hello everybody this is Elliot from etj English and welcome to this pronunciation lesson today we're talking about the most common the most important and the most amazing sound in the English language and this is my favorite to teach it's the schwa sound now do you know what the schwa sound is can you use it already if you can that's okay but when you learn this all this information is going to be extremely powerful for you to improve your pronunciation to sound more like you've been trained by a native British person and you are going to
just sound 10 times better as an English speaker so without further Ado let's start learning the schwa sound how we use it and when we use it so first of all the schwa sound ah it's just ah now is a breath out ah just follow me one more time ah so it sounds a little bit weird when we make it on its own but when we put it in a word this is when it sounds great and it sounds really British so first of all ah on its own we do use this and this is
with the letter A when we put it in a sentence so for example yesterday I went to a lesson about history a lesson a lesson okay yesterday I went to our lesson about history did you notice the schwa sound it's on the a a lesson but when we say it naturally it becomes a lesson so we use it with the word a we can also use it with the word of cup of tea cup of tea and that's with an of the of becomes a a cup of tea so now let's move on to the
word for and let's say I was asking you what are you doing for Christmas this year Christmas what are you doing for Christmas this year instantly that will make you sound more British so practice practice makes perfect what are you doing for Christmas okay let's move on so we're going to move on to when we normally use this in real words big words okay proper words so first of all we'll use the schwa sound with words that are ending in the r sounds so for example when I say better an American might say better I
don't say teacher I say teacher teacher the schwa sound is on the r sound at the end of the word teacher better do you kind of understand where I'm coming from now so we can also use it with unstressed weak syllable sounds police sofa sofa the a becomes an uh sofa the word about about so the beginning of the word has now got the schwa sound about I had to call the police yesterday I had to call the police yesterday any vowel sound we can use this schwa sound so let me give you a word
with a schwa sound with each vowel so first of all again the a becomes a schwa sound problem the E becomes a schwa sound president president the I becomes a schwa sound bottom bottom the O becomes a schwa sound album the U becomes a schwa sound and we can also do it with Y for example the word syringe which has a y after it we can say syringe that's how we say it syringe so when do we use the schwa sound we use it with the r sound at the end of a word we also
use it with unstressed weak syllable sounds we also will use it with any vowel sound I know it's a lot to take in it's a lot of information but it's so simple and all you have to do is practice and the best way to practice is with a native speaker who can correct you I luckily am a Skype English teacher I am a professional English and pronunciation teacher I help you learn English and learn British accents so if you really really want to get that British accent and get that good English sound what you need
to do is book a Skype English lesson with me in the description box below and we can start making you a fluent British sounding English speaker right now so go ahead and book a lesson thank you very much for watching guys it's been a pleasure as always cheers see you all in the next lesson
