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  • In this American English pronunciation

  • video, we're going to learn how to

  • pronounce the EH as in BED vowel.

  • To make this sound, the jaw drops, eh,

  • and the tongue remains forward with

  • the tip touching lightly behind the

  • bottom front teeth. Eh.

  • The mid/front part of the tongue lifts a

  • little bit towards the roof of the mouth

  • while the back of the tongue feels like it

  • stretches wide.

  • Eh. In a stressed syllable, the voice has

  • a little curve up, then curve down. Eh,

  • eh. It's stressed in the word 'said'.

  • Let's watch up close and in slow motion.

  • The jaw drops. The tongue tip touches

  • the back of the bottom front teeth, and

  • the middle part arches up towards the

  • roof of the mouth.

  • Said, eh, said. In an unstressed syllable,

  • the vowel is lower and flatter in pitch,

  • as well as quieter and quicker, eh, eh.

  • The vowel is unstressed in the word

  • 'employ', eh. Let's take a look up close

  • and in slow motion.

  • Relaxed jaw drop. The middle part of

  • the tongue arches up towards the roof

  • of the mouth. Here we compare the

  • stressed EH from 'said', on top, with the

  • unstressed version from 'employ' on

  • the bottom. Notice the jaw drops more

  • for the stressed version of this vowel.

  • Because the unstressed version of the

  • vowel is shorter, there isn't enough

  • time to make the full jaw drop.

  • EH stressed: said, EH

  • EH unstressed: employ, eh

  • EH, eh. EH, eh.

  • Example words. Repeat with me:

  • Red, never, embrace, enter, embody, desk.

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