Name: /ɑː/ and /æ/ Vowel Sounds in RP British Pronunciation
Uploaded: 2020-10-24T00:22:02.000Z
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today, I'm going to clear a few things up for you.

Modal verbs - A2

There are there's in particular one sound which can make you sound extremely British.

I mean, like, it turns you into Harry Potter when you pronounce this sound in words.

However, the one issue with this sound is that it can be pronounced differently in different parts off the UK.

So I'm going to kind of outline the rules for this sound, teach you how to pronounce it on, teach you some words and sentences.

I think this sound the R sound are is what we would call an open back sound.

We'll look at my mouth again and see what I do.

Open Andi back, meaning the tongue will be pushing back, which actually does cause the mouth too open Mawr.

So that's why it's an open sound because the tongue is being pushed back.

Let's imagine that movement backwards and forwards When I'm teaching pronunciation, I usually explain to my students that the R sound is much like the dentist.

Well, because when you go to the dentist, they tell you to open your mouth and say you guessed it are Why?

Because you open your mouth wide to make this sound.

And also you push your tongue back because you're pushing your tongue back.

Okay, so just think about that when you try and pronounce this sound.

So most of the time this sound will appear in words like Far Car Star apartment.

However, and now we know that mostly I focused on Southern English, southern, British, English here.

Now, I want you to tell me first before I talk anymore.

The truth is, you could pronounce it two different ways.

You could say bath, or you could say bath.

And the reason why is because we have two continents after the ATS.

There's another word after I'm full of surprises today.

So, yes, it's because there are two continents after, However, this isn't always the case.

The problem with British pronunciation is there aren't really many rules.

Sometimes it could be pronounced with on a bath passed last.

Well, accents change accents a different everywhere.

Ugo in the north in the south, southern British English is diverse now, the traditional way of pronouncing this the RP way.

The Queen's English Harry Potter, English.

As some people know it as now, you would pronounce this as Bath.

So if you want that typical British accent that everybody desires, you would pronounce this as Bath.

However, in various parts of the north they will pronounce it as Bath.

But this is one thing which no teachers explain.

Amongst other words, In the south, I would say Bath now.

This is due to my upbringing, my teachers, my family.

It's more natural now for me to say Bath, which is more of an RP style.

However, it is very, very common for people in the south of England to say bath.

So just because people in London say bath doesn't mean that everybody in the south does so it is north and south that can pronounce it differently.

If this sounds really annoys you, if it really worries you, don't worry, too much, so I just want to try a few sentences with you now.

However, like I said, people in the South people in the north, they might say, I can't get out of the bath number to my phone charges very fast, or you might hear my phone charges very fast.

So the main reason I created this video is really just to let you know that you will hear different styles off British English Everywhere you go.

Maybe sometimes you might want to say fast.

Now I go into lots more detail about this kind of stuff, giving you advice on what you should be pronouncing how you should be pronouncing things step by step, really, in my pronunciation course, which you can join in the description box below at e.

It's basically a pronunciation course, which shows you how to pronounce every British sounds mostly focused on R P.

But we also touch on these little things like we did today.

The kind of modified R p styles off English.

And if you don't know what RP is, you'll also learn what that is in the course.

Anyway, Thank you very much for watching.