Do THIS to learn /ɔː/ and /ɒ:/
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In this English pronunciation video, I show you how to tell the difference between the English vowel sound /ɔː/, and the English vowel sound /ɒ/. These 2 sounds are difficult to differentiate between because they both come from the back of the mouth, and are both made with your lips in the rounded position.
In the video I show you the similarities between the 2 sounds, and also the differences that you need to be able to recognise if you want to tell the difference between both sounds.
I start the video by showing you how to make both sounds. Then I give you a simple exercise to help you practice going between the 2 sounds. I then give you 5 minimal pairs for you to practice your listening and ability to recognise both sounds - you can then use these words to practice pronouncing them correctly. Finally, I give you 2 sentences that you can practice to get more comfortable using these sounds in proper speech. The tutorial is highly practical, so get ready to practice, and get ready to improve!
Here’s the positioning in your mouth for the 2 sounds:
/ɔː/ Position
Vowel height: mouth 3/4 open, relaxed
Vowel backness: back of mouth,
Vowel roundedness: Rounded,
Vowel Length: long
/ɒ/ Position
Vowel height: Mouth fully open, relaxed.
Vowel backness: Sound comes from the back of the mouth. Tongue pulled back a little
Vowel roundedness: Rounded,
Vowel Length: Short
5 minimal pairs for the /ɔː/ sound vs /ɒ/ sound
Chord cod
Fawned Fond
Stalk Stock
Caught cot
Dork doc
The sentences to practice the 2 vowel sounds are:
/ɒ/ sound - The odd dog was obviously lost
/ɔː/ sound - Four daughters walked to court
If you put in the practice then you will make a big important improvement in your English pronunciation and English speech.
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Extremely useful video ! Keep up to date with your works presented and well done :)
Glad you've liked it Sheng, and thank you for your comment.I'm planning the next videos for the channel and would love you to help me make some decisions. Could you answer a few quick questions to help me: goo.gl/forms/lNsEtJYHNVXkFAOQ2
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Thank you very much for showing the difference! This is what I need
Lisa, you're welcome! I'm pleased the vids are helping you!
This really helpful mate
Thank you so much for the great video. I can't recognize the difference until watching it
Hi Kiều, You're welcome. I'm pleased it's helped you to recognise the difference.
Where do you come from?
I'm giving away a free 5 day pronunciation course at the moment... You might have seen a CZcams Ad for it. Have you gained access to it?
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Michael
Thank you
Thanks for teaching, I now learn the difference of 2 sounds.
Excellent! Glad it's got you the result C W. Thank you for your comments!
Thank you Sir.
very clear
I can't thank you enough teacher
I love your tutorials. Thank you very much!
Hi Loan, You're very welcome! Have you gained access to my free pronunciation course? If you love the tutorials here, then you'll love the course!
Thanks for your comments,
Michael
@@britishaccentmethod Thanks Michael, I have just had the access and I look forward to watching your tutorials soon.
@@britishaccentmethod very useful ,thanks sir!
thank you
i really appreciate your lesson sir. it has impacted my pronounciation. subtitles could help for easy understanding. thanks from Cameroon
You are welcome! That's great to know that it's helped you! I'm pleased. Thanks for letting me know. Did you see yesterday's video? Check it out if not, I think you'll like it!
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Enjoy😀
Michael
thank you !! learn a lot from this video
Hi Lim, I'm glad to hear it's helped you!
Thank you for commenting.
Michael
Thank you for this! Great tips. I'd suggest that you included the phonemic script to aid your examples. That helps visual learners like myself =) keep up with the great work!
Thanks Garbiela,
Can you join any of the live Q And A's this week?
I'll happily answer any questions you have.
Michael :)
thanks
Thank you!
You're welcome! I'm glad it's helped you :) Good to have you hear on the channel!
Michael
great video
Great! Thank you :)
Thanks for your comments Інна.
I appreciate you engaging with the videos!
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Hi. I do like your lessons on phonetics with a British pronunciation. Please continue. Thanks
Hi Luca, glad you'r finding them helpful! I'm planning the next videos for the channel and would love you to help me make some decisions. Could you answer a few quick questions to help me: goo.gl/forms/lNsEtJYHNVXkFAOQ2
Cheers,
Michael
Thank you so much. Your video is of much help for me.
