How to Pronounce /æ/ & /ʌ/ + "Rubbish" Explained

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[@Michal.Kaminski]

I think pronouncing /æ/, /ʌ/ and /ɑː/ is my greatest weakness in English pronunciation. After studying this for some time I hear the tiny difference, but it's still incredibly difficult to pronounce them correctly and show this difference. Some time ago I didn't even know there are so many different vowels, I wasn't aware of the difference between them and I thought it's the same, as in my first language we only have one "a" sound, so this is really tough to start noticing that they are not the same... I'm glad I've found your channel and course.

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Thanks for clarifying these points, Elliot. I, too, am very fond of pronunciation.

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Thanks to explain, Your video is very clearly.

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I asked a half-pint yet at a pub and this video was pretty useful. The barman got it quick and easy. Now I just got drunk easier every Friday, here in Manchester. Thank you, Elliot.

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Hi Elliott please make videos about connected speech

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[@AnnaBalakhnina]

Oh! This is a video of this century! I was waiting for it I don't know how long. Because in the Russian language we don't have a sound /æ/

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Szkoda, że nie miałem takiego nauczyciela w szkole, świetnie tłumaczy. It is a pity that I did not have such a teacher at school.

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@Nom Nomek What language is that?

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@@carolbounce49 It's polish :-). A little bit more difficult than english.

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Rubbish? I remember Hermione Granger😃 -Her cat killed Scabbers! (Ron) -Rubbish! (Hermione)

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I was wondering how native speakers say the word 'very' so naturally but that's not the case with me. Now I got the logical reason from you. The mistake I have been doing so far is putting equal force irrespective of position of /v/ in the words. Thanks .

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4:20 it's okay, you can say "bullshit" to explain it. We'll still love you anyway

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I believe that would more likely be "bollocks" in BrE.

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Elliott, I teach TESL English and use your videos a lot because they are the best! Do you have a video with the 'a' sound for 'parents' please? Italians tend to say the word that sounds like parrents

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Hello Elliot, I just came across your helpful pronunciation tutorials and I liked the lessons on Rubbish, Negotiate, Schedule etc. Please could you say when we could use the sound /a/ and /ei/. How do we say the words in this sentence. "Elliott is a great Pronunciation teacher". Is it /ae/ or /ei/

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Dear Elliott, Thank you for your cool British accent videos. I am interested in a number of approaches of how to teach best English pronunciation to students of some other origin with a mother tongue so different from English, there being Russian or Ukrainian, in my case, of the East Slavic languages. If you do not mind it, I would just like to discuss some thuoghts all about the middle, so-called murmur vowels: 1) [ə] the schwa sound, a neutral middle vowel, 2) [ɜ:], an open-mid central unrounded vowel, 3) [ʌ], an open-mid back unrounded vowel. It is a pity that NO BOOKS on English phonetics I have been encountering so far have offered any shorter, reasonable terminology for these two latter sounds I mentioned above for the students to easily remember them. You would come to know why I have been so regretful of that a bit later. The schwa sound is quite understandable and can be acquired very soon. Only on my fifteenth year of constantly listening to the BBC Radio (doing “shadowing” as a technique of repetition of what has just been said) did I realise exactly what was that that made these two last vowels stand so drastically weird to the Eastern-Slavonic ear. This WAS and IS- and this was immensely important - the use of some special muscles located in your oropharynx, which is behind the oral cavity, apart from merely laying your tongue flat and still at the bottom of your mouth, as all instructing guidelines might suggest to us. The muscles fell out of use in these Eastern-Slavonic languages long ago. With an epitomic loss of the sound represented by the letter «ѣ» (equivalent to Latin ě). It has gripped me by the throat actually. Therefore, in order to ease the process of coming to grips with this particular muscle group, all I could think of was to use a looking glass while producing these sounds. So I could clearly see and follow the movement of the superior wall of my oropharynx and control it by finding the proper way of operating it as the English do. I have found that wielding the muscle that operates this wall is KEY to acquiring a correct pronouncing model of the [ʌ] sound. I have called this sound “the little roof” because it helps my students remember it as they do their practice and always have it in mind. So this pharyngeal upper part consists of the inferior surface of the soft palate and the uvula. Only when a student can consciously move up this farthest part of the soft palate (together with the uvula) will he or she be able to produce the sound the way it has to be produced in English. Period. Secondly, although the IPA symbol for [ɜ:] takes its form after a reversed Latinized variant of the lowercase epsilon, ɛ, it does nonetheless look like the Cyrillic small letter (з) (which is a phonetic equivalent of “z”). There is something behind it, by the way, and well it might be one. So the word I have invented for the other sound [ɜ:] is “zievik”. It is a diminutive form of the Russian «зев» (“ziev”) which stands for “pharynx”. Students do find it useful when a teacher is representing it as having a name and appropriate meaning. Now, what is the actual difference between [ʌ] and [ɜ:]? I think the solution lies in the way you stretch your lateral pharyngeal muscles, so to say, further sideways, making it a more oval and wider throat. You can’t see how wide it is in the looking glass, though. The training method for this is so simple that one wouldn’t believe it. YAWNING. The exercise is this, a student makes a conscious attempt at yawning, stops this process as fast as he can and remember how the muscles of the lateral walls are positioned at the moment of yawning. Learn to repeat it without making any yawning. The soft palate and the uvula being not so high as in the little roof [ʌ], you will get the zievik [ɜ:]. Period.

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Please make a video of teaching all of vowels and constronants in British English?

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Hi Elliot, Can you please make for us an videos for the different between letter P and B and how to pronounce it it's really difficult for us to distinguish between each of them and thanks for your amazing videos it's really helpful for us please keep going.

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Actually, Elliot, I have been confusing about the differences in the pronunciation of /æ/ and /ʌ/ and /ɑ/. Can you help me out, explain a little more detail? Many thanks

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I'm no elliot, but i can tell u how i learn wey tp pronounce vowels. For example sound from words "cut, run, fun". Can u just say one of those words like natives, u can just make a parody, not really serious.

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Hello Elliott , love your voice and your pronunciation a lot , here is the thing , i can easily tell the difference of the pronunciation between CAN&CAN'T in American accent , but i am little bit confused of it in British accent , is that ok you put it in your video maybe next time please?? thanks a tons.

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Hi, Elliott. I'd like you to comment on the variations of phoneme /ʌ/. Depending on the following vowel sound, it may sound a bit different. Particularly before a dark /l/ (as in culture, indulge, dull, result) it sounds to me rather like a schwa.

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Hi Elliott could please do a video about pronunciation of words ending wuth S and starting with TH such as "I waS THinking"...do I have to drop the S in connected speech? Thank you

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The English vowel sounds are my biggest struggle in my learning journey.

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please set the difference between e and ʌ thanks

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Hi Elliot.. can u explain what is the meaning of "catch-22" is it an British Idiom?

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I could give you a quick summary: A "Catch-22" basically describes a paradoxial situation from which someone can't escape because of contradictory rules or limitations. The term itself was coined by Joseph Heller, who used it in his novel "Catch-22" in 1961. An example would be a situation in which someone is in need of something that can only be had by not being in need of it. Sounds quite complicated, but for instance will a bank never issue someone a loan if they need the money. That's what you would call a catch-22. :)

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When to use can & could?

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How to properly pronounce called and cold, please? I'm still trying to get it right and would appreciate your vid on that. Many thanks. PS. Love your channel

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