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BRITISH ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION - /eə/

Hello and welcome back to English with Lucy.

Today, is an exciting day. because, I’m starting a new mini series with you guys all about British English pronunciation. Now, arguably one of the most difficult parts of learning English, is the pronunciation of the many, many vowel sounds. So, the first part of this series is going to be all about the different vowel sounds that we use in British English.

Before we get started, I just want to make one thing clear I am not trying to make you get rid of your accent. Accents make us unique. I just want to help you improve your pronunciation. So, that you can be better. Understood and can communicate more easily. so, don’t go crazy and think. I must use my accent. I must use my accent. Because a it’s really difficult and be why unless you want to be an actor for a specific job role. There’s no need a story that might surprise some of you is that throughout my childhood and some of my teenage years I was really, really embarrassed of my accent. I have a relatively posh British accent, and some people used to make fun of me at school. But, now I realised that accents don’t matter. What does matter is bad pronunciation and this is where I come in to help you guys. Okay, so, the vowel sound that we’re going to use today is the phoneme err and it’s written like this. I do think it’s important for you guys to recognize things like these. because when you want to learn how to pronounce a word you can search on any dictionary and the phonetics, will really, really help you understand how to pronounce each word.

Now, I mostly teach Spanish students and they really, really struggle with this phoneme. so, exponent as a dip film that means it is two vowel sounds combined in one syllable. So, to make the air sound we combine the egg and the up air. But, normally British English speakers will just say air and will change the pitch. Air, air. so, in the first part of the diphthong, we use the F sound. So, I’ve got my mouth wide and my tongue relaxed F and in the second part it’s the up it’s a schwa. Ah, my whole mouth is relaxed and it’s just a little push of voice. Ah, ah, so, I’m going, ah, ah, ah, ah. the last thing that you must do is propel. a lot of air through your lungs as you say this vowel. Sound, so, I want I don’t want air, I want air. breathy, the breathy. Oh, you are the more British you sound. so, firstly we have the word air. is magic gas that’s all around us.

Now, it’s written a, I are but we do not pronounce the R at the end of the word. Americans however do pronounce it. So, we say air and they would say air. so, after the air vowel sound, we don’t pronounce the R unless a vowel then comes after the are like in area. area. now I’m going to give you a couple of examples of words that end in the air. Sound that you might have been pronouncing incorrectly. firstly, we’ve got the words that end in a. I, our, air, chair, hair, fair, and millionaire.

And then we’ve got the words that end in a our. II, care, aware, share, square, now we’ve got the words that end in E a R. So, we’ve got bear, ter, pair, swear, then we’ve got air use in the middle of a word. So, we’ve got things with AR parent the names Mary, Sarah, various. Then we’ve got words with a IR, like hairy or dairy and we’ve got the British spelling for aeroplane with AER. We’ve got aeroplane or arrow mix and finally we’ve got the e AR and words such as unbearable.

Hopefully today’s lesson has helped you in some way.