short vowel schwa
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Interesting how she said a clear long O in "of," very British English but not American English, with our lazy mouths that favor the short u (schwa) sound.
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@Christobanistan Say it real quickiy in a real quick sentence and it pops up, which seems pretty minor to an English speaker but to a learner it could confuse the heck out them. Of course, it's more a British thing, and depending on what part I guess too. At least, we Aussies sort of say "ðæh" instead when speaking fast.
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wow, I am freezing over here.
British jokes are just as cold as their reactions.
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thut?? WTF?
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Heh, I was dealing with a topic of reforming English spelling, and since one of the schema was to match each vowel to a unique character, this came up. For me, a lot of words pronounced here with ə I pronounce with ʌ (like "a", "the", etc.). Strangely, I think I pronounced the schwa in a couple of places it normally isn't pronounced (e.g. "girl').
I guess if there were to be a phonetic English spelling we'd have to get kinks like that out. :x
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Maybe you don't care, but I'm not a native English speaker and I hear both of you (American and British English) use the schwa all the time. And I say this for those who say that the schwa is not common in AmE.
America for me sounds like this "əMERikə"
At least for me, the "ʌ" occurs in the same words than "ə" but in stressed ones. Or when you want to emphasise that specific word.
And I agree that "that" doesn't have a schwa sound.
(Sorry if I made mistakes but I'm still learning English)
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Nice vid! You're not weird, some of these people have probably never seen someone with class before. Cake looks good. People seem to have missed that the word "that" is so often pronounced with schwa depending on it's position in the sentence, even for Australians. Of course when you say it alone the schwa isn't there, just like when you say "a" or "of". The internet is desperately short of good British pronunciation vids so please keep it up!
potentperson 1 year ago
@potentperson I'm glad you like it. I can't take credit as it is a BBC produced video. I uploaded it as I thought it would be useful for my students. It's interesting that the schwa video has received far more attention than any of the other phoneme vids.
GGTutor1 1 year ago