OK, time to compare short A and short E sounds, air versus air.
Now remember, if the A comes before an M or an N, the sound is M or an not air.
So I'm going to give you examples now of different words that have the air A and a E sounds.
And then sometimes both of those sounds are in the same word.
So I want you to really listen to the sounds and see if you can repeat those sounds as well.
OK, so the first set of words are very easy there.
One syllable words.
Just listen for the vowel sound.
Ready?
Head, head.
Did you hear the sound first air and then the second word is air had heard I had a head of hair when
I was born, that means when a baby is born, if they have a lot of hair, they will say that child
has a head of hair.
This is something that's probably more well known amongst native speakers, but it's very common to
hear when a baby is born with a lot of hair.
Let's go to the next examples now.
Sand, sand, sand, sand.
Do you know the difference now, we're not saying because the AI is in front of an end, we're saying
and sand send.
What if we said a sentence like, I need to send some sand to my friend?
Sand, sand.
Now, I flipped it around, the E sound came first, the A sound came second.
I just want to make sure that you can be able to differentiate the sounds when you're hearing me say,
then this will make it much easier for you than to be able to say this sounds correctly yourself.
All right.
Let's go to the next words.
Pan, pan, pan, pan.
Pan to a sound, but remember, it's in front of the end, so it has that and sound instead of air and
pen the pen you write with.
All right, let's go to the next group of words and end.
And and do you hear that a and and and the E in end, let's go to the next group of words left, left,
left, left.
Now, even though LAFF is spelled with the a u g h, you could replace those four letters and phonetically
just spell it as a f f Leffe.
That's simply the way you pronounce it.
So a huge H is f laugh.
And the word left is with the E sound.
All right, in our last group of words, bad, bad, bad, bad.
That comes first with the Athens Ambedkar, second with the short E sound, so I'm hoping these examples
were able to show you the difference between the short eh and the short E sounds.
Now, let's go into more challenging words.
The next words are going to be multiple syllables long, but each of these words will have both the
short a sound and the short E sound.
Let's see if you can pick out which syllable has which sound.
Planet Planet.
Would you say a first and then second good next word exam exam?
E comes first, a come second now if you notice planet an exam, the AI doesn't have the sound because
it's in front of an M or an N, it has the M or an sound instead.
All right.
Next adventure and then.
Sure.
A comes first and and it comes second in the next syllable then and then in the end we have an R controlled
vowel, but we'll get to that later adventure.
All right, let's go to the next word, mechanic, mechanic.
E comes first, mayor and then ACMS next, and it now YK is the short I sound and we'll cover that in
the following lesson.
But this is a good example of short, a short and short I in one word, mechanic.
And let's go to the next word, ancestor, ancestor.
Did you say A comes first and then E is in the second syllable ancestor now feel free to rewind this
clip as often as you need to listen to the sounds again until you're able to make the sounds as well
with the sound.
You may notice that my lip opens up and my tongue drops down and where, whereas my tongue curves up
slightly higher and my lips change the shape.
Er er er er er I hope you noticed the difference because I think that will help you be able to say the
sound better.
And don't forget to check out pronunciation dot com forward slash sounds for help on how to pronounce
these different sounds.
They have incredible graphics and illustrations showing exactly where your tongue should be, how you
should move your lips, where the sounds are coming from.
These are very helpful, along with the audio clips to help you learn and study more about the linguistics
of the different sounds.