Your pronunciations were very much not correct for Gen American English. "pull" "push" you said with more of a schwa than the correct vowel. At the end you said "weekipedia" when that i in wiki, is the same as in Dictionary. You clearly have accented features or non-native vowels in your speech .
As a fellow teacher, I often find it hard to get students to improve their pronunciation. You've got a teacher follower in me now. Congrats for the excelent lesson.
2:19 i as in 'see' 2:48 ɪ as in 'sit' 04:33 ɛ as in 'red' (some time /e/) 05:30 æ as in 'cat' 07:04 'eɪ' as in 'day' 8:01 'aʊ' as in 'now' 8:56 ' aɪ' as in 'my' 10:45 shwa sound (ə) 10:52 ʌ as in 'cup' 12:02 ɜ as in 'stir' 13:30 relaxed ʊ 13:54 tense u 14:57 relaxed ʊ 16:46 oʊ as in 'go' 17:28 ɔ as in 'daughter' 18:25 ɒ as in father 21:15 ɔɪ as in 'toy'
@@halam6702 you are right that the upside down 'a' symbol is a birtish vowel, but in the word father specifically it's 'a' in both British and American English.
Hands-down, the most impressive pronunciation teacher on RUclips. Whenever my students ask me how to improve their pronunciation, I instantly refer them to this channel. There's no way I can explain things better than Hadar.
I am a Spanish major taking my first phonetics class. It has less complex vowels and I still find it quite difficult. This gives me so much respect for non-native English speakers. Mastering another language is no easy task!
Really? Difficult? Spanish is super easy. We just have a e i o u. That's it. You guys have this amount of vowel sounds we have to master in order to reduce our accent and speak more clearly for you. So Spanish phonetics can't even be compared to English phonetics.
@@mep6302 You seem flustered. It’s not a competition about which language is more difficult to learn. Learning any second language is an impressive accomplishment. I wrote my comment four years ago and I stand by what I said. I use Spanish every day in work and my personal life. I’m proud of the fluency I’ve acquired and I also admire all the native Spanish speakers who learn English as a second language.
Dang, I'm Filipino and English is my second language and I second this statement, Phonetic is giving me a hard time 🙏. Took an English major as my course and here I am familiarizing myself with IPA 😭😭
I'm a Spanish native speaker who decided to get a masters in speech language pathology in English ... omg .... had I known what I was getting myself into :-) Now I'm supposed to teach little children with Apraxia who have vowel distortion disorders how to pronounce the vowels! I'm gonna watch this video before every vowel session I'm gonna have so I can pass my internship! You are sooooo good at this!!! I'm so grateful you posted this video!!! Now I see there is a light at the end of the tunnel I dag myself into ...
I'm planning to do the same. I'm finishing my degree in slp and I'm applying for a masters in slp in Canada. Would you mind telling me more about your experience? I'm freaking out about phonetics haha
Teacher to teacher: the level of command you show never ceases to amaze me. What a role model for learners of English as a foreign language. Respect!!!
I’m a non-native English teacher. I’ve been teaching the English language for more than 10 years. I don’t think I’ll ever master the sounds of American English the way Hadar has. I’m so impressed and a huge fan! Congratulations!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
As a non-native speaker desiring to have a better pronunciation, I really wished my teachers in school taught me this instead of the useless crap we wasted our time on. Everything can be understood better if you are given the tools to analytically reason about it. I don't know what would be the opinion of a native speaker, but to my ears you have the cleanest pronunciation I can imagine of AE. Every vowel sound you make is very intentional, deliberate and distinct from every other. I'll be listening to this video many times. Thanks a lot!
I want to congratulate, because I invested a lot of money and time in international English schools in an English speaker country and you are the best person teaching English because the beginning of any lenguage is that. Because many international school just learning rubbish. Blessings and successful.
I'm a native English speaker, but as someone taking a phonetics class at my university who missed a week of classes due to illness, thank you for this. This was super helpful and put my textbook reading into more context
Can't imagine that you are teaching us online. The way you teach make me feel as if you were teaching us in real life even pretty closely. If you were in my class teacher may be I would have forgotten to have my the all meal. Because I literally like your the teaching skill. The skill, how to teach people, is nothing but enjoy & enjoy. May God bless you forever.
Hi there, this year with Covid as the perfect excuse, I started taking online classes to work on my thick accent. The classes are great, but Hadar videos are such a huge support to practice and enforce the classes. You can tell she was born to teach. You are my super hero Hadar, you are the living proof that with hard work and practice I can get rid of my heavy "strong R´s" accent. Thanks very much.
I'm impressed. I'm from families that were in the USA since 4 or more generations ago, and I never saw this information before. It's almost like being told how to breathe correctly. Sure, it was already going fine, but it is amazing to really know how complex breathing really is.
The best explanation ever. As a brazilian I've realized how mispronuncing I was a lot of words all this time long. I was actually pronuncing did as deed cause I thought to myself that that did has a i sound.
