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The American R is a truly unique sound and one of the hardest sounds for non -native speakers to get.

But also mastering the American R is one of the best things you can do to sound natural speaking English.

You just need to learn the basics of the mouth position and train the sound over and over, your ear will get it.

Today we're learning about the sound, we're training with up -close slow -motion footage of a ton of R words, and we're comparing it with L,

a sound that some language groups mix up with the R.

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It's an illustrated reference guide for you for the sounds of American English, including the phonetic symbols you need to know.

Link here and in the video description.

To start, let's take the word race.

Race.

It's a beginning R.

Look at how much the lips round for this.

I mean they almost completely close.

So there's a lot of lip rounding for a beginning R.

Right now, round your lips and try to match this sound.

I'm going to hold it out.

You hold it out as well as long you can.

It helps to approach learning a sound two ways.

First, just try to match the sound with your ears.

Second, think about the mouth position and try to do it.

This is what my tongue looks like inside of my mouth.

The tip is pulled back and up a little bit.

Some people make it by flipping the tip up, instead of pulling the tip up and back a little bit,

they may get a sound that sounds pretty good, but also sometimes they get a sound that sounds kind of hollow, errr.

We want errr, a more focused sound.

See that my jaw hardly drops for this sound.

Errr.

If you're dropping your jaw a lot, errr, that's a sign that it's not the right sound.

A lot of my students make this sound as a flap.

If they're from India, if their native language is Spanish or Arabic.

That's not a sound that you can hold out.

But the American R, you can hold out.

And actually, you should hold it out when you're practicing it and finding it.

That does really help.

Now we'll look at a couple of words up close and in slow motion where the R is not the first sound.

The lips round less so you get to see inside the mouth a little bit more.

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This is the word anchor.

Ends with schwa R.

Anchor.

See how my tongue tip pulls back and up.

See how my lips are still flared, but they don't come into the tight circle that they do for a beginning R.

The lip position is more relaxed.

This is the word branch.

My lips have just parted from the B, and now you're seeing the R.

This is the underside of my tongue because the tip is pulled back and up.

There's so much jaw drop here because I'm moving into position for the AA vowel.

You'll see my tongue tip come forward again for that vowel.

So for the R, tongue tip pulls back and up, but it's still in the front half of the mouth.

The lips flare, and if it's a beginning R, they really do make a tight circle.

L, on the other hand, is very different.

And it really looks different too.

We just saw branch.

Now this is blanche.

You probably know branch, like the branch on a tree.

The word blanche is used in cooking.

It's when you cook something for a short time and then try to cool it down quickly so it stops cooking.

Like with vegetables.

You cook them in boiling water for a period then you put them into ice water.

Blanche.

The L.

The lips are totally relaxed and the tongue tip is at the roof of the mouth.

What you're seeing here of the tongue is still the underside of the tongue,

but you can tell the tip of the tongue is behind my top front teeth, not further back like it is for the R.

This is an illustration of what the tongue looks like in the mouth.

This is the light L.

We actually have two different positions that you'll see natives do for this.

For the other one, the tongue tip comes through the teeth so it looks a little bit like a TH.

L, L, L, and the tongue tip presses up on the front teeth here.

L, L, like.

We're going to watch a whole bunch of words comparing R and L in various places in the word, so you might see both positions.

Tongue tip behind the teeth, uh, and tongue tip coming out of the teeth, uh.

To be honest, I have no idea which one I'm doing most of the time.

It's just not something I think about just like you don't think about the sounds that you make for your native language.

So comparing branch and blanche, comparing the R and the L.

We saw how the ending R is different from the beginning R and that the lips are more relaxed.

An L at the beginning of a word is also different from an L at the end of the word.

To get all the details, check out this complete video on L.

Just know that the first one is called light L.

That's the one we've studied already here.

The one at the end of a word is a dark L, and that has a dark sound we make with the back of the tongue,

pressing down and back a little bit, l, l.

So for this dark sound, you don't need your tongue tip.

It usually just stays down.

l, l, l.

And that's crazy for my students.

They're so used to thinking L, lift the tongue tip, but not for the dark L.

It's harder to see the tongue position for the dark L

because the part of the tongue making the sound is at the back.

But let's take a look at the word candle.

Candle.

Ends in an L, that's a dark L.

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I'm going to take you through the D sound and we'll pause it.

