"ER" Vowel Spelling Patterns & Pronunciation (& Preparation for R-Colored Vowels) | American English

[@julesmercellus8605]

Josh, thank you so much, your videos help!!!

[@mr.ahmedjama2589]

the greatest teacher thank. you so much.

[@englishchannel59]

Great. In Spanish we have sounds like ar (articulo), er (hermetico), ir (ir), or (ortodoncia), ur (urgencia), it's great to watch this video and understand the differences, we use the Spanish sounds to speak English, so FUR / fɜr / is not fOOr, BIRD / bɜrd / is not BEERD. Thank you Josh!

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Your welcome! This info is useful, but never forget to focus on your ears instead of your eyes. That's always the key and the main point here 😀

[@siddhantkapoor8079]

Yeee!! Thanks 😊. I am gonna watch it right now.

[@siddhantkapoor8079]

And I would like to know - do you pronounce the word ‘’ with the ‘air’ sound as in ‘a-mair-I-ca’?

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Not sure if you forgot a word there. Are you asking if I use the "air" sound in the word "America"?

[@siddhantkapoor8079]

English Hacks - Learn English Better yes. Do use air vowel in the word ‘america’ and pronounce it like ‘a-mair-i-ca’?

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

@@siddhantkapoor8079 it doesn't sound too bad, but I use the 3rd vowel (eh as in men) + er. These two sound very similar

[@siddhantkapoor8079]

English Hacks - Learn English Better that what I use too. Asked this question because many English teachers on KZbin told me.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

@@siddhantkapoor8079 Well, this is English Hacks. I'm not just here to teach you English. I'm here so you can learn English better and more easily ☺

[@wa3618]

are retroflex and bunched R just two ways to produce vowel r?

[@shibenikvaysyor8309]

"Why did the capacitor kiss the diode? Because he just couldn't resistor." I happened to encounter this pun a day after learning about the correct pronunciation of the unstressed r-colored vowels. Had I heard the joke a day sooner, I would've not gotten the PUNchline.

[@laracroftvideos]

Lol why do I always hear your intro as "I'm Josh, your American English god" 😂 I suppose I need to work on my ear training. I can't wait for the upcoming videos, all of them sound super exciting! I'm curious if you're going to address the vowel sound in "tour," "lure," and "boor" - not a very common sound, but it does turn up from time to time. For the L video, I immediately thought of words like "calm," "balm," or "almond" -- I hear a lot of Americans pronounce the L in these, but most English dictionaries treat it as a silent letter. I love English lol. So many mysteries.

[@siddhantkapoor8079]

DayvinDazone hey nice to meet you here too.. Lol 😂. this channel is super amazing.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Lol, definitely not a god 😅 Yes, I will be addressing the sound in words like "tour" in the next lesson of this course. As for the L in the "al" spelling pattern, that's normally the 5th vowel (aw, in the cot/caught merger). This works exactly the same as the silent "w" and just tells us it's the 5th vowel and not the 4th vowel as in "cat". I was extremely shocked when I discovered that some speakers actually pronounce the L! You'll have to wait and see what's in the "L vowel" lesson ☺

[@laracroftvideos]

@@NativeEnglishHacks Great! I can't wait. So much content to look forward to 😃😃

[@laracroftvideos]

@@siddhantkapoor8079 Hey! Long time no see. Indeed, I'm obsessed haha.

[@siddhantkapoor8079]

English Hacks - Learn English Better ‘care’ and ‘carry’ do they have the same vowel? I mean do you say it as ‘cair’ and ‘cairy’? I pronounce these to words differently like ‘cair’ with the ‘air’ vowel sound and ‘carry’ with the ‘cat’ vowel sound.

[@englishchannel59]

One more question, before I visited this channel, I watched a video that said: take the word "were"+d = word, "were"+k = work, "were"+th = worth, "were"+ld = world, but my Spanish ears say to me it is not "were", it is "wore", so "wore"+d = word, "wore"+k = work, "wore"+th = worth, "wore"+ld = world. For me all this words sound more in the way you pronounce "more". Is this true? in your accent? Does "were" sound like "sir" and "word" like "more"? or there is something else that I'm missing?

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

That video was right. All of those words use just the ER vowel, like in "were". This is likely a case of your eyes tricking your ears. Try listening to these words with your eyes closed and listen multiple times.

[@englishchannel59]

@@NativeEnglishHacks Thank you for that answer. I hope these kind of questions help others too.

[@SycAamore]

Nice video, thanks! I saw that you pronounce words such as 'stairs' like /steɪəz/ while most dictionaries will spell it like /stɛəz/. Would be great if you can further clarify.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Hmmmm, I definitely don't pronounce it that way. That's the British pronunciation (using the schwa). As for EI vs EH, I discuss that in either part one or part two of "R-Colored Vowels the Easy Way" 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4DRc6xqnrykh9E 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnrVaXZrpcamjbM

[@SycAamore]

@@NativeEnglishHacks Thanks, great, I will check these videos!

[@siddhantkapoor8079]

So the ‘or’ is just like we pronounce ‘oi’. The same gliding movement of tongue. And it is not a diphthong ‘o’. In dictionaries usually the ‘or’ is depicted as the open ‘o’ sound ‘aw’ and that’s how I used to pronounce it like in the word ‘inform’, ‘record’. I pronounce these words like ‘in fawr m ‘ and ‘re cawr d’.

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Yes, it glides together into a single syllable like "oi", except the end position is "er" instead of the second vowel "ih". Remember that I'm teaching you with the cot/caught merger, which is much easier. Many dictionaries don't use this merger (and the IPA in English dictionaries is inconsistent anyway). In accents that DON'T have the merger, it's the aw (the symbol that looks like a "c") + "er". But in accents that use the merger, this starting point doesn't exist, so it gets moved up to the "o" (which is also a lot easier to say, hear, and learn). I'll be talking about this in the next lesson.

[@siddhantkapoor8079]

English Hacks - Learn English Better Great. Waiting for the next video to be out. Please try to include words like - inform, record, sorry, transform, your, foreign,north, order, short, quarter, horrible, America, carrying, caring, merry, mary, marry, very, vary, error, errand, military, necessary, etc. And what I have noticed is that ‘air’ vowel is shown as ‘er’ (epsilon + r) in dictionaries, however it sounds more like ‘eir’ ( diphthong ei + r), like in the words ‘chair’ and ‘fair’ I don’t say these words with (epsilon and r) but with diphthong (ei + r).

[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Well, I usually try to batch record, so the video is already recorded, but I forgot a couple things and will have to add those in. I'll see what I can do to address your particular questions, as well

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[@NativeEnglishHacks]

Nice to see you here! ☺