Pain (eI) VS Pen (ɛ) American English Minimal Pairs
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2024
- Wonder how to pronounce Pain (eI) VS Pen (ɛ) in American English?
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One of the biggest differences between how American English native speakers and language learners sound has to do with the vowels or consonants we use.
The reality: we often struggle to feel natural adding the elements we need to use in our pronunciation, especially when it comes to pronouncing vowels like native speakers.. Specifically, we're going to focus on common minimal pairs that cause issues for pronunciation students.
Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
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Thank you very much, I lost the live but I just watched it👌
thanks for checking it after!
Thanks Geoff, and congratulations for 10k subscribers!
thanks so much!
The /ɛ/ sound is one of the most difficult to master.
agree it is a very commonly confused vowel
That's another classic! Can you pls create a playlist for the minimal pairs from the live streams? That will be very helpful for going back and practicing!
Also, wanted to ask you, I heard some native speakers pronounce words like 'fail', 'whale', and 'tale' without the shift before the Dark L. So then it becomes quite tricky hearing the difference between pairs like fell/fail...Is that standard pronunciation or maybe some regional accent in the US?
will do re: playlists when I have a moment!
there are certainly accents that won't have the transition for dark L as noticeable as we discuss
@@FluentAmerican Thanks, that's good to know. But I guess you are talking about accents in the US? As I'm not really interested in the other variations.
@@SycAamore yes, the US! thanks for asking to clarify
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@@FluentAmerican Nice one, really appreciated!