Hello again I'd like to teach you another sound that is key to developing an American accent.
Today I'm going to talk about sound
the Ur and related sounds are very frequent in English.
So it's important to spend some time making sure you can accurately pronounce them like the Schwall
is a middle vowel your tongue position can vary somewhat.
It can pull back and Bunge up as you see in the photo or it can curl back.
It doesn't really matter whether your tongue tip is up or whether it's down.
The most important thing about this sound is that tongue does not touch any part of the mouth or the
teeth.
It should not touch the roof of your mouth.
The muscles are tense with this sound.
You should feel your tongue and your mouth tense and your mouth is open.
About midway
your lips are loosely rounded.
Let's go ahead and try this sound together and we'll give you a close up of my mouth so you can see
exactly what I'm doing.
Our are here.
Let's play with this a little bit.
I want you to growl like a tiger.
But before we do that I want to make sure that your mouth is set up to correctly pronounce the sound
so make sure that you open your mouth about midway you round your lips your tongue is in the middle
of your mouth pull it back.
It should not be touching anything.
Right.
And then we're going to feel tension.
Like hold the muscle tight.
Now let's go ahead and growl like a tiger.
Or her are.
Now that is the person.
So whenever you can't remember it remember a growl like a tiger and then that's going to help you make
that sound correctly.
Let's talk now about how to spell the earth sound.
Oftentimes in English we can't always rely on spelling to determine sound.
And with the Earth this is particularly the case there are several different spellings that can actually
make this sound.
And here are a few of the more common ones they are spelling is probably the most common as in words
like her.
And we're you might see E A R as in early or learn I R as in girl and third o are in work and world
and you are in Thursday and burn.
So these are some of the more common ones you may find and there are also potentially other spellings
as well.
First I want to test your ear to see if you can hear the sound correctly.
First I want you to locate this chart in your workbook so you can write on it.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pronounce each word in two ways.
I'm going to pass pronounce at once for you correctly and I'm going to pronounce it once incorrectly.
Now I want you to circle the one that you hear pronounce correctly.
Do you hear the one in column A or B correctly.
Let's get started.
The first one.
Newspaper.
Newspaper
work work
Water whate'er errantly early computer computer or
research research
doctor Dr..
Now if you need to please stop the video and listen to that again and again until you are certain that
you can hear the sound correctly and you have all the answers when you do check your answers in the
back of the workbook.
Right.
That's all for this lesson.
What I want you to do now is I want you to find the chart with the calm Common her words in audio recordings
for these words in your class lessons.
I encourage you to listen and repeat these common words to make their pronunciation a new habit.
Thanks for watching.