Basic English Pronunciation - Simple vowel sounds

Hi there, my name's Ronnie and today I'm going to teach you about singular and plural pronunciation

of people, if you will.

A lot of people get this wrong and they put the "s" on the wrong one.

So my reason for teaching you this is so that you are 100% confident when you're trying

to speak English.

Here you go.

The first one we have is woman, pronunciation.

We actually say this word woman.

This is one.

So all of these ones will be singular.

Singular means there's only one.

So when we pronounce this word, we say woman.

For the singular man, it's a very easy short word and we say man.

The spelling and the pronunciation isn't really that different.

So we say woman and man.

The next one is, for all the little guys out there, we have one child.

Pronunciation is chai.

If you guys are into some special tea, you might know chai tea, so you can say chai old.

So it kind of looks like this when you read it alphanetically, chai old.

So let's go through those ones.

We have woman, man, and child.

These are all singular.

Now comes the hard part.

We're going to talk about more than one.

When we have more than one, in English we say it is plural.

You might notice in some grammar textbooks or when you read a dictionary, when they refer

to singular, they just put an S. That's easy.

And plural, they just put a P. So now you know if you see an S or a P in your dictionary,

you know what it means.

So the plural of woman is women, woman, women.

The pronunciation is very, very different.

The spelling, we only change one word or one letter in the word.

So let's put out the pronunciation for this one.

So this one is woman, and this one is women.

The ending, just to confuse you thoroughly, is the same, but we actually change the beginning

of the word.

So once again, this is woman for one, and more than one is women.

Are you confused?

I hope not.

It gets easier.

We have one man, and many men.

So we have man and men.

When we say this word, it's an ah, so we're going to say man.

We have to really open our mouth when we say man.

This is my mouth being opened.

You can kind of think you're a sheep and go man, if that helps you.

You can practice.

You can be a man sheep.

I'm sure there's a name for a man sheep.

If we have more than one man, they're called men.

When we make the word men, our mouth comes out like a smile.

Our mouth is more closed than man, and this one is men.

So if you have many men, you want to have a smile because you're happy.

One is a man.

And the last one is this word.

One is called a child.

Many are called chil-drin, let's spell it like this, chil-drin.

We can never ever in English say childs or childrens when we're speaking about plurals

and nouns.

You might see it written like with an apostrophe s, but this has a different meaning.

We're not talking about that.

So when we're using singular and plural nouns, you must say one child or many chil-drin.

How many chil-drin do you have?

How many men do you have?

How many women do you have in your family?

That's all for now.

Bye-bye.