IELTS Speaking: Pronunciation | THE 44 SOUNDS OF ENGLISH with Jay!

I think we're ready to go hello each and every one of you my name is Jay I'm one of the expert IELTS teachers at e2 language in this live class we're gonna do something I think is really important we're gonna look at IELTS speaking we're going to look at pronunciation and we're going to practice the 44 sounds of English that's right there are 44 sounds in English like Doug Fir sir we're gonna go through them all what I want you to do in this live class is identify which sounds you are particularly weak at I want you to improve them because pronunciation accounts for 25% of your grade in IELTS speaking in other words it's really important plus it's just good to be able to pronounce all of these 44 sounds accurately anyway in your job on the street wherever you use English so people won't be frustrated or strained to understand you it's just a good thing in life to be easily understood ok language is just that beautiful thing that allows us to be understood by other people and the sounds we make are the little vehicles that allow that cool so let's get started first thing I just want to talk to you about is IELTS speaking how its scored ok this crazy-looking document here is what the IELTS examiner is looking at on test day if you've taken the IELTS before you notice that while you're doing the speaking the IELTS examiner will be sitting there listening to you but also noting something down what is he or she noting down well it's this they're looking at this in particular they're listening for four things okay so this is an IELTS 9 this is an IELTS 8 7 6 et cetera this one is about your fluency and coherence in other words how smoothly you speak this one's about vocabulary this one's about your grammar and this one here is your pronunciation this is what we're gonna look at in this lesson pronunciation and we're going to look at how to get that nine score okay so I alt nine pronunciation well technically this is what the IELTS examiner's are looking at you use a full range of pronunciation features with precision and subtlety this is confusing this is what it means simply so to get an IELTS 9 in pronunciation you can say all 44 sounds of English accurately you can say all 44 sounds easily in other words you are effortless to understand you are effortless to understand what does that mean well here I've made a bit of a chart what I think this is based on the IELTS core criteria we just looked at so let's break it down so in IELTS 8 to 9 is what could be considered to be native like in other words you are effortless to understand it's just you say something to me and I don't have to sort of interpret it I don't have to say huh I just immediately register what you say because your pronunciation is accurate that is effortless easy that's what this that's the stage you want to get to get to Bravo next one advanced well that's sort of like yep very good very good I got sure I understand you next one will be 6 to 7 years good it's sort of like ok yeah yeah I understand you but maybe some of the words some of the sounds you're saying are incorrect fine 5 to 6 is like what what's that sorry I'm misunderstanding you because it's unclear because maybe you're mispronouncing quite a few of those 44 sounds then we get down to the quiet the low score of the four to five and that's seriously like sorry I don't understand you can you say that again and finally if you're a zero to four it's like what I don't understand you at all so let's have a look at those 44 in spoken English we're going to go through them part by part because we've got consonants like the dirt sir Murr Turks etc we've got short vowels yeah we've got long vowels like AE I we're gonna go through all 44 sounds and I know this might seem a little bit silly or juvenile or childish I want you to repeat after me when we do this okay and I want you to sort of reflect upon your own pronunciation and try to identify which sounds you are mispronouncing or not hitting exactly because you want to hit those sounds exactly and if you're not getting them please try and do something to rectify it to fix it so let's start with the 19 consonant sounds this is what we're gonna look at and the way we're gonna do this is this we're gonna start with the sound I'm gonna show you how to do it I'm gonna go buh buh buh buh and I want you to look at my mouth but but then we're gonna do some practice words then we'll go to the next sound and the next sound do stick around I know this might get a bit tiresome but it's gonna start easy then it's gonna become harder so stick around here we go so we'll start with bow ready BRR BRR BRR BRR fine so we've got ball ribbon ball ribbon next we got derp derp derp derp derp derp we've got dog add filled dog add filled then we got fer fer fer fer fer fer fer my teeth I just on my lip fer fer fer fer so we've got words like fan cliff phone laughs calf off you can hear that foot foot foot sound let's go through them again fan cliff phone laugh cough often and you can see the crazy spelling of English it's still the same sound it's still the same foot foot foot sounds but