• How To Use This Site
  • Sound Chart
  • Sounds
  • Mouth Positions
  • Exercises
  • 1-on-1
  • Contact
  • About
  • Other Resources

This website was created to help people improve their American English pronunciation. At the core is a series of videos explaining in detail how each sound is created, as well as a blog.

Speech Analysis Software:
Praat - free download

Recommended

Though I highly recommend learning via video :), sometimes a book is a nice resource to have. I especially like this one:

See Rachel's complete list of recommendations.

Home » Blogs » Rachel's blog

Vowel Comparison

Take a look at how the mouth position changes on the different vowels:

Video Text:

[] ('ah' as in 'father') ... [] ('aw' as in 'law') ... [] ('aa' as in 'bat') ... [] ('eh' as in 'bed') ... [] ('ih' as in 'sit') ... [] ('ee' as in 'she') ... [] ('oo' as in 'boo') ... [] ('uh' as in 'pull') ... [] ('uh' as in 'butter') ... [] ('uh' as in 'supply') ... [] ('er' as in 'her') [x3]

Bookmark/Search this post with:
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Propeller
  • Reddit
  • Magnoliacom
  • Newsvine
  • Furl
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • Rachel's blog
  • 'aa' as in 'bat'
  • 'ah' as in 'father'
  • 'aw' as in 'law'
  • 'ee' as in 'she'
  • 'eh' as in 'bed'
  • 'ih' as in 'sit'
  • 'oo' as in 'boo'
  • 'uh' as in 'butter'
  • 'uh' as in 'supply'
  • 'ur' as in 'her'
  • comparison
  • vowel

THE SOUNDS

View the sounds of American English:
listed      -or-
Sound Chart    -or-
by picture

  Subscribe to the blog
Become a fan
Follow me

Recent Posts

  • Vocabulary: Parties and Labor Day
  • Plural of Nouns
  • Imitation Exercise: Call Ignored
  • Ben Franklin exercise: "Broke" from Brothers and Sisters
  • Work vs. Walk
  • The Letter T: Examples
  • The Letter T
  • TR, DR, and STR
  • Stop Consonants
  • Ben Franklin exercise: Chip Conley
more

If you cannot view the videos, click here.

The Sound videos and Blog videos are free for all, and I hope they help you in your quest to improve your accent.
As a few users have asked, donations are accepted and appreciated, and can be made here:





All content copyright RachelsEnglish (c) 2008 - 2010