Phonemes of American English

American English has many different dialects and accents, so different people here are going to speak somewhat differently. Here's how I pronounce the phonemes of American English.

Transcript at http://EnglishWithDavid.com/blog/?p=36

Phoneme charts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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[panchodeleon]

thank you dude from leon, mexico helpful.

[edcts70]

Great! Can you tell me whats so special about these phonemes j, r, w?

[LalicaBRUS]

Wow, great video. Thank you!

[lieutenantsexy]

JEW!!!!!

[Mayokitty7]

@protosswannabe You realize how old this video is, right? I don't thnk anyone even makes those distinction anymore, especially the 'tock'/'talk' one.

[caroleabumoussa]

@alanbeula because it doesn't sound like a [k] sound that would be found in American English but it has the sound [x] found in loch (as pronounced in the video). Not everybody can pronounce that [x] sound. It doesn't have anything to do with being "educated" it's all about the environment you were raised/taught in. If people around you didn't use it, you can't use it unless you somehow try to teach yourself.

P.S. Most Americans pronounce "loch" w/ the sound in 0:49 for chair or with a [k] sound.

[protosswannabe]

It's so good to see you using the eastern U.S. standard where "cot" and "caught"/ "tock" and "talk" are still two separate sounds. It's sad that the vowel merger has spread so far across this country that people no longer make this useful distinction.

[alanbeula]

I'm still puzzled. I'm from UK and always wondered why Americans say Vincent van GO. Someone said that it was because even educated Americans can't pronounce the GH/CH sound. But you list it with Loch. ???

[clodimore]

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[gongfubaby]

do you still remember me.

i am from china.