here we have what like a pH for phone laugh at the end of the word LF calf it's all making this sound here next one go this is really coming from the sort of lower throat area good good good good good so we've got words like grapes egg ghost guest catalog grapes egg ghost guest catalog cool next one let's have a look at this sound here this is the hot sound ha ha ha ha hat whoo hat whoo next one Jay Jay Jay Jay Jay Jay Jay right at the front of the mouth that Joe Joe Joe Joe where it's like jelly caged giraffe edge soldier exaggerated jelly cage giraffe edge soldier exaggerated next one we've got Kirk Kirk Kirk these are pretty common ones by the way you probably have these in your language some of you may not let's keep going cook cook cook cook cook so kite cat chrome acclaim Queen back box folk cat chrome acclaim Queen back box folk now by this stage you're probably freaking out because there's so many different ways to spell that could sound spelling aside what I want to focus on is the just the sound trying to get the cook cook cook cook cook sound right yes there are various ways to spell Kerr for example the queue or the seal whatever it is but that's beside the point just focus on the sound cook cook cook cook let's keep going this one our south sorry sitar but he's at East Asians Koreans Japanese usually struggle with look-look-look-look this come this one's like my tongue is just behind my top teeth going look look my tongue actually hits my top teeth look look look look look with like love for example or words like leaf leaf leaf spell spell spell it's not sparrow it's not wreath it's leaf and spell kill next one here we go getting through the consonants now this one let's start with uh uh uh uh upma this is just lips map map map map map map ma monkey monkey monkey summer summer summer climb-climb-climb autumn autumn autumn pom pom pom mah mah mah next one nah nah nah nah nah nah nest nest nest funny funny funny night night night NAT NAT NAT pneumonia pneumonia pneumonia now this is very rare these are very rare usually the note sound will come from these types of letters or even this is very rare usually it's just these two next one yeah no no no no no no comes from my throat no no no and it sounds like this ring ring ring or sink sink sink or Tong Tong Tong again this is very rare next one per but it's just purely lips and you're shooting air out you should be out of feel on your hand purr purr puts almost like you're spitting air so words like pig pig it's not burp it's not big it's pig pig pig happy happy happy cool second last one here we go what do we got we got rah rah rah rah rah such as robot robot robot carrot carrot carrot wrong wrong wrong rhyme rhyme rhyme next one sir sir sir sir Sir sir such as Sun Sun Sun miss miss miss Circus Circus Circus rice rice rice I just should stop there because a lot of Vietnamese speakers in some Southeast Asian speakers struggle to hit the final s for example I hear Vietnamese speakers say rye I eat rye no it's rice rice you have to get the sir sir or the the number six it's not stick sick it's six six six that final s makes all the difference to my understanding of what you're saying without that s sound the word is unclear you must even if it feels very strange and you feel weird doing it practice it make it become normal to you or feel normal cool horse horse horse science science science psychology psychology psychology listen listen listen cool next one tur tur tur tur tur tur tur tur tur words like tap-tap-tap batter batter batter Thomas Thomas Thomas and interestingly past tense verbs like mapped mapped mapped mapped it's almost like saying map to map mapped mapped mapped next one Indian speakers and South Asians Bangladeshis Pakistanis this is a big problem for you guys you need to hit the verb not work it's not work there's no rounding of the mouth this is purely bottom lip on top teeth saying okay words like Van Van Van Van or of-of-of or name like Steven Steven Steven or number five five five cool these are the last three consonants so this is the one that South Asians mix up here's that what what okay let's do this one web web web why why why quick quick quick choir choir choir so that's the word sound next one yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah such as yo yo yo yo yo yo or opinion opinion opinion yah yah yah yah last consonant sounds it's not sir sir-sir it's Z such as zebra zebra zebra buzz buzz buzz cheese cheese cheese has has has scissors scissors scissors xylitol xylitol xylitol maze maze maze cool nice so they are the consonants we've just gone through how many was there 18 I believe 18 I think consonant sounds so that's usually letters of the alphabet like Coeur MO now we're going to look at five consonant combination sounds remember we're doing 44 in total we've done 18 let's keep going five consonant combination sounds here are the five consonant combinations the first one is zsa zsa zsa zsa zsa zsa zsa zsa mic strangely my bottom lip goes down zsa zsa zsa here it is words like treasure treasure treasure or division division division next one sure sure sure sure sure sure sure words like shark shark shark