Consonant Sound Dark L as in "call" - American English Pronunciation

[@espositogregory]

50 shades of L

[@tales_of_Shubham_]

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[@omarecer1]

This is the clearest Dark L explanation or for that reason American L I have found on KZbin.

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Long time, no hear. Great to have you back. Thanks.

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Alejandro García Vidal You're welcome! 😊👋

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[@SoundsAmerican]

+El Kike Glad you liked it! You're welcome!

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How is letter "t" in the word "pot" pronounced?

[@SoundsAmerican]

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what the app do you use in practice part?

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Khoa D. Nguyen This is our own app, we haven't released it to the public yet, but we plan to do it soon. We'll announce the release on this channel, stay tuned!

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Why did you stop??. you are amazing, we want you to come back to your channel POR FAVOR

[@thomas7726]

"can you hear any difference"? not really hahaha

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Hello there.... I wanna say I love all these pronunciation videos . For us , Braszilians , we have many problems with the pronunciation of some words, vogals and consonants . Thanks God , because we have "sounds american" now ... thank you guys for this great job!! Well done!! Cleo from Brazil.

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Cleonice Moreira Alves Thank you for your kind words! Happy that you like our videos

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I absolutely love this channel! Thank you so much! My pronunciation has gotten so much better. I practice almost every day!

[@SoundsAmerican]

That's great!

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[@SoundsAmerican]

Thank you for your kind words! We'll think about that, but most likely we'll add a channel membership or similar. We want our subscribers to get something nice in return for their support.

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"But if don’t have more important things to do, keep watching! (about Dark "L") Love this part. And I'll keep watching, as I am quarantine.

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I can't wait for another video. Thanks for all the hard work you put into making these!

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We love you too!👋

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[@ksugiarto9057]

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[@ultra7178]

Oh, I was very curious about the "dark" L. My friends, pets, relatives, and I thank you for this video!!

[@SoundsAmerican]

+ultra7178 You all are very welcome! 😄🖖👋

[@ldelgg]

It baffles me how the dark l is not really well covered by the IPA. For what i know, the l in the word "Allah" in standard arabic, despite being written as /l/, sounds pretty different than the l in say, the word "lobo" in portuguese. Well, such is phonology...

[@SoundsAmerican]

We know what you mean! That said, the IPA is just a tool. People use different transcription styles, depending on their goals. Many dictionaries use a basic transcription because that's what most people need. Professional linguists often use more detailed transcription, including IPA extensions, suprasegmentals, and other stuff, because they have to transcribe pronunciation nuances. So, we don't think it's "right or wrong." There's always a trade-off between accuracy and simplicity. www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-charts/ipa-symbols-with-unicode-decimal-and-hex-codes/

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[@SoundsAmerican]

+Hải Lê Vũ Glad that you find our videos helpful! We hope to get that many views soon! -)

[@John2corner]

One of the ways to make "R" sound is quite similar to one of those dark Ls. How can you clearly distinguish between them, plz? Thanks!

[@cronnosli]

"can you hear any difference"? Not at all!

[@elwinharahap6771]

Dear Sounds American, Thanks a lot for the video, it has been a while .... hope everything goes well with you and keep producing American sounds video _ I believe thousands of people will be benefited from your forte...

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Elwin Harahap Thank you for your kind words! Of course, we'll keep making new videos, stay tuned!

[@eduardobraivein8496]

Please keep posting more videos because I learned British English and need to know the main differences between the two varieties of English.

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Eduardo Braivein We will, stay tuned!

[@omardavidrenteriagranja8919]

Hello, your videos are the Best sun that I get confused with the sound of the scwa and the ^, so you could make a video with the difference of each one, thanks

[@SoundsAmerican]

The /ə/ (schwa) and /ʌ/ sounds are very much alike, it's essentially the same sound. The difference in pronunciation is that your mouth is slightly more open for the /ʌ/ sound. The /ə/ sound is only used in unstressed syllables and /ʌ/ is only used in the stressed ones. Many dictionaries use only the /ə/ symbol for both sounds, but we prefer to differentiate them in our notation.