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Candle.

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Okay, here's the D and the next sound is the dark L.

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Behind the teeth right here, you'll see the tongue tip come down.

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It's not up for the dark L.

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Then there's a list of several tricky words with an R and an L.

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Each time you'll hear it and see it first in slow motion, then at regular pace.

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Race.

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Race.

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Lace.

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Rack.

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Rack.

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Lack lack, lack, rad, rad,

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lad, lad, raft, raft, laughed,

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laughed, rag, rag, lag, lag,

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raid, raid, laid, laid, rain,

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rain, lane, lane, raise, raise,

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lays, lays, raise, rake, rake.

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Lake, lake.

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Ramp, ramp.

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Lamp, lamp.

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Wrap, wrap.

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Lap, lap rare rare lair

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lair rash rash

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lash lash rate rate late late Raw.

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Law.

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Razor.

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Laser.

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Reach.

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Leech.

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Lead.

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Reap.

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Reef.

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Leaf.

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Reek.

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Leek, leek.

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Regal, regal.

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Legal, legal.

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Lent, lent.

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Lime, lime.

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Rice.

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Lice.

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Little.

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Road, road.

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Room, room.

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Low, Royal.

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Lump ruse, ruse, lose, lose,

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rust, rust, lust, wrist, wrist,

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list, list, list, right, right,

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right, light, light, wrong, wrong,

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long, long, rung, rung, long,

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long, rye, rye, lie, Lie.

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blanch, branch, branch, bland, bland,

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brand, brand, Bleach.

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cramp, cramp.

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Clank, clank, crank, crank.

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Clap, clap, crap, crap.

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Class, class, crass, crass climb,

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climb, crime, crime, cloak, cloak,

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croak, croak, clock, clock, crock,

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flat, flat, frat, frat, Flee, flee.

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Free, free.

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Flesh, flesh.

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grad, glade, glade, grade, grade.

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glass, grass, grass, gloom, gloom,

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groom, groom, glow, grow, grow,

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glue, glue, grew, grew, plank, plank, prank, prank.

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Candle, candle.

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mayor, mayor, metal, metal, metter,

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pale, pale, pair, pair, pull, pull, pour, pour, Ripple.

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Folks, we went deep on R and R versus L.

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I love to be thorough in my teaching.

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I love being your English teacher and accent coach.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “American Accent Training”. Las palabras que más se repiten: sound, tongue, tip, word, lip. Este vídeo tiene 435 frases y 1970 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 24:58. El hablante habla despacio, unas 79 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 65 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
lip sustantivo	/lɪp/	labio, labro
candle sustantivo	/ˈkæn.dəl/	vela, candela
compare verbo	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	comparar, parangonar
anchor sustantivo	/ˈæŋ.kəː/	ancla, áncora
tile sustantivo	/ˈtaɪ.əl/	azulejo, alicatado
relax verbo	/ɹɪˈlæks/	relajar, aflojar
lime sustantivo	/laɪm/	lima, limón
cloud sustantivo	/ˈklaʊ̯d/	nube, nimbo
clock sustantivo	/klɑk/	cuentakilómetros
crack sustantivo	/kɹæk/	grieta
grass sustantivo	/ɡɹɑːs/	pasto, hierba
breast sustantivo	/bɹɛst/	pecho, seno
footage sustantivo	/ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/	metraje, material
praise verbo	/pɹeɪz/	alabar, elogiar
climb verbo	/ˈklaɪ̯m/	escalar, subir

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
check out verbo	investigar, chequear
hold out verbo	extender

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

To start, let's take the word race.
I'm going to hold it out.
That's not a sound that you can hold out.
That's the one we've studied already here.

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	is pulled · are still flared · is used
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	have just parted · we've studied

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 25 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: flesh /flɛʃ/, rash /ɹæʃ/, blush /ˈblʌʃ/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, brush /bɹʌʃ/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: predictable /pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/, calculator /kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/, illustration /ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, alligator /ˈæl.ɪ.ɡeɪ.tɚ/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: versus /ˈvɝsəs/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/, vowel /ˈvaʊ.əl/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: praise /pɹeɪz/, laser /ˈleɪzɚ/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, razor /ˈɹeɪzɚ/, pause /pɔːz/
/dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: footage /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/, badge /bæd͡ʒ/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como lip, candle, compare.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Gramática en este vídeo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?