Pronunciation German Vowel a

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  • Hi! I hope you're good. Now that i'm watching this video, it remains me one question a had some time ago. In English, there are also a long vowel a, but it actually sounds a bit different and also, in the phonetic script is written different, is the sound /ɑː/, which appears on father, for example, art, etc. Whereas the symbol for the long german a is /a:/ I would like you if you can tell me what's the difference. Thanks a lot.

  • @corp127 The German [a] sound is an open front unrounded vowel. The [ɑ] sound in the English word "example" is an open back unrounded vowel, so a dark a. The [ɒ] sound which appears in the English word "got" is the rounded version of this dark a sound. For more information about English sounds, please have a look at channels like rachelsenglish. She has a very good channel about English American pronunciation and also explains the phonetic script.

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  • This helped me massively with understanding how ɐ is different from a normal schwa, thanks

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