English Pronunciation | 5 Ways to Pronounce The Letter Y

👉 How many ways can you pronounce Y in English? Is the letter Y a Vowel or a Consonant? I made this video so you could learn how to pronounce the letter Y perfectly. It's quite a difficult letter to pronounce correctly in English because there are many ways it can be pronounced and sometimes even native speakers of English can't decide which pronunciation to use! Even more crazy, the letter Y can act as both a Vowel and a Consonant! Crazy ehh!
👉 This English Pronunciation lesson also includes lots of practice with Y tongue twisters...(note: the tongue twisters have no real meaning, but are simply for practicing the pronunciation of the letter Y in different sentences).
👉 In this English Pronunciation lesson we will also learn how to pronounce the Y in combination with other letters. For example in OY or AY or EY words like Boy or Day or Grey! (can you pronounce them perfectly?)
👉 Hopefully by the end of this lesson you will have truly mastered pronunciation of the Letter Y in English. Good luck!
👉 This lesson has CHAPTERS so you can SKIP to the part you need to learn most.
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😀 Also, for anyone wondering, I'm James, an English teacher from the UK so in this video I'm speaking with a British English (Modern RP) accent.
👀 These lessons use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to teach English sounds.
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👇 Chapters..... 👇
00:00 Intro
00:43 Y as a Vowel
00:54 Y as ɪ
02:45 Y as /aɪ/
06:57 Y as /iː/
12:18 Y as /eɪ/
14:27 Y as /ɔɪ/
15:51 Y as /ɜː/
16:20 Y a /aɪə/
17:02 Y as a Consonant
17:14 Y as /j/
18:26 Super Y Tongue Twister
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Hello! I am Bulgarian, and I am studying English at the moment. And I have to show you one your missing sound of the letter Y. In Bulgarian, we have got special letter ь but that sound is very very rare and this is the latest used letter in Bulgaria! I know only one English word with this sound - canyon. This letter stays only in front of letter o and makes the o sound soft. One example: Гол - [Gow] - goal Гьол - [G(soft sound)ow] - Water hole Do you understand me? 🤔

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