Vowels_001

Professor Carl discusses the English vowels. Nothing complicated, and in many ways a simplification, it is intended for the participants of the English Corner, an Alibaba.com forum for mostly native Mandarin speakers.

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• Carl
• English
• vowels
• pronunciation

[D0ctorR0b]

Not sure why you haven't used the International Phonetic symbols in your list. Your characterizations of the vowels, such as "uh", "eh" and "ih" break English orthography rules -- and I suspect create more difficulties for learners of English, when they have to unlearn these symbols.

[BrainiacN5]

the video's good but you speak a little too low, it's hard to understand

[bobgalley55]

i get confused wid out symbols... coz me in starting level so dat

[lsatep]

English is a terrible language, totatly inconsistent

[Iamsky15]

see my vids

[02221956abilio]

I think there are people who enjoy helping ,thanks you.

[TheBryanjenny]

Thanks for this wonderful video.However,i do have a question.We ve got lots of words that can be found in the 14 categories of sound you listed.Apart from the ones you are using as examples,how do we determine a word that falls into each of this listed categories?Thank you once again.

[mefidys]

If this is for foreigners, why does he speak so much english? describing ho to put your lips and jaw in too much detail will just confuse people... I don't like the way american's speak english, not the accent, that doesn't bother me, but the little things like vowel classifcation, like how 'y' is 'sometimes' a vowel? what the hell, 'y' was never a vowel lol

[gekkomatic]

This guy is Amercian...in 5 he speaks long 'ahh'. it should've been 'o' in british english. In 10 there's pure sort 'ah'. That's it.

[baigandine]

Understanding English pronunciation is a dynamic process. The mind should approach the problem dynamically and not be overly reliant on an IPA artifice. It is merely one helpful stopgap and shortcut.

[baigandine]

The strange thing about these so call-dipthongs is we assume 'vowel sounds' have some fixed value in outer space, and therefore it's 'two' vowel sounds. But this is not how the native English speaker's brain thinks of these sounds. It's being artificially based on Latin pronunciation.