A short YouTube pronunciation lesson by Hadar Shemesh explaining the vowel difference between 'lunch' and 'launch'. The video contrasts the central/neutral 'cup' vowel in 'lunch' with the back 'ah' vowel (as in 'father'/'daughter') in 'launch', offers articulatory tips (jaw drop, tongue pulled back), and includes a learner practicing the sounds and a brief closing invitation to visit the creator's website.
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Hey, guys, it's hadar. And this is the accent's way. Ron asked me to talk about the important difference between lunch and launch. Lunch, as in, let's have lunch one day and launch, as in I'm launching my product today. Okay. So the difference is in the middle vowel. Okay. Lunch and launch. The word lunch has a neutral sound that exists in many different languages. Lunch. So you can also call it a stressed chua. It's a cup sound. Luh. Lunch. So the tongue is in the middle, the mouth is relaxed. Lunch. Pretty simple. The word launch has the ah as in father or the ah as in daughter. Either one is great. But just make sure that you position the sound in the back part of your mouth and pull the tongue back a bit.
Launch. Launch.
Okay, so you can drop your jaw round the lips just a bit or relax your lips completely.
Launch.
But it has to have that dark quality in it. Otherwise it's going to have a neutral quality, central quality lunch. And then it's kind of flat sounding like the word lunch.
Launch. Launch.
Notice it is not lounge. Although there is a u here. It's not a diphthong. It's not ow. Lao. Because then it's gonna sound like lounge. Let's chill in the lounge. Lounge. We're launching our product today and we're planning a nice lunch.
Launch.
Lunch. All right, that's it. Thank you for watching. Please share this video with your friends if you liked it and let me know in the comments below if you have any question about the spare or about any other word that gives you a hard time. Also, I'm inviting you to come and check out my website because I have a lot of useful and free stuff for you over there. All right, have a great week. Thank you for watching again, and I'll see you next week in the next video. Bye. Let's launch after lunch. Let's have lunch after launch.
