Hadar Shemesh teaches the H sound, which you make like a whisper. Home and whom both start with H and end with M, but home uses the diphthong O (like go) while whom uses the high vowel U (like food).
Hey guys, it's Hadar. And this is the accent's way, your way to finding clarity, confidence and freedom in English. Saeed asked me to explain how to pronounce the difference between the two words home and whom. So to explain that, I first want to discuss the H sound. H as in hi. A lot of people drop the H sound at the beginning of words. And then the word high sounds like I or hate sounds like 8. Alright, so to make the H sound, you want to think of it as if you're whispering. So let's whisper together the word hi. Hi. Come on, do it. Hi. No one can hear you anyway. You're whispering now. When you actually say the word, you start as if you're whispering just like you did now. And then you use your voice. Hi. Hate. Hello. Alright. You can also think of it as if you're warming up your hands on a cold winter day. You know, when you do this, that's the H sound. H. High. Alright, good. So now that you know how to pronounce the H sound, let's move to the two words home and who. So they both begin with an H sound and both end with an M sound where you close your lips and release sound through your nose. M. The difference is in the middle vowel in the word home you have the O as in go. This vowel sound is a diphthong. So it starts with an open sound and then it closes to an U. So there is change and you want to hear it, see it and feel it. Home. You see how I close my mouth slowly as I pronounce the vowel. Home. It's not home. Home. You want to visualize it as if there is a little W right before the M sound. Home. The word whom is the oo sound. Oo as in food. Alright, so you start with your jaw closed. Who? Who? You still want to visualize like there is a little W before the M because of the U sound. But it doesn't begin with an open, it starts with an U. Who? Whom. Home. I want to go home and whom. As in whom should I vote for? Home. Whom. All right. I hope this answers your question, Saeed, and I hope it helps you guys. And if it does, please share it with your friends. And don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel and come on over to my website to check it out. And more great content every single week. Thank you for watching and I will see you next week in the next video. Bye.
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