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[@SoundsAmerican]

+Josdan Good things take time :)

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[@rchrd_sn]

Brazilians and Indians are on the extreme sides of failing to pronounce it properly. Brazilians pronounce 'l' like 'oo,' and Indians pronounce it, don't know how explain; like, too much 'L.'

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[@yunjingqiao4075]

Thank you so much. I speak Chinese and we have a soft L sound. That’s why every time I pronounce L into soft L while I even didn’t notice this. My kids always told me my L is not right but they couldn’t find the problem. Thank for your video, now I finally know where the problem is.

[@SoundsAmerican]

You’re welcome 😊 BTW, we also have a website with tons of info on pronunciation and practice exercises for all American English sounds: soundsamerican.net/

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[@BillPark-ey6ih]

2:29 I can't make this sound even when I make my tongue exactly like in the picture.

[@natanaelmanzanillo3308]

Long time waiting for this video, it's the best L sound video I've seen, you're awsome guys, please keep the good job you're doing and thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@SoundsAmerican]

+natanael manzanillo You're welcome! Glad you liked this video! 😊👋

[@personalJoke]

All the information that I wanted to know to improve my L Sound is here. Amazing video, amazing channel, amazing people. THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!

[@hazzazbinyousuf3647]

To pronounce Dark " l " sound it’s recommended not to touch the tip of tongue to alveolar ridge. But I have to keep it little bit touching. Otherwise I can't produce dark " l "sound.

[@SoundsAmerican]

That requires a lot of practice. Don't worry though if you can't pronounce the dark 'L' correctly, this sound is usually not critical for your accent. The light 'L' works just as well, you'll be understood.

[@AvenueGAMER]

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[@HuyNguyen-bn4oq]

I'm even more confused. 😩😩😩

[@dogethedog5057]

Hey there! I have a bit of confusion if I have to touch the roof of my mouth when making the Dark L sound in the word, “feeling”. Cuz in “feel”, when I’m making that Dark L sound, I don’t touch the roof of my mouth. If “feel” sounds like “fee (yuh)” ~ Dark L Could “Feeling” sound like “Fee (yuh)ing” or I can touch the roof of my mouth as in, “fee (yuh)ling” Hoping for your response. Thank you very much !

[@SoundsAmerican]

Hello there! Good question and you're lucky, because there's a really simple answer to it: in the word "feeling," the /l/ is at the beginning of a syllable, so it's pronounced as the "regular" /l/ sound: /ˈfi·lɪŋ/. So you should definitely touch your alveolar ridge with the tip of your tongue when you make it. You pronounce the /l/ as the Dark L sound in "feel" as it's at the end of a word, which is also the end of the syllable. Hope it makes sense :).

[@caitzs]

Interesting. I'm a native American English speaker from the PNW, and the tip of my tongue is ALWAYS up and touching the top of my mouth. However for "dark" L's the back of my tongue is also up. I cannot say "full" without at least tapping the tip of my tongue up. If I keep my tongue tip down, it feels like I'm swallowing it or have a British accent.

[@engproali5107]

I'm happy to join this channel and thank you for everything

[@SoundsAmerican]

Welcome aboard! 😊🖖

[@eduardobraivein8496]

Sounds American The Dark L is an allophone of the L phoneme.

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Eduardo Braivein You're absolutely right, that's why in this video we said that it's not a distinct consonant.

[@ramzy-6566]

Hello, sir. are pronounce these words (moveth) with /ə/ or /ɪ/ /ˈmuvəθ/ /ˈmuvɪθ/ (creepeth ) with /ə/ or /ɪ/ for last e before (th) ( likeness ) with /ə/ or /ɪ/ /ˈlaɪknəs/ /ˈlaɪknɪs/ for last e . Thank you. i hope you great. we're waiting for a new video.

