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Unit 15 – More Vowel Sounds – AW and UH

Hello This is AJ, and welcome to our next unit, more vowel sounds In this unit, we've got three sounds that all have vibration Remember, again, that lesson about vibration, chest, throat, and nose Well, we'll be working with especially throat vibration again in this unit

Let's start with our first sound with shwa Then, we'll learn the A-W or aw sound Then, we'll do the short-e sound, eh First the shwa sound This is a very, very common sound in English We use it a lot, so you've got to learn how to do it correctly Very important sound Okay

The shwa is a very relaxed sound It sounds like this, uh, uh, uh, uh Let me tell you how to make this sound First of all, you mouth is wide, it's wide open It's a very open sound You can just open your mouth completely as you do it Uh, uh See? My face is quite relaxed when I'm doing this

This is a relaxed sound Uh, uh Basically you're opening you mouth You're opening everything, and then you're vibrating your throat It's the vibration that creates this sound in the throat Uh Without the vibration, it's just an H sound It's kind of like a vibrating H sound

Uh, uh, uh

Okay, so again, wide open relaxed mouth, and then vibrate in your throat Uh, uh, uh Now, it's kind of a quiet sound You can make it loud, uh, but in normal speech it's often quite a short sound We'll just say it very quickly Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh

You're going to hear this sound in English constantly It's in so many words Especially in causal conversation, fast conversation we change a lot of vowel sounds to the shwa, and just say uh, uh,

uh, uh Got to learn this sound Okay Let's practice it

One more tip actually before we practice Sometimes I like to tell people there's a little trick if you're having trouble, if this is difficult for you Open your mouth and relax everything Then, take your fist like this, and imagine you're punching yourself in the stomach Uh Right

Suddenly, air comes out Uh You vibrate your throat like someone just punched you Uh That's what I want you to imagine for making this sound You don't have to hurt yourself It's just a mental trick

Let's practice some words with this sound Okay? Again, it's the first sound It's spelled with an

A, but that first sound is a shwa sound

Uh Again, again Uh-gain Again

You can hear this word, how short it is Right? I told you that the shwa sound is often very quick

In this word it's a good example Again In normal speech we don't say uh-gain We say the uh sound It's very quick

Again, again, again, again, again

Here's another one

A lot, a lot, a lot I have a lot of money Hopefully you do A lot, a lot

Celebrate It's in the middle Cel-uh-brate Uh, uh, uh Cel-uh-brate, celebrate, celebrate

Hear how quick it is? Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate

Occur Occur means to happen Occur, occur It's the beginning Occur Uh-cur Occur, occur Again, it's quite quick Occur, occur Uh-cur

Support That first vowel sound, uh Suh, suh Support, support, support

Love Uh Love, love, love

Must, must, must

The T-H-E That word can be pronounced 2 ways Some people say thee, but it can also be pronounced the with a shwa sound

Uh The, the, the, the, the Uh, uh, uh The

Alone, alone

Focus It's the second vowel sound Uh, focus Us, us Focus, focus, focus

Hear how quick it is again Focus, focus, focus

All right Good Let's move to our next sound You can call this an A-W sound It's aw Aw, aw, like awful Awful Almost Aw, aw This is also a throat vibration sound The difference is your mouth now is going to be more narrow

With the shwa, it was wide Uh, uh Everything open With aw, you're going to push your lips together more tight Right? Aw, aw, aw Still an open mouth, but narrow Push together Aw It's not the fish-face Right? Your lips are not close They're open It's very open still, but pushed together narrow Aw, aw You open, narrow face and then vibrate your throat Aw, aw, aw Awful means terrible It's the first sound Aw-ful, aw-ful, aw-ful

Exaggerate Push your face together tight, and open your mouth very wide

Awful, awful

Almost, almost, almost, almost, almost

Crawl It's the sound in the middle Crawling, like a baby Crawl, crawl, crawl

Author is a writer Author Aw-thor, aw-thor Author Aw, aw Author

Walk, walk, walk

Talk, talk, talk

Tall Very tall Not short Tall, tall

Also, also, also

Very good You got it

Let's go to our final sound for this unit, the sort-e It sounds like this Eh Like get, let Eh, eh,

eh Ho do we get this? First of all, with the eh sound, your tongue is active The front of your tongue is low Eh Don't raise it Ehhh No, no, no Eh The front of your tongue kind of goes down behind your bottom teeth

Eh, eh, eh, eh

Drop the front of you tongue You lower lip becomes tight and a little bit wide Eh, eh It's a trick Again, you can exaggerate this

Eh, eh, eh

You can even push your lower lip out a little if you want, but it needs to be kind of tight Eh, eh

The front of the tongue drops, the back of the tongue might come up It's okay Then, tight here

on the lower lip, and then again that same throat vibration

Eh, eh, eh See, I'm pushing my lower lip out?

Eh Get, get, get, get

Let, let let

Healthy The first sound Heh, heh Health, healthy, healthy, healthy Heh Healthy, healthy, healthy

Wealth, means lots of money Wealth, wealth

Next, next Eh Next

Best, best, best

Energy Eh Energy, energy That first sound Energy, energy

Okay Do your best in the training during your five days following this unit As I said, sometimes the vowel sounds The changes are quite small, so you may need some time to listen very carefully to practice again and again at a slow speed until you start to feel these small differences

in the sounds Just be patient, relax Let yourself gradually improve Train everyday Follow the five day Effortless English Pronunciation process

See you in the training audio

Unit 15 – Practice Session

Okay You know what to do Be patient with the vowels Follow the process and improve

gradually Let's start

Again and again, I focus on the problems that occur when I speak English, but I never get

stressed I support myself and let the process of improvement happen I always focus my energy

on doing the best I can Every day I walk for energy Every day I talk in English I always love to get better and better because I trust the process I trust that small improvements will get bigger and bigger Yes, I am almost there Yes, success is near It's almost time to celebrate

Now at a median speed

Again and again, I focus on the problems that occur when I speak English, but I never get

stressed I support myself and let the process of improvement happen I always focus my energy

on doing the best I can Every day I walk for energy Every day I talk in English I always love to get better and better because I trust the process I trust that small improvements will get bigger and bigger Yes, I am almost there Yes, success is near It's almost time to celebrate

Now a little faster

Again and again, I focus on the problems that occur when I speak English, but I never get

stressed I support myself and let the process of improvement happen I always focus my energy

on doing the best I can Every day I walk for energy Every day I talk in English I always love to get better and better because I trust the process I trust that small improvements will get bigger and bigger Yes, I am almost there Yes, success is near It's almost time to celebrate

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