American English Vowels | IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) vowel chart FREE DOWNLOAD

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    If you want to improve your pronunciation and clarity, start with American English vowels IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) chart. In this video, I’m taking you into my classroom to review all the vowel sounds of American English. We will go over the vowel chart, learn the IPA symbols (International Phonetic Alphabet) and hear the difference between the different vowels.
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    And here is a breakdown of the vowel sounds discussed:
    0:00 Intro
    2:17 i as in 'see'
    2:44 ɪ as in 'sit'
    02:44 relaxed ɪ
    04:29 ɛ as in 'red'
    05:28 æ as in 'cat'
    06:23 'eɪ' as in 'day'
    7:39 'aʊ' as in 'now'
    8:53 ' aɪ' as in 'my'
    10:13 shwa sound (ə)
    10:48 ʌ as in 'cup'
    11:48 ɜ as in 'stir'
    13:12 tense u vs relaxed ʊ
    16:03 oʊ as in 'go'
    17:26 ɔ as in 'daughter'
    20:25 ɔɪ as in 'toy'
    21:06 Overview
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  • @hadar.shemesh
    @hadar.shemesh  Před 25 dny +2

    Don’t forget to download my IPA vowel chart (with example words) to be able to know how to pronounce ANYTHING: bit.ly/3oHEh1T

  • @julianapaccola8260
    @julianapaccola8260 Před 4 lety +500

    You asked "what do you think" at the end. The only thought that crossed my mind is "you are an extraordinary teacher "!

  • @phamucanh8451
    @phamucanh8451 Před 4 lety +379

    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
      @halam6702 Před 3 lety +14

      The symbol in father you wrote is wrong it's for british but in american is ɑ

    • @opalmay
      @opalmay Před 3 lety +5

      @@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.

    • @Damio22yt
      @Damio22yt Před 3 lety +1

      @@opalmay You are right. There is no /ɒ/ sound in "father". No matter what accent - GA or RP.

    • @BrendaYelting
      @BrendaYelting Před 3 lety +1

      @@halam6702 Ohhhhhh that's british!!!! I didn't know. Thanks for your comment!

    • @halam6702
      @halam6702 Před 3 lety +1

      @@BrendaYelting 💚

  • @TauseefClub
    @TauseefClub Před 2 lety +9

    The person who invented this chart deserves a Noble prize, and Miss Hadar, who explained it so efficiently, deserves an Oscar.

  • @TheEfficientGamer
    @TheEfficientGamer Před 3 lety +101

    Hands-down, the most impressive pronunciation teacher on CZcams. 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.

  • @sergioartal
    @sergioartal Před 5 lety +323

    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!!!

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 5 lety +25

      You have absolutely melted my heart. Thank you.

    • @Wisdom23
      @Wisdom23 Před 4 lety +1

      What kind of class are you teaching?

    • @alejandromaciel9748
      @alejandromaciel9748 Před 4 lety +1

      Aaaand she's hot

    • @Wisdom23
      @Wisdom23 Před 4 lety +1

      @@alejandromaciel9748 yes, she is. : )
      How long have you been watching her?

    • @fernandohuamani36
      @fernandohuamani36 Před 4 lety +1

      @@hadar.shemesh absolutely agree!!!!

  • @haleybluemn3090
    @haleybluemn3090 Před 3 lety +99

    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!

  • @yolandagrisalestrentadue7168

    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 ...

  • @pimkleproductions3294
    @pimkleproductions3294 Před 3 lety +28

    Mexican mom doing homeschooling in USA and I'm so frustrated, thank you for this.❤❤❤

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 3 lety +7

      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!

  • @kuntalkole2612
    @kuntalkole2612 Před 5 lety +231

    It is really feels like university level lesson!
    Thank you so much for the lesson.

