R-Colored Vowel Sound / ɛr / as in "chair" - American English Pronunciation

[@SoundsAmerican]

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There are NO R-colored vowels in rhotic accents

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@@tricky_english what's rhotic accent! I've got a heavy R anyway

[@tricky_english]

@@dedemuhammad2726 Standard American English is rhotic

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+xiaoyan connahan We know what you're talking about. 😀 It's great to have a native speaker who helps to correct your pronunciation. However, just repeating words after someone is not the most efficient way to learn an accent, unfortunately. To get consistent results in mastering pronunciation, you need to work systematically. First, determine what sound (or sounds) you’re trying to master. Second, learn how to make this sound, including the position and movements of your lips, tongue, jaw, etc. Finally, once you know how to pronounce the sound, you need to practice it in different words. The more words, the better. Only this way you’ll pronounce this sound automatically without even thinking about it. That's why we always include visuals, detailed explanations, and practice. 😊🖖

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[@SoundsAmerican]

Glad you like them! As for the R-colored vowels introduction, we highly suggest this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHvRo4d9fZiUjtE

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I learned this sound by positioning the tip of the tongue behind the palate and not in the center of the palate. I think it still sounds good and I don't know whether to change it.

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[@jamesstmanhattan]

That's one more vid I've been feeling a bit confused about, I really that that in all of the words mentioned in the vid you really have to put the schwa sounds before the r sound.

[@SoundsAmerican]

You've got a good ear and as always, you're asking good questions. We believe that what you hear is the transition between a vowel and the /r/ sound. The r-colored vowels are pronounced by merging a certain vowel and the /r/. When you're making these sounds, your tongue first moves from one position to another and then its tip curls back when you start pronouncing the /r/. However, this is not the schwa sound. The schwa occurs in the weak syllables, when a vowel is reduced. This is not the case with these words. Hope it helps, let us know if you have more questions!

[@jamesstmanhattan]

@@SoundsAmerican Good looks! Your answers are always perfectly comprehensive! My ears are not that good though, I still can't hear the difference between the /ɝ/ and the / ɚ / one, I just ended up getting pretty frustrated with this whole thing and just always using the /ɝ/ one, hope it won't affect my accent too much, especially considering the fact that I don't really get to speak practice in speaking nowadays, sadly, in the country where I live right now nobody speaks English, so all I've got is a lot of theoretical knowledge which I haven't yet been able to put to work in some real life situations.

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There's no difference, we wrote a post about this, check it out: kzbin.infoUgy-2BmdrYOYItc1WXJ4AaABCQ

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+Hieu Pham , yes, we will, that's the plan.

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+Frosty Heaven , they are indeed for the majority of non-native English speakers.

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What about the symbol ( 3 or 3r ) as in bird and hurt ..are the same ? I mean this symbol and the symbols you teach in this video ??

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Hi friends! Thank you for perfect video about R-colored diphthong /ER/. BTW, I hope it will be very useful phrase like this, " Remember, Americans never trill their R-colored stressed and unstressed /ER/ vowel sounds'

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+Leonid Reshodko, glad to hear you liked it! Thank you for your suggestion :).

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Could you please point at the pronunciation of these two words (vary and very ) ? because I looked them up in Oxford American dictionary and "vary" had two pronunciations .. so How you pronounce "vary'' ? and How you like this dictionary?

[@SoundsAmerican]

In General American English, both "vary" and "very" are pronounced the same way: /ˈvɛr·i/. Some people may pronounce "vary" with the /ɛər/ instead of /ɛr/, but in general, /ɛər/ merged into /ɛr/ across the US. This is called the "Mary - merry - marry" merger. We wrote about it on our Community page: kzbin.info/door/-MSYk9R94F3TMuKAnQ7dDgcommunity?lb=Ugy-2BmdrYOYItc1WXJ4AaABCQ Oxford American Dictionary is absolutely fine, we also recommend using the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, Cambridge Online Dictionary (the US part, of course), and dictionary.com.

