Vowel Sound / æ / as in "cat" - American English Pronunciation

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In the video, we practiced 30 words of 212. Where can I find the whole list with us, please?

Very good video, with the æ it is also pronounced was?

Some of these examples are inaccurate. “Ankle” is a “long A” sound which is more like a EH-EE diphthong. Also, AAH (cat) has two variants: one more mouthy and one more chesty. “Apple” Is more mouthy/chesty whereas “Anne” is more nasal. “Alps” and “alphabet” sort of have a nasal transient (quick beginning) then morph into mouth/chest resonance. Listen for it in native speakers.

English phonology is very rich and unique, and the /æ/ vowel sound does not exist in any other language. That's why it can be difficult to produce it correctly by moving my jaw, lips and tongue forcefully. English is not my native language and some pronunciation mistakes and obstacles come out, but that doesn't discourage me, I don't really pretend to sound like a native speaker and I'll continue to enjoy and improve my English skills so regularly. Thank you so much for your valuable pronunciation tips. ❤😊

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It is always the little details that add on to cause you having an accent.

Your videos are concise and hit the point, which help me better understand which sound I make mistakes.

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Thank you vey much for this video. It was the only one that can help me.

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Sometime at around 2020 when I was 14 or 15, I thought about how different vowel sounds are made and I thought of the vowel placement as a one dimensional thing with one criterion instead of two. I was younger and I didn’t study how phonetics really work yet until around the start of this year. I perceived the vowels as being produced with vibrating different parts of the throat because I thought I was feeling vibrations in different heights of the throat depending on the height and backness of my tongue, as I didn’t realize the tongue was the thing that creates all the vowels sounds. In 2022, I had my final thought that the height of vowels in the throat from top to bottom were /i/, /ɪ/, /ɛ/, /æ/, /ʊ/, /ʌ/, and /ɑ/, while all the other vowels consisted of one of the 7 vowels that I perceived as pure vowels with a /w/ or a /j/ at the end. I didn’t know the phonetic symbols until this year, but those were the symbol for the ones I was thinking of. It took a little bit this year for me to comprehend what it meant that the vowel placement is actually a two dimensional thing with two criteria and it’s based on the position of your tongue, not the place you vibrate your voice. So basically, the pure vowels that I recognized when I perceived the wrong criterion from top to bottom actually go high front, low front, high back, and finally low back.

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How to make it wider?

Muy buenas noches ,hace poco inicie a practicar ,me gusta porque estoy aprendiendo la pronunciación,mis nietos me animaron a estudiar, ,ellos también,practican el ingles,me gusta no es aburrido ,los felicito

Thank you for the explanation, it was very good.

What is the rule please

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So you don't raise the middle and back part of the tongue all of them should be flattened, right?

In many of the examples you pronounce the diphthong [eə] instead of the [æ] sound. This is disconcerting and completely confusing.

This was the best explanation ever! It was so cool to finally hear myself saying it properly. Thank you for being so academic

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I love the teaching

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I'm very glad that I found this channel ! I really want to improve my pronunciation, thank you soo much sir. I'm escatic! Yeah.

The video is very useful 👌

May I ask why "æ" is pronounced closer to "ʌ" in British English, but "æ" is pronounced closer to "e" in American English?

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apple、 and 、as different sounds？

Is this an app and if it is is in the playstore

Bonjour, je ne comprends pas votre transcription phonétique, car dans le dictionnaire Cambridge, ce n’est pas la même chose, exemple: apple, le p fait partie de la première syllabe accentuée??? Quel dictionnaire utilisez-vous? Merci et bonne journée!

I've noticed that in the south of England, the sound "ash" - æ is pronounced as "a"
have - /hav/ instead of /hæv/
that - /ðat/ instead of /ðæt/
cat - /cat/ instead of /cæt/

and in many others words...

Uff! This sound is super challenging!

You mean the 'correct' American way, which varies by region, and æ is not even used in American English, so whose 'right' would you even be claiming?
Wherever you earned your qualifications sounds like they -- don't talk good.

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Is there e language in which there is no such sound?

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If the "Æ" sound is so specific to English - and that there is a "right American way" of pronouncing the sound as you clame, why does not the letter æ appear in your written language - like it does and have been for centuries (actually!) in the scandinavian languages?
The Æ letter/sound is so common in Norway/Europe, that this "instructional" video just seem ironic, and in worst case is historyless. Thats maybe no news though from a US perspective.