THE SCHWA SOUND AND THE SHORT U ARE PRONOUNCED THE SAME/AMERICAN ENGLISH, AMERICAN PRONUCIATION

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[satya.m]

Yes, Kevin. It's cleared up a lot of confusion about those two sounds. I thought there was a distinguishable difference between them. But, it turned up that "there ain't a difference". Thank you so much, and lots of love from India ❤️

[ulisesvera]

Why does "cup" take the schwa and not /ʌ/ ?

[santosavalos]

Good morning Kevin and Lisa !

From Bolivia.
This was really a nutritious teaching. Please make more videos like this one, specially ending pronunciations.

Thank you very much !

[khamonguyenminh]

It’s such a great lesson. Thank you so much.

[galloitalianoVEVO]

I cant roll the “of” sound smoothly as you, 😢

[cristhyancalderonarias]

😮😮😮😮😮😮 thanks 🤔🤔🤔🤔 I'd like more examples about this and understand it much more .

[scatmanjohnfan]

So from what i unserstand, schwa is a flex slot for vowels?

[diodato]

Thanks, Kevin, for clarifying this topic. Please, make a video about the oo sound, like in good, took, should, could, etc. For a non native English speaker, it seems to me that “oo” sounds very similar to the short u sound. What’s the difference between the two?

[AmScEn]

Being from NYC, we pronounce it "salid."

[Tony]

Great video, this is a very confusing sound even for native English teachers (at least here on youtube)

[davidrock]

So the unstressed schwa sound in eleven, expect, event, solid fluid and erase can also be pronounced as short e or short i sound?

[mybad]

They're not pronounced the same. "oo" in Good and "u" in cup are not pronounced the same.
I would argue that /ʌ/ and /ə/ are pronounced the same, the only difference is that /ə/ is never stressed.

[uselessvad]

is it correct to pronounce the A article as E in bed?Sometimes I hear it pronounced that way. Also the [æ] sound can sound to me as emphasized E like in bed. For example in words that, mad, bad, candle etc.

[jureeniege]

The shwa sound is sooo confusing because we don’t pay attention to the sounds when we speak until you teach it.

[kudratbek]

Why do you use the Hebrew word "schwa" instead of the English word "neutral vowel"