Don’t forget to download my IPA vowel chart (with example words) to be able to know how to pronounce ANYTHING: bit.ly/3oHEh1T

You asked "what do you think" at the end. The only thought that crossed my mind is "you are an extraordinary teacher "!

@giugliaromana

3 жыл бұрын

1@@@@@

@scottdesimone3014

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing explanations.

@celestialpoise

3 жыл бұрын

Likewise!!!! 😃😃😃

@aliceangerami1245

3 жыл бұрын

As a fellow teacher, I often find it hard to get students to improve their pronunciation. You've got a teacher follower in me now. Congrats for the excelent lesson.

@caiosipriano3173

2 жыл бұрын

Same

2:19 i as in 'see' 2:48 ɪ as in 'sit' 04:33 ɛ as in 'red' (some time /e/) 05:30 æ as in 'cat' 07:04 'eɪ' as in 'day' 8:01 'aʊ' as in 'now' 8:56 ' aɪ' as in 'my' 10:45 shwa sound (ə) 10:52 ʌ as in 'cup' 12:02 ɜ as in 'stir' 13:30 relaxed ʊ 13:54 tense u 14:57 relaxed ʊ 16:46 oʊ as in 'go' 17:28 ɔ as in 'daughter' 18:25 ɒ as in father 21:15 ɔɪ as in 'toy'

@halam6702

3 жыл бұрын

The symbol in father you wrote is wrong it's for british but in american is ɑ

@opalmay

3 жыл бұрын

@@halam6702 you are right that the upside down 'a' symbol is a birtish vowel, but in the word father specifically it's 'a' in both British and American English.

@Damio22yt

3 жыл бұрын

@@opalmay You are right. There is no /ɒ/ sound in "father". No matter what accent - GA or RP.

@BrendaYelting

3 жыл бұрын

@@halam6702 Ohhhhhh that's british!!!! I didn't know. Thanks for your comment!

@halam6702

3 жыл бұрын

@@BrendaYelting 💚

Hands-down, the most impressive pronunciation teacher on KZread. Whenever my students ask me how to improve their pronunciation, I instantly refer them to this channel. There's no way I can explain things better than Hadar.

@davidkachoui5378

9 ай бұрын

100% agree.

The person who invented this chart deserves a Noble prize, and Miss Hadar, who explained it so efficiently, deserves an Oscar.

This is what I have been looking for for years. Finally!

@Manolete919

2 жыл бұрын

i absolutely agree with you. same for me!!

It is really feels like university level lesson! Thank you so much for the lesson.

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Kuntal! Glad you liked it ♥️

@winstonejuan8566

4 жыл бұрын

Haha that's my course I take in college for linguistics

@inglesfacilito

4 жыл бұрын

x2

@Spikastru

4 жыл бұрын

You definitely explained better than my university.

@johnramos9130

3 жыл бұрын

@@Spikastru on

I am a Spanish major taking my first phonetics class. It has less complex vowels and I still find it quite difficult. This gives me so much respect for non-native English speakers. Mastering another language is no easy task!

@hadar.shemesh

3 жыл бұрын

❤️

Mexican mom doing homeschooling in USA and I'm so frustrated, thank you for this.❤❤❤

@hadar.shemesh

3 жыл бұрын

Hello dear! I hear ya! These are challenging times. But it’s amazing that you’re finding the time to educate yourself and support your children. Sending love!

Teacher to teacher: the level of command you show never ceases to amaze me. What a role model for learners of English as a foreign language. Respect!!!

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

You have absolutely melted my heart. Thank you.

@Wisdom23

4 жыл бұрын

What kind of class are you teaching?

@alejandromaciel9748

4 жыл бұрын

Aaaand she's hot

@Wisdom23

4 жыл бұрын

@@alejandromaciel9748 yes, she is. : ) How long have you been watching her?

@fernandohuamani36

4 жыл бұрын

@@hadar.shemesh absolutely agree!!!!

I'm a Spanish native speaker who decided to get a masters in speech language pathology in English ... omg .... had I known what I was getting myself into :-) Now I'm supposed to teach little children with Apraxia who have vowel distortion disorders how to pronounce the vowels! I'm gonna watch this video before every vowel session I'm gonna have so I can pass my internship! You are sooooo good at this!!! I'm so grateful you posted this video!!! Now I see there is a light at the end of the tunnel I dag myself into ...

As a Spanish speaker, I needed this. I want to finally learn to pronounce the vowels. Thanks, this graph makes sense to me.