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+sav ior Hello there, We're glad you like our videos and how they're helpful. We can't add tongue twisters to our existing videos, because they're uploaded already :), but we made a list of all sounds of American English and added the tongue twisters there. Check it out: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rvqAbjwRxzBAcHOrPe4dlJdO6Q5wLIWZ7QH4mEy_YDY/edit?usp=sharing Hope it helps!

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Then ,On pronuntation terms : pair=pear and their =there? Depending of the context, Is the way we can difference em, right?

[@SoundsAmerican]

Such words are called homophones. You're right, in conversation you can get the correct meaning of a homophone only from context. We have a video about homophones, check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqPIqKdrirh5oZI

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I started wondering while watching this, wasn't it difficult to pronounce words with trilled r? Aa far as I am concerned there is no such a sound in English, most similar would be flap "t". Anyway thank you again :D

[@emanelmasry1767]

So whenever the a is followed by rr we pronounce it like the a in care ?

[@SoundsAmerican]

Not exactly, if there's a vowel after the 'arr', it's pronounced as the r-colored vowel /ɛr/, as in "care." For example, "carrot," "marry."

[@emanelmasry1767]

@@SoundsAmerican I can't thank you enough, it really helped me to understand a very confusing one One last question the word PARROT doesn't have the same pronunciation like carrot although it has the same pattern arr followed by a vowel

[@SoundsAmerican]

You're mistaken. The word "parrot" is pronounced with the same r-colored vowel /ɛr/, as the word "carrot." These two words are actually pronounced in a similar way except for their first sounds: "carrot" /ˈkɛr·ət/ "parrot" /ˈpɛr·ət/

[@emanelmasry1767]

@@SoundsAmerican thank you again. I use Cambridge dictionary to know the right pronunciation of the words I don't know it pronounced parrot differently that's why I asked

[@SoundsAmerican]

We use the Cambridge dictionary as well. The r-colored vowel in word "parrot" is pronounced the same as in the word "carrot" in that dictionary: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/parrot dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/carrot Of course, make sure to check the US pronunciation, not British😊. Note though, they use slightly different transcription and in their notation, the /ɛr/ sound is written as /er/, but it's still the same sound as in this video.

[@dawnpresenter2753]

please i encountered a problem when i was recapping R colred vowels with my self is I got confuse between / ɝ / as in bird and first and / ɛr / as in care or share please apprise me with a trick can help me please

[@SoundsAmerican]

When you pronounce the /ɝ/ sound, you essentially make just one movement with your tongue - you need to curl the tip of your tongue back and simultaneously tense the back of your tongue in a tight ball. However, when you pronounce the /ɛr/ sound, you need to first pronounce the /ɛ/ sound and then merge it with /r/. The /r/ sound is very similar to /ɝ/, by the way, just a little "shorter." Tip: if you pronounce the /ɝ/ sound many times and really fast, you'll end up pronouncing /r/. :) In short, the /ɛr/ sound consists of two sounds, /ɛ/ and /r/, but /ɝ/ is just a single sound. Hope this helps.

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[@yezishu5531]

Hi, thank you for the video. Very helpful. I'm curious about the /r/ between two syllables. In "America," "carry," "error," "marry," "military," "wherever", do we need to use /r/ twice: R-colored vowel for the former syllable and then consonant for the latter syllable? Thank you!

[@SoundsAmerican]

+yezi Shu Hello there, you're asking a good question! We actually made a video on this, check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZPFc6OfgruVn5I

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[@SoundsAmerican]

We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!

[@AllanEduardo42]

Good job! I really think your videos are awesome! :) I have a question: in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary, "character" is said to be pronounced as "kærəktər", so it would be a case of an "æ" colored by the "r", not an "ɛr" as in this video. Why is that? Is it a simple variation of that pronunciation?

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Allan Eduardo Thank you, glad you liked our videos! Regarding the transcription for the word "character". There's no such r-colored vowel as /ær/, this word is pronounced with the /ɛr/ in the first syllable. It's mostly the matter of notation since they still pronounce this very sound, the /ɛr/ :).