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[@SoundsAmerican]

We'll be back soon! 👋

[@StupidPurpleDoodle]

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[@UpNfamish2]

“The “L” is made with air passing through the mouth, around the sides of the mouth like a liquid “ ? I think you don’t truly understand how this “L” sound making mechanism works n you just repeat what you have read n repeat all these wordings. You also forget to mention n show that “L” is a voiced consonant which requires the vibration of the vocal chords n the soft palate is raised when making the “L” sound as air ( the air pushing out from voicing a vowel”) . Let me try- touch the gum ridge with the tip of the tongue n keep the tongue flat. Next raise the soft palate while pushing air through the mouth n vibrating the vocal chords at the same time. Since the tip of the tongue is TOUCHING the gum ridge , air can only ESCAPE by the sides of the mouth.( unlike stop-plosives ,for example , air escape through the center of the mouth). This is for “L” when it is in the initial position. When “L” is in the final position, it is a semivowel (semi, not as sonorous as a regular vowel) n it is liquid because this semivowel has a quality of a liquid as air is passing through the sides of the mouth( unlike the hissing sounds of “z”, final position). You sound completely American but you can’t really teach English pronunciation until you have really learned linguistics.

[@DebMer]

Listen and repeat exercises are really helpful for students. A linguistics approach can be great, but there's room for and benefit to many approaches. I'm really glad to have found this type of video series for my students to practice with at home.

[@UpNfamish2]

@@DebMer practice with this “L”? Pronunciation of English is throughly studied by linguists n audio scientists n fairly understood. This illustrator clearly didn’t understand the mechanism to produce English speech sounds- he just made it up. Following his instructions, students can’t make the correct “L” consonant at the initial position n he didn’t follow his own instructions too n he made the “L” consonant in the way he normally does, as a “native speaker” n expect students to follow. They keep on saying foreign students can’t pronounce the American accent( n they can), but this is not the point. A licensed pilot can’t be a flight instructor until he has completed a flight instructor training n passed the flight instructor test. It works the same for people who want to teach pronunciation of any language.

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Couldn't agree more. :)

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@@SoundsAmerican By the way, I don’t see diphthong “ur” in words like poor, tour from your videos. Or American English just simply replaced them by “or” r-cored sound? Thanks!

[@SoundsAmerican]

Yes, you're right. The /ʊr/ sound is used in the US, but we don't believe it's used in the General American English. For example, we pronounce the words "sure" and "poor" as /ʃɝ/ and /pɔr/, but you may hear some people saying them with the /ʊr/ sound.

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+Autumn35pro Very glad to hear it! Let us know if you have any questions! :).

[@ramzy-6566]

0:26 in this time you said the word "gold" /ɡoʊld/ I heard the o sound not like the diphthong /oʊ/ I heard like /o/ then Shewa and dark like and between the o and Shewa (a little w) to link the two sounds /o/ and Shewa and dark L as we link these two word (go away) there are a little w to link go with away. I hear gold like this /ɡowəld/, Thank you.

[@princianorvz]

I've heard the "ł" sound in Starfall!

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[@SoundsAmerican]

Adobe After Effects

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Thanks! 😃

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[@SoundsAmerican]

We're currently busy working on our next projects, the Sounds American website (soundsamerican.net - highly recommended) and some others. But don't worry, we'll make more videos! Stay tuned!

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Thank you! Happy to hear that this video was so helpful!

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And I doing jutsus with my tongue

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[@SoundsAmerican]

We'll resume making new videos soon, stay tuned!

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[@SoundsAmerican]

+mwongereza Janvier Hello there, Mwongereza! You're welcome! Glad you liked our video!

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The best I can see to explain this difficult sound.Thank you

[@SoundsAmerican]

Glad it was helpful!😊

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I've downloaded the whole Sound American channel playlists to my laptop 🙂👌 And my pronunciation improved by 110%! Comparing to period before committing to your videos. + Can you please made some video on sound placement !? It would be very appreciated ☺️😊

[@SoundsAmerican]

Excellent! What do you mean by sound placement?