What I think? Pure joy! Wow!!! It feels so good to find someone answering questions you did not even think you had the right to ask, and addressing concerns others perceive as "luxury" or snobbish, just because you "know" the grammar and are fluent in reading and writing. Your approach is life-giving. I said it ... "Pure Joy!" I am exceedingly happy I found you. I am enjoying each one of your words. Thanks for sharing all this. Now I have the "scientific" arguments to describe what was missing. Wow!
I was not aware there existed a vowel chart for every language. As a non native English speaker this allows me to realize of the subtle differences between each one of them. Not only that, but it also helps me to understand better how I can use similar tools for the other languages that I am learning. Amazing work of yours!
I though I had mastered the ε and the ae sounds, but then yesterday my roommate kept hearing me say mass when I meant mess. To say that it’s frustrating when people pay more attention to HOW I say things, instead of WHAT I say is an understatement. I don’t get vindication anymore when I show people that meme from Sophia Vergara that says, “you make fun of my accent... How cute! You speak only one language.” It also seems to fall on deaf ears when I tell people that I have to make a conscious effort to create these sounds that are not natural at all to me. I have to do this while learning a new culture that is equally hard to grasp, a culture with people that have no empathy/sympathy for my learning process. I appreciate this diagram of where in the tongue English and “natural vowels” are created. My native tongue is Brazilian Portuguese and I believe we use the natural vowels, so this diagram helps me compare them to English vowels, and maybe, hopefully, I can try to emulate them as close as possible, so that I don’t create confusion in peoples’ heads. I gave up on losing my accent a long time ago, but I cannot have people confused as to what I am saying. Thank you for your help.
After 5 years listening to English only as far Im understanding and identifying the differents sounds that native speaker makes. Even when I had seen this explanation videos thousands of times before. It's tough for hispanish speaker like me. I loved ur video Haddy Linda😍
Best American IPA vowels lesson I've seen so far. Thank you so much, you're a lifesaver!
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Youg lady: I have been into English almost all life long, it all begun at age 15 to me. In the first years it was wonderful since the sounds pronounced by my teacher were clear and easy to photocopy in my neurons, each time needed. But as time passed, as opportunities to practice English were scarce, and as it became more interesting to solve problems in our native language, there formed a gap between my "sound photocopying neurons" and the real horrible and chunky sounds that came out wnenever words came from me. This lecture has changed completely my neurons, and it is going to be great this time....... PS: this your faithful admirer, is very very old....
This is truly a master piece for any non native speaker, been self studying English for many years now and have had the opportunity to learn in a class room ESL & also out of the US. Nobody never explained vowels sounds ever! This is essential as that's how we learn to read and write in our native languages. Thank you Hadar I've been looking for this topic to understand exactly each and every sound, i didn’t even how to look up for this and here it is. 🎉
The lesson is really great, Hadar! It has really helped me understand the American vowels more clearly. I can see that you love teaching and are pretty excited while explaining. But please slow down. It will not only help foreigners perceive you better but also make you look more like a high lever expert who, as we know, are never in a hurry. I appreciate your work so much )
I love this lesson so much. Thank you, Hadar! This 25-minute video is totally enough to sound more natural and American. I watch it again and again. I listen to it and repeat every sound, so my neighbors think I've gone crazy. I've shared it with my students and I'm trying to make them do the same, so they think I've gone crazy^)
I wish I could hire you as my personal tutor. Your English knowledge is further outstanding than any other English native speakers. My deepest admiration for your work.
I have been studying English for a long time in Spain and to be honest I have never been taught the vowel sounds that enlightening way. It has been a master class...Thank you!!!!
This is the BEST video for starting French pronunciation for a native English speaker. I can compare the difficult Frenchie sounds to the English in my own mouth
I am studying translation in university (we study the British vowel sounds tho) and you explained it perfectly. Such a good teacher! Vowel sounds can get very tricky speacially if you are not used to listening all of these types of sounds. I loved your video!!
Thank you for this excellent video. As a fellow practitioner in the ESOL field, I appreciate both its completeness and your presentation of it. I have to argue a bit humorously, though, with your comment (at about the 9:40 mark) about the /ai/ diphthong when you say, ". . . like might, not 'mat'." You see, in the US Southern accent, that sound is a monophthong, & it IS 'mat'. This was first brought to my attention quite vividly when I went from my little hometown in Texas to university in the Boston area, and whenever I would merely introduce myself to a native there, my monophthong 'i' (in my last name, "Price") would literally cause people to stop the conversation and tell me, "Say that again!" Over and over, I found people absolutely mesmerized by that monophthong 'i' that was just plain old English to a southern boy like me. It makes me smile and laugh to remember it. I hope you understand my comment now about arguing "a bit humorously". Interestingly, in the many years since then, I've found my 'i' production varying between the two versions, depending on context, register, audience, & all such as that. I suppose I don't speak in just one dialect any more, which kind of makes sense. Again, thanks for this excellent video. Cheers.
I am from Perú. I really enjoy your explanation and you made me understand perfectly. I'm really thankful. Realmente se te quiere por lo que haces. No tiene precio. Abraham's God, Bless You Forever and Ever. 💫👋👋👋
I've never seen the diphthong /æʊ/, but /aʊ/. However your explanation fits great, to be honest. Maybe it depends on the region as you have said on 18:20 about the vowels /ɔ/ and /ɑ/; or maybe both /æʊ/ and /aʊ/ are valid on the whole country. Thank you so much for this lesson! It's very useful!
