Advanced American English Pronunciation Exercise: R-Colored Vowel Sounds

R-colored vowels are critical for your American accent, but you probably know this already, don't you? If you want to pronounce R-colored vowels like an American, you should practice every day. Remember, practice makes perfect. On Sounds American we want to make your exercises as efficient as possible. For this video, we've selected words with two or more R-colored vowels so that you develop your muscle memory to pronounce these sounds without thinking about it. You'll probably get exhausted, but that's exactly the point. That's how you get a perfect American English pronunciation.

Quick links:
• R-Colored vowels: 00:00
• Introduction: 00:43
• Pronunciation exercise 1: 01:35
• Pronunciation exercise 2: 03:36
• Pronunciation exercise 3: 05:32

Related videos:
► R-Colored Vowel Sounds Overview:
► R-Colored Vowel Sound / ɝ / as in "first":
► R-Colored Vowel Sound / ɚ / as in "after":
► R-Colored Vowel Sound / ɪr / as in "hero":
► R-Colored Vowel Sound / ɛr / as in "chair":
► R-Colored Vowel Sound / ɑr / as in "car":
► R-Colored Vowel Sound / ɔr / as in "sport":
► R-Colored Vowel Sound / aɪr / as in "fire":

[THIS VIDEO HAS ENGLISH, JAPANESE, VIETNAMESE, AND PORTUGUESE SUBTITLES]
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TRANSCRIPT
Hello there! This is the "Sounds American" channel.
This is an advanced exercise to fine-tune your pronunciation of the American R-colored vowel sounds.
In our previous videos, we made an overview of all the American R-colored vowels and covered each of them in detail.
If you haven't watched these videos yet, make sure you do, because this advanced exercise is going to be more challenging. BTW, you can find relevant links in the description below, as usual.

The next step towards improving your American accent is to practice pronouncing words with two or more R-colored vowel sounds. For example, "furthermore." This word has 3 R-colored vowels, /ɝ/, /ɚ/, and /ɔr/: "furthermore." Now it's your turn.
Was it harder than you thought? But that's exactly the point.
First, you'll have to pronounce lots of R-colored sounds.
Second, you'll have to twist your tongue until you are exhausted :). Just kidding. Or not.

[Pronunciation exercise]
Don't worry, it'll get easier each time you practice.
This is how it works:
You'll see a word on the screen and hear its pronunciation. Like this.
Repeat each word after the speaker.
Do your best and practice as many words as possible. Pause if you need more time.
Let's begin.
1. afterward
2. airport
3. armchair
4. artwork
5. cardboard
6. caretaker
7. cheerleader
8. churchyard
9. corridor
10. coworker
11. former
12. narrator
13. northward
14. porter
15. supermarket
16. supernatural
17. superstar
18. underwater
19. underwear
20. airborne
21. archer
22. armor
23. barber
24. barbershop
25. bartender
26. border
27. carpenter
28. character
29. charger
30. conspirator
31. farther
32. firearm
33. fireworks
34. forearm
35. forever
36. forward
37. garter
38. martyr
39. observer
40. perform
41. superior
42. therefore
43. adversary
44. arbitrary
45. barbarian
46. barbaric
47. barrier
48. barrister
49. borderline
50. burger
51. carrier
52. characteristic
53. circular
54. conservatory
55. corner
56. courier
57. emperor
58. enforcer
59. error
60. evermore
61. explorer
62. exterior
63. forlorn
64. further
65. furthermore
66. harbor
67. inferior
68. juror
69. lecturer
70. manufacturer
71. mercenary
72. merger
73. mirror
74. moreover
75. northern
76. nurture
77. observatory
78. orator
79. oratory
80. orchard
81. order
82. ordinary
83. parlor
84. partner
85. server
86. terror
87. purifier
88. survivor
89. territory
90. thunderbird
91. thunderstorm
92. treasurer
93. horror
94. warrior
95. wherever

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