American English Vowels: Short & Long

This video gives an overview of American English short & long vowels. Learn tricks to correctly pronounce all of these words based on their spellings: bat, bait, bet, beet, bit, bite, bot, boat, but, and butte. 10 different sounds are covered: Long A, Long E, Long I, Long O, Long U, Short A, Short E, Short I, Short O & Short U.

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[HtetKaungShein]

Teacher, I like your teaching. I come from Myanmar. Now I got America and I'm studying spoken American English. Your video lessons are very effective for me. Thanks a lot.

[erlieray]

I’m amazed by your explanation I finally understand the difference between short and long vowels sounds.May God bless you and your family 🙏🙏

[FrancescoRossi-qs]

From Italy, thank you.
I'm a native speaker of British English and I'm teaching English to a Brazilian lady, who also knows Italian, but needs to learn English to speak with her fiancé, who is Austrian.
Your video is very useful because you also explain the spelling, which is a puzzle for Italians and even Brazilians because the spelling in their languages reflects the pronunciation more closely, Italian more than Portuguese.
Concerning the differences between British and American English, the only big difference is the short O.
Standard British English also has a complication in the short A, as some words like class, grass and chance are pronounced with a vowel more similar to your short O. This is referred to as the "Trap-Bath split". I say "Standard British English", what many Americans call the "King's English", because in some parts of the British Isles (UK and Ireland), they pronounce these words with the same short A as the Americans. I have read that this is because this pronunciation change took place after the separation of American and British English.
Thanks. Grazie. Obrigado.
PS. Have you done a video for the different short U sound in words like put, pull, wool, wood, foot, etc.
PPS. Your "would", "should" video describes this vowel, but not for the words I mentioned, except wood.

[BuddhiLalChaudhary-kz]

Thank you Nicole. I am from Nepal and my language is little bit similar to some dialect of India. I think we have all these vowel sounds but we do not pronounce English words correctly. I understood how to pronounce the short and long vowels. Great Nicole. You are an amazing English teacher.

[dingdingngo]

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[satyavathirachamalla]

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[bud]

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[JohnDoe-zoxn]

This video is pretty epic covering everything you need about the vowels

[natariloveline]

Thank you very much, this class is of great help to me. I have been having difficulty in pronouncing the sounds.

[marlenepagulayan]

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[dinataman]

Iam Egyptian I liked your explanation because you mentioned every tiny detail thank you so much by the way in Arabic we don't have short e

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[hectorluismartinez]

I believe that like native speakers, the first thing an ESL student has to study is phonetics, because otherwise, we begin to learn vocabulary, but mispronounced, and that, what good would it do? if a native speaker would not understand us. I am Venezuelan, therefore, I speak Spanish, and for me, the most difficult sounds are short vowels, because I see that their sounds are very similar, I still cannot master them. I loved your class, thanks for sharing it.