Vowel Pronunciation Tutorial • IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Vowels

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  @polyMATHY_Luke · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @DerMelodist · 4 years ago

  This is the kind of material one has to return to multiple times.

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  @defensorhominis · 4 years ago

  A free lesson in phonology by the best American Latinist on YouTube? Count me in.

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  @Mrs._Fenc · 4 years ago

  Something I&quot;ve learnt while conlanging: Vowels don&apos;t like being close to each other, so they&apos;ll usually have a relative equal distance between each other. You&apos;re probably not going to have a language with /ɑ æ a ä ɐ/ and /i/. It&apos;s good to keep in mind, because it also helps pronouncing things as well, since things are relatively distant.

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  @justakathings · 4 years ago

  Do I know the IPA completely? yes. Am I going to watch this video anyway? <b>yes</b>

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  @AACSandman · 4 years ago

  Me, a portuguese speaker: &quot;These vowels are not nasalized enough!&quot;

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  @rosacuore15 · 4 years ago

  I couldn’t express how much I appreciate this video, because of the distinguished connection between English language and/ to Italian. My native language is Romanian. For me it’s easier to learn Latin languages than English. <br>Thank you 🙏 so much!

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  @shaorandra · 4 years ago

  Because of this video, I went online to check the different IP charts for Standard German from Germany (Bundesdeutsch) and Swiss German dialects (specifically the one from Zurich and Bern). &nbsp;The differences are shown so strongly through those charts. It is so fascinating! <br>Thank you for that!

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  @thalianero1071 · 4 years ago

  As someone who can pronounce both the “American” [æ] and the “British” [æ] the mention of this made me very glad

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  @largedarkrooster6371 · 4 years ago

  I&apos;m generally really bad at reading vowels in IPA and at hearing the smaller differences between them. This video really helped clear a lot of it up. Thank you

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  @larachellin68 · 4 years ago (edited)

  As an Italian who spoke Spanish as a foreign language, when I say vowels in Spanish I use the same vowel I would use in Italian, if the word is a cognate of the 2 languages, like perdono-&gt;perdon. Now that you pointed out that Italian has 7 vowels and Spanish only 5, (I never realized that)I will pay more attention when I speak. Great lesson, as usual. Thank you

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  @StephanusTavilrond · 4 years ago (edited)

  Amazing video!<br>One little comment though:<br>- There are multiple types of rounding: protruded and compressed. Rounded back vowels are usually protruded (a notable exception is the Japanese /u/, which is compressed). Rounded front vowels are typically compressed (a notable exception is /y/ in Swedish though, which is protruded).<br>- Back unrounded vowels and front rounded vowels tend to be at least somewhat centralized, that is to say, pure back unrounded vowels and pure front rounded vowels are rare.

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