How to use a vowel grid (in 8 minutes).

The vowel grid (also known as quadrilateral) is a shape that shows you how to position the mouth to make vowel sounds.

It's very useful to develop distinctions between similar vowel sounds such as /iː/ and /ɪ/ in English. But it can seem quite abstract for learners who are new to it - a lot of lines and strange symbols going on!

In this video I explain how the chart relates to the mouth, exploring the position of the tongue both horizontally and laterally, and the rounding of the lips.

There is a live drill of the full IPA vowel grid and at the end of the video I map my vowel sounds (in SSB/GB/Modern RP) onto the chart.

The 2015 International Phonetic Association vowel chart is used in the video.

#phonetics #vowels #englishpronunciation

[ricardofilgueira]

I have a degree in Languages and I teach Portuguese as a foreign language. I wish I'd had a teacher like you when I was at university.

[emileepini]

Seriously. I'm just starting my studies in Speech and Language Communication Disorders. Your videos are awesome! When I don't fully understand the lectures and/or book, I come to YouTube. I keep coming back to your channel. I subscribed. Thank you!

[yunghuang]

Excellent video! As someone who has been trying to improve his English pronunciation, I found this video very helpful. Hope to see a similar video on the English consonants! Many thanks!

[fokhruddin]

Thanks a lot! This has been super helpful!

[tzusndacc]

Wow crazy… I was just trying to figure out all the IPA sounds, but after all your demonstration, I decided to stick on where I was.
The IPA shown in Cambridge dictionary is enough for me as an ESL😂

But thank you for your contribution, look forward to seeing more informative videos!

[simonbrampton]

the time you must've taken to make these animations and make them all synch is impressive. . It 's a very thorough explantion, but I wouldn't use the secondary cardinal vowels with foreign students to avoid shock and depression!! The 'air' in 'hair' has moved from dipthong to monothong, but I still say 'tourist' rather than 'torist' probably because of my age (59) and the fact that I've lived in Spin since 1989 and my English has fossilised !! These changes have made using the Standard IPA more difficult and now requires more explanation, or simply editing a producing a new IPA for our classes. Many thanks

[calmontes]

What an amazing video. The clarity wow!

[VanHo-olsc]

Thank you so much for your awsome lesson. You put so much work there with the ipa chart and tongue positions diagram that help us amazingly as non-native speakers

[jessiet]

Thank you so much! I’m a beginner in learning English. The lesson will be helpful for my pronunciation 🎉

[AmarjeetSingh-hqdf]

I have just spoken E watching your video I have checked in elsa speaking app it is more than 90 percent correct thank you very much for this video

[aaa]

After looking for helpful resources on this topic for a long time, your content was the only one that helped. Thank you. This video must be bumped up

[Victor-pcu]

I love this video so much and it's been absolutely

[dtquyen]

This video is brilliant. Completely blow my mind. Thank you

[Dev-tylc]

Lotz of efforts have been taken by you sir🎉

[eziLoreno]

3:23
あ (a), い (i), う (u),
え (e), and お (o).

[mmedina]

Is this an app? I would love to improve my vowel pronunciation in American accent. Any tool, app, or resource I could use that provides feedback on how I place them?

[Nassar]

3:26 Wouldn't it be more correct to represent this sound you produced as a [e̞] (mid vowel) instead of [e] (close-mid vowel)?

[LearnRunes]

Why do you show your GOOSE vowel for the word "who" closer to /ʉ/ than /u/ even though you use the symbol for the latter?

[martellett]

When I compare your chart with Cruttenden's, Roach's or even the most recent Carley's, nobody seems to agree about the starting point of the diphthongs /aɪ/ and /aʊ/, even though you are all referring to the same accent. Your chart is the one that matches what I hear the best, but I don't know if I can trust what I hear (I'm not a native speaker). Could you help us understand where those two sounds start from and why nobody agrees? Thank you for your amazing videos!

[mundiamubika]

Thanks for helping me a lot.i am an amateur in such things but I want to learn.In one of your videos you said English has 44 phonemes, but why does jolly phonics teach 42?