Monday 11 April 2016

Vowel Sounds in American English

In this video you'll see and listen to examples of the vowel sounds in American English. It's definitely worth a look!

The Phonemic Chart

The English Vowel Sounds with examples:
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The English Vowel Sounds

There are 5 vowel sounds in Spanish and 8 in Catalan. In English there are 12 and some of them do not exactly coincide with our Catalan sounds. To illustrate the English vowel sounds we use the following diagram:






The idea is to put this diagram inside the mouth of a profile to see the position of the tongue inside the mouth when a vowel sound is pronounced.

Sunday 10 April 2016

Minimal Pairs to Repeat

There are several pairs of example words for you to repeat. Only one sound is different in each pair. That's why they are called MINIMAL PAIRS.

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This is the video we saw in class. Have another look!