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How to Get a British Accent – Lesson Two – “The Schwa”


Hi, we met again! Welcome back to the British accent course!
How to improve your accent, it sounds more like the British.
Today, we will explore the neutral vowel / ə /
It sounds like the schwa sound.
It is expressed as / Ə / phonetic alphabet
When you want to query pronounce the word in the dictionary you will find it.
This is the most common English pronunciation.
why? Ah, one reason is:
Many with “er” ending the pronunciation of the word
Schwa sound is made.
Pronounced / Ə /
So, first of all,
I read with, make sure you read the Schwa sound right.
/ Ə /
I’m sure you read perfectly, ah, great!
Therefore, this word, we pronounce something like this:
Ever / evƏ /
Better / betƏ /
Maybe you heard about the lesson on pronunciation Deep Throat T and T is the official pronunciation,
You can learn the contents of the two classes together.
Deep Throat T and sound Schwa sound:
Be’er / be’Ə / (T with Throat sound and sound Schwa)
“Be’er”, so it can be so pronounced.
This is the same:
“Wa’er” (with sound Deep Throat T and schwa sound)
Do it again, when “er” pronunciation as schwa sound (/ Ə /).
“Water” or “wa’er”, no matter how you say anything.
eacher / ti: ʧƏ / (with the schwa sound)
Doctor / dɒktƏ / (with the schwa sound)
Adventure / ƏdventʃƏ / (with the schwa sound)
So, no matter which end in “er” words,
Have made Schwa sound (/ Ə /)
Americans made the sound of a strong R, for example:
Americans may pronounce to:
Ever / evƏr /
Better / betƏr /
Water / watƏr /
I’m exaggerating, but,
They made a sound R, we made a sound Schwa (/ Ə /)
Not just when a word ends with a er (before this),
When the syllable weak reading also apply.
E.g:
In this word, the accent in what?
Yes, it is in the “-lice”,
“Po-LICE”
Accent here,
So weak syllable
“Po-” is read out by Schwa sound.
/ PƏ / – / li: s /
Police (Police)
Next: The accent is what?
Of course, it is right here, “Ta-” on
So the tone with Schwa
Taken / teɪkƏn /
/ Ən /
Taken (away, away)
This: What accent?
Therefore, Schwa sound here.
/ Ə /
/ Əbaʊt /
About (about, concerning)
This, in particular, is generally used in the classroom
I hear it feel like “pencil” (with i sound)
wrong! Which accent?
PEN- “
So is the, “PEN-cil”
-cil “contains a schwa sound.
So, let’s review them again:
Repeatable read with me, so that you can compare with my pronunciation
and so,
Ever / evƏ /
Better / betƏ / or / be’Ə /
Water / wɔːtƏ / or / wɔː’Ə /
Teacher / ti: ʧƏ /
Doctor / dɒktƏ /
Adventure / ƏdventʃƏ /
Police / pƏli: s /
Taken / teɪkƏn /
About / Əbaʊt /
Pencil / pensƏl /
Well, this is my door today about Schwa sound of course.
Join us tomorrow, to make your English accent mention higher!
Goodbye myself!
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