The Vowel Chart - The 12 Monophthongs in British English | Pronunciation Masterclass

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[@gkincdfujbft465]

If you transcripts the example words and highlights the sounds that would be more helpful to connect, and when your introducing the Monomthong please highlight the single sound that your talking..when you mark all of them and describing its hard for me to follow, to know which one you are talking at that time.

[@gkincdfujbft465]

If you transcripts the example words and highlights the sounds that would be more helpful to connect, and when your introducing the Monomthong please highlight the single sound that your talking..when you mark all of them and describing its hard for me to follow, to know which one you are talking at that time.

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[@BillieEnglish]

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[@BillieEnglish]

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[@sweetiepie9909]

Really clear and at a great pace. My only issue is that it is easy to get lost on which vowel sound and symbol you're talking about. Would be helpful to circle each one you're talking about

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[@matthewblasch2154]

I'm a General American speaker, and we have 13 pure vowels. Our extra sound is called the Close-mid front unrounded vowel. It is used in words like May, Day, Stay, and Lay. I found that 7 vowels are identical between the accents. I'll list words for the 5 examples where Received Pronunciation uses sounds that we don't. Hat Bird Yawn Foot Nut

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Yeah I was also wondering about the "but" or "number" from that

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This video has helped me a lot to understand the vowel chart. Thank you very much 😊

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[@prasadncalindi]

Dear Madam, I am incredibly grateful for the wonderful video you shared. Your dedication to teaching is truly inspiring, and I wanted to express my heartfelt thanks. I have learned so much from your guidance, and it has been an enlightening experience. I do have a small suggestion, which I hope you will consider with your vast knowledge and expertise. It would be immensely helpful if you could include a word for the "^" IPA symbol. I noticed that in the video, you covered 12 vowel sounds, but there were only 11 examples provided. Additionally, I observed that the symbol "e" was labeled as Open-Mid in the video, while on the IPA chart, it is categorized as Closed-Mid. I bring this up with the utmost respect for your expertise and to ensure the accuracy of the information. Once again, I want to emphasize my gratitude for your teachings. Your ability to convey information in a calm, composed, and soul-touching manner is truly remarkable, and I aspire to speak as eloquently as you do. I have gained a wealth of knowledge from your lessons, and I am eager to continue learning from you in the future. Thank you for your time and for sharing your expertise with all of us.

[@BillieEnglish]

Hello! Thank you for your comment & for watching! I am happy to hear the video was helpful. Yes, I realised afterwards that I forgot one sound and added this plus and example in the description text below. For the sound /ʌ/ the example word is 'fun' :-) In this video I use the symbols of the Adrian Underhill chart and not the IPA. There is one little difference in the use of symbols, in that what I call /e/, the IPA calls /ɛ/ instead. I have a video on the charts and their differences on my channel if you'd like to find out more.

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[@PallaviK.C]

Hi Billie... I'm your new student... I've been following you since last 15 days...plz share cardinal vowel sound video

[@BillieEnglish]

Thank you for watching and making a video suggestion! I'll consider this for a future video :-)

[@Vilson549]

Hi, you are amazing. Could you please make a video to elaborate various combination of words which forms these words (similar to plosive and fricative sound videos)

[@BillieEnglish]

Hello! Thank you for your comment! I have a playlist with individual videos on each vowel sound. You can watch it here: kzbin.info/aero/PL2xSrncgBnNYqIKehOXtVxsYiYwuWE-UB I hope you find them useful :-)

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[@shimak7508]

10:14 I am always practicing the vowel pronunciation by this word chart :)

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Great video, it took me an hour to completely coordinate my pronunciation with the chart )

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Where is the front u:? The one we use most of the time, apart from when we use the back u: in words like; school, rule, cool, Mule, Pool.

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[@scott-ish404]

Great vid and chart. Others may have pointed out already that an example for the /ʌ/ sound is missing from it though, as in 'fun' /fʌn/. Anyway, thank you so much for having (re)opened my eyes to it.

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Great! but example of [ʌ] is missing.

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I'm gonna go wreck my linguistics exam tomorrow, or more like it'll wreck me, but this was helpful. Our teacher just gave us the chart and didn't explain anything about it. Not that I could hear and recognize the differences in my own speech anyway.

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Good luck!! How did it go?

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[@peterhind]

Is there a continuity of vowels between the ones that are shown. Can this be used as a framework for understanding regional accents. I ask as I am trying to tone down my North English accent.

[@kevinymagalhaes]

That's what I think too. Isn't that cool how a person master so specific sounds even unconsciously?

[@lapaix4995]

Thank you so much❤, but you didn't give an example for the upsidedown V

[@kavithak.s.2025]

Can you please explain how to differentiate the ^ 3: and another similar sound

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[@anoushkaramanathan7996]

Billie it was "fun", which you missed out in the word chart, for this (^) sound, thank you

[@BillieEnglish]

You're right! How could I forget the fun!?? ;-)

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[@BillieEnglish]

Oh this is lovely to hear and I am very glad my videos have been helpful :-) Wishing all the best in your exam tomorrow and hope you will do brilliantly :-) Let me know when you get your results! All the best!

[@bubblegums1949]

@@BillieEnglish T^T thanks for the reply Gonna tell u my grades when I get them, I won't let you down :")

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[@BillieEnglish]

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I like your explanation

[@L301-p1i]

Thank you for an awesome video! I've been searching the vowel quadrilateral on the internet and found each teacher positioned some of the sounds differently in a quadrilateral although they all say it's the way of RP British English. I am so confusing as none of the British teachers have the exactly same chart. Where can I get the official tongue position for each sound of RP British English ?

[@BillieEnglish]

Hello gg! Thank you for your comment and question. The problem is that there is not really ONE chart everyone uses! I use the symbols the majority of English course books use that teach British English (mostly from British publishers) as they all tend to use the same symbols and so this is the easiest for my students. For example, the popular course book English File. However, the International Phonetic Association who created the IPA (= International phonetic Alphabet) with the sound symbols has a vowel chart that many books and institutions use. You can see it here: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:RP_vowel_chart_(monophthongs).gif I recommend you decide for which purpose you use the chart and then find out what the standard chart is in that field. For example, if you study linguistics at university, which chart to they use and recommend? etc. I hope this helps and you are less confused now :-)

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I appreciate!

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oh its too difficult to be added to memory

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[@demonicbeethoven]

Hello, I noticed that you didn't have an example word for /ʌ/ . Would fun work? Another great video. Thanks again for making this content.

[@BillieEnglish]

Yes, this was left out by mistake, you can see it in the description box. 👍

[@demonicbeethoven]

@@BillieEnglish Awesome! I hadn't seen that. My suggestion was more a shot in the dark. Seems like I'm sorta getting a hang of it. Not the least, thanks to your videos.