American English Vowel Sounds: /ɑ/, AH as in OLIVE

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I really want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video. Thank God my american pronouncation is so well. But I've always had the problem with this vowel (A) when it comes to pronouncing words like Rob anf rub, It was really a load off my mind. Thanks again you are the master of pronounciation.

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Keenyn, I wish that you would do a lesson on the vowel sound in words like 'thought' and 'cloth'. Most text books teach them together with 'box' and 'watt', but I think that they are really different, and I can't find a good video about how to place the mouth in the correct position. Thanks!

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short u /ʌ/ - aw sound /ɔ/ minimal pairs are the most tricky ones for me... cut vs caught, done vs dawn, gun vs gone and what about cot-caught merger?

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Thanks I always look for a lesson about how to link a vowel to a consonant. But I don't find.. Could you pls tell us about that connection?

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What is the difference between this a as in Olive, and the one from previous video as in Black ? To me they sound pretty similar.

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Please, I need a video comparing the vowels ə/ʌ/ɑ/

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Does the same guideline apply to words with OR? Eg. Sore, horn, core? Or is this an exemption? Many thanks for sharing your expertise! 😌

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Hey there, which is the difference of the tongue position of the AH /ɑ/ vs dark L (only in the part 1, not in the part 2 that is when you up the tongue tip), in both the tongue is lower in the back presses down and I the front touching the bottom front teeth? The only difference I feel is that the jaw drops more on the /ɑ/, but I feel that the position of the tongue does not change. Thanks

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Hi. Can you distinguish between a in olive and a in black? I feel the same with those 2

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Could you please explain the "Low back merger" (where /ɔ/ and maybe /ɒ/ become /ɑ/) and the "Weak vowel merger" (where unstressed /ɪ/ and maybe /ʊ/ become /ə/)? I'm learning to pronounce words in American English (in general), so I focus on the most standard/common pronunciations, but it's very difficult to know what they are; various dictionaries differ from each other and I think the main conflicts are based on these two mergers, the rest is usually consistent. So far my understanding is that in General American English (or Standard American English) people pronounce /ɑ/ instead of /ɔ/ (and they use /ɔ/ only in /ɔɪ/ and /ɔɹ/), and that /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ in unstressed syllables should be pronounced as /ə/, but I really don't know.

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Do you pronounce the wovel in caught, thought, jaw,...the same way?

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😄😄 Perfect use of once in a Blue Moon! My upload schedule is every other Tuesday right now. I would love to upload every week but I have found, since I am doing this completely on my own at this point, I have to let that go for now as I would go a bit bonkers trying to get a good video out each week, run my business, be a mama, a wife, a friend , a daughter and all that good stuff! 😄 That totally makes sense about the reading. Do you ever find it tricky though, since English letters so often do not equal English sounds? The written words messes us up so often because of this! I am so happy you are noticing and celebrating your progress! I have mush admiration for you and I'm honored to be part of your learning journey!

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awesome... but, Keenyn, will you kindly explain what is the difference between [a] sound and [a:] sound, as well as [i] [i:], [ɜ] [ɜ:], [ɔ] [ɔ:], [u] [u:] - is there any chance I can leave out the colon, since my suspicion is that it is purely British phonetic sounds. And then there is this overturned a - [ɒ] . I am using IPA which has a whole bunch of sounds which I don't come across when look on the Am.English transcription. 0_o and then all these diphthongs... which also differ.

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Very interesting lesson! Actually this minimum pair sound nearly like the letter “a” and “ơ” in Vietnamese. Thank You so much!

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Hi Kenyn do you have a long a sound like in british english?

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