  • @jamesscalloparquivos3986
    @jamesscalloparquivos3986 Před 3 lety +15

    Wow deares Hadar, is impossible to believe that english language is not your mother tongue. You´re speaking flawlessly

  • @henrykhosasih8781
    @henrykhosasih8781 Před 4 lety +101

    This is what I have been looking for for years. Finally!

    • @Manolete919
      @Manolete919 Před 2 lety +1

      i absolutely agree with you. same for me!!

  • @sanjibsarmah1582
    @sanjibsarmah1582 Před 3 lety +7

    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.

  • @english4uwithanneta748
    @english4uwithanneta748 Před rokem +3

    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!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @hadar.shemesh
    @hadar.shemesh  Před 5 lety +546

    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? 😬

    • @mamymimma
      @mamymimma Před 5 lety +7

      Accent's Way English with Hadar Shemesh Amazing lesson! Loved the scheme 😍

    • @anapaulamendes6591
      @anapaulamendes6591 Před 5 lety +8

      The most difficult sound is the "i" sound. 😬

    • @martineschuler4131
      @martineschuler4131 Před 5 lety +2

      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.

    • @dasilvatube74
      @dasilvatube74 Před 5 lety +2

      Hey teacher I miss you, great lesson thank u!!

    • @ugosanz5044
      @ugosanz5044 Před 5 lety

      I just started today I got to practice

  • @itellyouforfree7238
    @itellyouforfree7238 Před rokem

    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!

    • @itellyouforfree7238
      @itellyouforfree7238 Před rokem

      Also, I really wish such excellent lesson gets more popular, it doesn't deserve to pass undetected under the hadar...

  • @Hossam.Abostate
    @Hossam.Abostate Před 2 lety +1

    Super helpful! From a native Arabic speaker.

  • @lsdominguez6201
    @lsdominguez6201 Před 3 lety +12

    After 10 years struggling with that vowel's graph I've finally found one teacher who shows that work! Thank you. that is amazing.

  • @jbfrankenstein2981
    @jbfrankenstein2981 Před 4 lety +5

    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.

  • @ekaly23
    @ekaly23 Před 25 dny

    As a Spanish speaker, I needed this. I want to finally learn to pronounce the vowels. Thanks, this graph makes sense to me.

  • @eudesbalmon1242
    @eudesbalmon1242 Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @WNYmathGuy
    @WNYmathGuy Před 3 lety +11

    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.

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 3 lety +6

      What a great analogy:) yes, it fascinating to learn in such details how we actually function as humans

  • @idk-eg1vy
    @idk-eg1vy Před 2 lety +11

    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

  • @rohitkarne7308
    @rohitkarne7308 Před 9 měsíci +1

    you are great teacher in the world and unique great mam you are very powerfull teacher🥰🥰

  • @fiof
    @fiof Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @costelmandris3676
    @costelmandris3676 Před 2 lety +3

    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...

  • @davidmacdonald9159
    @davidmacdonald9159 Před 3 lety +32

    As a fan of linguistics and a personal advocate for speaking with a good accent, this is an excellent video!
    Flawless pronunciation!

  • @adrianperez-in7qe
    @adrianperez-in7qe Před 20 dny

    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

  • @foralula629
    @foralula629 Před 9 měsíci

    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.

  • @arm_os
    @arm_os Před 4 lety +54

    incomparable! it is a pity that there is no possibility to put two likes.

  • @GrantCareerCoaching
    @GrantCareerCoaching Před 5 lety +80

    I've never seen that vowel chart before, that is awesome. I'll definitely use this, thanks so much for sharing it Hadar! 👍👍👍👍

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 5 lety +5

      Great! Don’t forget to download it then:) It helps clarify things and see the bigger picture

    • @GrantCareerCoaching
      @GrantCareerCoaching Před 5 lety +2

      @@hadar.shemesh Will do! Thanks Hadar! 👍

    • @NickleJ
      @NickleJ Před 4 lety +1

      there's also a consonant chart that's dang cool too

    • @drewmog123456
      @drewmog123456 Před 3 lety

      Absolutely everything in America is supposedly awesome. The word now seems to mean “slightly interesting “.

