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You can't master the American accent without mastering the dark L sound.
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If you've never heard this term before, dark L, I'm not surprised.
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If you look these words up in a dictionary, they'll all have the same phonetic symbol for L, but they're not the same sound.
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These L's are light L's.
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And these L's are dark L's.
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They're made completely differently.
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I'm Rachel, and I've been teaching the American accent for over 20 years.
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I've never met a student who naturally had this dark L sound.
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We've always had to work at it.
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But when my students master this sound, it brings a truly natural and relaxed quality to their voices.
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I've developed an extremely effective method for mastering the American accent.
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You can learn about it and sign up for my courses at RachelsEnglishAcademy .com.
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Join over 50 ,000 students who are now speaking English with confidence.
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What's the difference between these L's and these?
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How do you know when to make an L a light L and when to make it a dark L?
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It has to do with where it comes in the syllable.
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If it comes before the vowel or diphthong sound, it's a light L.
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When we write the word phonetically, you'll see either a space between syllables or mark like this or this.
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So remember, you're looking at where the L comes in the syllable.
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So if it's not at the beginning of the word or the end of the word,
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you'll have to know how the word is broken up into syllables.
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Long.
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It's before the AW vowel, believe.
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It's before the EE vowel, clean.
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Before the EE vowel, these are all light L's.
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Feel, it comes after the E.
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Valley, it comes after the AA vowel.
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Example, it comes after the schwa at the end of the word.
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These are all dark L's.
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The most important thing for you to know about the dark L sound is you don't lift your tongue tip up.
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This is probably the exact opposite of what you've learned, but what you've learned is the light L.
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Let's compare the light L to the dark L just by listening.
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I'm going to go back and forth.
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You can also look at the difference in the mouth position, but focus mainly on what you hear.
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Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
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Ll.
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So for the dark L, the tongue tip is down, and the back part of the tongue pushes down and back a little bit,
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narrowing the space here.
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That makes this dark sound.
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The pitch is low, the vibration is low here in my chest.
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Try to imitate this sound right now with me.
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It's hard to see because of the lips, but the tip of the tongue is still forward.
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Notice that the lips are relaxed.
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Let's compare the dark L to the mouth at rest.
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The tongue tip is down, touching the back of the bottom front teeth,
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and the back part of the tongue is stretching back a bit to make this part of the throat a little narrower.
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That creates the dark sound.
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Jaw doesn't drop much and the lips are relaxed.
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That's an important note.
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The lips are relaxed.
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Some of my students, I'm thinking especially of my Vietnamese students, want to round the lips.
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That totally changes the sound.
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We don't want to do that.
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E -mail, e -mail.
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L, l, l.
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Look what happens if I round my lips.
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E -mail, e -mail.
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We do not want lip rounding, we want relaxed lips.
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Email.
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L, L, L.
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You know, this really feels more like a vowel than a consonant.
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L, L, L.
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I've seen so many students struggle because the habit to lift the tongue tip for the L is so strong.
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Just practice the dark sound, feel the tongue tip touching the backs of the bottom front teeth.
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Ll, ll.
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Feel what you have to do to your throat, ll, to get that sound down into your chest.
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Feeel, feel, feel.
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When you do it slowly, you can focus on how the tongue moves from the E position to the dark sound.
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Feeel, by relaxing and then pressing down and back a little bit in the back.
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Now a dark L, feel.
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The sound and vibration really comes down lower to bring that dark sound into my chest.
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Feel.
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But there's no symbol for this.
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In the dictionary, you'll see the word like with a light L with this symbol, and you'll see the word feel with the same symbol,
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but we know that's not right.
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I wish there was another symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the dark L that was used regularly.
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I don't know why there isn't one.
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Other dark L words?
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Pool.
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Smile.
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The sound itself is tricky to get, but you can get it.
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Expose yourself to the sound enough times and your body will pick it up.
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That's exactly what we do in Rachel's English Academy me.
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You get so much exposure and audio training that your body naturally picks it up and makes it a habit.
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There's one other tricky thing to know about the dark L.
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You already know tongue tip down.
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Sounds more like a vowel than a consonant.
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But what about when the next sound is a vowel?
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Then after the dark sound, we do lift the tongue tip to separate it from the next vowel.
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So, dark sound, lift the tongue tip, and connect into the next vowel.
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Do not leave out the dark sound.
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We know the word feel, L has a dark sound, but let's look at the word feeling.
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The L comes after the E vowel in the first syllable, so it's still a dark L, but the next sound is a vowel,
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the beginning of the ING ending.
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I'm going to say it slowly.
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Feeling.
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Feeling.
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I have the F, the E vowel, the dark sound.
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Then I lift my tongue tip and go into the ING ending.
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Feeling.
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Feeling.
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Feeling.
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Let's look at another example.
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He He fell in love.
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Fell in.
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F -ell -en.
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F consonant, eh sound, dark sound, lifting the tongue tip quickly, and the word in.
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Fell in.
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Fell in.
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He fell in love.
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What does it sound like without the dark sound?
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It sounds like this.
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Fell in, fell in.
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No dark sound.
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Fell.
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I want that dark sound.
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It's so important in American English.
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Fell, fell in, fell in.
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He fell in love.
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I'll say it again.
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If it's a dark L, make that dark sound, L, even if you're linking into a vowel and need to lift your tongue tip.
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In Rachel's English Academy, I have students really lock in the dark sound before moving on to this idea of linking into another word.
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L is what's most important.
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Let's work on that one more time.
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Now I want you to be repeating out loud with me.
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L. L.
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Feel.
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Feel.
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Feel.
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Fill.
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Smile.
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Smile.
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Great work.
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Keep your learning going now with this video, and don't forget to check out RachelsEnglishAcademy .com to learn more about the American accent training courses
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that can help you develop a truly American voice.
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That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Speaking English: Master The Dark L”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: sound, dark, tongue, vowel, word. Deze video bevat 229 zinnen en 1357 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 10:03. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 135 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 73% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
lip zelfstandig naamwoord/lɪp/lip
relax werkwoord/ɹɪˈlæks/losmaken
symbol zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈsɪmbəl/symbool
accent zelfstandig naamwoord/ækˈsɛnt/accent, klemtoon
naturally bijwoord/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/natuurlijk
compare werkwoord/kəmˈpɛɚ/vergelijken
pitch zelfstandig naamwoord/pɪt͡ʃ/worp
narrow bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈnæɹəʊ/nauw, smal
throat zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈθɹoʊt/keel
habit zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhæb.ɪt/gewoonte
dictionary zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/woordenboek
tricky bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈtɹɪk.i/netelig, netelige
exposure zelfstandig naamwoord/ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/blootstelling, contact
connect werkwoord/kəˈnɛkt/verbinden
stretch werkwoord/stɹɛt͡ʃ/strekken

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
check out werkwoordonderzoeken
fall down werkwoord/fɔl ˈdaʊn/neervallen
go back werkwoordteruggaan

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

  • We've always had to work at it.
  • I'm going to go back and forth.
  • We don't want to do that.
  • I don't know why there isn't one.
  • I'm going to say it slowly.

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog teltyou've never heard · I've never met · We've always had
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of dingstudent who naturally · students who are

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 30 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, diphthong /ˈdɪpˌθɔŋ/
  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, vibration /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/, exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, schwa /ʃwɑ/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, phonetically /fəˈnɛtɪkli/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, accent /ækˈsɛnt/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, narrow /ˈnæɹəʊ/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als lip, relax, symbol.

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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