Yes you are right, the æ at the beginning is common in the US (general American) and it’s different than how it’s pronounced in British English and even other dialects of American English . If you go to forgo.com or youglish.com You’ll see that the word cat and cow begin with the same sound:) check it and let me know what you think!
@@hadar.shemesh Yes, they begin with the same sound. That's why I was surprised: because it's the same sound but I've always seen /aʊ/ on the transcription. Thank you for the answer!
Francisco Francisco The commonly used IPA transcriptions for diphthongs never match the way I say them with my general American pronunciation and the way I always hear them pronounced. Maybe they are valid in some dialect, as you said, but on various RUclips channels and educational sites, I even hear people *say* the diphthongs as I do, but then give the IPA symbols that I swear are inconsistent, and I don’t understand. To me it goes further, because I’d argue the diphthongs in cow and go end in something closer to an /u/ sound. Not always exactly that, but certainly not /ʊ/. If you *actually* try to say the same vowel sound in “put” (which is said to be the sound symbolized by /ʊ/) as the last sound in “ow”, “cow”, or “go”, it sounds extremely bizarre because we don’t say that. The lips come far closer together in cow than in put. So when it comes to diphthongs, I genuinely don’t understand IPA notation at all. It drives me crazy because I swear I don’t hear the same sounds used in these diphthongs as everybody says, either in my own pronunciation or there’s, nor do I feel the same positions in my mouth during these diphthongs as I do saying the individual sounds they’re allegedly composed of. :s
Oh! In fact she herself did it here, just saw this part. At around 16:50 - 60 she’s saying /ou/ and says “from the /o/ to the /u/“ in her pronunciation but the board and subtitles say to the /ʊ/. But that is not the way she pronounces “put”! That would make it sound like “poot”! XD See this is what drives me crazy. I’m not criticizing her. Hadar, you’re my biggest inspiration for learning languages and pronunciation because your English is PERFECT and I was shocked when I first learned you’re not a native English-speaker. I’m just genuinely so perplexed as to why these IPA diphthong notations are used this way by teachers when they are certainly not composed of the same sounds as the ones those symbols represent on their own.
After looking through a few YT videos, most of which were British English, I finally found this comprehensive American English one. She builds and reviews the chart along the way, so you can get comfortable. At the end, like a good teacher, she does a final review to wrap things up neatly. Well done!
Well, you made a masterpiece of an explenation. This is the first time I see american sounds compared with the 5 cardinal vowels (that are the only ones existing in my language), so that I could have reference points. Absolutely well done. Grazie mille!!
There are teachers, good teachers, great teachers ... your are an AMAZING teacher! Thanks you so much Hadar for your cristal clear explanations, in just one video you made all the confusion disappear and saved me a lot of time. I'm so glad I came across your channel !
Hello dear! I hear ya! These are challenging times. But it’s amazing that you’re finding the time to educate yourself and support your children. Sending love!
@@hadar.shemesh i wasn't aware of the: relaxed " ɪ" ," ɜ " and the difference between tense " u " and relaxed " ʊ " you made me realize the small differences between similar sounds .THANK YOU AGAIN !
the best video about english vowels ever) I understood my problem and after practicing about a month by this video my pronunciation has improved! thank you)
It was very effective to listen to this lesson of you. Thanks for this beautiful accent section, hope to see more of this sort of lessons from you on this site. We understand that, even if we are great in English, but as second native speakers still need to formally learn the way how to pronounce it correctly. Once again appreciate this beautiful pronunciation video.
Hadar, I started watching your videos two days ago, already subscribed to your channel, no words can express how I feel, you are brilliant. Thank you for your videos.
It’s the best vowel lesson I’ve ever seen. I really appreciate your kindness :) I can deeply understand the differences of a lot of vowel sounds I didn’t know and be confused about~
Girlllll, this is far more useful and interesting as I thought your video would be. I'm really grateful that you made such a lovely video. I've been struggling pronounce vowel, consonants... for years and can't find a way to fix it. Now just only this video can save me like years of pratice. Thanks a lot Hadar. Kudos to you.
As you know already, I am your huge fan and your student, and I've seen all of your lessons multiple times. They are all amazing, but I am absolutely blown away by this one! This might be the best lesson you've ever created! Impressive! You taught me most of these things already, but this lesson helped me categorize everything in my head much better! I love it! 💕💕💕👏 I didn't know about the /æʊ/ diphthong, I always pronounce it as /aʊ/! I'll have to work on that!
I'm brazilian and I don't matter so much in pronounce. What I wish is improving my listening. They said that studying pronounce it help you to be better in listening.
This video is so amazing for English learner. Even teachers are not able to teach like her. Japanese has five vowels a i u e o but none of these exists in American English. No wonder we struggle to pronounce American English. Thanks a million!
Wow, this was what I was looking for recently and couldn’t find it. So easy to understand, although not so easy to imitate. Will or could you do something similar about the consonants as well in the fiture?? Good job!