  • @mayito8531
    @mayito8531 Před 3 lety +1

    Awesome! So we’ll explained. I’ll watch the video again and again.

  • @kelberadriangutierrezramos550

    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. 💫👋👋👋

  • @007Layanne
    @007Layanne Před 4 lety +10

    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.

  • @MauricioFigueroa-si4ws
    @MauricioFigueroa-si4ws Před 4 lety +8

    The best lesson about vowels pronunciation that I've ever seen. Thanks.

  • @luisjaimegonzalez4592
    @luisjaimegonzalez4592 Před 2 lety

    wow I've been speaking english for 6 years and today I realized I've been pronouncing "only" in an incorrect way. Thank you Hadar !

  • @OoFizinho
    @OoFizinho Před měsícem

    Best video i have ever had about the vowels in english yet

  • @horizontecaminhosaereos9907

    Impossível não aprender com você. Deus abençoe você e sua família.

  • @guillermomaldonado4453
    @guillermomaldonado4453 Před 3 lety +7

    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.

  • @elonamusk4058
    @elonamusk4058 Před rokem +1

    Thank you very much!
    It’s really helpful for me, because I’m from Russia and I’ll move to America, and I’m working with my accent and pronunciation ‘cause I really like it!❤
    Thanks for helpful lesson!

  • @velamars4980
    @velamars4980 Před 29 dny

    This is the best thing i've ever watched, i'm obsessed

  • @tedlim8452
    @tedlim8452 Před 4 lety +4

    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~

  • @andrewmagic7014
    @andrewmagic7014 Před 3 lety +14

    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^)

  • @rafaeldd
    @rafaeldd Před 3 lety

    Maybe this is the best video on vowels in American English. Congrats.

  • @jim55price
    @jim55price Před 2 lety

    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.

  • @breeg3488
    @breeg3488 Před 3 lety +4

    Best American IPA vowels lesson I've seen so far. Thank you so much, you're a lifesaver!

  • @lucianobarreto6971
    @lucianobarreto6971 Před 3 lety +3

    Hadar, you are the best! And this was the best pronunciation class I’ve ever had!
    Congratulations!

  • @ayubshah353
    @ayubshah353 Před 7 měsíci

    It's an amazing way of teaching for all age groups of people.

  • @UnschoolingtheSpitz
    @UnschoolingtheSpitz Před 4 měsíci

    I can’t even believe this video. Absolutely amazing.The amount of time it must have taken to organize this lecture, wow. Thank you so much for this. ❤❤Bravo, lo aprecio mucho 👏👏

  • @itsdavide
    @itsdavide Před 4 lety +2

    Favorite moments, back to back: 19:14 19:25! "I did it because it looks better"! Thank you! Simply an amazing teacher! Loving it!

  • @slowmolife4289
    @slowmolife4289 Před 3 lety +13

    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!!

  • @Jaime-kq7zh
    @Jaime-kq7zh Před 2 lety

    This is the best video of American English Vowels, I was able to understand the sounds and the vowels.Thanks a lot.

  • @suroormn7653
    @suroormn7653 Před 2 lety

    STUDIED MY WHOLE SCHOOL LIFE IN BRITISH ENGLISH AND NOW LEARNING AMAERICAN ENGLISH FOR COLLEGE .
    FEELS REALLY HARD
    BUT
    THANK YOU SO MUCH

  • @billy-daproudfarmer9555
    @billy-daproudfarmer9555 Před 4 lety +3

    Holy Christ! What a teacher! Im spellbound by your style of enunciation.

  • @wilsonvelasquez9715
    @wilsonvelasquez9715 Před 4 lety +10

    When you said... "What do you think?" I just have to say that əˈmeɪzɪŋ, thanks a lot Hadar

  • @andrefbferraz
    @andrefbferraz Před 4 lety +1

    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!

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 4 lety +1

      You have made me extremely happy to hear that!

