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Thank you very much for your reply. I now understand that an additional /w/ glide consonant can be used to link vowels and make the pronunciation smoother.
However, I am still confused about the pronunciation of the letter “u” in the word “situation.”
1) From native speakers on youglish, it seems that most people pronounce the “u” in situation as /juː/, which does not match the pronunciations given in the Cambridge or Merriam-Webster dictionaries.
2) The Merriam-Webster dictionary appears to change the /uː/ sound shown in the Cambridge dictionary to /ə/. Why does this happen?
Thank you!
I’m confused about the pronunciation of the word “situation.”
Merriam-Webster gives the pronunciation as /ˌsi-chə-ˈwā-shən/, while the Cambridge Dictionary lists the American pronunciation as /ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/.
In Standard American English, is the /w/ sound actually pronounced or not?
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Rachel in british englesh the w is variable what guat guot uot uat buot or bot gua guo what in American english guat uat gua ua
Rachel. The w water Guare uare
Rachel in the W, does the tip of the tongue touch the bottom teeth? or does it not touch anything and only touch the softer part below?
But you're pronouncing W itself wrong. It's DOUBLE-YOU not "dubba-you".
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How do you pronounce the letter u in surround and surrender?
Thanks for this. I love your thorough explanations.
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In Poland (Podlasie) we pronounce "W" as /ɫ/ not /w/. But in same way we pronounce letter "Ł" (L with line) as /ɫ/.
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Mam, upper red colour is upper jaw and lower red colour is lower jaw?? Is it so??
And what is below lower lip in white colour ??
Please reply because I am confused
Wait, what? Why waDer?
(See what i did there?)
Did you know that the word why /waɪ/
Is phonetically considered a true thiphthong i.e. three vowel sounds or semivowel + a diphthong pronounced together within the same syllable?
Some linguistics say that in words like
Fire , flower and employer , for example, occur thiphthongs , others however, say don't because these three words can be pronounced like two- syllable words: fire /'faɪ ər/, flower / ˈflaʊ ər /, foyer /'fɔɪ ər /.
So in these words actually occur a sequence formed by diphthong + vowel (in the following syllable)
In IPA transcriptions diphthongs are transcribed with two symbols and the second sound of diphthongs can be represented three different ways :
Closed vowels: [i] ; [u]
Near closed vowels: [ɪ];[ʊ]
And with the semivowels (glides):
[j]; [w]
Diphthongs like [eɪ], [aɪ], [ɔɪ], [aʊ],
[oʊ] can be transcribed as [ei], [ai],
[ɔi], [au], [ou] or [ej], [aj], [ɔj], [aw]
[ow].
Diphthongs like [eɪ], [aɪ], [ɔɪ], [aʊ], [oʊ] are called falling diphthongs and sequences formed by [ j ] + vowel sound and [w] + vowel sound as in the words yes [jɛs] and wet [wɛt] are called rising diphthongs.
So in words like why [waɪ]~[wai]~[waj] and yolk [joʊk]~[jouk]~[jowk], phonetically occur true triphthongs.
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every time i watch your videos i learn something new. Thank you Mrs. Rachel.
It was very helpful. Thanks !
Would you make a video about pronunciation of [wɪ] and [wə] clusters ?
It is hard for us to pronounce words which contains this sound. Such as
"equable and equitable"
I appreciate your help so much.
I can't get R
I can't get W like Wood, World, whirled
I can't get long I like ice, bike,
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Hello, in this video, for the w sound should i release the vocal cords before the next sound or i have to rounded my lips and release the vocal cords after the next sound as in what /wʌt/ .
1:16 is the tongue behind upper teeth for the letters s and t .
To make this sound the tight Circle for the lips
Thankyou very much this so helpfull💓
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*Example words
This video is very helpful; as a Greek I use the /γ/ (voiced velar fricative) instead of the /w/ (voiced labio-velar approximant) sound.
I understand how to sound w wow and using consonants it sounds clearer ! thank you ^^
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Now I can sing West Virginia
Hi and thanks. What is the difference between Pronunciation 'w in quite = kwaɪt' and 'uː in food = fuːd'
right on the botton!
Very interesting:english "w"=belarus"ŷ"👈😁
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I consider the second sound in the /aʊ/ and /oʊ/ diphthonɡs as a W sound too.
A student of mine has a really hard time making the [w] sound before the oo sound in "would", she keeps saying "gwould". Can you make a video about that?