Name: How to Pronounce AIR words: care, share, fair, etc
Uploaded: 2020-03-11T00:02:26.000Z
Duration: 4 min 40 s
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In this American English pronunciation video,

To-infinitive

we’re going to go over words with EH plus R like in the word AIR.

The comparative

This video is a small excerpt from a larger video I made for my online school.

I’ll put more information about the full video on online school at the end of this video.

but as you might already know the R is a syllabic consonant,

so you don't need to worry about making uh--

and break into just the sounds EH and schwa-R.

That’s not really how we pronounce the word 'air'.

It’s a little more closed than a pure EH.

Let’s take a look at a few other people.

which is a website where people can record words.

It’s a good place to go hear several different takes on the same word.

I’m going to listen to the United States speakers.

The opening sound is more closed than a pure EH.

One mistake that is sometimes made is this: err-- err--

There’s no feeling of a vowel before the R.

The thing you must do is leave your tongue tip forward at the beginning:

But if your tongue tip is pulled back from the beginning,

it’s just going to sound like er-- er--

In the longer version of this video, I go through each vowel combination with R.

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