Learn English Vowels, part 2

Practice all 15 vowel sounds of American English

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• English
• pronunciation
• vowels

[luvjohncena4ever]

um..Said and Red sound the same to me...I mean like the vowel sound...I need help!

[teacherjoedeveto]

You don't need help, you are absolutely right! The vowels in "said" and "red" (and the past of "read") are the same.

[levantine79]

Thanks a lot

isn't WANT has the same vowel sound of WON? I just heard it the same :P

I have a problem with words such as PIN and PEN, HILL and HELL and so on

[teacherjoedeveto]

In American English, these two vowel sounds (want and won) are very different. I believe "want" in British English would be a bit closer to "won" but still slightly different. You would have to ask someone from the U.K. to be sure!

[Pysio500]

I am just wondering whether "want" and "father" have the same vowel sound. What do you think?

[teacherjoedeveto]

In American English, they are the same. They may not be the same in other variations of English. You will have to find a teacher from Great Britain to tell you how they pronounce those two words.

[edgarvila]

great job teacher!!!! I'm trying to improve my pronunciation, nevertheles I still have problems identifying sounds like: "HOT" ,"HAT", or "FAN", "FUN", FOND".

For me the vowels in those words sounds the same.

Thanks for your help!!!

[teacherjoedeveto]

Response, part 2: And Chinese is written with thousands of characters (like little "pictures"), not with an alphabet. Japanese uses only 2000 of those characters, but with many different pronunications. For example, the Chinese word for "birth" is pronounced "sheng" but in Japanese it can be pronounced in TWELVE different ways, all having different uses.

Yeah, English is tough. Just like every other language. The amazing thing is, the human brain is capable of understanding these things!

[Furkatovich]

Thank you very much. You have brake down fifteen vowels easy and simple as one two three. Tell me please, is it enough if I use only five vowels as A E I O U ?

[j3ff1nho]

the dog is learning too

[LesFreresKaramazov]

merci !

[bobomb1986]

I love these well-structured videos - somehow I think I stumbled upon them when looking for somewhere to learn... Dutch vowels, I think. They structure things just as I would if I were a foreign-language speaker learning English. Very interesting that you mention cot and caught as having the same vowel within American English - I've not read much about the cot-caught merger until the last week or so and it turns up twice in my daily perusal of the Internet within the same week! Thank you Joe!

[jhclassic]

What is the difference between white and why? I cannot differenciate their vowels.

[alli999999]

quick comment, took notes, you did keep with the 15 sounds :) , but sound 12 originally was soon not now you switched it with sound 15. But great otherwise. using this for my 3rd grade son.

[rabtive]

Thank you very much. Very helpful

[KoeniggseggCCX]

Hi, I`m brazilian and would like to speak english but my listening and pronounce are very poor specially when I hear some native english speakers talking in a fast way. As you are a native english speaker I would like to know some tips from you to improve my english. Some people recommend to watch movies and listen songs. I haven`t friends that speak english to practice with them. Can I be able to speak english in a short time? if yes, how? Thank you very much for the videos.

[sgrfsh]

@teacherjoedeveto Some regional UK accents may pronounce 'want' like the word 'won', but that's discouraged as sounding lazy. I certainly pronounce both words 'want' as "wont" (short vowel) and 'won' as "wun".

[kwatrho20008]

i really appreciate the video and serves as my guidance in speaking english clearly and properly.