ocean ocean ocean conscience conscience conscience sure sure sure station station station special special special tension tension tension machine machine machine cool let's do choo choo choo choo choo choo words like cheese cheese cheese or watch watch watch a future future future or questions-- questions-- questions-- or righteous righteous right choo chess righteous okay these are really problematic for a lot of type different language backgrounds so it's t hate t hate words like you think vs. said that now there are two types I'm gonna talk you through the two types this first one is my tongue is below my two top teeth and there's no sound through my throat it's purely coming from my teeth in the air the second one this one here like feather the the the the is different because I can feel it in my throat the the the the the the the okay so let's do the first one whoops so words like think think think think think it's not sink sink sink it think think think I'm blowing the air between my teeth and my tongue the think think think think and the next one is the one that I make the sound in my throat like feather film that the the the the feather they are two really critical ones you may want to practice those ones they seem to be very problematic for a lot of different language backgrounds okay cool nice now we're on to the six short vowel sounds okay so here are all of the six short vowel sounds the first one is ah I should remind you that every single word in English has a vowel so you have to get these sounds right because these sound these sounds like ah ah are in every word so if you're missing one imagine the effect or the impact that that has on your pronunciation in other words you have to get all six of these accurate precise okay let's do the first one so Cat Cat Cat Cat Cat Cat Cat Cat next one whoops sorry let me tell my phone off you shouldn't hear my messages yeah yeah yeah words like egg egg egg egg or bread bread bread or leopard leopard leopard or berry berry berry or heifer heifer heifer or friend friend friend or said said said or many many many many next one words like igloo igloo igloo or England England England or sieve sieve sieve or women women women or busy busy busy or build build build or hypnotize hypnotize ize e-e-e next 100 words like orange orange orange or Swan Swan Swan or honest honest honest next one uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh words like mug mug mug or monkey monkey monkey or flood flood flood or trouble trouble trouble then finally for these short vowel sounds this one I sound like a bit of a monkey when I do this words like book book book or Bush Bush Bush or could could could or woof-woof-woof cool nice we're getting there so we've got 15 long vowel sounds left for our 44 so let's go through each of these these ones are probably quite unique to English this is where it starts to get difficult these combination or long vowel sounds let's go through some of them so you know what I mean first one is ay-ay-ay-ay-ay words like snail snail snail or baby baby baby or vein vein vein or wait wait wait or gauge gauge gauge or straight straight straight or this one is when you have the a here and the e at the end like cake or bake or make or wake a a a a a or let's do this one hey hey break break croquet croquet they they let's look at this one here this is e long e e-e-e-e EEE words like b-b-b me-me-me brief brief brief seat seat seat ski ski ski lady lady lady receive receive receive key key key people people people Phoenix Phoenix this is very rare by the way very rare Phoenix and this is extremely rare you hardly ever see this maybe a couple of words in English key key key but still it's the long e sound next one ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai words like spider spider spider fly fly fly aisle aisle aisle night night night island island island pi PI pi height height height bye bye bye here we've got the I website and the e that I and the eat kite kite kite Rai Rai Rai and the fourth one here long o sound long o like oh oh oh oh words like boat boat boat here we have the O and the e at the end like bone bone bone buh-buh-buh open open open broach broach broach toe toe toe so so so lo lo lo though though though there's the long earth sound cool 5 6 7 & 8 here we go so this is the sound ooh ooh what like moon moon moon screw screw screw fruit fruit fruit blue blue blue this is the U and E at the end words like flute flute flute or mute mute me I no no no actually mute different so it will get to mute this one's very rare in fact I'm not gonna do it shoo shoo-shoo through through through next one this is the u sound that like mute so this is the you-you-you yeah yeah you words like uniform uniform uniform you you you beauty beauty beauty few few few view view view Feud Feud feud alright I realize this is quite exhausting I'm getting tired doing this we've only got a few more to do ok so let's get to the end of the 44 then in your own time I want you to go back and practice this in your own time with every single sound to identify the ones that you're mispronouncing because it's this is the only way to improve is to dig