Taste or Test? Date or Debt? American English Pronunciation

[@SoundsAmerican]

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[@sofia_miniatures548]

Thank you so much for comparing this 2 vowel sounds. Keep it up, sir.

[@anshi29]

Thankyou so much ..... before watching this video i was was really confused in pronounciating..

[@jonasbukasa6800]

Your the great teacher

[@camilo.decaro]

I know the difference but when these two sounds are before a "dark l" they sound the same to me

[@vinciwang9703]

same to me

[@bvbhi4746]

Very good

[@nguyenphuongneu]

I strongly like this video, i am learning ei sound with my Online Philipino teacher in someday but I still can not apply this in every word like fail, but your voice makes me easier recognize it and I can repeat it many time as I want . It really really useful. Thank you so much. Your team is great team.

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Nguyen Phượng , glad to hear that! Would you like to share this video with your teacher? Maybe they find it useful for their classes.

[@nguyenphuongneu]

Yes Sure, I 've shared it

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Nguyen Phượng , 👍👋

[@Iloveyougod3377]

Đồng hương ❤

[@wadimprom4229]

My ears can’t hear different pronunciations (fell-fail, sail-sell) in the first part of this video. And when I am watching part of the pronunciation exercise, I can’t hear/ɪ/ in /eɪ/ but some words (fail, hail, jail, sail). Moreover, I think pairs of words (fail-fell; hail-hell; jail-gel; sail-sell) don't different at all or have very tiny distinguished. If I am wrong to please highlight to me how can I fix this problem with my hearing? Maybe the last letter 'L' changes pronunciation vowels /eɪ/. Your canal is the best on KZbin for American pronunciation without any unnecessary information.

[@Hipetyhop12]

Hi! I'm not an expert on language, or whatever. But, I have a general (standard) American accent and I pronounce the words you mentioned the same way as each other: 1. fail / fell 2. hail / hell 3. gell / jail 4. sail / sell So don't worry.

[@cindymelissakillebrew4113]

Awesome channel!!!

[@SoundsAmerican]

Glad you liked it!

[@josephparis007]

thank you so much for making this video!!!

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Chen Su, you're welcome! 😀👋

[@trinhkimtuyen439]

Great job!

[@zhexiao8526]

It is really helpful!!!!

[@SoundsAmerican]

+zhe xiao 👍👋

[@brunopinheiro5456]

My native language is Brazilian Portuguese. We have four vowel sounds that are very similar to the English ones. We have /i/, /ɛ/, /u/ and /ɔ/. We also have three other vowel sounds which are /e/ , /o/ and /a/ and some english teachers explained to me that these three vowels "exist" in American English, however they are not pronounced as monophthongs, single vowels or pure vowels ( I guess these three technical terms mean the same thing, I'm not sure). So they told me that /e/, /o/ and /a/ are vowels that are pronounced as part of the group of the vowels called diphthongs. /e/ is the first sound pronounced in the diphthong /eɪ/, as in Able, cAke, and grEY. /o/ is the first sound pronounced in the diphthong /oʊ/ as in the words Ocean, bOAt and shOW. And last but not least /a/ is the first sound pronounced in two diphthongs in American English: /aɪ/ as in hi and /aʊ/ as in how. Well, that kind of makes sense, since the symbols used to represent the first part of these diphthongs in IPA transcriptions are the same symbols used to represent the three vowels sounds that exist in my language /e/, /o/ and /a/. Do you agree to this statement? Are these three really the vowel sounds pronounced in the first part of these diphthongs? PS: the American English /ɑ/ vowel and the Portuguese /a/ vowel sound very similar to me. By the way, I've already watched videos here on KZbin where American English teachers said that the /a/ vowel is very similar to the /ɑ/ vowel like in the word fAther. => kzbin.info/www/bejne/amelfYd_h8yDY6c

[@brunopinheiro5456]

@Lucas olá, você está com dificuldade para entender os símbolos fonéticos é isso? Eu sei como é. Também fiquei confuso no começo.

[@brunopinheiro5456]

@Lucas é isso mesmo.

[@brunopinheiro5456]

@Lucas Realmente alguns dicionários que usam os símbolos fonéticos usam o símbolo [e] para representar o som de [ɛ] , e isso não é muito correto, pois lá na tabela das vogais esse símbolo [e] representa o som de vogal que ocorre em português em palavras como : Escova, mÊs, fEz, mEsa , vocÊ e pÊssego por exemplo. Um professor meu me falou dessa variação de símbolos , e ele sempre me aconselhou a usar o símbolo de [ɛ] para representar a vogal que ocorre em português em Eco, dEz, cafÉ, vEla, pÉrola, pois esse é o símbolo padrão que representa esse som. E sinceramente eu não sei por que em algumas transcrições fonéticas do inglês eles usam o símbolo [e] no lugar de [ɛ].

[@brunopinheiro5456]

@Lucas Um professor meu me falou que as vogais , [e] como em mÊs , [o] como em flOr e [a] como em chÁ só existem em inglês como parte de ditongos [eɪ], [oʊ], [aɪ] e [aʊ], e a princípio esses quatro ditongos são bem parecidos com os ditongos que temos em português: [eɪ] > Cake ; lei [oʊ] > nOte ; tesOUra [aɪ] > bike ; cAIxa [aʊ] > now , mingAU

[@ilovehooman5656]

Thank you so much this helps me a lot 😍

[@SoundsAmerican]

👍👋

[@emsqrer]

1:31 I hear [fɛl] distinctly. Am I wrong?

[@SoundsAmerican]

+emsqrer It's definitely /eɪ/, as the narrator pronounces the word "fail". You may be confused as the /eɪ/ in that word is "colored" by the /l/ sound, which affects the pronunciation of a preceding vowel.