Hi, Hadar! I just wanna say thank you, your videos helped me and now I sound more like native English speaker but there is a problem. I mean it's a little phrase that I can't say correctly it is " get off of" so can you make a video about it please?)
the funny thing is that that difference between the [ɔ] and the [ɑ] sound in the western dialects is that it is practically allophonic. Those that have the sound change can't actually hear the difference between these two sounds. So for those who wonder if their English dialect has actually undergone this sound change, listen to her say these two sounds and really pay attention. If they sound the same to you then you have it. If they sound different to you, then you don't have it. Personally I can't actually hear the difference. Good to know.
I was raised in California. For some reason, I say the word “off” with a slightly rounded sound, halfway between this video’s versions of daughter and the bottom right British, instead of with ɐ as in father. It’s not very noticeable, and closer to daughter and not as strong as the British ɒ. But it’s there. I did teach myself Spanish, and grew up with family with a strong Okie accent, plus have friends who speak various languages, so maybe it snuck in, or maybe I’ve always had it.
This video is amazing. Literally fixed my English. If you learn the basics like vowels and consonants you have pretty much the language. In spanish we just have a e i o u, American English like 14 vowels CRAZY
Teacher, I cannot understand how to tell if the pronunciation of the “u” sound have to be the first or the second one in a certain word: I mean, “room” has a similar spelling to “foot” or “look”, why do you pronounce it differently? How can I recognize the right pronunciation?
You can't recognize it. It's impossible. There are native English speakers who pronounce the "u" in "room" the same way as "foot." You just have to memorize the correct pronunciations. English pronunciation is difficult, and I'm a native speaker.
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Your pronunciations were very much not correct for Gen American English. "pull" "push" you said with more of a schwa than the correct vowel. At the end you said "weekipedia" when that i in wiki, is the same as in Dictionary. You clearly have accented features or non-native vowels in your speech .
Thank you, Hadar!
You asked "what do you think" at the end. The only thought that crossed my mind is "you are an extraordinary teacher "!
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Amazing explanations.
Likewise!!!! 😃😃😃
As a fellow teacher, I often find it hard to get students to improve their pronunciation. You've got a teacher follower in me now. Congrats for the excelent lesson.
Same
2:19 i as in 'see'
2:48 ɪ as in 'sit'
04:33 ɛ as in 'red' (some time /e/)
05:30 æ as in 'cat'
07:04 'eɪ' as in 'day'
8:01 'aʊ' as in 'now'
8:56 ' aɪ' as in 'my'
10:45 shwa sound (ə)
10:52 ʌ as in 'cup'
12:02 ɜ as in 'stir'
13:30 relaxed ʊ
13:54 tense u
14:57 relaxed ʊ
16:46 oʊ as in 'go'
17:28 ɔ as in 'daughter'
18:25 ɒ as in father
21:15 ɔɪ as in 'toy'
The symbol in father you wrote is wrong it's for british but in american is ɑ
@@halam6702 you are right that the upside down 'a' symbol is a birtish vowel, but in the word father specifically it's 'a' in both British and American English.
@@opalmay You are right. There is no /ɒ/ sound in "father". No matter what accent - GA or RP.
@@halam6702 Ohhhhhh that's british!!!! I didn't know. Thanks for your comment!
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Hands-down, the most impressive pronunciation teacher on RUclips. Whenever my students ask me how to improve their pronunciation, I instantly refer them to this channel. There's no way I can explain things better than Hadar.
100% agree.
I apreciete the way u teach English. I've been improving my English pronunciation with your lesson. I watching from Mozambique Maputo.
I am a Spanish major taking my first phonetics class. It has less complex vowels and I still find it quite difficult. This gives me so much respect for non-native English speakers. Mastering another language is no easy task!
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a e i o u - Listo, no hacia falta mas...
Really? Difficult? Spanish is super easy. We just have a e i o u. That's it. You guys have this amount of vowel sounds we have to master in order to reduce our accent and speak more clearly for you. So Spanish phonetics can't even be compared to English phonetics.
@@mep6302 You seem flustered. It’s not a competition about which language is more difficult to learn. Learning any second language is an impressive accomplishment. I wrote my comment four years ago and I stand by what I said. I use Spanish every day in work and my personal life. I’m proud of the fluency I’ve acquired and I also admire all the native Spanish speakers who learn English as a second language.
Dang, I'm Filipino and English is my second language and I second this statement, Phonetic is giving me a hard time 🙏. Took an English major as my course and here I am familiarizing myself with IPA 😭😭
Did you like this lesson?? If you did , share it with your students and friends! And tell me - what is the most difficult vowel sound for you? 😬
Accent's Way English with Hadar Shemesh Amazing lesson! Loved the scheme 😍
The most difficult sound is the "i" sound. 😬
Accent's Way English with Hadar Shemesh For me, thé différent I are difficult bécause don't exist in french. Thank you for your vidéos.
Hey teacher I miss you, great lesson thank u!!
I just started today I got to practice
I'm a Spanish native speaker who decided to get a masters in speech language pathology in English ... omg .... had I known what I was getting myself into :-) Now I'm supposed to teach little children with Apraxia who have vowel distortion disorders how to pronounce the vowels! I'm gonna watch this video before every vowel session I'm gonna have so I can pass my internship! You are sooooo good at this!!! I'm so grateful you posted this video!!! Now I see there is a light at the end of the tunnel I dag myself into ...
