Name: 発音のシュワサウンド（The SCHWA Sound! English Pronunciation Lesson）
Uploaded: 2022-02-07T03:11:05.000Z
Duration: 17 min 23 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

Well hey there! I'm Emma from mmmEnglish!

Now it's just one of the many English sounds

Particularly if you want to sound more natural

when you're speaking English. So stay tuned!

So you might be wondering why is this sound

And that's why it's got its own special name, the schwa.

Another thing that's weird is that there is no

so it's not really helpful for remembering it.

But it's also one of the trickiest sounds to understand

Because English is not a phonetic language right?

You can't see this sound written in English.

I mean we all know that English spelling is

rarely a good guide to improve your pronunciation, right?

But the schwa occurs so much in spoken English

and it looks completely different every time.

include the schwa sound in them when they're spoken

is really important. It's going to help you

to sound more natural, relaxed and more fluent

So if you're trying to reduce your accent

and to improve your pronunciation, then this sound

It's actually my favourite sound of all the English sounds

You know when you're winding down after a long week

and you're probably already thinking about the weekend

and you can't really be bothered doing much else?

Well that's quite tricky because all of the vowel letters

can be pronounced as a schwa in spoken English.

but they're represented by a different vowel letter

And since the schwa sound can be represented by

Being able to recognise the international phonetic

symbol for this sound will help you to see

Now the schwa sound is always unstressed.

It's the only vowel sound that is never stressed

so you need to just relax, just be like the schwa.

Relax and take it easy, it's Friday afternoon.

So to make this sound, first you need to relax everything

This is a really relaxed sound okay? Check your lips,

your jaw, your neck, everything needs to be relaxed.

Drop the jaw slightly and open your mouth.

Keeping that in mind, let's try it together.

so if you need to find a place that's quiet on your own,

It's a guttural sound so you should feel it coming from

a little deeper. And with all unstressed vowel sounds,

and it's also low in pitch, it's quite flat.

You should feel it here and it should be flat.

So why is the schwa sound so common in English?

Let's start from the basics. English has rhythm.

It's made up of stressed and unstressed sounds

The stress plays an important part in understanding

Without stress, you'd sound like an English robot

and it would be better if you were not a robot.

When words or syllables are unstressed in English,

the sound is reduced and the vowel letter is often

In English, words with more than one syllable

and they often reduce to the schwa sound.

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発音のシュワサウンド（The SCHWA Sound! English Pronunciation Lesson）

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