The /æ/ Sound
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This is the /æ/ sound. It is a Vowel sound and it’s technical name is the ‘Near-Open Front Unrounded Vowel’.
Remember that the key to pronunciation s physical and the name tells us about how the sound is made physically. In this case your tongue is low and at the front of your mouth. Unrounded refers to your lips because they are stretched out as if you are smiling and not rounded..
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All vowels are made through the mouth and are voiced so you vibrate your vocal chords to make the sound.
It is similar to the /ɑ:/ sound, but it is shorter.
your pronunciation is totally different from the others
/æ/ not /ɑ:/
To produce the sound put your tongue low and at the front of your mouth and stretch out your lips, then make a short voiced sound with you mouth open.
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This video is part of our series on phonetics and pronunciation for learners of English as a foreign language.
Phonetics is the science of pronunciation. It can be helpful for people learning English because one of the most difficult things about the language is the spelling and pronunciation. English is not very phonetic and as a result the same letters are often pronounced in many different ways in different words.
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The IPA helps by providing a way to write words as they are pronounced. The normal alphabet only has 26 characters but there are 44 different sounds that are used to pronounce words. As well as that, most word in English originate from other languages like Greek, Latin and French to name just a few and in many cases the the language of origin influences how the word is pronounced.
The IPA provides a symbol (phoneme) for each sound so the correct pronunciation can be written or printed in dictionaries.
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This video along with the others in our pronunciation series helps language learners to hear the correct pronunciation and also to know how to produce the sound of each phoneme.
This becomes really confusing really fast, but I’m from Maryland and I have the same pronunciation as your wife I think.
I also just realized that this is part of the reason why I’m good at British accents (I also do others, but I actually find Australian to be the easiest)
More User Perspectives
El traductor de voz habla todo en castellano inclusive como hacer el sonido de las vocales en ingles entonces que aprendes ?? Nada ....
@gracielaisabelmuller3582Love it.
@HiqasuwI miss old school YouTube annotations. Forgot that you could just place clickable areas in the video
@ΜικεΡHow noble. This is how nobility speaks-- without mincing vowel sounds with consonants. I swear I hear way too many soft 'r' sounds pronounced after the Æ sound or the Ahh sound.
"I Sawr Jedah Dohma", for instance. It's not petty, it is OCD.
Eeea at the end 😂
@gamingwithjake160That's how e sounds in romanian
@stefanatofanei5429American English has mutated the pronunciation of most of the words with this "æ" sound including my name. They've turned it into more of an "eh" than an a sound and it drives me crazy!
@daralynn4614HEY SIR, YOUVE HELPED ME LEARN SOMETHING YEARS AFTER SCHOOL LMAO!! I used to play a game where “the gæ “ was my name and I pronounced it as the gee right? Someone said it means “ the gay” and I finally wanted to know what it actually sounds like years later lol. It’s the ga (æ) lmao
@imeldacastellanos334I’m definitely using it wrong, but I don’t care it looks cool
@JÆurorizIt feels so inconsistent, one time it’s a one time it’s e
@savytskyi-antona+e=æ
@PogoShna-jwgBro she fr said ÆÆÆÆÆ
@esmirnanova9403I’m sorry, “Exashay-Twelve”? Is that right? When the fuck did we decide Æ gets pronounced “ash”? What the fuck?
@kick_assidyæææææææææææææææææææææææææææææææææææææ
@Mojang_official_channelI am learning!
@Tenoct91Me acabas de salvar la vida
@enmanuelgomez625good 😊
@BeckyOsiahthis is so weird to watch as a dane cause its not at all how we pronounce it in danish... If youre curious how its pronounced in basically all danish words, try listening to google translate for words like apple, guess, guest, older, giant or actually you can just copy æ on its own and listen. (yes i know this vid is 9 years old but i couldnt resist when its about our letter.)
@EfBeeKayfalse if u read "have" 'A' same and in "and" you would have 'And' but we read as 'Eend'
@TooGumbicathanks, i watched this more than 10 years ago, and now I am watching this with my daughter.
@ccbell2852Near open unrounded vowel
@GuinnessWhy-pf5vhæ is ae
@StormShine_123what is the alphabet the connected ae comes from
@sadlstations8152WHÆ
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@ghggalBrilliant
@jimanHKyou should only button the top suit button, never the bottom button
@boringreviewvideos315thank you a
@JamaYousufThanks again king
@darkcnotionGreat lesson.
Please, I am a teacher in Ghana.
Is not easy for me to write this sound on the board during the teaching and learning process in class. If you could have a video on how to write the sound.
Anyone else consistently saying "æ" through this whole video?
@ItzmoonRiseThank you for helping me become more well rounded and versatile in my writing and reading comprehension! I'm most grateful to you and cannot wait to learn everything!
@nearthefarworldEncyclopædia pronunciation?
Æsop pronunciation?
May I ask why "æ" is pronounced closer to "ʌ" in British English, but "æ" is pronounced closer to "e" in American English?
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@AlexTheDeadhead...so it is either ah or eh... god I hate english.
@Igor369your videos was telling me how to say these type of words kinda wrong, i'm sorry but my friend called nancy know how to teach more then you, i hope u get better teaching people in internet so we can have more fun, thanks and bye!
@NohandleriscosIs this a meme? He act like meme
@xeraghg2:16 fucked but it's very mispronounced
@thefutureismeaninglessthep7364Trying to pronounce Tool's song Ænema
@voidgaming4042Youtube ruined amazing interactivity like the end of this video by removing annotations :( Some day big tech will control when we're even allowed to eat
@kellyhiggins5703I'm quite certain that I heard you say "pro NOUNCE ee ay shun. Surely this was an anomaly?
Otherwise....'love your speech – your precision and clarity.
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