I'm planning to do the same. I'm finishing my degree in slp and I'm applying for a masters in slp in Canada. Would you mind telling me more about your experience? I'm freaking out about phonetics haha
Teacher to teacher: the level of command you show never ceases to amaze me. What a role model for learners of English as a foreign language. Respect!!!
You have absolutely melted my heart. Thank you.
What kind of class are you teaching?
Aaaand she's hot
@@alejandromaciel9748 yes, she is. : )
How long have you been watching her?
@@hadar.shemesh absolutely agree!!!!
This is what I have been looking for for years. Finally!
i absolutely agree with you. same for me!!
It is really feels like university level lesson!
Thank you so much for the lesson.
Hey Kuntal! Glad you liked it ♥️
Haha that's my course I take in college for linguistics
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You definitely explained better than my university.
@@Spikastru on
You are the best on RUclips!
I’m a non-native English teacher. I’ve been teaching the English language for more than 10 years. I don’t think I’ll ever master the sounds of American English the way Hadar has. I’m so impressed and a huge fan! Congratulations!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
As a non-native speaker desiring to have a better pronunciation, I really wished my teachers in school taught me this instead of the useless crap we wasted our time on. Everything can be understood better if you are given the tools to analytically reason about it. I don't know what would be the opinion of a native speaker, but to my ears you have the cleanest pronunciation I can imagine of AE. Every vowel sound you make is very intentional, deliberate and distinct from every other. I'll be listening to this video many times. Thanks a lot!
Also, I really wish such excellent lesson gets more popular, it doesn't deserve to pass undetected under the hadar...
I want to congratulate, because I invested a lot of money and time in international English schools in an English speaker country and you are the best person teaching English because the beginning of any lenguage is that. Because many international school just learning rubbish. Blessings and successful.
The person who invented this chart deserves a Noble prize, and Miss Hadar, who explained it so efficiently, deserves an Oscar.
I'm a native English speaker, but as someone taking a phonetics class at my university who missed a week of classes due to illness, thank you for this. This was super helpful and put my textbook reading into more context
Can't imagine that you are teaching us online. The way you teach make me feel as if you were teaching us in real life even pretty closely. If you were in my class teacher may be I would have forgotten to have my the all meal. Because I literally like your the teaching skill. The skill, how to teach people, is nothing but enjoy & enjoy. May God bless you forever.
Hi there, this year with Covid as the perfect excuse, I started taking online classes to work on my thick accent. The classes are great, but Hadar videos are such a huge support to practice and enforce the classes. You can tell she was born to teach. You are my super hero Hadar, you are the living proof that with hard work and practice I can get rid of my heavy "strong R´s" accent. Thanks very much.
I'm impressed. I'm from families that were in the USA since 4 or more generations ago, and I never saw this information before. It's almost like being told how to breathe correctly. Sure, it was already going fine, but it is amazing to really know how complex breathing really is.
What a great analogy:) yes, it fascinating to learn in such details how we actually function as humans
you are great teacher in the world and unique great mam you are very powerfull teacher🥰🥰
After 10 years struggling with that vowel's graph I've finally found one teacher who shows that work! Thank you. that is amazing.
I have been studying english for decades as a non-native speaker.
I think this is the best class I ever seen in my life... outstanding!
You have made me extremely happy to hear that!
The best explanation ever. As a brazilian I've realized how mispronuncing I was a lot of words all this time long. I was actually pronuncing did as deed cause I thought to myself that that did has a i sound.
What I think? Pure joy! Wow!!! It feels so good to find someone answering questions you did not even think you had the right to ask, and addressing concerns others perceive as "luxury" or snobbish, just because you "know" the grammar and are fluent in reading and writing. Your approach is life-giving. I said it ... "Pure Joy!" I am exceedingly happy I found you. I am enjoying each one of your words. Thanks for sharing all this. Now I have the "scientific" arguments to describe what was missing. Wow!
You really made my day with this response 🥰 sending love!
And no it’s not luxury, it’s essential so
You can feel free!
I've never seen that vowel chart before, that is awesome. I'll definitely use this, thanks so much for sharing it Hadar! 👍👍👍👍
Great! Don’t forget to download it then:) It helps clarify things and see the bigger picture
@@hadar.shemesh Will do! Thanks Hadar! 👍
there's also a consonant chart that's dang cool too
Absolutely everything in America is supposedly awesome. The word now seems to mean “slightly interesting “.
This kind of teaching is what every classroom should have
Thanks for the lesson.
Wow deares Hadar, is impossible to believe that english language is not your mother tongue. You´re speaking flawlessly
This is the easiest, clearest explanation of all the American vowels!!
Happy to know it was helpful!!
I was not aware there existed a vowel chart for every language. As a non native English speaker this allows me to realize of the subtle differences between each one of them. Not only that, but it also helps me to understand better how I can use similar tools for the other languages that I am learning. Amazing work of yours!