Wow deares Hadar, is impossible to believe that english language is not your mother tongue. You´re speaking flawlessly

Can't imagine that you are teaching us online. The way you teach make me feel as if you were teaching us in real life even pretty closely. If you were in my class teacher may be I would have forgotten to have my the all meal. Because I literally like your the teaching skill. The skill, how to teach people, is nothing but enjoy & enjoy. May God bless you forever.

I’m a non-native English teacher. I’ve been teaching the English language for more than 10 years. I don’t think I’ll ever master the sounds of American English the way Hadar has. I’m so impressed and a huge fan! Congratulations!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Super helpful! From a native Arabic speaker.

I'm a native English speaker, but as someone taking a phonetics class at my university who missed a week of classes due to illness, thank you for this. This was super helpful and put my textbook reading into more context

Did you like this lesson?? If you did , share it with your students and friends! And tell me - what is the most difficult vowel sound for you? 😬

@mamymimma

4 жыл бұрын

Accent's Way English with Hadar Shemesh Amazing lesson! Loved the scheme 😍

@anapaulamendes6591

4 жыл бұрын

The most difficult sound is the "i" sound. 😬

@martineschuler4131

4 жыл бұрын

Accent's Way English with Hadar Shemesh For me, thé différent I are difficult bécause don't exist in french. Thank you for your vidéos.

@dasilvatube74

4 жыл бұрын

Hey teacher I miss you, great lesson thank u!!

@ugosanz5044

4 жыл бұрын

I just started today I got to practice

The best lesson about vowels pronunciation that I've ever seen. Thanks.

incomparable! it is a pity that there is no possibility to put two likes.

Hi there, this year with Covid as the perfect excuse, I started taking online classes to work on my thick accent. The classes are great, but Hadar videos are such a huge support to practice and enforce the classes. You can tell she was born to teach. You are my super hero Hadar, you are the living proof that with hard work and practice I can get rid of my heavy "strong R´s" accent. Thanks very much.

I've never seen that vowel chart before, that is awesome. I'll definitely use this, thanks so much for sharing it Hadar! 👍👍👍👍

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Great! Don’t forget to download it then:) It helps clarify things and see the bigger picture

@GrantCareerCoaching

4 жыл бұрын

@@hadar.shemesh Will do! Thanks Hadar! 👍

@NickleJ

4 жыл бұрын

there's also a consonant chart that's dang cool too

@drewmog123456

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely everything in America is supposedly awesome. The word now seems to mean “slightly interesting “.

I'm impressed. I'm from families that were in the USA since 4 or more generations ago, and I never saw this information before. It's almost like being told how to breathe correctly. Sure, it was already going fine, but it is amazing to really know how complex breathing really is.

@hadar.shemesh

3 жыл бұрын

What a great analogy:) yes, it fascinating to learn in such details how we actually function as humans

I love this lesson so much. Thank you, Hadar! This 25-minute video is totally enough to sound more natural and American. I watch it again and again. I listen to it and repeat every sound, so my neighbors think I've gone crazy. I've shared it with my students and I'm trying to make them do the same, so they think I've gone crazy^)

@emacutyfriend4422

Жыл бұрын

Hello !

Best American IPA vowels lesson I've seen so far. Thank you so much, you're a lifesaver!

The best explanation ever. As a brazilian I've realized how mispronuncing I was a lot of words all this time long. I was actually pronuncing did as deed cause I thought to myself that that did has a i sound.

After 10 years struggling with that vowel's graph I've finally found one teacher who shows that work! Thank you. that is amazing.

I want to congratulate, because I invested a lot of money and time in international English schools in an English speaker country and you are the best person teaching English because the beginning of any lenguage is that. Because many international school just learning rubbish. Blessings and successful.

This is not just a Master Class, it's a MASTER Class

Impossível não aprender com você. Deus abençoe você e sua família.

As a fan of linguistics and a personal advocate for speaking with a good accent, this is an excellent video! Flawless pronunciation!

This is the best thing i've ever watched, i'm obsessed

You're the best teacher in the world of language

It’s the best vowel lesson I’ve ever seen. I really appreciate your kindness :) I can deeply understand the differences of a lot of vowel sounds I didn’t know and be confused about~

This video is a pure gold. I just realized there are only neutral sounds in my language, and there is none of them in English.

I was not aware there existed a vowel chart for every language. As a non native English speaker this allows me to realize of the subtle differences between each one of them. Not only that, but it also helps me to understand better how I can use similar tools for the other languages that I am learning. Amazing work of yours!