  • @mihonog
    @mihonog Před 4 lety +1

    This is the easiest, clearest explanation of all the American vowels!!

  • @samiaalhussein6481
    @samiaalhussein6481 Před 4 lety +3

    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.

  • @paz10vida
    @paz10vida Před 4 lety +5

    I believe you chart is an amazing tool that summarize most of American English sounds. You're doing a great job, thanks so much!

  • @superAweber
    @superAweber Před 3 lety

    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

  • @user-sw6ud5pl7q
    @user-sw6ud5pl7q Před 5 měsíci

    You are amazing. This is the best phonetics teaching video i found on youtube.

  • @bsgang2.0
    @bsgang2.0 Před 4 lety +4

    This is hands down one of the best and most thoroughly detailed videos on American pronunciation out there. Kudos 👌🏾👌🏾

  • @giyu2687
    @giyu2687 Před 5 lety +14

    Incredible pronunciation lesson..!!
    thanks for everything, you're awesome !

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 5 lety +1

      Thank you!! What was the most useful thing in the lesson? I’m curious to know. Were you aware of all those vowels?

    • @giyu2687
      @giyu2687 Před 5 lety

      ​@@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 !

  • @mskiptr
    @mskiptr Před 3 lety +1

    Great and precise explanation!
    Still, consonants are way easier!
    Differentiating between /(t)ʃ/ vs /(t)ɕ/, /(ʈ)ʂ/ (+ their voiced counterparts). Stuff like /ŋ/, /ʔ/ and maybe actually pronouncing all those different "r"s is way easier than distinguishing between ale the "o"s, "a"s and remembering how many little variations can some people actually notice.

  • @randomlabs1784
    @randomlabs1784 Před rokem

    I watched 2 years ago.. I didn't get most of it. Today, I understood it a lot better. Don't watch this video once. keep it in your bookmarks and watch it at least once every 6 months or so.. You'll se how your understanding of American vowels will change over time.

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před rokem

      This is so nice! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽

  • @Liroly
    @Liroly Před 3 lety +3

    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!!

  • @unecat
    @unecat Před 4 lety +11

    omg omg omg thank you sooooo much for this!!!!! I'm gonna watch 99 times more!

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 4 lety

      Omg!!! That’s a lot of times!!! 😍♥️😍♥️

  •  Před 2 lety

    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....

  • @ritaekpe2766
    @ritaekpe2766 Před rokem +1

    Your IPA explanation is so enjoyable

  • @gal749
    @gal749 Před 3 lety +7

    If not your name, I wouldnt've noticed you're Israeli. Your accent is flawless!

  • @hintergarten
    @hintergarten Před 5 lety +3

    Your video came in handy because I was confused when I heard someone pronounce law with an "open a". Now I know that even in US there are some nuances in pronunciation.

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 5 lety

      Absolutely. It’s called the cot caught vowel merge. It’s interesting

  • @kara1599
    @kara1599 Před rokem

    I generally speak British English, but this video helps me understand the difference with American English and adapt it better when I watch American films or series.

  • @3lovelycircles231
    @3lovelycircles231 Před 2 lety

    Best pronunciation lesson I've ever seen. Thank you!

  • @leonela3758
    @leonela3758 Před 5 lety +4

    me encantó, muchas gracias!!!

  • @xboxnube
    @xboxnube Před 3 lety +8

    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.

    • @alfranco918
      @alfranco918 Před měsícem

      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.

  • @ahmedbachaahmed-wd4df
    @ahmedbachaahmed-wd4df Před rokem +1

    You're the best teacher in the world of language

  • @ezekielmancha1630
    @ezekielmancha1630 Před 6 měsíci

    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.

  • @jennguyen133
    @jennguyen133 Před 4 lety +3

    Thank you for your lesson,I spoke English more than 30years.But I made a lot mistake of mispronounce cause I didn’t learn IPA,and dint know how to use grammar rule.

