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  • Hello and welcome everyone. This Minoo at Anglo-Link.

  • In the next two lessons, we're going to focus on listening and pronunciation.

  • We're going to work on distinguishing the different vowels and diphthongs in the standard British accent.

  • As I've mentioned to you in an earlier video, there are many vowels and diphthongs in the English language.

  • And in order to improve your listening comprehension of native speakers,

  • it's important that you can distinguish between these different sounds clearly.

  • Of course, as you know, certain sounds are pronounced differently in different accents,

  • like in the American accent, Australian accent, even in different parts of Britain.

  • However, I feel that the standard British accent is a good place to start.

  • And from there, you can begin to learn the variations in the different accents as you come into contact with them.

  • I have divided this lesson into two parts. In the first part, we're going to contrast short vowels with their long version.

  • And we'll do this in minimal pairs. As you know, minimal pairs are words that have the same consonant sounds and by changing the vowel sound we change the meaning.

  • In the second part of this lesson, we'll look at differences between certain vowels and diphthongs that sound very similar to each other.

  • By the end of this two -part lesson, you will have tuned your ears into the vowels and diphthongs in the standard British accent.

  • This will have improved your listening comprehension of this particular accent and will have also improved your own pronunciation.

  • So, when you're ready, we can begin with part one.

Hello and welcome everyone. This Minoo at Anglo-Link.

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