I though I had mastered the ε and the ae sounds, but then yesterday my roommate kept hearing me say mass when I meant mess. To say that it’s frustrating when people pay more attention to HOW I say things, instead of WHAT I say is an understatement. I don’t get vindication anymore when I show people that meme from Sophia Vergara that says, “you make fun of my accent... How cute! You speak only one language.” It also seems to fall on deaf ears when I tell people that I have to make a conscious effort to create these sounds that are not natural at all to me. I have to do this while learning a new culture that is equally hard to grasp, a culture with people that have no empathy/sympathy for my learning process. I appreciate this diagram of where in the tongue English and “natural vowels” are created. My native tongue is Brazilian Portuguese and I believe we use the natural vowels, so this diagram helps me compare them to English vowels, and maybe, hopefully, I can try to emulate them as close as possible, so that I don’t create confusion in peoples’ heads. I gave up on losing my accent a long time ago, but I cannot have people confused as to what I am saying. Thank you for your help.
Favorite moments, back to back: 19:14 19:25! "I did it because it looks better"! Thank you! Simply an amazing teacher! Loving it!
After 5 years listening to English only as far Im understanding and identifying the differents sounds that native speaker makes. Even when I had seen this explanation videos thousands of times before. It's tough for hispanish speaker like me. I loved ur video Haddy Linda😍
The best lesson about vowels pronunciation that I've ever seen. Thanks.
This. SO MUCH THIS. I'm a native english speaker, teaching myself russian. This chart blew my mind... Thank you so much!
Actually the way she mispronounces you (when she makes it short) sounds exactly like we say ю in Russian.
Best American IPA vowels lesson I've seen so far. Thank you so much, you're a lifesaver!
Youg lady: I have been into English almost all life long, it all begun at age 15 to me. In the first years it was wonderful since the sounds pronounced by my teacher were clear and easy to photocopy in my neurons, each time needed. But as time passed, as opportunities to practice English were scarce, and as it became more interesting to solve problems in our native language, there formed a gap between my "sound photocopying neurons" and the real horrible and chunky sounds that came out wnenever words came from me. This lecture has changed completely my neurons, and it is going to be great this time....... PS: this your faithful admirer, is very very old....
Why, thank you:)
Impossível não aprender com você. Deus abençoe você e sua família.
This is truly a master piece for any non native speaker, been self studying English for many years now and have had the opportunity to learn in a class room ESL & also out of the US. Nobody never explained vowels sounds ever! This is essential as that's how we learn to read and write in our native languages. Thank you Hadar I've been looking for this topic to understand exactly each and every sound, i didn’t even how to look up for this and here it is. 🎉
The lesson is really great, Hadar! It has really helped me understand the American vowels more clearly. I can see that you love teaching and are pretty excited while explaining. But please slow down. It will not only help foreigners perceive you better but also make you look more like a high lever expert who, as we know, are never in a hurry. I appreciate your work so much )
The best explanation of the IPA of American English!
I love this lesson so much. Thank you, Hadar! This 25-minute video is totally enough to sound more natural and American. I watch it again and again. I listen to it and repeat every sound, so my neighbors think I've gone crazy. I've shared it with my students and I'm trying to make them do the same, so they think I've gone crazy^)
Hello !
I wish I could hire you as my personal tutor. Your English knowledge is further outstanding than any other English native speakers. My deepest admiration for your work.
I believe you chart is an amazing tool that summarize most of American English sounds. You're doing a great job, thanks so much!
Thank you so much! Glad I can help!!
I have been studying English for a long time in Spain and to be honest I have never been taught the vowel sounds that enlightening way. It has been a master class...Thank you!!!!
As a fan of linguistics and a personal advocate for speaking with a good accent, this is an excellent video!
Flawless pronunciation!
This is the BEST video for starting French pronunciation for a native English speaker. I can compare the difficult Frenchie sounds to the English in my own mouth
I am studying translation in university (we study the British vowel sounds tho) and you explained it perfectly. Such a good teacher! Vowel sounds can get very tricky speacially if you are not used to listening all of these types of sounds.
I loved your video!!
Thank you for this excellent video. As a fellow practitioner in the ESOL field, I appreciate both its completeness and your presentation of it.
I have to argue a bit humorously, though, with your comment (at about the 9:40 mark) about the /ai/ diphthong when you say, ". . . like might, not 'mat'." You see, in the US Southern accent, that sound is a monophthong, & it IS 'mat'. This was first brought to my attention quite vividly when I went from my little hometown in Texas to university in the Boston area, and whenever I would merely introduce myself to a native there, my monophthong 'i' (in my last name, "Price") would literally cause people to stop the conversation and tell me, "Say that again!" Over and over, I found people absolutely mesmerized by that monophthong 'i' that was just plain old English to a southern boy like me. It makes me smile and laugh to remember it. I hope you understand my comment now about arguing "a bit humorously".
Interestingly, in the many years since then, I've found my 'i' production varying between the two versions, depending on context, register, audience, & all such as that. I suppose I don't speak in just one dialect any more, which kind of makes sense.
Again, thanks for this excellent video. Cheers.
This video is a pure gold. I just realized there are only neutral sounds in my language, and there is none of them in English.
