How to Pronounce /æ/ (and /e/ - "bad" vs "bed")

[@Heliathor]

I can hear the difference quite clearly, with most British people. When it is Americans speaking, I really can't hear any difference.

[@amirpahlavi4605]

😑😑😑

[@xiaohanma2584]

same...

[@Joao-oo8yj]

Não sei se você é brasileiro, mas se for o caso realmente fica mais perceptível para nós no sotaque britânico, pois as vogais parecem mais claras. No inglês estadunidense eles parecem "relaxar" mais, o que dificulta a percepção.

[@tomalderman9177]

Thankyou I am a native english speaker and I have used this to help me to understand some finnish letter sounds. a and ä. a as in Car Far Bar and ä as in Man Ban Can. it has realy helped me.

[@yirenqin6446]

Emma’s videos let my really understand and get how to pronounce AA vowel. I have been pronouncing it wrongly for more than 30 years. Thanks, Emma. I really like great British. The Beatles is my beloved band.

[@natahas1151]

Yes, I am Russian and do confuse these 2 sounds. Thank you Emma

[@zaiabivatel]

99.9% говорят ошибочно эпл, гэлэкси, бэд, и так далее, хотя в этих словах нет "э", спорить с этими людьми бесполезно

[@robertfiala1540]

Emma you are such a great (not only) pronunciation teacher, thanks a million!

[@ramakinghemedi3525]

You are superb in teaching. I understood well fast than any other places I tried to learn this sound æ.

[@angelaplus870]

This girl knows how to teach:) good job!

[@ahmedfarouk1455]

Thanks Emma, very clear explanation and examples. Thanks again

[@ОльгаАнохина-щ6ц]

Russian speaker is here, you are right we have problems with thos sound. Thanks for your video! It also can help with my Tatar language ("æ" sounds like Tatar "ә")

[@PeterPanQuails]

Thank you Emma. Another great lesson. I have always struggle with words like "pan" and "pen", "man" and "men". This lesson is useful for me to practice these 2 sounds.

[@monikba2304]

You are my favourite pronounciation teacher.Thank you.

[@kooraaz9825]

we need learn English like films

[@kooraaz9825]

Can you help us ?

[@mujammelshiek770]

I am Bangladeshi. I like your pronunciation. thank you emma.

[@ariyarief6803]

I like this video. I used to get confused with these pronunciations. And also love your pretty and natural smile

[@karinacollis1560]

Emma's explanations are the best! Thank you so much!

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

🥰🥰

[@rajendratiwari5937]

Emma your explannations are the best

[@EnglishHindi3394]

I'm from India indeed your teaching style is fantastic

[@jacobsaid1102]

Really your pronunciations is great. I love your channel. Thank you for your support. Keep going ❤

[@renishravindran4358]

U r an awesome teacher. I can really go with u. Thanks so much.

[@faisaladha3857]

This is good video and it's never old, always needed. 💯💯💯

[@jhamfrank]

Hello Emma, your classes are amazing and easy to understand. I want to congratulate you for that. Thank you.

[@tenzinngodup4279]

Thank you very much. Your kindness can't be forgotten.

[@eliasnjetski1146]

We have both sounds in Swedish. We use the letter "Ä/ä" for "æ" sound. It must help a lot of people out there.

[@saffar2008]

my favourite teacher among all teachers on KZbin. 🥰😍😍

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

You're so lovely! Thank you :)

[@lilypehan1475]

very useful for my current struggle with pronunciation.

[@fadiamizi7315]

Hi Emma.I'm a teacher of English from Algeria and would like to use your videos in my classes if you don't mind.I just wish you write the focused words in the egs in a different colour so that my learners can see them.Wish you alll the best and thank you.

[@jilanishaik5222]

Excellent class Emma. You are my favourite teacher

[@abou-souleymanetoune517]

Thank you very MUCH for all your videos . There are so helpful for me or us

[@shushaniksarkisian]

what a nice lesson! I subscribed!

[@tebicap]

thank you Emma!

[@JulioMartinez-io1zt]

There's not much compliments to express how wonderful you are. Eachone of ya lessons is a gift for committed students. Let me tell you someothers KZbin English teachers use other media link to have more subscribers, or share some video lesson with a different English accent techa, so we students may improve our English skills. If I may refer to you some teacher there's a list for it but let's start with Gabby, from Go Natural English KZbin channel. She's an American English teacher and her accent is really natural american accent. Love to see you both in a contest of 3 to 4 tongue twisters. Have fun!!.

[@abdallamohamed8179]

thank you

[@eugenialitovchenko8577]

I found out that I mispronounced that sound previously in one of your lesson on ETL, but this video is so great! It's short and all necessary information is here. I've saved it and going to rewatch😃 Thanks a bunch, Emma, I really liked it😊

[@pricelesschannel7714]

My name is Azamat, I'm from Uzbekistan, you are my lovely teacher and I love you, my darling never stop teaching us this language, I want to speak like a native, it's my dream you can train me to speak without any difficulties, and I believe it, 🙏🙏🙏😘🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@mayzar1118]

Thank you Emma. I had difficulty to pronounce this sound.