Thank you very much! It’s really helpful for me, because I’m from Russia and I’ll move to America, and I’m working with my accent and pronunciation ‘cause I really like it!❤ Thanks for helpful lesson!

omg omg omg thank you sooooo much for this!!!!! I'm gonna watch 99 times more!

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Omg!!! That’s a lot of times!!! 😍♥️😍♥️

Favorite moments, back to back: 19:14 19:25! "I did it because it looks better"! Thank you! Simply an amazing teacher! Loving it!

As a non-native speaker desiring to have a better pronunciation, I really wished my teachers in school taught me this instead of the useless crap we wasted our time on. Everything can be understood better if you are given the tools to analytically reason about it. I don't know what would be the opinion of a native speaker, but to my ears you have the cleanest pronunciation I can imagine of AE. Every vowel sound you make is very intentional, deliberate and distinct from every other. I'll be listening to this video many times. Thanks a lot!

@itellyouforfree7238

Жыл бұрын

Also, I really wish such excellent lesson gets more popular, it doesn't deserve to pass undetected under the hadar...

Best video i have ever had about the vowels in english yet

I believe you chart is an amazing tool that summarize most of American English sounds. You're doing a great job, thanks so much!

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Glad I can help!!

I am studying translation in university (we study the British vowel sounds tho) and you explained it perfectly. Such a good teacher! Vowel sounds can get very tricky speacially if you are not used to listening all of these types of sounds. I loved your video!!

STUDIED MY WHOLE SCHOOL LIFE IN BRITISH ENGLISH AND NOW LEARNING AMAERICAN ENGLISH FOR COLLEGE . FEELS REALLY HARD BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH

This is the easiest, clearest explanation of all the American vowels!!

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to know it was helpful!!

Hadar, you are the best! And this was the best pronunciation class I’ve ever had! Congratulations!

This is hands down one of the best and most thoroughly detailed videos on American pronunciation out there. Kudos 👌🏾👌🏾

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Watched this twice already! Big thank you, it’s awesome class! Very clear logic, and lots of comparisons. I love it!

The lesson is really great, Hadar! It has really helped me understand the American vowels more clearly. I can see that you love teaching and are pretty excited while explaining. But please slow down. It will not only help foreigners perceive you better but also make you look more like a high lever expert who, as we know, are never in a hurry. I appreciate your work so much )

Holy Christ! What a teacher! Im spellbound by your style of enunciation.

It was very effective to listen to this lesson of you. Thanks for this beautiful accent section, hope to see more of this sort of lessons from you on this site. We understand that, even if we are great in English, but as second native speakers still need to formally learn the way how to pronounce it correctly. Once again appreciate this beautiful pronunciation video.

After looking through a few YT videos, most of which were British English, I finally found this comprehensive American English one. She builds and reviews the chart along the way, so you can get comfortable. At the end, like a good teacher, she does a final review to wrap things up neatly. Well done!

Hadar, you're such a genius for coming up with this framework.

Incredible pronunciation lesson..!! thanks for everything, you're awesome !

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! What was the most useful thing in the lesson? I’m curious to know. Were you aware of all those vowels?

@giyu2687

4 жыл бұрын

​@@hadar.shemesh i wasn't aware of the: relaxed " ɪ" ," ɜ " and the difference between tense " u " and relaxed " ʊ " you made me realize the small differences between similar sounds .THANK YOU AGAIN !

When you said... "What do you think?" I just have to say that əˈmeɪzɪŋ, thanks a lot Hadar

I have been studying English for a long time in Spain and to be honest I have never been taught the vowel sounds that enlightening way. It has been a master class...Thank you!!!!

I think you are the best teacher of the platform ❤️

Well, you made a masterpiece of an explenation. This is the first time I see american sounds compared with the 5 cardinal vowels (that are the only ones existing in my language), so that I could have reference points. Absolutely well done. Grazie mille!!

Your video came in handy because I was confused when I heard someone pronounce law with an "open a". Now I know that even in US there are some nuances in pronunciation.

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. It’s called the cot caught vowel merge. It’s interesting

I am an ESL teacher. You are simply GREAT!!!!

I have been studying english for decades as a non-native speaker. I think this is the best class I ever seen in my life... outstanding!

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

You have made me extremely happy to hear that!

me encantó, muchas gracias!!!

Hi, Hadar! I just wanna say thank you, your videos helped me and now I sound more like native English speaker but there is a problem. I mean it's a little phrase that I can't say correctly it is " get off of" so can you make a video about it please?)

the best and clearest American vowel lesson in the world!

