American English Sounds: AA [æ]

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Rachel's English


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This is the symbol in the International Phonetic  Alphabet [æ]. The thing about the [æ] vowel is  
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the tongue lifts in the back let me show you  what I mean. Here's what the tongue looks like inside the mouth.
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[æ]
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So it's high in the  back, low in the front and the jaw drops.  
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[æ]
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This is the sound in exact, match,  actually, path and many more words
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