Name: My secret English vowel pronunciation trick!
Uploaded: 2018-11-17T10:49:51.000Z
Duration: 12 min 9 s
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Honestly, this lesson
will change your life.

It changed my life when my good
friend, Leaf, told me about this.

Leaf, thank you; grammar god, you
are pronunciation god - Leaf.

So, I've been trying to figure this out for
ages, years, maybe 100 years because I'm a

Are you confused about the
pronunciation of vowels in English?

So, for example, we have a long vowel sound,
and a long vowel sound means that the vowel

But in English, we also
have: "aw" and "a".

One of them is a long vowel sound,
so "a" is pronounced like "a".

Then we also have a short vowel sound where
"a" is going to be pronounced like: "ah".

And how do you know when you read a
new word to say it like "a" or "ah"?

Okay, I get really excited about things a
little bit too much; but this, I'm just super

And I want to teach you this - and, geez,
it's going to change the way that you read

Now, I want to make perfectly clear that people
like to say "grammar rules", and Ronnie hates

I do not like rules because they're made to
be broken; and in English, there's always

So, you study a rule and you learn it, and
then you go: "Oh", but no - sorry; that's

Maybe you ask someone, maybe you ask your
teacher: "Teacher, why?" and the teacher goes:

So, please think of these as only guidelines;
life-changing guidelines, though.

So: "a", "e", "i", "o", "u",
and sometimes "y" are vowels.

But this is our guideline: If in the
word you have two vowels, the first...

The first vowel in the word is going to sound
like its alphabet name or it's going to sound

The second vowel, it's silent; we
don't even say the second vowel.

So, in English, if there's an "e" at
the end of the word - we don't say it.

In all of the other languages of the world,
we say all the vowels; but English, oh no.

So, if you have two vowels in the word, for
example: "a" and "e", we're going to say the

first vowel like it sounds
like in the alphabet, so "a".

We're going to say: "ba", and we do
not say: "bak-e"; we say "bake".

So, the first vowel is going to
sound like the alphabet: "bake".

We don't say: "fah-me",
like "ah"; we say: "fame".

And, again, we don't say the
last vowel in the word.

The "a" we pronounce like an "a", and
the "e" or the second vowel is silent.

One more time the rule;
it's life-changing.

The first vowel sounds like its alphabet name,
the second vowel is silent; we don't say it.

What's this vowel sound or what's
this sound in the English alphabet?

So, again, we're going to say the "e" like
an "e", and the second "e" is silent.

"I had an amazing dre-am
last night; I was flying."

So, one vowel we're going to say
"e", the second vowel is silent.

So, we don't say: "dre-am";
we say: "dream".

Now, this is hard for you guys because in
your languages maybe this is "uh" and this

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