth are together to make the S sound a sink is a place where you wash your hands ya think sorry think is the verb I think I think so students share their opinion I think your tongue needs to be between your teeth think think to say this correctly sink teeth together think tongue between your teeth so practice these two finally last point for today sorry I'm late + mine for today is vowel minimal pairs and similar not a perfect minimal pair here but these two I hear a lot and I've seen in your comments as well questions about these words so the first one is kind of hard to see the first pair here is woman and women woman woman WOM aan and women woman women spelling is very similar but we actually changed this o sound and the ending vowel sound whoa men with men whoop men women so what woman singular women is the plural so be careful of this vowel sound similarly with man and men man and men so your vowel sound changes here man men and lastly someone asked in the chat I just saw it was about this one this pair so many students have trouble with this one you are not alone it is work work versus walk work and walk walk in American English they have very different pronunciations in British English perhaps they are more similar but in American English work there's a clear R sound and this o is pronounced her work walk21 to walk your vowel sound is very different wah-wah it's at all a like wah sound and we don't really pronounce this l walk we don't say what we say walk walk so focus on your vowel sound here work walk quite different someone said can I say Fink instead of think we do not use the Fink pronunciation in American English you might hear that in British English and Australian English but no American English speakers do not use the fake pronunciation the fingerprint unsee ation so I would say no I would say no unless you're studying in British English so these are some practice points and today I talked about a few examples and ways to hopefully improve your pronunciation ok I have to finish I'm six minutes late sorry let's finish there thanks for joining us this week and we'll be back next week next week I'm going to talk about how to make English sentences this was a viewer request actually I'm going to talk about word order word order so please join us next week April 10th at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time that is New York City time please join us for how to make English sentences don't forget to get your free stuff that I talked about from the link below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook it is free so please practice your pronunciation with those words you are going to use good luck with that if you have questions comments whatever send them in the chat I will check it out and we'll finish there for today so thank you everybody thank you for liking and sharing the video I really appreciate it I hope you enjoy your day enjoy your night have a nice weekend and I will see you again next time

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Published: Wed Apr 03 2019