Name: 英語｜學習英語元音｜英語口語的5個技巧｜學習英語｜瑞秋英語 (English | Learn English Vowels | 5 Tips for English Speaking | Learn English | Rachel’s English)
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In this video, you’re going to get my top 5 tips for perfect vowel sounds in American English.

Vowel sounds are critical to making your accent sound more like a native English speaker.

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The tips here build on each other and, in  just a few step-by-step minutes,

you’ll be sounding more smooth and natural in the way you speak American English.

Tip #1: know how the vowels compare to  those in your own native language.

You might not be familiar with the phonetics of your own language, most people aren’t.

I wasn’t familiar with the phonetics of American English until I started teaching it.

I suggest you to go Wikipedia and look up all of the vowel and diphthong sounds like this.

I'll put a link to this page in the video description.

In the vowels section, you'll see all the vowels and diphthongs of American English

it will take you to the page for that sound and what you can do here is click on occurence.

This will take you down to a table where you'll see everytime the sound occurs in a language in the world.

So scroll, look for your own language and see if the vowel sound is also in your language

Do this for all the vowels and diphthong sounds in American English.

The vowels are IH as in Sit, EE as in She, UH as in Push,

OO as in Boo, the AY as in Say diphthong, the schwa, UH, the OH as in No diphthong, the EH as in Bed vowel,

the UR as in Bird vowel, the UH as in Butter vowel, the AW as in Law vowel, the AA as in Bat vowel,

the AH as in Father vowel, and the diphthongs AI as in Buy, OY as in Boy, and OW as in Now.

I also refer to the JU as in Few diphthong in my materials.

Do this for all the vowels and diphthongs and note the ones that are in your language, and the ones that aren’t.

For the sounds that are not in your language, learn exactly what the positions should be

These videos go over each of the vowel sounds and diphthong sounds in American English.

There are illustrations, there is up close, slow motion footage.

They will definitely help you understand the positions so check them out if you haven’t already.

Click here, or find the link in the video description.

It’s a combination of two vowel sounds  within the same syllable.

Because there are two different sounds,  that means we have to have a movement.

For vowels, it’s one position: aaaaaaa.

But for diphthongs, something has to move.

AI, aiii-- the jaw goes from being more  dropped to less dropped, ai.

It’s also important to note:  some resources will call diphthongs a ‘long vowel’

like the AI diphthong might be called the ‘long I’ vowel.

It’s one of the hardest things for me teach  and for my students to get.

It has to do with where in the body the  voice is resonating.

And placement greatly affects if you  sound American or not.

I’m going to say the AH as in FATHER vowel with different placements.

I am sure you will notice that they sound different.

American placement is really low, and I find that most students that I work with, aahh,  place them too high.

And that does change the way the vowel sounds even if the sounds are otherwise good.

So keep this in mind when you’re working on tip #1.

Even sounds that you have in your own  language might need adjusting,

you might need to find a lower placement for them. to truly sound American.

I’m still trying to find the best way to teach placement.

I’ve put together a playlist of some of the videos that I’ve made on this topic that I think will help you.

Lots of my students have word pairs that sound the same to them or that are confusing.

For example, bitch - beach, or bat - bet.

A minimal pair is a pair of words where  only one sound is different.

What do you do when they sound the same to you?

I’ve worked with lots of students on this.

there is absolutely a way to master these sounds even though you can’t hear the difference.

Put no pressure on yourself other than listening.

Well, I can’t recommend my Academy highly enough, because I’ve done all the work for you.

I’ve put together audio files of every minimal pair.

Each word is said with the same intonation:  Bad, bed.

Make sure you don’t listen to audio where the intonation is different:  bad, bed.

Then it’s not really a minimal pair anymore because the intonation is different too.

My students download these files and listen to them a couple of times a day for a week or so.

Here's a look inside the Academy and the kinds of audio that you could work with here.

This soundboard compares AH as in Father or AW as in Law with the UH as in Butter sound.

As you listen to audio like this over and over, you will start to hear the difference.

Student are also able to download longer audio files of all of the minimal pairs together

to listen to at times when you're on the go  like commuting.

They couldn’t hear the difference, and then they start to just by repetitious listening, just by exposure.

When they do this they get to know the sounds so well that they end up sounding native.

After you hear the difference in the minimal pairs, you repeat out loud.

You do this over and over to break your habits,

and you come out on the other side of all of this work sounding fabulous and avoiding misunderstandings.

Working with minimal pairs is a key to clarifying your American English vowel and diphthong sounds

I didn’t make it up, it was created by other teachers,

and they have come up with a color and a  noun for each vowel or diphthong.

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