Speak English Naturally: SCHWA Pronunciation

Would you like to sound more like a native English speaker? Well, this vowel sound, known as SCHWA, is worth getting to know! It occurs very frequently in spoken English, about once in every three vowel sounds, in words such as “the”, the first syllable of “about”, and the second syllable of “sofa”. One of the most difficult aspects of the schwa sound is that in order to pronounce it correctly, you have to almost ignore the normal sound of the vowel you are looking at and make the schwa sound instead. In this lesson I’ll give examples of words containing the schwa, and I’ll demonstrate how to pronounce them. So you can benefit in two ways, both in terms of English pronunciation and English vocabulary! www.engvid.com/speak-english-...
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In this lesson:
0:00 What is the "schwa" sound?
3:50 "schwa" sound examples

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Thanks for watching, everyone. For more English pronunciation videos, try these next:
Say it correctly in English! -TION, -SION, -CIAN, -CION czcams.com/video/Vsc03jsFLL0/video.html
Easy English: How to pronounce the long vowel sound in words ending in "e" czcams.com/video/XglgzPt-RaA/video.html

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Finally I understood the schwa sound!! I live in the US, but it didn’t make sense for me until now!! Thanks for your help!

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Finally, a simple, direct, and straightforward explanation of the schwa sound. Thanks a million :-)

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In Russia, British English is predominantly studied as a foreign language at school, but schwa is not studied as deeply. There is no native speaker as a teacher to explain such nuances

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@@moonlike Так то ж в институте, я про школу написал)

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When I get a notification that you've made a new video. It always puts a big smile on my face, thank you!😊❤
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Just found out I've been pronouncing family wrong all my life!🙃
I like learning new things!

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Dear Gill.
I’ve just discovered your videos. They look very useful. My wife and I try to improve our poor English. The Schwa sound is just the same sound than the Catalan neutral vowel.

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After studying English for years and years in school, I can't remember anyone ever mentioning this. I wish they had, because I had never realised such a thing and difference in pronounciation in some words by myself... Like man - postman

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Do we know if that schwa sound when we pronounce the ending -er as -ah adopted into English language when the Saxons from Germany invaded England?
In German they also don’t pronounce the -er but they make an -a sound.

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