[@AllanEduardo42]

Thank you very much! :D I've found that there is a phenomenon named "marry-merry merger", and that explains why "æ" and "ɛ" are pronounced "ɛr" when followed by "r". Which is good, since I don't need to worry about one more different pronouciation! =P I have another question which I'm quite curious about: in words like "cure" and "pure", are their vowels classified as r-colored? If so, of which class? Thanks!

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Allan Eduardo , you're very welcome! Great question about the words "cure" and "pure". You'll find various transcriptions in dictionaries, this is how we pronounce them: "cure" - /kjɝ/ , "pure" - /pjɝ/. It's the /j/ plus the r-colored vowel /ɝ/. Hope it helps, let us know if you have any other questions!

[@denratnik9896]

when to pronounce / ɝ/ work and when/ ɛr / care?

[@SoundsAmerican]

In the word "care," the letter combination 'AR' is followed by a vowel letter 'E,' that's why it's pronounced as the / ɛr / sound. When 'AR' is followed by a consonant or occurs at the end of words, it's pronounced as the /ɑr/ sound. Compare "car" - "card" - "care." In the word "work," we have a different combination of letters: 'OR'. It's pronounced as the R-colored vowel /ɝ/ when it occurs after the /w/ sound. If there is no /w/ sound before it, 'OR' is pronounced either as /ɔr/, like in the word "for" or as /ɝ/, like in the word "attorney." Hope this helps. By the way, we write a lot about such rules on our KZbin Community page on this channel: kzbin.info/door/-MSYk9R94F3TMuKAnQ7dDgcommunity For example, here's our post about the /ɛr / sound, represented by three different combinations of letters check it out: kzbin.infoUgy-2BmdrYOYItc1WXJ4AaABCQ

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[@dawnpresenter2753]

pair pear the same pronunciation how can i differentiate between them

[@SoundsAmerican]

That's the problem with homophones - you can differentiate between them only with the help of context!

[@dawnpresenter2753]

@@SoundsAmerican thanks teacher

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[@SoundsAmerican]

This app is not publicly available yet. We'll announce the release on this channel, so please stay tuned! In the meantime, there is lots of practice exercises on our website: soundsamerican.net.

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[@janeliu1725]

Great instruction! I'm a bit curious about the combination of "vocalic R + /ə/". For example, "/ɛɚ/ + /ə/". Since /ɚ/ produces /ə/ quality, when /ə/ comes after /ɚ/, there should be two /ə/ quality sounds coming together. However, in words such as comparison /kəmˈpɛɚ•ə•sən/, mascara /mæsˈkɛɚ•ə/, I don’t really hear the /ə/ quality from /ɛɚ/. I think of two possibilities. 1) Is it because of the fast linking so we don't hear the /ə/ quality in /ɛɚ/? If so, do native speakers pronounce full vocalic R (/ɛɚ/ in this case) and the schwa that comes after? So we'll hear two /ə/ quality sounds together (/ə/ quality in /ɛɚ/ and /ə/ quality in schwa) if in slow motion? 2) Or does the /ə/ quality sound in /ɛɚ/ get cancelled out when linking even though the mouth and tongue are in position for R? I know it's subtle but it bothers me. Thanks!

[@SoundsAmerican]

Good question. It may seem that there's the /ə/ sound between the /ɛ/ and the /r/ because you need to connect these two sounds, but we don't think it's there. The tongue movement is too short to qualify for the /ə/, so it's just the /ɛr/. Hope it helps!

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[@jamesstmanhattan]

I don't really curl my tongue back when making the /r/ sound, I just make it really tense and place in in between my upper molars, is this an appropriate way to make the /r/ sound?

[@SoundsAmerican]

It's one of the two ways of making the American /r/ sound, seems like they way you pronounce it, is close to what's called the "bunched" way. The other is the retroflex (when the tip of the tongue is curled back). Both are correct. Just make sure that you don't touch your teeth with the tip of your tongue.

