Learn English Vowels

Learn to pronounce English vowels. There are five vowels in English but they can be combined to make 15 different sounds.

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• English
• Pronunciation
• Vowels
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[BaoNawazish]

Mr. Joe you said that; U offers only one sound, so how you'll make differ in (BUT and PUT) whereas, its gigantic differ in both words pronunciation.

[teacherjoedeveto]

@BaoNawazish

"Put" is quite a special case. I did not try to teach every possible spelling for every sound. If I tried to teach every possible spelling in English. this video would be too long for You Tube. My main goal is for students to learn the sounds that vowels can make. The vowel in "put" is the same as the vowel in "book" or "good". If you can pronounce "book" or "good", then you can pronounce "put" too!

[gongfubaby]

i like your vidio .especially the sentence you said ,"then you can pronounce any word ,when you are reading"

could you tell me about vowels schwa.

and what situiation the vowes will be made a schwa sound.

thanks

[teacherjoedeveto]

You can Google "schwa" to learn more, but it is quite complex - even many experts do not agree on what is a schwa sound and what isn't. I want my students to learn it naturally rather than analyze too much. Try watching my videos on rhythm and intonation. When you learn to speak English naturally, you will start to pronounce the schwa sound without even thinking about it!

[teacherjoedeveto]

Actually, when I teach I start off by exaggerating, then work up to more natural pronunciation. (Today in Pronunciation Class we worked on "Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously"!) With vowels, students need to focus on each individual sound, so they should be pronounced as clearly as possible.

Also, this was my first video, so I don't think I was as relaxed as I should have been!

[maquito2007]

thks Joe, could you use mimimal pairs to make more enphasis in the sounds.

thank

Teacher Marco from Peru

[teacherjoedeveto]

Interesting idea Marco! It might take a bit of work to come up with good pairs. For example, my students in China usually mix up "smile" and "smell". ("Joe, you have a nice smell", they often tell me!) Just yesterday, however, a student confused "small" and "smell". It makes me wonder which pairs to use. I have a good idea which sounds speakers of Chinese and Japanese might confuse. I am not so sure about speakers of other languages. What do you think?

[phboy12]

thanks it realy helped me

[decoralias]

Useful, many thanks

[Fjrrrrr]

I want to be your student :(

[romeas100]

@teacherjoedeveto You are great teacher... I would like to know the pronunciation of the word "JOB" thanks so much...

[Furkatovich]

I am learning American English for one year. And i didn't know there are more sounds. Thanks, man.

[raj0404222409]

ICK ==== DICK

[j3ff1nho]

i've been studying English for one year and this VOWEL lesson is the best one I have.

simple and inteligent.

[alexio210]

As it is funny, it is twice good. Well done!