WOW this is the first channel on KZread I would be willing to pay for in order to learn perfect pronunciation

I only have one word in mind: professional

Wow, this was what I was looking for recently and couldn’t find it. So easy to understand, although not so easy to imitate. Will or could you do something similar about the consonants as well in the fiture?? Good job!

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Sure:) glad you liked it!

I'm obsessed over improving my accent and pronunciation and there are tiny little aspects (which are actually huge when you think about it) which I had never thought of, such as the difference between a short and a long i (like sheep/ship or seat/sit) and many other vowel sounds which I realized I needed to work on. So, really, this is gold. Thank you so much for this video!

I've just found this video and decided watching and practicing everyday at least whole week. Thank you for the video from Japan :D

As you know already, I am your huge fan and your student, and I've seen all of your lessons multiple times. They are all amazing, but I am absolutely blown away by this one! This might be the best lesson you've ever created! Impressive! You taught me most of these things already, but this lesson helped me categorize everything in my head much better! I love it! 💕💕💕👏 I didn't know about the /æʊ/ diphthong, I always pronounce it as /aʊ/! I'll have to work on that!

Exercises that I will do daily! 05:56: - seat, sit, set, sat 21:35: - seat, sit, red, cat, day, now, my, around, o'clock, holiday, cup...

This video is amazing. Literally fixed my English. If you learn the basics like vowels and consonants you have pretty much the language. In spanish we just have a e i o u, American English like 14 vowels CRAZY

Honestly, you are the best teacher I've had in my 2 years of line school

I've never seen the diphthong /æʊ/, but /aʊ/. However your explanation fits great, to be honest. Maybe it depends on the region as you have said on 18:20 about the vowels /ɔ/ and /ɑ/; or maybe both /æʊ/ and /aʊ/ are valid on the whole country. Thank you so much for this lesson! It's very useful!

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Yes you are right, the æ at the beginning is common in the US (general American) and it’s different than how it’s pronounced in British English and even other dialects of American English . If you go to forgo.com or youglish.com You’ll see that the word cat and cow begin with the same sound:) check it and let me know what you think!

@Freathiscore

4 жыл бұрын

@@hadar.shemesh Yes, they begin with the same sound. That's why I was surprised: because it's the same sound but I've always seen /aʊ/ on the transcription. Thank you for the answer!

@ADS_Fenix

4 жыл бұрын

Francisco Francisco The commonly used IPA transcriptions for diphthongs never match the way I say them with my general American pronunciation and the way I always hear them pronounced. Maybe they are valid in some dialect, as you said, but on various KZread channels and educational sites, I even hear people *say* the diphthongs as I do, but then give the IPA symbols that I swear are inconsistent, and I don’t understand. To me it goes further, because I’d argue the diphthongs in cow and go end in something closer to an /u/ sound. Not always exactly that, but certainly not /ʊ/. If you *actually* try to say the same vowel sound in “put” (which is said to be the sound symbolized by /ʊ/) as the last sound in “ow”, “cow”, or “go”, it sounds extremely bizarre because we don’t say that. The lips come far closer together in cow than in put. So when it comes to diphthongs, I genuinely don’t understand IPA notation at all. It drives me crazy because I swear I don’t hear the same sounds used in these diphthongs as everybody says, either in my own pronunciation or there’s, nor do I feel the same positions in my mouth during these diphthongs as I do saying the individual sounds they’re allegedly composed of. :s

@ADS_Fenix

4 жыл бұрын

Oh! In fact she herself did it here, just saw this part. At around 16:50 - 60 she’s saying /ou/ and says “from the /o/ to the /u/“ in her pronunciation but the board and subtitles say to the /ʊ/. But that is not the way she pronounces “put”! That would make it sound like “poot”! XD See this is what drives me crazy. I’m not criticizing her. Hadar, you’re my biggest inspiration for learning languages and pronunciation because your English is PERFECT and I was shocked when I first learned you’re not a native English-speaker. I’m just genuinely so perplexed as to why these IPA diphthong notations are used this way by teachers when they are certainly not composed of the same sounds as the ones those symbols represent on their own.

Thank you for your lesson,I spoke English more than 30years.But I made a lot mistake of mispronounce cause I didn’t learn IPA,and dint know how to use grammar rule.