I am from Perú. I really enjoy your explanation and you made me understand perfectly. I'm really thankful. Realmente se te quiere por lo que haces. No tiene precio. Abraham's God, Bless You Forever and Ever. 💫👋👋👋
I've never seen the diphthong /æʊ/, but /aʊ/. However your explanation fits great, to be honest. Maybe it depends on the region as you have said on 18:20 about the vowels /ɔ/ and /ɑ/; or maybe both /æʊ/ and /aʊ/ are valid on the whole country. Thank you so much for this lesson! It's very useful!
Yes you are right, the æ at the beginning is common in the US (general American) and it’s different than how it’s pronounced in British English and even other dialects of American English .
If you go to forgo.com or youglish.com
You’ll see that the word cat and cow begin with the same sound:) check it and let me know what you think!
@@hadar.shemesh Yes, they begin with the same sound. That's why I was surprised: because it's the same sound but I've always seen /aʊ/ on the transcription.
Thank you for the answer!
Francisco Francisco The commonly used IPA transcriptions for diphthongs never match the way I say them with my general American pronunciation and the way I always hear them pronounced. Maybe they are valid in some dialect, as you said, but on various RUclips channels and educational sites, I even hear people *say* the diphthongs as I do, but then give the IPA symbols that I swear are inconsistent, and I don’t understand. To me it goes further, because I’d argue the diphthongs in cow and go end in something closer to an /u/ sound. Not always exactly that, but certainly not /ʊ/. If you *actually* try to say the same vowel sound in “put” (which is said to be the sound symbolized by /ʊ/) as the last sound in “ow”, “cow”, or “go”, it sounds extremely bizarre because we don’t say that. The lips come far closer together in cow than in put. So when it comes to diphthongs, I genuinely don’t understand IPA notation at all. It drives me crazy because I swear I don’t hear the same sounds used in these diphthongs as everybody says, either in my own pronunciation or there’s, nor do I feel the same positions in my mouth during these diphthongs as I do saying the individual sounds they’re allegedly composed of. :s
Oh! In fact she herself did it here, just saw this part. At around 16:50 - 60 she’s saying /ou/ and says “from the /o/ to the /u/“ in her pronunciation but the board and subtitles say to the /ʊ/. But that is not the way she pronounces “put”! That would make it sound like “poot”! XD See this is what drives me crazy. I’m not criticizing her. Hadar, you’re my biggest inspiration for learning languages and pronunciation because your English is PERFECT and I was shocked when I first learned you’re not a native English-speaker. I’m just genuinely so perplexed as to why these IPA diphthong notations are used this way by teachers when they are certainly not composed of the same sounds as the ones those symbols represent on their own.
After looking through a few YT videos, most of which were British English, I finally found this comprehensive American English one. She builds and reviews the chart along the way, so you can get comfortable. At the end, like a good teacher, she does a final review to wrap things up neatly. Well done!
Well, you made a masterpiece of an explenation.
This is the first time I see american sounds compared with the 5 cardinal vowels (that are the only ones existing in my language), so that I could have reference points.
Absolutely well done.
Grazie mille!!
Thank you! Really excellent video!
Hadar, you are the best! And this was the best pronunciation class I’ve ever had!
Congratulations!
the best and clearest American vowel lesson in the world!
This is hands down one of the best and most thoroughly detailed videos on American pronunciation out there. Kudos 👌🏾👌🏾
Thank you so much 😀
You're the best teacher in the world of language
incomparable! it is a pity that there is no possibility to put two likes.
There are teachers, good teachers, great teachers ... your are an AMAZING teacher! Thanks you so much Hadar for your cristal clear explanations, in just one video you made all the confusion disappear and saved me a lot of time. I'm so glad I came across your channel !
Best comment of the year!!!! You made my day, thank you 😍🙏
Mexican mom doing homeschooling in USA and I'm so frustrated, thank you for this.❤❤❤
Hello dear! I hear ya! These are challenging times. But it’s amazing that you’re finding the time to educate yourself and support your children. Sending love!
This has to be THE best IPA explanation video on RUclips bar none
Incredible pronunciation lesson..!!
thanks for everything, you're awesome !
Thank you!! What was the most useful thing in the lesson? I’m curious to know. Were you aware of all those vowels?
@@hadar.shemesh i wasn't aware of the: relaxed " ɪ" ," ɜ " and the difference between tense " u " and relaxed " ʊ " you made me realize the small differences between similar sounds .THANK YOU AGAIN !
the best video about english vowels ever) I understood my problem and after practicing about a month by this video my pronunciation has improved! thank you)
omg omg omg thank you sooooo much for this!!!!! I'm gonna watch 99 times more!
Omg!!! That’s a lot of times!!! 😍♥️😍♥️
The most charismatic teacher ever! Thank you. Great video. You really helped me. 🙏❤️
It was very effective to listen to this lesson of you. Thanks for this beautiful accent section, hope to see more of this sort of lessons from you on this site.
We understand that, even if we are great in English, but as second native speakers still need to formally learn the way how to pronounce it correctly.
Once again appreciate this beautiful pronunciation video.