Thank you so much. Recording outside makes the lesson more interesting. When I listen to someone speaking English, I can tell the difference between vowels but I'm kind of bad at speaking myself. Now I can pronounce properly by changing the mouth's position.
Hi Chíng. Thank you for your comment.
I'm glad you like me filming outside.
I may do some more outside again soon - based on your feedback.
I'm pleased the videos have helped you.
What's your goal for learning pronunciation?
Michael
@@britishaccentmethod Clear pronunciation and British accent. Thank you again for the lessons.
Great work Thankyou so much Sir ji. You are really a world's Best Teacher 😎 Thanks a lot for give us the wonderful video's
It's my pleasure Pooja, as always thank you for watching my videos and giving me your feedback! I've just released today's video if you'd like to check it out :)
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Michael
♥️ This is actually the specific point I want to learn in terms of the difference between these two sounds. How would I know if a certain word has a long sound or a short sound o?
Hi Anonymous. I'm glad this has helped you.
There are multiple spellings for both of these sounds, so there isn't one simple rule... but... one way that will help is if a word is spelt 'or' e.g 'short', the 'or' will usually br pronounced as a long 'o' sound.
other examples would be:
or
for
lord
I hope this helps you :)
Did you see my latest tutorial on 'thr' pronunciation?
Cheers,
Michael
@@britishaccentmethod Thank you, sir. One last question; how would I enroll into your class and what's the rate. Thank you, from the philippines
Great explanations! I wonder why only 9k subscribers...
Thanks Alex! We'll get there together. Hopefully 10K this month!
Thank you for your lesson
Would you compare all these three sounds /ɔː/, /ɒ/ and /ɑ:/ in a video?
Thank you
Hi Alireza, this is a good request of yours. It may take me a little while to get done but I'll do it as soon as I can!
I am confused what the difference between war and or is, Could you help us understand these sounds.
/ɔ:/ is like (aw), and what about /ɔ/??
Thanks for the lesson. It was really interesting. But could you please be writing the examples on screen? Thanks once again.
Noted! I started doing this in all my newer videos.
Did you see the video I published yesterday on English rhythm and word stress?
If you didn't, take a look at it here:
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I think you'll like it!
Michael
It would be good if you show rhe sentences in the screen, it would really help us repeat with you
Hi Min, thank you for the suggestion. In many of the videos I have done that. I'm intending to add subtitles soon too which I think will help.
I've taken your feedback on board.
:)
Michael
@@britishaccentmethod thanks Michael. Really appreciate
Thanks a lot for these lovely lessons but I would be very happy to see the video titles also like "Long O and Short O" etc. Due to the complication of the phonetic alphabet, I usually skip watching those videos that contain those letters. I am sure that there are others out there who are trying to find useful videos like yours to practice their pronunciation.
I tried to learn the phonetic alphabet but somehow built a psychological barrier for it so I cannot get passed this issue. The wider audiences would get benefit from these beautiful videos.
Regards
HiGoKHaN,
Thank you for your message.
I know that the IPA symbols appear complicated and can stop people from learning pronunciation. Would you find the videos better if they were titled:
'Do THIS to learn Long O and Short O' instead?
I appreciate your thoughts.
Michael
@@britishaccentmethod Hi Michael,
Thanks for the courtesy and the reply!
I think that most non-native English speakers having trouble understanding/learning the IPA so we just skip it. Spending time on it doesn't feel practical since we cannot relate IPA with real-life use cases. Titles such as "Practise Long O and Short O" would catch my eye more than IPA since that's the only thing that I know about that sound.
Personally, I even stopped trying to learn the rules of word endings and sounds.
I forget (to apply) them anyway while speaking because lots of things happening at the same time. We try to find the right words and use them in the right grammatical format. For native speakers, it just happens naturally but we fight with ourself in those nanoseconds to bring out something understandable :)
So, I recently discovered a logical way for myself and trying to follow.
1- Practicing words by repeating/imitating (sometimes my brain finds the right word but my mouth says different thing :) The mouth muscles need to be trained correctly and repetition is the quickest way to that (at least for me).
