Individual Sounds - American English Pronunciation Mini Boot Camp 1

Hi there, I'm Drew Badger the world's number 1

English Fluency Guide and in this

pronunciation boot camp we're going to

cover a whole bunch of great word sounds

and phrases and help you become a much

more confident speaker the most

important thing you need to do to

improve your pronunciation is to focus

on individual sounds mastering these by

listening to how they sound and then

thinking of them phonetically the word

phonetic just means the sound of

something but it's spelled with a pH

phonetic now it might have a certain

spelling just like any other word but

you can write it in a phonetic way as

opposed to using characters like the

international phonetic alphabet

I recently asked fans of the English any

1.com facebook page what problems they

were having with their pronunciation and

we received a lot of great feedback and

questions from learners so i'll be

covering those in this series of videos

but for this video we're going to cover

what coin mix and undressed asked and

this is how to pronounce things like

flour and floor and the pronunciation of

the th sound but looking at words like

flour or the other flowers i got the

flour for baking or I've got the flower

that's growing out of the ground or a

floor we can look at the different words

and see if there are any pieces of these

words and begin building up the

pronunciation from there so the first

word floor we've got the blend of SL so

and just try to pronounce each of these

together a blend just has the two sounds

of s and L full full but then we have

the o.r now if you've seen the word or

you probably know that word as well but

it's got the same oor we've got so lower

lower Lord so the or sound when you

typically have a vowel and then we have

the are with it also then we have

something like or four hour depending on

the word now looking at the word flower

it's the same thing we've got FL

oh you are this is the flower that you

bake with and this has flour flour flour

flour and this is the same pronunciation

as the actual flower that grows out of

the ground flour flour

finally we'll look at the th sound

this can be quite tricky for many people

because if you don't have that sound in

your language well it's just a little

bit odd to make but really it's a quite

easy thing to see someone make and then

if you try to over pronounce it it

becomes easier to say all you have to do

is stick out your tone and then bite

your tone and then just pass air again

whether to use something like seeing or

something like that

this is one of those things that just

takes time but you can practice all of

these sounds so that when you learn

which you should be using you can use it

accurately in then I'm very thin or this

is a ball this is a ball this is a ball

so either you're exhaling just to make

more of a soft sound like where you're

vibrating a little bit more like that

sound but with the it's the same sound

so just try to vibrate in general you

can feel your neck mmm like you're

humming sound but instead of just

humming your mm the it's the exact same

sound so practice doing that and as you

listen for more words you can try these

different pronunciations and again

you'll develop that sense for which to

use overtime

well that's the end of this video I hope

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