How to pronounce "Ear and Year"

This video targets a confusing word pair: YEAR and EAR. Say them correctly to get the your meaning across.

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Education

Tags:

• ESL
• pronounce
• english
• ear
• year
• tarle
• speech
• accent

[Lisabna1]

the french r does not allow me to say it properly and I strive to get it right

[TarleSpeech]

@Lisabna1 Send me a message with a voice recording of you saying R. I'd be happy to send you some tips. 

[cipihevent]

here the solution for who doesn't get it.

ear = "i" like in "is" and the r sound, i+r

year = ee + r

[TarleSpeech]

@cipihevent Thanks for helping. I love when viewers use their knowledge to help others. In American English, I would describe it as:

ear = "e" like in "see" and the r sound, e+r

year = Y+ ee + r

Year and ear BOTH rhyme with beer, fear, hear, dear, jeer.

[SleepWhenIamDead]

...I am from the north east of the US, Bucks Co PA, between Phila and NYC, and we say correcTly, not with a K...and it may be the Phila influence but we also tend to use pavement more often than not instead of sidewalk...North America is so diverse it can't be fit in one category...

[TarleSpeech]

@SleepWhenIamDead Yes, some people do. This word varies a lot with regional accents.

[renatoavatarian]

that´s why English sucks!! I can barely HEAR the difference!!

Put your faith in the context and life goes on!!!

[jebx1]

Good to hear that I'm not the only dumb ass not noticing the difference.

[Lisabna1]

@TarleSpeech That will be great :) Thank you

[sweetscorpious]

ear = i-ar  year = yi-ar (y de yuca)

[TarleSpeech]

@Sigoroth True, in British English yes.

[Sigoroth]

It's "correcTly" not "correckly".