11: ’aw’ /ɔ/, ’oi’ /ɔɪ/, and ’ow’ /aʊ/ in American English

American English Pronunciation Podcast

Seattle Learning Academy

Language Learning, Self-improvement, Education

4.6 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2008

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Practice comparing the 'aw' with other similar vowels, and practice the diphthongs 'oi' and 'ow.'

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 11th episode of Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.
0:12.3	If you are just joining us in this podcast, my name is Mandy, and we are just finishing up a series of four podcasts about vowels.
0:22.5	I would strongly encourage you to listen to the previous three podcasts along with this one.
0:29.2	These shows about vowels lay the foundation for many upcoming podcasts,
0:34.2	and I hope you come back to them when you need a reminder about certain vowel sounds.
0:39.5	Last week, we had a practice sentence in addition to our new keywords.
0:44.8	It was, good fruit looks like good food should.
0:52.5	It emphasized the U as in put sound and the O-O sound.
0:58.3	Our keywords for those sounds were put and soon.
1:06.5	Let's quickly review all our keywords from the beginning.
1:11.6	Long A. A.
1:15.6	Cake.
1:18.6	Long E. E. Keep.
1:23.6	Long I I bike
1:29.7	Long O
1:33.8	O
1:35.0	Home
1:36.6	Long U
1:39.7	U
1:41.1	Cute
1:42.7	Short A
1:47.0	A
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