As a Spanish speaker, I needed this. I want to finally learn to pronounce the vowels. Thanks, this graph makes sense to me.
Exercises that I will do daily!
05:56: - seat, sit, set, sat
21:35: - seat, sit, red, cat, day, now, my, around, o'clock, holiday, cup...
Honestly, you are the best teacher I've had in my 2 years of line school
When you said... "What do you think?" I just have to say that əˈmeɪzɪŋ, thanks a lot Hadar
Hadar, I started watching your videos two days ago, already subscribed to your channel, no words can express how I feel, you are brilliant. Thank you for your videos.
It’s the best vowel lesson I’ve ever seen. I really appreciate your kindness :) I can deeply understand the differences of a lot of vowel sounds I didn’t know and be confused about~
Girlllll, this is far more useful and interesting as I thought your video would be. I'm really grateful that you made such a lovely video. I've been struggling pronounce vowel, consonants... for years and can't find a way to fix it. Now just only this video can save me like years of pratice. Thanks a lot Hadar. Kudos to you.
As you know already, I am your huge fan and your student, and I've seen all of your lessons multiple times. They are all amazing, but I am absolutely blown away by this one! This might be the best lesson you've ever created! Impressive! You taught me most of these things already, but this lesson helped me categorize everything in my head much better! I love it! 💕💕💕👏
I didn't know about the /æʊ/ diphthong, I always pronounce it as /aʊ/! I'll have to work on that!
I'm brazilian and I don't matter so much in pronounce. What I wish is improving my listening. They said that studying pronounce it help you to be better in listening.
Amazing! It's probably the best lesson I've seen. I wish you could make a similar video on differences between British and American accent
I can do that! :)
This video is so amazing for English learner. Even teachers are not able to teach like her.
Japanese has five vowels a i u e o but none of these exists in American English. No wonder we struggle to pronounce American English. Thanks a million!
Wow, this was what I was looking for recently and couldn’t find it. So easy to understand, although not so easy to imitate. Will or could you do something similar about the consonants as well in the fiture?? Good job!
Sure:) glad you liked it!
definitely the optimal tutorial I've ever watched on youtube. Also as a nonnative speaker, that's exactly what I need. Thanks for everything u did!
me encantó, muchas gracias!!!
I am speechless to say how much I enjoyed this lesson and how much I learned about it. Thank you dear Hadar.
Hi, Hadar!
I just wanna say thank you, your videos helped me and now I sound more like native English speaker but there is a problem. I mean it's a little phrase that I can't say correctly it is " get off of" so can you make a video about it please?)
Thank you so much!! You’re such an amazing teacher for us Spanish speakers. I do really appreciate your help 🫶🏻
You’re very welcome! 😊
I only have one word in mind: professional
Finally, i found a video that I'm looking for on How to Pronounce English Vowels. You did a good job Miss Hadar. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!
the funny thing is that that difference between the [ɔ] and the [ɑ] sound in the western dialects is that it is practically allophonic. Those that have the sound change can't actually hear the difference between these two sounds. So for those who wonder if their English dialect has actually undergone this sound change, listen to her say these two sounds and really pay attention. If they sound the same to you then you have it. If they sound different to you, then you don't have it. Personally I can't actually hear the difference. Good to know.
I was raised in California. For some reason, I say the word “off” with a slightly rounded sound, halfway between this video’s versions of daughter and the bottom right British, instead of with ɐ as in father. It’s not very noticeable, and closer to daughter and not as strong as the British ɒ. But it’s there.
I did teach myself Spanish, and grew up with family with a strong Okie accent, plus have friends who speak various languages, so maybe it snuck in, or maybe I’ve always had it.
I am an ESL teacher. You are simply GREAT!!!!
Who’s native English speaker but watching this? 😎
Lets talk
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Me!
The most complete and easy to understand explaination of this chart
why didn't my teachers teach us that? good stuff!
I think kids should learn it before they learn how to spell!!
This video is amazing. Literally fixed my English. If you learn the basics like vowels and consonants you have pretty much the language. In spanish we just have a e i o u, American English like 14 vowels CRAZY
3:25 falou o as vogais do Português perfeitamente 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧👏👏👏🇷
Te equivocas, era Español. ;)
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This is the best video of American English Vowels, I was able to understand the sounds and the vowels.Thanks a lot.
If not your name, I wouldnt've noticed you're Israeli. Your accent is flawless!
I must confess that you did justice to every sound in this chart. Thank you sooo muchh it my first time and i enjoy watching you.
Teacher, I cannot understand how to tell if the pronunciation of the “u” sound have to be the first or the second one in a certain word: I mean, “room” has a similar spelling to “foot” or “look”, why do you pronounce it differently?
How can I recognize the right pronunciation?
You can't recognize it. It's impossible. There are native English speakers who pronounce the "u" in "room" the same way as "foot." You just have to memorize the correct pronunciations. English pronunciation is difficult, and I'm a native speaker.
Saving this to explain it to people. Or my past self. I now understand why it’s hard, coming from 5 sounds in Spanish, to so many in English.
I do not envy English-spelling lurners.
Hahahaha
I love this video it is very clear, every time that I practice speaking I watch it then I speaking with myself, recording me etc