track 02

[00:00.76] A few words on pronunciation

[00:03.22] I'd like to introduce you

[00:04.73] to the pronunciation guide outlines

[00:06.49] in the following chart

[00:07.98] there are two main characters

[00:09.49] are different from the standard alphabet

[00:11.24] but just so you be familiar with them

[00:12.51] look at the chart it shows 8 Tense vowels

[00:16.26] and 6 lax and simivowels

[00:19.46] Tense Vowels? Lax Vowels?

[00:22.49] In some books,

[00:24.69] tense vowels are called long

[00:26.44] and lax vowels are called short.

[00:28.68] Since you will be learning how to lengthen vowels

[00:30.47] when they come before a voiced consonant,

[00:33.43] it would be confusing to say that hen

[00:33.98] has a long, short vowel..

[00:35.73] It is more descriptive

[00:39.01] to say that it has a lax vowel

[00:40.44] that is doubled or lengthened. here is the TENSE vowel..

[00:45.18] ? ?i take [tak]

[00:47.16] ? ee eat [et]

[00:49.64] ? ?i ice [is]

[00:52.37] ? ou hope [hop]

[00:54.48] ? ooh smooth [smuth]

[00:57.23] ? ah caught [k?t] Semivowels

[00:59.75] ? ? + ? cat [k?t] ?r er her [h?r]

[01:01.98] ?o ? + o down [d?on] ?l ul dull [d??l]

[01:04.78] here is the LAX vowels

[01:07.00] ? eh get [g?t]

[01:08.99] i ih it [it]

[01:11.48] ü ih + uh took [tük]

[01:14.23] ? uh some [s?m]

[01:16.20] and the simsvowls

[01:18.46] er her [h?r]

[01:20.71] ul dull [d??l]

[01:23.94] now you try it repeat after me

[01:37.13] Voiced Consonants? Unvoiced Consonants?

[01:40.64] A consonant is a sound.

[01:42.58] that causes two points of your mouth to come into contact,

[01:47.34] in three

[01:49.53] locations—the lips,

[01:50.76] the tip of the tongue,

[01:51.48] and the throat.

[01:53.73] A consonant can either be unvoiced

[01:56.00] (whispered)

[01:56.98] or voiced (spoken),

[01:58.48] and it can appear at the beginning, middle,

[02:00.25] or end of a word.

[02:02.25] You'll notice that for some categories,

[02:04.00] a particular sound doesn't exist in English.