The Cardinal Vowels with Daniel Jones

Listen and learn as famed phonetician Daniel Jones narrates the 18 Cardinal Vowels.

These phonetic reference points are necessary to master the IPA vowel system.

Because you probably woke up this morning saying "Hey, I should probably master the IPA vowel system."

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[detomoylomo]

eeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[orbitingteapot]

aaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aa

[bana mustafa]

oooooooo oooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[ThePatrycjas]

u uuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[EvalynRoberts]

These vowels actually don't exist in any language. Cardinal vowels are a system of measurement used by phoneticians to classify and compare vowels from different languages. They "fence in" the area of the mouth where vowels are articulated. Though you have to keep practicing them to make sure you don't forget them. A bit of a pain.

[Robert Murphy]

English almost doesn't have these sounds. Everything is so centralized for us - pure vowels sound like Japanese or Spanish to us.

[أحـمد هجاني]

In learning Englsih ,everything is enjoyable but Phonetics .

[Melbuser30]

Thanks for posting