The basics of vowels

24 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube tutorial by Hadar Shemesh explaining how vowels are produced: front vs back (tongue forward vs pulled back) and closed vs open (jaw closed vs open). The speaker introduces high front vowels and provides example words (e.g., "beat, bit, bait, bat, bite, bow") while describing how the mouth and tongue position change during pronunciation.

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You have front vowels and back vowels. Front vowels are produced when the tongue rolls forward. Back vowels are produced when the tongue pulls back. You have closed vowels and open vowels, and that happens if your jaw is closed or open. So we are going to go through all the vowels, and you'll see how the mouth changes as we pronounce those words. So let's begin with front vowels, and we're going to start with a high vowel sound. That means that the tongue rolls forward to produce that sound. E, beat, bit, bait, bat, bite, bow.