[@vivianagambetta9197]

I love your videos, go ahead!!

[@virginbrain_]

Thia is so good. Love it.

[@earthed_soul]

Hi Emma, regarding words ending with the diphthong ae, I've noticed in recent years of politicians, rather than pronounce China ending with 'uh', they are pronouncing it as Chin(ae). Especially Donald Trump who emphasised this very strongly. I could be wrong but I think Chinese people already to pronounce it this way. Maybe it could be the same for India but I wouldn't know.

[@UShwe-o8r]

Thank you

[@michaljakistam136]

Hi Emma. Thank you so much for your lessons. They are very helpful.

[@lifestylenattitude5156]

I 'm from India(knowing Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, so, I can pronounce All Consonants,and vowel, diphthongs sound Thanks, God

[@saymonmamede1963]

Hey Emma. Thanks for teaching us the best of British English, as always!

[@millietam4408]

thank you

[@陈陈翔-c3t]

hi,i am form china.thank you for your vidios.I like your voice. thanks 感谢！

[@otoledo2080]

I love Emma with her explanations. 😉😉😉

[@quangdinh7725]

Emma , you ROCK . Thanks

[@sandunthilina4978]

I love you teacher. like a student

[@zahirshahallai9072]

Excellent teacher

[@mocutzza]

So, I like these lessons so much, that I watch them even If they are 1 year old

[@duazainab7503]

Thanks my confusions are clear now

[@Modi_M4]

I love u, Emma, u r awesome thanks for all your help 😭♥️🤝.

[@Juniorsaxplayer]

Love your British pronunciation!

[@misginaberaki745]

Really useful thank you so much

[@kumh999]

e학습터에서옴... l'm from Korea!!! I think this video is very nice😁

[@michakj4994]

Professor Emma, you have created a great problem - both sounds I have been saying incorrectly: AE versus E - but you have proposed some new approach. More difficult for me is to say more or less correctly Cup versus Apple. Can you understand my problem? Isn't it strange for you? It hurts me fighting with pronunciation. My misery.

[@MettaLovingKindness]

You are a wonderful teacher. Aethelflaed Could please tell me how to pronounce Aethelflaed accurately?Thanks

[@prokashchakravarty9411]

Awesome presentation! This is Prokash Chakravarty from Bangladesh. I request you to conduct a live session. Thank a bunch, Emma.

[@wxl1748]

Thank you so much💓

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

My example sentence; The fat cat met the ant on the mat. This is a motivational lesson. Thank you. 🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@shanmohammad3177]

Thank you so much for this useful lesson, I am from India, I'm too confused in both sounds

[@ktb113]

Thank you for sharing

[@Trxie_mxie]

So helpful emma

[@ayeminoo2067]

Emma do you teach online courses? I want to attend live course if so.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Yes I do. Please click here for more information. Courses.pronunciationwithemma.com

[@talenthunt3910]

Great mam 🙏🙏🙏 your effort is for not for a person but for all. So, I congratulate you for nice doing for education🎓

[@JacksonRubem]

I got. Thank you very much.

[@isleofman2089]

I munna learn american englishbut I love watching these ema videos njirrrr

[@tahirqureshi6331]

Than you Emma

[@ymwang973]

Hi Emma, I am so grateful to watch you video. so helpful! Love your lovely face and smile.

[@juliamaciejczak5722]

Dear Emma, your videos are grest. I have a question that's been bothering me for a while. You know how there are 3 ways to pronounce 'ed' at the end of verbs in the past simple. So we would have /t/, /d/ and /Id/. But what about verbs like carry, marry or rally, where we say something like /id/ at the end? Is the /id/ considered another way of pronouncing 'ed'? Many thanks!!

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

They end with /d/ :)

[@receivedSE]

Emma...have you a video about syllabic consonants: syllabic n and syllabic l ? Thank you.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Not yet

[@AMANSILLA88]

This is the sound I was waiting for. Thank you. Personally I have difficulties between the sound of bat and but. I truly appreciate what you do for us. I wish you a great weekend as well.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Anibal Mansilla check out this video to learn the difference between BAT and BUT! :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXS6f3mErpykkKc

[@ManishSharma-sk2zh]

Hi Emma, Wonderful lesson about how to improve your pronunciation to different words in English. I admire your tips and suggestions. Thank you.

