Shadowing Practice: English Pronunciation Training: Short & Long Vowel Sounds (Full Guide) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Do you often mispronounce words like bit and bite in English conversations?
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Then this lesson will fix that today.
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Today I'll show you the difference between short and long vowel sounds, how to pronounce them correctly,
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and some simple tricks to help you speak more clearly and confidently.
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This video is divided into five sections.
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We'll look at all the vowel sounds.
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A, E, I, O and U.
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We're going to start with the letter E.
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As a short vowel, it's pronounced E.
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To make this sound, open your mouth lightly and just say E.
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E. And as a long vowel, it's pronounced EEEE.
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So your mouth spreads and you say the sound for a longer time.
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EEEE.
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EEEE.
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Let's look at some words.
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We've got PET with the short vowel sound and PET with the long vowel sound.
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I'm going to pronounce every letter individually now so you can hear and practice the sound.
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This is a great technique to improve your pronunciation accuracy.
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So we've got p -e -t, pet.
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And the long vowel is p -e -t, peat.
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In the word Pete, the E at the end makes the vowel long.
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This is called a split digraph.
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Two vowels working together even though there is a letter in between.
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So here we say P -E -T, Pete.
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The E at the end is silent.
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Let's try another example.
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Met, meet.
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As you can see, it is extremely important to pronounce the vowel sounds correctly because the words change meaning.
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Now, let's move on to the letter U.
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As a short vowel, this is pronounced A.
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You open your mouth a little bit more this time and just say a short sound.
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Uh.
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Uh.
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And as a long vowel, it's pronounced U.
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U. It's made up of two sounds.
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The sound Y and the sound U.
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You glide those two sounds together.
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You, you, you.
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Your mouth starts off spread and then moves into a slight circle.
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You, you.
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Let's practice these two sounds in some words.
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Repeat after me and focus on the difference in sound tub,
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tube, cut, cute, cub, cube,
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hug, huge, us, use, bus, fuse.
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Next we have the letter O.
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As a short vowel this is pronounced O.
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To make this sound you open your mouth in a round circular shape and say a short O sound sound.
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And as a long vowel, this is pronounced O, O.
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Your mouth starts off being quite big and round and then gets smaller.
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O, O, O, O, O.
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And now let's look at some examples.
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Listen Listen and repeat to train your ear.
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Pop.
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Pape, nut, note, cod, code,
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con, cone, hop, hope, rod,
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road, rob, robe, mop, mape, Cop.
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Cope.
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Now let's take a look at the letter I.
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As a short vowel, this is pronounced as I.
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You kind of smile, spread your lips and say I.
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I And as a long vowel, it's pronounced I.
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I It's made up out of two sounds.
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The sound A and the sound E.
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A E.
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And if you glide those two sounds together you get AYE.
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Your mouth starts off quite round and then spreads AYE.
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Now repeat after me and focus on the vowel sound.
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Bit, bite.
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Fin, fine.
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Tim, time.
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Dim, dime time, sid, side,
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pin, pine, win, wine, kit,
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kite, red, ride, rip, ripe,
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twin, twine, Slid, slide and finally the letter A.
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As a short vowel it's pronounced as A.
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You open your mouth, it's quite round and you say the short sound A.
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Ah.
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Ah.
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You try.
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And as a long vowel sound, it's pronounced A.
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And this sound is made out of two sounds.
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So you have the sound E and E.
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So your mouth starts off quite spread and then spreads even more.
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You try.
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Let's look at some examples.
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Repeat after me and focus on the vowel sounds.
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Cap.
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Cape.
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Dan.
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Jan, Dane, Fad, Fade, Fat,
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Fate, Jan, Jane, Man, Mane,
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Mad, Maid, Mat, Mate, Pal,
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Pale, pan pain rat
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rate sam same tam
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tame tap tape van vein sag sage rag
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Rage Wag Wage And remember,
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short vowels are quick sounds and long vowels are long sounds and they say their letter name.
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If you'd like to practice these words some more, you can download the worksheet.
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The link is in the description.
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And if you want to improve your pronunciation even more and speak more confidently in English conversations,
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watch this lesson next.
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Bye for now.
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