How to Pronounce the IPA Vowels Part 2

In the second part, we take a look at more difficult vowels that occur between the main vowels. I explain in what languages you are likely to find these vowels, with many examples from Germanic and Chinese languages.
Also discussed are vowel length and vowel nasality.

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Education

Tags:

• Danish pronunciation
• English pronunciation
• Mandarin pronunciation
• Cantonese pronunciation
• Estonian pronunciation
• French pronunciation
• Russian pronunciation
• Turkish pronunciation
• Korean pronunciation

[boabysands123]

Thanks for this Mike.

I think I actually understood some of the relationships you describe with this vowel map. Though i do wonder whether you might still be trying to present to much detail in such a short time. Like Fasulye I had to watch this a few times.

You might consider backing up a little to do a series on the terms you use like voiced/unvoiced, africates, retroflex, covering how they appear across some languages.

Another topic idea is the difference between phonetic and phonemic.

[Glossika]

That's a really excellent idea. Thank you for your input.

[Fasulye2009]

..... I 'm sitting here taking notes like a university student....

The English vowel system seems to be much more comples than the vowel systems of my Romance languages Italian, French and Spanish. Fasulye

[Glossika]

English vowels are no easy matter. If I listen to English and tune out the semantics and just listen to the sounds, I've discovered lots of places where vowels are strung together in clusters which makes it very hard, sort of like some Polynesian languages.

[carlosspeck]

Just so you know: There's a job waiting for you at Yale whenever you want it.

[jelewis2]

I personally don'y understand the reasons for the symbols for some of the diphthongs, like /ɔɪ/ sounds like the end of "boy" only in a deep Southern drawl, while I thought that word normally ended in /oj/

[4EVERton]

Swedish and Norwegian also have the letter "å", which is pronounced /ɔ:/ (sometimes it is short, but /ɔ/ is generally covered by the letter "o"). Danish "å" is pronounced somewhere between /ʌ/ and /ɔ/.

[kennethhamilton]

Can you draw the symbols bigger?

[PythonisticOmar]

Thank you very very much sir! This really helped!

[AlexKenfrey]

I like your mandarin pronounciation, could you make another video about  cantonese phonology please. i'll be waiting for it so much!!!

[missamyTH]

it's really useful! thank you