How to Pronounce English Vowels - /æ/ in sat - American English Pronunciation - American Accent

Hi. I’m Denise. Thank you for watching my video. Today I’m going to talk about the vowel sound /æ/. /æ/ is a low front vowel. That means that the front of the tongue is low in the mouth. If we pretend that this is my tongue, the tip of the tongue will curve down a bit behind my lower front teeth and the front of my tongue is going to be low in my mouth. /æ/ /æ/ My mouth is open rather wide /æ/ but my lips are not rounded at all. They’re still rather spread. If I write the other vowel sounds, the other front vowel sounds, you will be able to see the progression from spread /i/ down through the vowel sounds to /æ/. So let me write those sounds here. /i/ /ɪ/ /eɪ/ /ɛ/ /æ/. So these are how I had them listed on the vowel chart in another video. We go through them, you can see that with /i/, the top one, my lips are spread and the mouth is closed. As I go down here, my lips will become less spread and more open. So by the time I get down to /æ/ my mouth is open wide. The lips are still a little bit spread. So let’s try them. /i/ /ɪ/ /eɪ/ /ɛ/ /æ/. /i/ /ɪ/ /eɪ/ /ɛ/ /æ/. /i/ /ɪ/ /eɪ/ /ɛ/ /æ/. /æ/. So with /æ/ my mouth is open the widest of all these vowel sounds. Let’s practice saying some words that contain the sound /æ/. bat. track. paddle. hand. camp. half. laugh. manage. past. van. Let’s do that again. bat. track. paddle. hand. camp. half. laugh. manage. past. van. Notice that most of the time this /æ/ sound is made with the letter ‘a.’ I’ve underlined the letters that make the sound. So most of time its with the letter ‘a’ but not always. Notice here that the sound is made with the letters ‘au’ and we can have another spelling as well. Another thing to notice, in this word, I did not pronounce the ‘l.’ I pronounced this word /hæf/ as if it only had only h-a-f. In English, we do not always pronounce all of the letters. Also, please notice in this word only the first letter ‘a’ has the /æ/ sound. The second letter ‘a’ does not have the /æ/ sound so I did not underline it. It’s actually an /ɪ/ sound. manage. /ɪ/ manage. So only the first letter ‘a’ has the /æ/ sound. I’ve written on this side, I’ve written some words that differ only in the vowel sound, so let’s practice these. I’ve written some words with the /æ/ sound here and some words with the /ɛ/ sound here. /ɛ/ is just above /æ/ in the vowel chart. Let’s practice these. mat. met. bad. bed. track. trek. laughed. left. past. pest. And by the way, this ‘ed,’ these letters ‘e-d’ actually make a /t/ sound like the letter ‘t’ as in this word. That’s why I was able to pair these together. Let’s practice saying these again. First, we’ll go all the way down the column. mat. bad. track. laughed. past. And down this column these words all have the /ɛ/ sound. met. bed. trek. left. pest. Now let’s do them across and be sure that you are changing the vowel sound. Again, these are /æ/. These are /ɛ/ In the vowel chart, /æ/ has the mouth open wider than /ɛ/. They’re both lax sounds. They’re both relaxed, but this is /ɛ/ /æ/. /ɛ/ /æ/. Let’s try. mat. mat. met. met. mat. met. bad. bed. bad. bed. track. trek. track. trek. laughed. left. laughed. left. past. pest. past. pest. Now let’s say some sentences containing words with the /æ/ sound. I have underlined the æ/ sound wherever it occurs. My aunt laughed as she paddled past me. My aunt laughed as she paddled past me. Notice with the word aunt I pronounce it as /æ/ and many people do. It’s a regular pronunciation, but there are also other people who pronounce this word with the /ɑ/ sound as in not. So some people pronounce this as /ɑnt/ and many others pronounce it as /ænt/. This word has two pronunciations. So I have written it here because I pronounce it with the /æ/ vowel sound, so it fits in with what we’re doing. It was half past eight when we tacked back. It was half past eight when we tacked back. We tracked the cat to the camp. We tracked the cat to the camp. Now let’s say the /æ/ words. aunt. laughed. paddled. past. half. past. tacked. back. tracked. cat. camp. Well, that’s about all I want to say right now about the vowel sound /æ/. If you’d like to learn about other sounds in English, please look at my other videos. Thanks for watching. Bye.

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Length: 10min 17sec (617 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 05 2015