Phonetics - Vowels: Crash Course Linguistics #9

In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! In this episode of Crash Course Linguistics, we’ll learn about vowels, those sounds you can sing with your mouth open, and how we can represent them clearly using the IPA.

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[pallavgoyal]

"No longer disemvoweled." Love it!

[andruabeck]

When a teacher enjoys teaching, then the student also enjoys studying. Good job, Taylor! :)

[ninreck]

This playlist is being made at exactly the right time, I'm studying English and I had this topic this week in class so I just sent this video and the one on consonants to some friends who had trouble understanding it during the lecture

[omarabdelkadereldarir]

I remember wondering about this stuff and trying to distinguish between each sound on my own. Lovely to learn there's a whole branch of science devoted to it!

[matheusb]

I can't stress enough how much I love this channel and specifically this series, I've recommended it to students, peers and former professors of mine. Thank you so much for the great work and content 😊😊

[amanichj]

EXACTLY WHAT I NEED AT THE EXACT TIME!!! Crash Course really out here being better than school and saving our gradess

[dgo]

I really like these. I feel like i learn a lot and look foward for them every friday. Thanks Taylor & co

[TiggerIsMyCat]

Despite technically being spelled as diphthong, (and it being the original greek pronunciation), I have never heard anyone actually pronounce it that way until now. It's fascinating. I remember a few years ago doing a bunch of research on the pronunciation because Hank Green made a video about mistakes he discovered he was making, and one was pronouncing it as though it were dipthong, and I wanted to show it wasn't really wrong. This word is fascinating!

(And for the record, I found that phonotactically, English tends to not like having two fricatives next to each other, but it was fine in ancient greek, so a lot of words we borrowed from greek, like diphthong, have those two fricatives next to each other and we English speakers tend to turn one of the fricatives into a stop, because that's more phonotactically appropriate for English. Often do the same with words like ophthalmologist or diphtheria, which are also often pronounced as pth rather than phth)

[mattkuhn]

Man all this talk about vowels and diphthongs has me jazzed to talk about coarticulation! I hope we get into that more next episode. If I wasn't doing computational linguistics, I'd probably be doing phonology for sure. Can't wait!

[PoseidonXIII]

This helped so much click into place for me! I greatly appreciate all the work that went in to making this truly awesome series.

[scotthendricks]

Australian English has 20 vowels

Me: *What* pronounced woooaaah

[steevemartial]

This is increasingly complex and awesome. I love it!

[lagautmd]

This is fabu! I've loved linguistics since I took a course as an undergraduate. Sometimes, I wish I'd gone on to study it in graduate school.

[artsyjames]

Nasalisation is something French learners struggle with a lot, in my experience as a French native. I hear the lack of it often when listening to English natives speaking French. It does make a difference, like in the beau/bon examples: it makes a different word and can lead to confusion when omitted.

[sarahlamoureux]

Are we invited to the fancy vowel party? Looks classy.

[ArturoStojanoff]

This is a very good video.
Thank you and congratulations.

[gelbadayah.sneach]

As a linguistics enthusiast, I'm really enjoying this series! Learning the proper pronunciations of the IPA is something I've been aching to do and there really aren't a lot of videos out there telling how to do it in such a digestible manner. A lot of web sites give examples of words that use the sounds represented by the IPA symbols; but having met folks from the entire East Cost of the United States and multiple regions of the UK, I know about three to five various pronunciations for each example work given! Thanks for making this series, Crash Course crew!

[pablomorralla]

i got SO excited when i saw the notification, THANK U

[Deafdeafdeaf]

I learnt IPA for my speech but I didn’t learn it enough to assist me, only enough for helping me to construct sounds.
This video have taught me more and I had fun trying to create sounds!

(Unfortunately I don’t have any auditory nerve in both of my ears, that means I cannot hear so I cannot achieve 100% fluency n English speech.)

[MathMadeEasy]

As a content creator myself I was trying to find math videos on Crash Course. I found a video called Mathematical Thinking, but I couldn’t find a playlist dedicated to Math. Have you already made a playlist like this or are you considering to make one in the future? 😊