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.

[@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

[@angelaplus870]

This girl knows how to teach:) good job!

[@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.

[@ramakinghemedi3525]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@ahmedfarouk1455]

Thanks Emma, very clear explanation and examples. Thanks again

[@robertfiala1540]

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

[@lilypehan1475]

very useful for my current struggle with pronunciation.

[@ariyarief6803]

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

[@mujammelshiek770]

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

[@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.

[@monikba2304]

You are my favourite pronounciation teacher.Thank you.

[@kooraaz9825]

we need learn English like films

[@kooraaz9825]

Can you help us ?

[@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")

[@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

[@tenzinngodup4279]

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

[@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!!.

[@renishravindran4358]

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

[@jacobsaid1102]

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

[@jhamfrank]

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

[@jilanishaik5222]

Excellent class Emma. You are my favourite teacher

[@michakj4994]

Dear Emma, congratulations for your pronunciation lessons and sessions. They are very useful. You are good at finding sufficient details forming necessary explanations, and producing sounds yourself. You told me that a position of my mouth was incorrect in respect of a couple of vowels. To make corrections, it is not easy, but you really help by providing tips.

[@abdallamohamed8179]

thank you

[@mayzar1118]

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

[@UShwe-o8r]

Thank you

[@MettaLovingKindness]

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

[@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.

[@faisaladha3857]

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

[@prokashchakravarty9411]

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

[@tebicap]

thank you Emma!

[@duazainab7503]

Thanks my confusions are clear now

[@saymonmamede1963]

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

[@sandunthilina4978]

I love you teacher. like a student

[@saffar2008]

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

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

You're so lovely! Thank you :)

[@陈陈翔-c3t]

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

[@kumh999]

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

[@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, 🙏🙏🙏😘🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@abou-souleymanetoune517]

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

[@millietam4408]

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😊

[@shushaniksarkisian]

what a nice lesson! I subscribed!

[@kesabchandragiri833]

Thanks madam for ur interesting presentation. From kolkata, India

[@virginbrain_]

Thia is so good. Love it.

[@mocutzza]

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

[@otoledo2080]

I love Emma with her explanations. 😉😉😉

[@zahirshahallai9072]

Excellent teacher

[@frankgradus9474]

thx

[@isleofman2089]

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

[@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.

[@quangdinh7725]

Emma , you ROCK . Thanks

[@GurjeetSingh-xh4bs]

Thanku

[@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.

[@Juniorsaxplayer]

Love your British pronunciation!

[@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

[@ymwang973]

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

[@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

[@vivianagambetta9197]

I love your videos, go ahead!!

[@shanmohammad3177]

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

[@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.

[@ktb113]

Thank you for sharing

[@wxl1748]

Thank you so much💓

[@misginaberaki745]

Really useful thank you so much

[@Trxie_mxie]

So helpful emma

[@tahirqureshi6331]

Than you Emma

[@talenthunt3910]

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

[@faima1485]

شكرا ست

[@JacksonRubem]

I got. Thank you very much.

[@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

[@receivedSE]

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

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Not yet

[@عبداللهالعكله-ح9ن]

Thank you

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

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

[@elainegarcia6967]

Great, clear

[@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

[@Yohann_Rechter_De-Farge]

Thankyou ma'am 🌹🌹

[@vi683]

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

[@Modi_M4]

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

[@taranjeetkaur4474]

Thanks for amazing video ☺️

[@mariambajelidze8515]

Thanks!

[@abdulraoufabumahlula2919]

Thanks 🌹

[@tahernabieh6096]

thanks a lot

[@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/ :)

[@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.

[@thaodoan1318]

Love and thanks

[@Vikas-f5l9g]

Good work

[@MarkusJensen]

So uhh, this is quite wrong. the letter originally is a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae and the letter æ is used by us danes among a few other languages. You pronounce æ exactly the way bed is pronounced in danish. It is only correct if you purely look at the britsh pronounciation which is pretty weird considering that it is primarily scandinavia that uses it.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

This video is teaching the British phonemic chart's sounds. It's nothing to do with Danish or other languages. Purely the British phonemic chart.

[@dilinijapan]

Hello emma thankyou very much.

[@BrasMorus]

Thanks a lot!

[@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...

[@ksusha4618]

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

[@mylebluewhale]

Thank you very much. 💚💙💜

[@marcoantoniocontrerasdeleo6447]

Thanks miss Emma

[@Bianca-pw5cn]

Brilliant lesson, Emma! Thanks

[@JYUNFANGSYU]

Your video helps me a lot! I have been confused about how to pronounce /æ/ for a long time!! Thanks for your video, I corrected my pronunciation and finally knew how to pronounce /æ/!

[@zwewaiyan6757]

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

[@qurankipukaar1990]

Great job

[@galinamitrokhina]

cool ! thank you !

[@afzalabbasi5722]

Wonderful

[@zahuraakter5101]

Marvelous.