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[@SoundsAmerican]

+Mark Morgan not yet, but now we know! Thank you! 😊👍

[@randomdude7384]

I've always thought that in the US people put the schwa sound before the /r/ in words like "pair", "chair", "hair" etc. Check this out :::: dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hair dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/chair dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/air Why does the dictionary mislead its readers?

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Cosmic Disco They just use a slightly different notation, but they don't pronounce the schwa sound. Unfortunately, the transcription notations are different across dictionaries, and it indeed can be misleading.

[@randomdude7384]

@@SoundsAmerican Facts, at least the UK version doesn't have the schwa sound. Nevertheless, by far, it's the best dictionary on the web. Hope things change when you release your app.

[@Marie-vm7sf]

I have a question about this word MARRY. It's pronounced by /ˈmɛr.i/ or / mɛ-ri /?

[@SoundsAmerican]

This word is pronounced with the /ɛr/ vowel sound. Check out our post on this: kzbin.infoUgy-2BmdrYOYItc1WXJ4AaABCQ

[@hamid-mp1fd]

Hi. Thank you for such a great channel. I have a question.I'm a little bit confused, because some phonetics in some dictionaries are written diffrently from yours. For example: /e/ instead of /ɛ/ in "Bed" and /ɒ/ instead of /ɔ/ in "Claw". Thanks in advance :)

[@SoundsAmerican]

Hello there! This can be a matter of notation or the dialect of English. We use the standard symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for General American English, but some dictionaries may use other variants. We recommend using the Cambridge Online dictionary, since their transcriptions are the closest one to the Standard IPA for General American English. We found only a couple of discrepancies: they use the /e/ symbol for the /ɛ/ sound (as in "set") and they believe that there's an /ær/ r-colored vowel. In reality, there's the /ɛr/ one (as in "carrot"). Link: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ Also, make sure that you're looking up the American transcriptions and not the British ones :), they are different most of the time :).

[@hamid-mp1fd]

@@SoundsAmerican Thanks alot for your complete answer. I use longman dictionary.

[@jamesstmanhattan]

What's good guys, does the word stare has the /ɛr/ sound as well?

[@SoundsAmerican]

+First Last Correct, the word "stare" (as well as the word "stair," btw) is pronounced as /stɛr/.

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[@SoundsAmerican]

+First Last 😂🖖👋

[@camilo.decaro]

Hi, I've heard some Americans make distinctions between Mary, marry and merry. Is that pronunciation standard?

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Camillus Andrew Hello theref, we pronounce them the same :). This is called a "Mary-merry-marry merger" which is currently in transition. This merger is complete for all US areas, except the Atlantic coast. About 57% of people living in the USA pronounce these words the same. If you're interested, here's more data with maps: www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_15.html Hope it helps!

[@camilo.decaro]

Sounds American Oh, I didn't know that, it makes pronunciation easier. Thanks so much for the information

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Camillus Andrew, you're welcome! 🖖👋😀

[@humbertopieronineto8019]

I was surprised by how 'error' is pronounced in this video. Even different from Cambridge online dictionary American Accent. I'm not talking abour the / ɛr / but the or at the end of the word.

[@Красныйрыбак]

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[@SoundsAmerican]

+2733211 Янсан , you're welcome! :)

[@Красныйрыбак]

Sounds American could you make video about H sound? That's sometimes not so easy to say right.

[@SoundsAmerican]

Yes, sure. We have it planned. Thank you for your suggestion!👋

[@Красныйрыбак]

Sounds American thank you so much.

[@linking932]

I've seen that the /ɛ/ symbol is used as /e/ in some apps and websites, is there any difference or we can use both? maybe they don't want us to confuse it with the 3:?