[@emsqrer]

Oh, that "colored" /l/ makes "fail" to sound [fɛəl] for me :)

[@SoundsAmerican]

++emsqrer :) yes, a lot of people get confused when they hear even familiar sounds in different positions in words. :)

[@giyu2687]

youglish.com/search/fail/us? youglish.com/search/fell/us? emsqrer you're right, i think he made a mistake there .

[@wanminxie6982]

You are not along, may be the sound /ɪ/ in /feɪl/ is too short, I listened for many times and I still can not get the /ɪ/. Then I checked the two sounds in dictionary, they are quite different, I can hear them clearly.

[@sriratdecha8809]

Thank you!

[@SM-mw4et]

Thank you

[@SoundsAmerican]

You're welcome

[@elwinharahap6771]

Dear Sound American admin, I think for the word fell and fail at 1:37 you have pronounced it fell instead fail ... please correct me if I am wrong ...

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Elwin Harahap We pronounced exactly the word "fail." The /l/ sound affects the pronunciation of the preceding vowel, that's maybe why you're confused.

[@elwinharahap6771]

@@SoundsAmerican _ Thanks a lot for your kind reply.... you are right maybe I heard it with the affects sound made me confused ... Just a short note to inform you since I am studying each of your videos as my reference I might throw some question it seems as a smart ass ( I don't know what is the polite word to replace with) please don't get me wrong it is purely of my curiosity in studying American English with a limited budget....

[@Daniil_Kingson]

Что это за приложение такое, где повторяешь за диктором? Можно ли его скачать на телефон?

[@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!

[@charliebee2028]

thnx

[@younesalli2095]

hello, can I ask you which tool or application, we use for this great work, thanks from Morocco 🙏🙏

[@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!

[@younesalli2095]

@@SoundsAmerican OK. that's nice thanks, really is the best I have found in internet, we hope soon seeing this great works

[@debashishmohapatra5080]

Very effective

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Debashish Mohapatra, glad to hear that!

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

It sound like ㅐ vowel in korea

[@javiertorres2317]

Hi!. I am a native Spanish speaker and I only get confused with /eɪ/ and /ɛ/ in the words that ending in /eɪ/ + L and /ɛ/ + L as in in the pair words fail - fell. I hear fell in both pronunciations. Have you make a video about it?

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Javier Torres , we have :). Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGqkfKN_pNpmoa8&. Enjoy! 🖖👋

[@javiertorres2317]

Thank you so much!

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Javier Torres , np! 😀👋

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Javier Torres , Javier, my apologies, I misread your initial question and only saw it later that you've actually seen this exact video. We haven't made a specific video for the words ending with the /L/ sound after the /eɪ/ or the /ɛ/ yet, but we do have several pairs of words like that in this one. Please, check the practice exercise from this moment: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGqkfKN_pNpmoa8 and further. Again, apologies for the confusion.

[@javiertorres2317]

Don't worry. Thanks for replying each comment

[@DjAngelloFerreira]

Hello, Sounds American. I have a question for you. Are you an English teacher, English professor or something relate it?

[@SoundsAmerican]

Hello there, Angello! We’re a team, one of us is a certified speech therapist and a University professor. We have a linguist too. Why? :)

[@DjAngelloFerreira]

Just curiosity! Apart from that, I like what you do.

[@SoundsAmerican]

Thank you :). So do we :)

[@josealhome1]

PLEASE, I NEED TO KNOW THE APP TO INSTALL IN MY SMARTPHONE AND TO WATCH THE AMERICAN SOUNDS THAT APPEAR IN THIS VIDEO

[@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!

[@josealhome1]

PLEASE, I NEED TO KNOW THE APPLICATION TO WATCH THE AMERICAN SOUNDS THAT APPEAR IN THE VIDEO

[@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!

Good.

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Élcio S. Cunha , 👍👋

[@bipulm4h]

Can't distinguish these two sounds before "the Dark L". It's frustrating. :( Fail and Fell sound exactly the to me.

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Mehedi Hasan Bipul , yes, those are not easy. We'll publish a video on the "dark" /l/ sound within the next few weeks, hope it'll be helpful.

[@nguyenphuongneu]

I have same problem with you.

[@TNguyenHoangPhuc]

I have difficulty differentiating between fell and fail. In this video, I still don't tell apart "fell" and "fail" 😢

[@SoundsAmerican]

The main point of this exercise is to repeat the words after the speaker. Pronunciation is a physical skill, and as with any physical skill it requires lots of practice to develop muscle memory. Don't give up and good luck!

[@ASD-x4r]

@@SoundsAmerican " fail fell, hail hell, saint sent, sail sell, jail gel,". I found them the same in the video. I am finished.

[@capitalist9441]

Hi, what's the app or website he is using in the video

[@SoundsAmerican]

+monish ghodke We're using our own app, we haven't released it publicly yet, but we plan to make it happen soon. We'll announce the release on this channel, so stay tuned!

[@victtormoreiira5391]

brazil here?

[@madeeasy7691]

How to find the app being used? Please tell me!!!!

[@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!

[@madeeasy7691]

@@SoundsAmerican ok, great!!!

[@MrRoibel]

I got 10 score

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Roibel Roman , excellent!👍

[@PinkGlam111]

Does American say test or taste when they want to see how the food is

[@j1o2h3n4ify]

I hear the words with the 'L' sound at the end sound the same. Am I the only one who hearing this?

[@chengxiaoxia8046]

save me,please! I was killed by fail, fill, fuel. My last wish is to know the correct pronunciation of them😊