#2 BRITISH ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION in 10 Minutes / BRITISH ACCENT Daily Training: Long Vowel /ɔ:/

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Today we are looking at the long vowel /ɔ:/

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Yeah you can see, great! Fabulous! Ok, so! Phonetically, this long vowel looks like this.

Looks like a backward C with two dots /ɔ:/

This is a vowel that many of my students have trouble with.

Now, you have to imagine that you have a marble in your mouth

Huge space. /ɔ:/ The lips surrounded, the space inside is wide and the sound resonate around the back of the mouth.

/ɔ:/ Lots of people, instead do OU, which is very forwards and moving

This sound doesn’t move. /ɔ:/ And we see it in words such as “Law” even though we have a “W” here we don’t want to say “Lou”

It should just be /lɔ:/

We also have it in the word “Saw”, “I saw you”.

“I saw you” so practice that with me “saw”

“Saw”, I don’t want to here “Sou”, it should be /sɔ:/

We also have it in the word “Door”

Ok? So that’s /lɔ:/, /sɔ:/ and /dɔ:/

Some of you are eating your dinner, trying to do this pronunciation while eating your dinner or your lunch, be careful that you don’t choke.

All right, so, let’s try some sentences with this /ɔ:/ sound

We have “I bought 4 more”

“The store had a wet floor” now, even though this has the letter “R” in it, we don’t acknowledge it, is just /stɔ:/ and we end on the vowel sound /ɔ:/

So we don’t want /stɔ:r/ unless you are doing American English /stɔ:r/, “I go to the /stɔ:r/” but in British English we say /stɔ:/

“The store had a wet floor” and notice how I make this a “Schwa”, rather than say “/eɪ/” I say “/ə/”.

I don’t even say “/æ/”. I say “/ə/”.

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So we have “The store had a wet floor”.

“He”, no constriction on the “H”. “He wore..” (not “/wɔ:r/”), ignore the letter “R” “He wore shorts to court”

“He wore shorts to court” and all this “R”s are ignored. “He wore shorts to..”, “/tə/”, notice how I’m not saying “/tuː/”, I say “/tə/”, because in a sentence, when this is weak, we change it.

“He wore shorts to court”, some of you are asking for an American English version of this, would be, “He wore shorts to court”.

“He wore shorts to court”.. “He wore shorts to court.”, yeah, they, they just.. I have not a great American Accent to be honest but they generally go more into the “R”s

“He wore shorts to court.” “court..court..co..” yeah, I think so.

Ok, back to British English, so we have.. […] “Her” again, no constriction on the “H”, “Her daughter..daughter, daughter.. was caught.”

This also become a “Schwa sound” and the “S” is sounded like a “Z”, “Was”.

“Her daughter was caught.”, “Her daughter was caught.”

Some of you are putting up paragraphs of [..] tongue twisters using this sound, fabulous.

Just repeat this one more time with me, “Her daughter was caught.”, “Her daughter was caught.”

All right, and the last one we have “We fought with water balloons.”, “We fought with..”, “TH”, “with water balloons.”, “with water balloons”

“Please pronounce three forms of “wear”, oh, my finger in the way of the camera

“Please pronounce three forms of wear” I have a problem with “worn”, ehm.. wear, wearing, worn?

Is how were you mean ‘the three forms’?

All right so, one last time through all of this, we have Law, Saw and Door.

“I bought 4 more.”, “The store had a wet floor.”, “He wore shorts to court.”, “Her daughter was caught.”, “We fought with water balloons.”.

Fabulous! Ok, so remember, this sound is a particularly difficult one for many English language learners.

So, do work hard on the placement, the space in the mouth and keeping the vowel still, not moving it into “oou”, which is closer to a diphthong sound, which is not what we want.

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Can you please pronounce the word ‘fortune’, Fortune, there you go? [..] What else do we have?

‘Wall’, ‘Wall’, ‘Wall’ dark “L”, “Wall”, “Wall”.

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So, the words ‘wore’ I wore clothes and I went to ‘war’ both pronounced exactly the same ‘wore’ and ‘war’

‘War’ the fight and ‘Wore’ cloths. ‘War and ‘Wore’. What else do we have, if you are enjoying this, guys, so many of you have been kind, please give me the thumbs up.

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