[@pumpkinc.493]

The darkest L sound's tongue position seems like the Voiced palatal lateral approximant sound [ʎ]

[@이소현-g8k]

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[@SoundsAmerican]

😊👋

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[@SoundsAmerican]

Thank you for your suggestion!

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@@SoundsAmerican Dr sound like drug, I really need help with this word drug

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ł

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[@SoundsAmerican]

👐 🤝

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I should say that this is just fantastic. I'm a teacher and a student just asked me about the /l/ sound. I answerd properly, but I wasn't enough sure on the phonems and phonology. This vid completely blew my mind. Awesome job. Thank you much!

[@SoundsAmerican]

Glad to hear this! We love having teachers in our community and we're always trying to make our videos as helpful for teachers as possible. If you have any feedback or recommendations, share with us! And don't forget to share our videos with your students. 😂

[@1DENich1]

Dark "l" or not dark "l", that is the question: which side of The Force do I belong to?😁 Cool and funny video! Thanks a lot!

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Денис Василевский "... and we do love how it sounds." 😉

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@@SoundsAmerican in Poland "l" it spelld with soft l

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[@SoundsAmerican]

+Fernelly Jor You're welcome! 😊👋

[@lastorder1648]

U told that when p comes at the last of word it is not aspirated but when p comes some where between the word like(apple),why in the apple word there is not aspirated p though the p is not at the start of word,it is.coming before (a) My question is when p,t,k comes some where between the words!is there any rule for that. Kite,in word kite,t is not in the end so why we dont aspirate t.its not in the end,its before(e).

[@SoundsAmerican]

First of all, you're confusing letters and sounds. In the word "kite," the letter 'T' is not at the end of the word, but the sound /t/ is: /kaɪt/. The final letter 'E' is silent. The aspiration of the stop sounds applies to sounds, not letters. Second, when talking about the Final Stop rule, we also mentioned that the stop sounds are not aspirated when they are at the end of words *and syllables* . Here's a video where we talk about this rule in detail, check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3ezk3-Ziqill7M

[@lastorder1648]

@@SoundsAmerican now,i get it.its about sounds not letters😂

[@blueless3380]

You should make a video on double r sounds like in error and horror or at the end of murderer.

[@SoundsAmerican]

We already have it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJvYo3xtrdl2oKc

[@اسلامكمال-ح1ه]

I didn't understand when to say the L, light or dark.

[@SoundsAmerican]

You can always pronounce just the regular (light) /l/. If you want to know the distinction, we covered this this part of the video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIXKip19jat0odk

[@Sushil_10]

Sir, I have a huge problem of these aspirated sounds such as 't', 'k', 'p.'. Problem is end of the word should I aspirated these sounds. I am giving some examples like- perfect, rest, best, dust. (I know you aspirated this word). But in this words you didn't aspirated - polite, adult, absent etc. so when should I aspirated when shouldn't aspirated. Same problem I am facing of k sound- basic, break, cake, book, thank, pink in this word s you was aspirated but back, bake, black, etc in this words you didn't aspirated. I don't have problem about p sound. But this both sound made me confused. Please help me in this case 🥲.

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Ł is in the Polish alphabet ł

[@rarevisitor1250]

Hello, there! Guys, I tried to listen to Eminem's song named Mockingbird, that's a nice song, but hard to understand. And I got a question for the video's topic: what did Eminem say at the end of the first verse "Maybe one day we'll wake up and THIS'LL ALL just be a dream", which one is 'dark L' and and which one is 'light L'? I hope my you got my point😅 Thanks

[@SoundsAmerican]

+ Rare Visitor We missed you, Rare Visitor! 😀 We believe those are the dark /l/ sounds, at least this is how we'd pronounce them. Good luck with your rap career 😀🖖

[@rarevisitor1250]

@@SoundsAmerican 😁😂thank you

[@lllaj]

Could you tell me which this app is?