[@عبداللهالعكله-ح9ن]

Thank you

[@PolyMinimum]

Hello! It's an awesome video! Everything is clear. And now my cheeks are aching from practicing [æ] sound 😅😅 Could you please make a video without explanation, like test for differentiating those sounds in words?☺️

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Good idea. Next time I ask for requests, please remind me of this :)

[@nurex9029]

Hello Elena, are you a teacher of English in Russia? I'm asking cus I'm a teacher in Russia, I work mostly with kids and their parents can't stop complaining about the way I pronounce apple, cat, bat, dad etc.. with an /a/ instead of /e/, I've told them severally that I can't change my pronunciation to an /e/ since it doesn't sound natural to me but it has continue to be a problem reason being that the kids always correct their teachers at school. I'm confused on what to do. Russian learnt this sound as /e/ and it's difficult to make them understand it's actually an /a/..what do you suggest..I'm tired of the parents trying to make me pronounce it as /e/ instead just so that their wards can get good grades at school.

[@elainegarcia6967]

Great, clear

[@ksusha4618]

Why do you pronounce sound s after t? Sounds like mats, pats?

[@taranjeetkaur4474]

Thanks for amazing video ☺️

[@mariambajelidze8515]

Thanks!

[@tahernabieh6096]

thanks a lot

[@vi683]

I love this sort of thing. Let us learn more in the future. Thank you.

[@kesabchandragiri833]

Thanks madam for ur interesting presentation. From kolkata, India

[@waseemsarwar2564]

Emma you are my favourite teacer .

[@gastonzaffignani823]

Hi there! Here from Argentina reaching out. I really get confused between /ʌ/ and /æ/ sounds, and also /e/. Please help! Thanks for your video :)

[@deepderp8483]

Have you figured it out? What's the difference?

[@abdulraoufabumahlula2919]

Thanks 🌹

[@GurjeetSingh-xh4bs]

Thanku

[@BrasMorus]

Thanks a lot!

[@bernarduslopez7074]

I struggle with these two sounds. Strangely enough, either can have slightly different sounds in different words.

[@fabiolag3923]

Thank you soooooo much Emma for your videos! So helpful 🙏🙏🙏

[@leeron2335]

Hi Emma, Happy New Year 2021. Thanks for your explanation about these sounds. It’s amazing. Could I ask you about how to pronounce ‘Apple’ and ‘Better’ correctly as a consonant sound between 2 short vowel sounds in the middle of a word? I have been feeling confused about the skill of how to pronounce these words correctly. Apple - æp.əl I’m not sure if we hold the sound p for the first Vowel - ‘æ’ and release the rest of the exploded sound of p for the L(əl) sound like some skills from connected speeches? Or we pronounce vowel æ and the sound Ple(pəl) separately? Because the short vowel æ is too short that I can’t identify the difference (æp pəl or æ pəl)? And “Better - bet.ə” sound t, which is an exploded consonant sound between 2 short vowels. Is it bet-tə (hold the first part of t for the first vowel ‘e’ and release the rest for the next vowel ‘ə’)? Or pronounce be-tə (be-very short vowel sound e and pronounce tə separately)? Looking forward to hearing from you😊

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

it's easier to release a plosive with a vowel after it, so say it like "a - pul" and "be - ta" Hope that helps! :)

[@leeron2335]

@@Pronunciationwithemma Hi Emma, thanks for your reply and information. Based on your explanation, Apple [pronounce a complete short vowel sound A and then the full sound of Pul, rather than Ap(half p) + Pul(half p)] and, Better [pronounce a combination of Be and then the full sound of Ta, rather than Bet(half t) + Ta(half t). Am I correct? 😊

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

I don’t understand what you mean by a half p and b. Sorry 😅

[@felteacolney1539]

I've learnt alot from you miss emma... I appreciate your videos.. i'm from india.. Pronunciation is very difficult for me... by the way, your smilling is very beautiful and charm, lovely

[@ask_teacherwill4546]

Thank you Teacher Emma for your video. Keep up the good work.

[@thaodoan1318]

Love and thanks

[@mylebluewhale]

Thank you very much. 💚💙💜

[@Vikas-f5l9g]

Good work

[@qurankipukaar1990]

Great job

[@marcoantoniocontrerasdeleo6447]

Thanks miss Emma

[@chiaramaldonado4087]

I love you, teacher🤗

[@heyitsme3004]

does anyone think that /æ/ is the short ver of /a:/? or is it just me

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

we don't have the /a:/ sound

[@ПетрВ.Д]

Thank you, dear Emma, for this useful lesson. You know, I've come up with another exercise on this topic: "It's so bad to lie in bed a whole day like lazy cat"! By the way, I have a question that I've been wanting to ask a real English-speaking person for a long time: is it permissible to skip the article for the sake of preserving the rhyme, as I just did? And another question that appeared just now. I used the construction "I've been wanting..." Is it correct? Maybe I should use "I wanted"? I thank you in advance, dear Emma...! Greetings from Moscow...

[@Yohann_Rechter_De-Farge]

Thankyou ma'am 🌹🌹

[@mdnasimalam3545]

Love you Emma ❤

[@zwewaiyan6757]

hi Emma, how to pronounce mention and mansion? if you don't mind

[@galinamitrokhina]

cool ! thank you !