down to this depth to look at those 44 sounds ago you know what I'm mispronouncing four of these I need to work on the work sound for example you need to do the hard work to find that out by the way if you don't want to do the hard work you can't always just sign up for a paid package of e to language comm meet with the teacher like me online have a one-on-one tutorial on speaking and let us identify your weaknesses which will make it a lot easier do you think about going to eat language comm by the way let's finish this here we go now this one's a bit of an Australian one oi oi this is a real Aussie sound by the way oi oi oi oi oi words like coin coin coin or boy boy boy ow now out next one ow ow ow words like cow cow cow shout shout shout bow bow bow this one is a knod sound this is kind of like an uh it's almost like a short vowel sound ladder let's just do this one here so words like ladder ladder ladder Dola Dola Dola cactus cactus cactus honor honor honor Agha Agha auger doctor doctor doctor Center center Center dolphin dolphin dolphin ticket ticket ticket changed a little bit there I apologize alright how many have we got left I want to have a look okay that's it we've got two more here we go ten eleven and twelve let's do this is the air air air air so long vowel sound like air yeah yeah yeah yeah words like chair chair chair square square square or pear pear pear or where where where or there there there or prayer prayer prayer then we've got our our our now here's a bit of a difference between American English and say Australian English in Australia we take car car car and we sort of missed the r R sound whereas Americans tend to go our our like I have a red car car car but Australians say car car car so I'll do this sort of neutral in between okay so we've got car car car actually I'm gonna this is Americans would say bath but L do Australian bath bath bath laughs laughs laughs sergeant sergeant sergeant heart heart heart let's do these ones again in Aussie sort of accent car car car bath bath bath laughs laughs laughs sergeant sergeant sergeant heart heart heart this one's uh it's like two valves put together Oh like that so we've got words like bird bird bird or term term term or burn burn burn or pelt Oh Oh word word word or journey journey journey last one ladies and gentlemen let's finish this on a high we got 13 14 and 15 or or or or or or here we go words like pour pour pour ball ball ball four four four fork fork fork tort tort tort door door door war war war more more more bored bored bored bored bored bored sauce sauce sauce iya iya iya iya iya iya words like here here here steer steer steer here here here Pia Pia Pia yeah yeah yeah last one here we go Kyra you are you are you are you are you are you are so words like kya kya kya tourists tourists tourists actually this one's a bit different I apologize that's not quite it anyway oh my god we've just done the 44 sounds of English that's all of them now as I said you're probably thinking how will I possibly remember all of these well we saw a lot of different ways that you would spell the sound so we sort like you know like or like this one here for example the whoops this sound here or has 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 different ways to spell it but it's just the one sound so the spelling is separate from the sound just get the sound right 44 of them we just did them all really good practice if you go and do them again feel free to share this video by the way if you think it's helpful cool um fine let's do something else let's talk about word stress because this also impacts your pronunciation what do I mean by words dress well have a look at these three ways to say this word here now I want you to tell me which way is correct is it a photograph e photograph e with an emphasis or stress on photo and then no stress on graph E or is be correct photography photography photography with an emphasis on the top top top or EC correct photograph E photograph E photograph E so just type into the chat which is correct a B or C photograph E photography or photograph E let's have a look at what you've got here drum roll and yes most of you have got it right I'll show you the answers at the end let's do this one considerably considerably considerably considerably considerably or considerably consider ugly you can see how different the word sounds where we place the stress or how we split that word up is it considerably considerably I can't even do B B's just forget B or is it C considerably considerably which is right let's do number three is it democracy democracy sorry sorry sorry I can't say it's hard to do is it democrasy democrasy democracy or is it be democracy democracy with emphasis on the MA sound or is it C democracy democracy democracy so is it democracy democracy or democracy democracy massive differences in the way that you say these words depending on where you place the emphasis on the sound so number four is an argument argument or is it argument argument argument or is it C argument argument are you meant what about number five is it curriculum curriculum curriculum or is it curriculum curriculum