17/Th4/2024 - 10:47

Hello, I'm John Russell. Vowel sounds are very important in American English. If you want to reduce your accent or sound more like an American, it is worth paying careful attention to the differences between these sounds. So let's play a game. We will listen to a sentence and decide which vowel sound plays a more important part in the sentence. What are our two vowel sounds? The first one is written like this in International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA, ah. This vowel sound appears in words such as hat or man. The second vowel sound is written like this in IPA. This vowel sound appears in words like stop or job. So we have our two vowel sounds, ah and ah. You will now hear a sentence. Which vowel sound is more common in the sentence? His father is confident that he got the job at the body shop. The answer is this, ah. This vowel sound appears many times in the sentence you heard. You heard it in father, confident, got, job, body, shop. So if we analyze the sentence, his father is confident that he got the job at the body shop, we can say that the vowel sound, ah, plays an important part. It is like the star or main actor of the sentence. That's all for today. Keep up the good work.