[@SoundsAmerican]

+linking932, good attention to detail :). There's a lot of confusion with how people use phonetic notation, unfortunately. Sometimes we see that people use British IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols for American pronunciation and vice versa. In General American, the /ɛ/, as in "bed" is a mid front vowel: ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXbHg3SchLKZpLc) The /eɪ/, as in "bait" is a high front vowel. ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXbHg3SchLKZpLc) This sound may be also represented as /e/. So, as you see, these are two different sounds and should not be substituted for each other. The /3:/ is a sound from British English or (maybe) Australian :). Here are several tables summarizing the sounds and their phonetic notations for Received pronunciation (British) and General American accent. (Scroll down till you see three tables with vowels) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Vowels Hope it helps!

[@linking932]

Ok! I didn't know that there are different symbols for each accent, I think now I got it, and I was having the same confusion with /ɔ/ and /ɔ:/, but now I know the first one is American. By the way, I'm using an app called ToPhonetics, I write words in there and I obtain the phonetic symbols, and the official website is this: tophonetics.com The website is the same thing but with audios included, it would be nice if you check out the website and write a few words to see if the symbols are the right ones for American accent (I think it doesn't use R-colored vowels) Thanks a lot!

[@SoundsAmerican]

+linking932, Hello there 😊 Not only the /ɔː/ and /ɔ/ are different symbols, they are also different sounds 😊. That’s the point. Regarding the tophonetics.com. Thank you for sharing it, we checked it. Here’s what our data analyst says (they allowed to quote them): American transcriptions on tophonetics.com are based on the open CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) Dictionary. The CMU dictionary is one of the biggest open-source pronunciation dictionaries for North American English. The CMU dictionary uses a phonetic transcription ARPABET (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPABET). Looks like tophonetics.com converts ARPABET symbols to IPA symbols, using one of the North American English IPA notations. For example, they use /ɜr/ symbols, while we prefer /ɝ/. Both variants are correct, as they represent the same sound. You can safely replace them with each other. There is one more thing worth mentioning. The CMU dictionary is created for computer-based speech recognition and text-to-speech algorithms. That’s why it contains a limited set of phonemes, and it’s not perfect in terms of syllabication. So, it’ll give you a general idea of how an English word is pronounced, but you’ll probably find more accurate IPA transcriptions in other sources. Seems like topphonetics.com use synthesized speech which may be different from how the words are pronounced in real life.

[@linking932]

Thank you very much for all that information! I've learned a lot from this channel and yes, I don't like the synthesized voice I prefer to use the mobile app, which works without internet :).

[@xukacoffee]

5:14

[@lequocty83]

/e/, right?

[@김태섭-r4z]

character /ˈkærɪktɚ/ is it wrong?

[@SoundsAmerican]

We pronounce this word with the /ɛr/ sound.

[@김태섭-r4z]

@@SoundsAmerican 답변감사합니다. 혹시 롱맨 사전은 왜 발음기호가 /æ/인건지 설명 되실까요?

[@tricky_english]

scare skAr parent pA-rint as in gray very ver-ee there ther as in red air Ar pair pAr as in gray carrot kar-ut arrow ar-O as in black cherry cher-ee merry mer-ee as in red wear wAr pear pAr as in gray OR wear wer pear per as in red their thAr as in gray

[@ivykim5106]

Air And hear

[@lisetebarretosilva1130]

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[@moeali6158]

💕💕

[@sasa0808-q2o]

It's ear sound why

[@dildarjan1921]

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[@noelanidavis4310]

if you know please reply!!

[@lamhoanghiep]

Thank you, Lan :v

[@SoundsAmerican]

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[@تنسيقاتمختلفة]

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[@kiendra]

ɛr

[@noelanidavis4310]

this app

[@victorhernandez4613]

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[@jpzhang8290]

I thought it was / ɛr /, turns out it is /ɛɚ/ from IPA perspective.

[@SoundsAmerican]

It's the same sound, just a matter of notation.

[@고유진-o7c]

hard to pronounce properly for non-native speakers

[@SoundsAmerican]

Yes, this sound can be really hard. But the good news is that practice makes perfect!🖖

[@jonnyuz2000]

Thanks