[@SoundsAmerican]

This app is not publicly available yet. We'll announce the release on this channel, so please stay tuned! In the meantime, there are lots of practice exercises on our website: soundsamerican.net.

[@lllaj]

The Videos just perfect 🙂. If there is the app, learners can test their pronunciation skill always. And the answer was given four years ago. So I asked again. Thank you for answer!

[@shazzshank6393]

@@SoundsAmerican Oh finally ! I'm waiting impatiently ! :D

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You have a wonderful site. However, there is no such thing as a language called AMERICAN. That's just stupid.

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This sounds exist in russian! It will help me a lot! Thank you very much!

[@Junior_89ryly]

Here's a video suggestion for you: 'How is the final '-s' in third person singular verbs pronounced in the simple present, like in the word 'works' - American English Pronunciation. I absolutely haven't seen anyone talking about this :/

[@ВикторияКарамзина-г6ч]

Очень доходчиво

[@mariajesusbermejocavia328]

Now I undertook, I can't ear the regular "l" in several words , even I thought don't ear any "l". Thank you very much

[@MrDorian81]

/həˈlō sound æmɛrɪkɛn* / (hello sound american chanel) ( * - im do my self, im made good? ** - im do my self... əˈɡen )

[@JonWonders]

This is very useful, thanks

[@NadaSwara1230]

Let's leave the pronunciation of DARK L in our daily lives

[@강영미-g3l]

Thank you. I'm so glad meet you. Some day I hope to study with english sentences you made not just words. Because i sometimes so confused the pronounces between words and words that people say in the states. Anyway thank you.

[@SoundsAmerican]

+ 강경미 🤗👋

[@ivantavares3642]

@@SoundsAmerican Good morning or good night. I have a doubt, "th" is muted in connected speech (on the). would the reading be / ɑnə /?

[@LuenLin]

@11:48 @Sounds American : I only got 7 regular l's in exercise 3: place • leaf • look • lady • black • flat • class, which one(s) did I miss?

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I'm so excited 😊 i learning to this channel sir I'm always Time spend in video and learn a lots of pronouns I'm from india 🇨🇮

[@1DENich1]

2:51 Can the back of a tongue gently touch a palate?:)

[@SoundsAmerican]

If it touches the palate, then the air flow will be stopped and you'll get a different sound.

[@1DENich1]

@@SoundsAmerican I see. Thanks!

[@olena2667]

Amazing video! Thank you! Did’t know about different types of L sound before this video.

[@kaneda6750]

0:16

[@marquitomd]

Hi :) Excellent video! I never understood what the "dark L" was until now. I loved the lesson, thank you so much. By the way, the soft L is the Spanish L, right? That's why we Spanish speakers always mispronounce that consonant haha

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Marquito L Hello there! Yes, it's Spanish /l/ and not only. Similar sounds exist in German, Hindi, Russian and a number of others. This is one of the most common mistakes that non-native speakers make :)

[@butirandebu7150]

hei, would u mind explaining about american "to" pronunciation? since there are 3 ways to pronounce them but we need further explanation. thanks

[@NUSORCA]

Omg the soft L makes everything french

[@Mariamgimiag]

Can you teach us the intonation and melody

[@SoundsAmerican]

Yes, of course, we're already working on this. We're going to publish these materials on our website: soundsamerican.net/

[@ricardovilla1232]

Se escuha muy parecido a /ʊ/ o también a /əl/ ¿Por qué? ¿Tiene que ver con la L-Vocalization?

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Thank you very much! It is very useful!

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[@SoundsAmerican]

Thank you! Yes, it would be awesome if you share our channel with your friends, family, and your pet (is it a cat or a dog?). Also, KZbin has this cool feature called SuperThanks which looks like a THANKS button under a video. 😋

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Fantastic! Good luck with your channel!

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