  • @alejandromorales7050
    @alejandromorales7050 Před 4 lety +17

    I only have one word in mind: professional

  • @bennyceram9396
    @bennyceram9396 Před 11 měsíci

    Wonderful lesson, you are teaching so passionately. Thank you!

  • @mr10jechu
    @mr10jechu Před 2 lety

    Congratulations Teacher !. The best explanation about English vowel sounds. Thank you!

  • @jelenadukuljev1978
    @jelenadukuljev1978 Před 5 lety +13

    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!

  • @19asenchik
    @19asenchik Před 4 lety +11

    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

  • @TeacherLovensy
    @TeacherLovensy Před 3 lety +1

    To be honest, I don't have words to express how important this video is. But I congratulate the teacher for her teaching method.

  • @artis.ukraine
    @artis.ukraine Před rokem

    That's probably the best video about the vowels chart I've ever seen. Thank you!

  • @Freathiscore
    @Freathiscore Před 5 lety +8

    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!

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 5 lety +3

      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!

    • @Freathiscore
      @Freathiscore Před 5 lety +1

      @@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!

    • @ADS_Fenix
      @ADS_Fenix Před 4 lety +3

      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 CZcams 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

    • @ADS_Fenix
      @ADS_Fenix Před 4 lety +2

      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.

  • @faridwajdi4774
    @faridwajdi4774 Před 4 lety +3

    Cool, this is the ultimate lesson for pronunciation :D

  • @victoriahernandez6531
    @victoriahernandez6531 Před 5 měsíci

    Best video on english pronunciation I've ever seen, thank you SO MUCH ❤‍🔥

  • @marcioalvesferreira1647

    OH MY GOSH! WHAT'S WONDERFUL EXPLANATION, TEACHER! I BECAME YOUR FAN!!

  • @jakubr4634
    @jakubr4634 Před 5 lety +4

    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!

  • @user-ed8dm8gp7l
    @user-ed8dm8gp7l Před 4 lety +4

    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?)

  • @Manolete919
    @Manolete919 Před 2 lety

    For mi this was the best class ever in pronunciation!!

  • @luisprado4041
    @luisprado4041 Před 6 měsíci

    I am an ESL teacher. You are simply GREAT!!!!

  • @skarlethromero517
    @skarlethromero517 Před 5 lety +3

    Wonderful!! thank UU so much for your existence we appreciate UU forever UU will be , UU are the best one

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 5 lety +2

      Thank you so much!! You are so sweet and I’m glad you find my work helpful!!

  • @caiogabriel145
    @caiogabriel145 Před 3 lety +3

    3:25 falou o as vogais do Português perfeitamente 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧👏👏👏🇷

    • @_Executor_
      @_Executor_ Před 3 lety +1

      Te equivocas, era Español. ;)

    • @caiogabriel145
      @caiogabriel145 Před 3 lety +1

      @@_Executor_"
      é mermo é sábia não"
      Marinho

  • @carlosroyero2420
    @carlosroyero2420 Před rokem

    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😍

  • @marcosrocha1429
    @marcosrocha1429 Před rokem

    A tip for Portuguese and Spanish Speakers when pronouncing words with the ih sound as in fish, tip, disk, lift. Think of the ih sound as the closed e sound in Portuguese and Spanish. Pronounce this sound placing the closed e sound we know and you'll not be misunderstood and thus the pronunciation will sound pretty closer to that of a native.

  • @MrShacho1
    @MrShacho1 Před 4 lety +23

    Who’s native English speaker but watching this? 😎

  • @jenmu7870
    @jenmu7870 Před 5 lety +8

    why didn't my teachers teach us that? good stuff!

    • @hadar.shemesh
      @hadar.shemesh  Před 5 lety +7

      I think kids should learn it before they learn how to spell!!

  • @Santi-ev4ky
    @Santi-ev4ky Před 3 lety +2

    This is not just a Master Class, it's a MASTER Class