2- Focusing on "stressed" syllables while repeating words.
3- Focusing on Intonation to sound more British.
4- Focusing on linking words while speaking a bit fast (to sound more British)
5- Focusing on Function and Content words while speaking to sound more British.
The above, outlined structure would be useful for non-native English speakers to progress faster I believe.
Regards
When I try to check my pronunciation through the microphone of google translate in words such us store, whore, sore,etc, I tend to pronounce them with oə because the app can recognize them better. Do you think it’s possible, cheers.
Excuse me sir, 2 of the these sounds both come from the back of the mouth sir?
Sadly most ppl in Asia, tend yo use American accents nowadays, so, try both.
Thank you for this video! I started studying English pronunciation and I was so confused with these 2 sounds!
Hi Tay, Glad it's helped! How is your pronunciation practice going?
Best,
Michael
@@britishaccentmethod your videos are amazing! Before I found your channel I watched many videos on internet but at the end I was so confused because there are many similar sounds (especially in the vowels). Your way of teaching is great, thanks to your videos now it is easier for me to notice the differences between the sounds I was struggling with. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!!! and by the way, thank you for choosing a nice landscape for your videos.
When you was teaching the O sounds, a minivan with a logo of bOcOncepts parked behind you.
I think that they wanted you to use their company's name for this lesson. :-)
Haha I didn't realise!
Subtitles would come, most often in case of sentences
I wonder if it’s better to avoid words with R in them when you’re making this distinction. In other words, I wonder if caught/cot is inherently a better example than dork/dock because the R in dork can complicate the comparison, depending on where the person is from…
Hi Dirk, this is a great suggestion because of the 'r' spelling complication, as you say.
Thanks for your comment.
3:12
Hello, could explain to me the pronunciation of this word 'opposite' when with S sound and when with Z sound many thanks
Hi Khalil, the pronunciation for 'opposite' is always with an 's'. In American English it is spelt with a 'z' but it is always pronounced the same.
I'm planning the next videos for the channel and would love you to help me make some decisions. Could you answer a few quick questions to help me: goo.gl/forms/lNsEtJYHNVXkFAOQ2
Cheers,
Michael
@@britishaccentmethod Hi, Thank you so much. i'll do the online question.
HI Khalil, Thank you for doing the questions.
I've just filmed a Question and Answer video and I've answered your question again in the video. I'll post it in the next 10 days.
Where do you position the tongue in each case? Thank you
Hi Liliana,
In both sounds the tongue is positioned low in the mouth.
I've just filmed a Q&A video answering subscriber questions. In Q&A I film next week, I'll answer this question.
I'll answer the question in more detail.
Cheers,
Michael
i caught a cot i caught a cot i caught a cot -
So is the mouth more open when we pronounce ɒ sound???
not.
You should provide subtitle, otherwise i turn on caption, and it is totally different as per you said
ɔb
I have a difficulty with distinguishing ɒ and ʊ
Hi Dmitry,
Let me explain...
they are both short sounds and your lips are rounded for both. The only thing that changes is the height of your mouth.
For ɒ you can fit 2 fingers between your teeth. For ʊ You can only fit 1.
Hope this helps
Michael
I've just filmed a video for you on this. I'll post it to the channel tomorrow
Could you please write down the words you pronounce next time so we can make a list to practice best wishes my teacher
HI Khalil, I've included the minimal pair words in the video description. In the future will also add any other words that I pronounce.
@@britishaccentmethod Well done my teacher I love phonetic and i know it's the key of any language if we learn it it makes our pronunciation better.
Please display the words you are pronouncing.
In my dialect, "cot" is pronounced more like /kät/... Well. Not really with a true voiceless stop, but more like a T-glottalization -.- I feel so inferior now.
People came out from the mouth at 4.10 :)
:D
When you’re editing, You should drop in text showing each word you’re saying
I realised this after I published the video but on all my new videos I include the text :)
əʊpən ?
Help (L)
Oooooooo
Awwwwwwwww
Perfect!!!
I doubt it is a good explanation. The long /o:/ does not have a constriction in the throat.
Please, next time write the words that you pronounce in the veido, and thanks a bunch