English pronunciation lesson - Differentiating vowel sounds (Part 2)

• published: 27 Jul 2015
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http://www.londonschool.com Having a hard time with English pronunciation? Want to get rid of your accent? This lesson will give you tips about differentiating vowel sounds. TRANSCRIPT Hi, we are talking about differentiating vowel sounds. Before we do, go into specific vowel sounds, we need to understand a few things how the mouth actually changes or the mouth shape actually change the sound of a vowel sound. Particularly with a an English pronunciation. If you see here in the board I have drawn up a quadrilateral which is basically the space within the mouth cavity where the tongue can actually mouth up and around and play with sounds. Now, if I want to be silly and I am going to be, I am going to put my face up against here. This is basically compressed and into this area of my mouth in here. So along here where would my tongue normally sit. This is what I would call a mid-position (showing position of mouth). If I look more at a close position, I would look at (showing position of mouth). If I look at an open position, I would be looking at a (showing position). So I am going to give you those three position again, and this time I am going to work with the work with the vowels I have actually put in here. Just for the interest as well, this is the front of the mouth, this is the back of the mouth. - if we make sounds which are based in the front is usually going to involve a lip spread - at the back it is going to involve a round mouth - the more close the jaw is, close the jaw is, the more spread or rounding there is. - We have vowels which work along the front which use the front of the tongue - there are vowels in the middle - and there are vowels in the back -Front of the mouth consists of open, mid and close position of the jaw - "examples of sounds" - I am giving you English pronunciation as a neutral standard English accent. - If you are looking for other accents there is always a difference in the tongue and mouth positions. This is why we have different sounds an accents. - "Explanation of sounds and mouth positions" - Part 3 is about Clarifying consonants.