curriculum or is it curriculum curriculum curriculum last one number six is it information sorry information information information is it information information information or is it C information information information let's have a look at these answers the answers of this number one would be photography photography photography and you can hear that I'm emphasizing the top top top photography photography photography considerably considerably considerably I think I mispronounced that one wrong I apologize emphasis here consider considerably especially on this sound democracy democracy democracy argument argument argument you can hear that it's almost like big emphasis here and then this trails off here argument argument its curriculum curriculum curriculum and it's information information information this it's difficult it's subtle it's very subtle but you can hear the difference it makes if you say this incorrectly basically if you put the stress on the wrong sound in the word I'm going to have trouble understanding what you're saying because if you say to me J I'm really good at fotografia I think what photograph e but then it will take me an instant and I'll go art photography I understand what you mean so that word stress a word emphasis is is really critical to to being understood effortlessly right let's do some practice we've done a lot of looking at all the different individual parts of sounds and the 44 sounds and the long vowels in the short vowels in the consonants blah blah blah blah blah let's just do some practice of reading aloud I think this by the way reading something aloud is probably one of the best ways to improve your pronunciation so let's play a little game what we're going to do is I'm going to give you 30 seconds to read through this complicated paragraph and then 30 seconds again to read through it again so your 30 seconds starts now to practice reading through this okay let's I'm gonna read it once and then I want you to read after me okay so here we go I'm gonna read it through the remains of a majestic female statue uncovered at an archaeological site in southeast Turkey may challenge our understanding of the public role of women in the ancient world excavations at a site near the Syrian border have unearthed a beautifully carved head and upper torso of a female figure the remnants are largely intact okay let's do it again it's your turn all of the 44 sounds of English maybe not all of them but most of them are in this paragraph here we go read it one more time as clearly as you possibly can starting now cool let's do another one I'll read it first and then you read it the combination of a bacterium that normally lives in the gut and a protein rich diet promotes a more tolerant less inflammatory gut immune system according to new research the findings in mice suggest a way to tilt the gut immune system away from inflammation potentially spelling relief for people living with inflammatory bowel disease your turn I want you to hit all of those sounds of English hit them accurately here we go your turn in three two one start you [Music] cool and one more this one's gonna be hard this one's long you have to read it perfectly here we go I'll go first whoops I'll move my little thing here hold on here I'll read first and then you read ready humans and most other vertebrate animals died within a few minutes without oxygen yet goldfish in their wild relatives crucian carp can survive for days even months in oxygen free water at the bottom of ice-covered ponds during this time the fish are able to convert anaerobically produce lactic acid into ethanol which then diffuses across their gills into the surrounding water and avoids a dangerous buildup of lactic acid in the body well maybe it takes more than 30 seconds right your turn ready read this one I'll give you 30 seconds but don't worry if you go over three two one start cool letsa excuse me let's have a look at these words because all of the sounds are here here yeah yeah yeah ma ma sir Sir hey ma ma ma oh oh stir stir stir ah there's that there's that the the the with the voice remember that one the the la da da da here's the verb so a lot of as I said a lot of Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi speakers have problems with the vertebrates vertebrates not were to prett vertebrates no no no no no vertebrate vertebrate so we looked at the 44 sounds of English that's all there is there are no more there are only 44 you need to get them all right in order to get an IELTS well for that particular part of speaking anyway the pronunciation to get an isle to 9 in pronunciation you need to be able to say all 44 sounds accurately and easily to not struggle it requires practice if you need help by the way if any of your speaking I suggest that you check out this website if you're not already on this website watching this e to language comm if you need help with the IELTS speaking do check it out now I'm gonna go to Q&A and we'll do a little bit of QA and I'll stop my recording there

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Length: 45min 9sec (2709 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 12 2017