I am from Perú. I really enjoy your explanation and you made me understand perfectly. I'm really thankful. Realmente se te quiere por lo que haces. No tiene precio. Abraham's God, Bless You Forever and Ever. 💫👋👋👋

It's great that you show the vowel chart! That'll make learning vowel easily when we known how our tounge works. I am learning linguistics in university and I love that chart! My teacher actually teached us how to read it (though it's a mandarin version) but you really make it simple. Nice work.

Amazing! It's probably the best lesson I've seen. I wish you could make a similar video on differences between British and American accent

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

I can do that! :)

Cool, this is the ultimate lesson for pronunciation :D

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

😍

Awesome, I spend a lot of hours looking for somebody can actually realize the structure, rules in pronunciation Finally I got you, thank you so much

Not only this is amazingly helpful Hadar, you are a great teacher and so likeable!!! I am so lucky I found you...

Wonderful!! thank UU so much for your existence we appreciate UU forever UU will be , UU are the best one

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! You are so sweet and I’m glad you find my work helpful!!

Who’s native English speaker but watching this? 😎

@STEVENGUYEN1303

4 жыл бұрын

Lets talk

@MrShacho1

4 жыл бұрын

STEVE NGUYEN 😃

@frankiebluej6902

3 жыл бұрын

Me!

The most charismatic teacher ever! Thank you. Great video. You really helped me. 🙏❤️

I've heard a lot of American English and read a lot about phonology but never seen or processed that /aʊ/ was actually more like [æʊ]. Good stuff.

If not your name, I wouldnt've noticed you're Israeli. Your accent is flawless!

why didn't my teachers teach us that? good stuff!

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

I think kids should learn it before they learn how to spell!!

This's definitely one of the most difficult and challenging things I find when learning English, but let me tell you that the chart you made is very helpful. I won't give up, I'll keep trying. Thanks

you are great teacher in the world and unique great mam you are very powerfull teacher🥰🥰

Teacher, I cannot understand how to tell if the pronunciation of the “u” sound have to be the first or the second one in a certain word: I mean, “room” has a similar spelling to “foot” or “look”, why do you pronounce it differently? How can I recognize the right pronunciation?

@chigozietruth

3 жыл бұрын

You can't recognize it. It's impossible. There are native English speakers who pronounce the "u" in "room" the same way as "foot." You just have to memorize the correct pronunciations. English pronunciation is difficult, and I'm a native speaker.

3:25 falou o as vogais do Português perfeitamente 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧👏👏👏🇷

@_Executor_

3 жыл бұрын

Te equivocas, era Español. ;)

@caiogabriel145

3 жыл бұрын

@@_Executor_" é mermo é sábia não" Marinho

Hadar. you're the best English teacher I ever had. Thanks as always.

@hadar.shemesh

3 жыл бұрын

🙏❤️

Omg this video is exactly what I've been looking for!!! I always struggle a lot when trying to pronounce correctly these sounds so it was super useful in order to find a way of differentiating them. Thanks, Hadar!

the funny thing is that that difference between the [ɔ] and the [ɑ] sound in the western dialects is that it is practically allophonic. Those that have the sound change can't actually hear the difference between these two sounds. So for those who wonder if their English dialect has actually undergone this sound change, listen to her say these two sounds and really pay attention. If they sound the same to you then you have it. If they sound different to you, then you don't have it. Personally I can't actually hear the difference. Good to know.

@alfranco918

Ай бұрын

I was raised in California. For some reason, I say the word “off” with a slightly rounded sound, halfway between this video’s versions of daughter and the bottom right British, instead of with ɐ as in father. It’s not very noticeable, and closer to daughter and not as strong as the British ɒ. But it’s there. I did teach myself Spanish, and grew up with family with a strong Okie accent, plus have friends who speak various languages, so maybe it snuck in, or maybe I’ve always had it.

Madam you are very fast. Please reduce the speed.

@ladtm

7 күн бұрын

Uh what

Perfect. I missed this particular class of my studies and happened to find yours, and this is all I needed to know. Thank you! I must say that due to my native language (Finnish) I have most difficulties with vowels pronounced at the back of the mouth, as we have so few of them. We have only neutral u, o and a, and American English has multiples of different sounds (but not the neutral u, o and a like we do). This was a clear video, thank you again!

The best teacher in the world

I do not envy English-spelling lurners.

@hadar.shemesh

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

0:33 LOL I was born in the United States and my accent is REALLY WEIRD...

definitely the optimal tutorial I've ever watched on youtube. Also as a nonnative speaker, that's exactly what I need. Thanks for everything u did!