Placement and American English Pronunciation
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- ESL: Learn about placement in American English.
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Guys very use information. I struggled with placement a lot until I discovered this one trick: When practicing shadowing/imitation place your hand gently on the Chest and lower your pitch and feel the vibration. It automatically fixes your focus on chest (lower placement)
Please try it. I wish you all the best❤
Yes, Spanish speakers tend to have a higher placement. But remember that placement shouldn't affect pitch, so if you try to lower your placement but are just speaking on lower tones, it's not the same thing. Since this is probably a totally foreign concept to you, I encourage you to begin with just playing around with different placements, as described in this video.
Best, Rachel
There are different ways to make the placement more nasal and higher: one, by lowering the soft palate, so air comes through the nasal passage, and two, by tensing muscles in the front of the throat.
Actually, the throat should not be engaged in any of the vowel sounds. So I would stay they are all mouth-controlled. What we do with the mouth/throat changes the placement. Once the throat is brought it, it throws off the placement.
Best,
Rachel
Hey, Rachel. I love your videos. I have seen several of them. I teach English and Spanish and my students who are learning English love your videos. I have noticed this placement problem with my students, especially the ones from Brazil. They have a lot of nasality and twang in their voice. I am also a singer and my ear is very tuned to placement and color tone. Uh is much brighter than Ah. When I want to have a brighter tone while singing I use more uh than ah. When I hear my Brazilian student speak English, I hear a lot of cord closure (twang) in their vocal cords and a higher placement which I think has to do with their vocal cords. They also use a lot of nasality which has to do with their soft palate. As I was writing this I discovered a video of yours that talks about the soft palate. Very cool. Maybe it will help my students.
Greetings from Washington State.
- Cory
Thanks a lot Cory! Greatly appreciated! :)
Rachel's English is the BEST
Yes, we can hear the difference.
more lessons like this one, please. It' very helpful especially for Koreans whose language doesn't use that much deep chest voice for vowels or consonants.
I watched almost all of your video tutorial and it really helps me a lot to improve my pronunciation , it really helps me to speak more effectively and accurately, please make a video that could help on how to avoid stuttering. thank you so much, this video is more than what i've got in school.
This video is amazingly useful! It's just sad that I don't know which American sounds are supposed to be throat-controlled and which are supposed to be mouth-controlled, so it's kind of difficult to apply the concept outside of the schwa and [a] sound as in "not", as demonstrated in the video... will there be a "sequel" to the video, perhaps to elaborate a bit on the placement of other vowels? As usual, thank you so much for everything you're doing, you are an amazing teacher!
the really important placement which makes just difference between UH and AH 🙏🙏🙏
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Hi, um, I have a website with a video describing each sound specifically in terms of the tongue/lip position, as well as videos on the IPA. See my IPA and Sounds playlist on my RUclips channel to start.
Best,
Rachel
Rachel's English OK. I'll do it.
I just realized that why I sound different when I speak half-voice. I sound native when half-voice and not native when full voice. When you speak half-voice your sound placement is in your chest but you can control it. When you speak full voice, you control the placement. I didn't.
Thank you for. Teach me
You're welcome!
YOU'RE my favourite 😊
But how can you place your voice lower without stressing out your throat? Are there any exercises in order to not feel tension and relax those organs (larynx and its parts)?
I feel constraint and mostly I sound robotically when I try placing the voice lower.
Great question! I would strongly recommend checking out my playlist on relaxation - I'll link to it below. But also, instead of thinking about "placing" your voice lower, try "allowing" yourself to speak without any tension, keep your tongue soft, your lips soft, your jaw soft and your throat soft. Try making sound from that very soft feeling. If you are truly relaxed when you do this, you won't have to "place" your voice lower, your voice will sound lower and more full naturally. Here is the link to the playlist I mentioned: ruclips.net/p/PLrqHrGoMJdTT3d6hNj7GkHFlpHSArrhlR
Thank you so much
Helo Rachel mam i wud like to c more video on various position of english alphabet waiting for ur best response
Hi! Here is a playlist that goes through all of the American English sounds: ruclips.net/p/PLB043E64B8BE05FB7
Rachel, I love your way to teach, but sometimes is so dificult to see the difference between sounds.
Hi! In [ɑ] vs. [ʌ] should I don't feel any vibration on my throat wen trying a low placement? After some training I can make both sounds, but doesn't feel like that I accomplish lower my placement! I'm Brazilian by the way, so your previously answer to a Spanish student in this class it's very useful l to me. French, Spanish and Brazilian are just Latin branches. I just don't know how to figure out if I'm doing this right or not. Sorry bother you, but is far far way to our Latin way to speak. Thank you very much.
Hello! Working on placement can be very challenging! My guess is that you may want to pay special attention to the back of your tongue when pronouncing these sounds. To find lower placement, we need keep the back of the mouth a bit more open than you may be used to, this means that the back of the tongue may be a little lower. One way to play with opening up that space in the back of your mouth is to pretend to yawn. You'll feel your tongue get low in the mouth and you'll feel a lot of space in the back of the mouth. Then practice these vowels while holding onto that open sensation.
I tried again and get it, I'm going to exercise it a lot now. Thank you very much.
@@rachelsenglish wow this tip really helped a lot, thanks so much!
I've been trying to learn it for three days. Can you teach me, Noberto ?
Such a great video
Thank you @UnschoolingtheSpitz!
Excelente 👍👍👍😉👍
Ah, aa, ahhh, ah, aa, ahhh, I was doing it while taking a shower and my wife got curious and asked what was going on in there (an awkward situation).
Does your voice or sound resonate in the center of your mouth or the upper chest low I don’t get it can someone explain or maybe Kim can you please I’m so hard with this????
Great question! Placement is a tough concept to work on - but I have a few new videos that may help - here's a playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLrqHrGoMJdTQL93O-M9EhrEkgcPNi44jC
So, Rachel, can american natives hear the difference in sounds when they say, for example, words like "wonder" and "wander"? Because to my ears it sounds the same..
A explicação é um pouco complexa. Se alguém souber de algum Canal que tenha um professor brasileiro ensinando essa questão do placement, por favor me indique o nome do Canal, ou o nome do professor. Gostaria de ver essa explicação na minha língua nativa, Português. Thank you in advance!
Hello Rachel, I just had a question for you. I watched this video and remember something my teacher once told me but didn't pay attention as much as now. Ok, so I speak spanish and I think I speak with my mouth/throat, well I can't really tell the difference between talking with your mouth/ throat or chest. Can you please help me how to differentiate them ? My voice sounds deeper when I try to talk with my chest. Is that normal? do spanish speaker talk with with their mouth/throat? Thank you
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these two sounds are almost indistinguishable to me
Dang ...I can't shift the placements without changing the pitch.....
Thanks for sharing @ziggyai!
At 0:34 I have the impression you are pronouncing the a (not the A) kinda wrong... Isn't it a much more opened "Ah" than then one you're doing (it's made when the tonge is on a state of full relaxation). Although it doesn't really matter, because you're teaching the A, anyways;
I need help how do you say Kermit watchu came up with man
A sounds like a goose voice ..
It' s hard to understand just seeing. You need to be aware of the muscle you exert to know how to use this in the best way, but I couldn't.
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It's all greek to me huhu