English Pronunciation: bear, beer, bird, beard

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RealLife English


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Hello, ladies and gentlemen. What's up? I am Chad from RealLife English, and today I
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have an awesome, kickass, super duper pronunciation lesson for you guys. In this very quick 2
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minute pronunciation lesson I'm gonna be teaching you the difference between the words
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So the big difference in all of these words are the different vowel sounds. So first of
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all the sound of BEAR
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As you can see it's a long "airrrrrrrr" sound. So repeat after me...
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The next word is BEER.
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It's an "eeeeee" sound so...
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So bear compared to beer
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The next sound is an 'eeerrrrrr' sound, in the word bird.
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The bird. Ok, the 'eeerrrrrr' sound bird.
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And lastly, BEARD.
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So this is the same sound as the word BEER but you are just adding the D and the end.
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BEARD
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So just to repeat those 4 words were
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So repeat this phrase after me. The bird spilled some beer in the bear's beard.
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One more time, really quickly...
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Awesome, I hope you guys can really hear the difference between those sounds. All you have
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to do is just keep repeating and repeating and it's going to get much easier and easier.
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