Today I'm going to clear a few things up for you. There's, in particular, one sound which can make you sound extremely British. I mean like it turns you into Harry Potter will you pronounce the sound in words. However the one issue with this sound is that it can be pronounced differently in different parts of the UK.

So I'm going to kind of outline the rules for the sound, teach you how to pronounce it and teach you some words and sentences you practise it.?

So this sound the /ɑ?/ sound is what we would call an open-back sound.

What do you think that means? Well look at my mouth again and see what I do. Open and back meaning the tongue will be pushing back which actually does cause the mouth to open more.

So that's why is an open sound because the tongue is being pushed back. Let's imagine that movement backwards and forwards. When I'm teaching pronunciation um I usually explain to my students that the /ɑ?/ sound is much like the dentist.

Why does it remind me of the dentist? Well because when you go to the dentist, they tell you to open your mouth and say, you guess it /ɑ?/.

Why? Because you open your mouth wide to make this sound and also you push your tongue back because you're pushing your tongue back, the dentist can see all of your mouth, okay.

So just think about that when you try to pronounce this sound. So most of the time this sound will appear in words like far car star apartment, however and now we know that mostly I focus on Southern English Southern British English here.

Now I want you to tell me first before I talk anymore, how would you pronounce this word? BATH The truth is you could pronounce it two different ways. You could say /bɑ?θ/ or you could say /b?θ/ and reason why is because we have two consonants after the (a sound).

There you go, there is another word after. I'm full of surprises today. So yes it's because there are two consonants after however this isn't always the case. The problem with British pronunciation is there are really many rules.

We just have guidelines and this is a guideline sometimes. It could be pronounced with an a (bath passed last). Why? Well, accents change, accents are different everywhere you go. In the North, in the South. Southern British English is diverse. Now the traditional way of pronouncing this the RP way, the queen's English, Harry Potter English as some people know it as now, you would have pronounced this as /bɑ?θ/.

So if you want that typical British accent that everybody desires, uh you would pronounce this as /bɑ?θ/. However, in various parts of the North they will pronounce it as /b?θ/.

But this is one thing which no teachers explain. It's also pronounced as /b?θ/ amongst other words. In the South, I would say /bɑ?θ/ and then now this is due to my upbringing, my teachers, uh my family. It's more natural now for me to say /bɑ?θ/, which is more of RP style, this? kind of RP English.

However it's very very common for people in the south of England to say /b?θ/. So just because people in London say /bɑ?θ/ doesn't mean that everybody in the south does. So it is North and South that can pronounce it differently and this is what I want to tell you if this sound really annoys you if it really worries you, don't worry too much. So I just want to try a few sentences with you now. 這段有點(diǎn)迷糊，不知道聽(tīng)的準(zhǔn)不準(zhǔn)。。。

Number one, I can't get out of the (bath). Take it slowly. I can't get out of the bath. However, like I said, people in the south, people in the North, they might say I can't get out of the (bath).

Number two, my phone charge is very (fast). Or you might hear my phone charge is very (fast). So the main reason I created this video is really just to let you know the you will hear different styles of British English everywhere you go. Maybe sometimes you might want to say (fast), maybe sometimes you might want to say (fast).

Now I go into lots more detail about this kind of stuff giving you advice on what you should be pronouncing how you should be pronouncing things step by step really uh in my pronunciation course which you can join in the description box below at ETJ English . com.

Uh It's basically a pronunciation course which shows you how to pronounce every British sounds, mostly focused on RP, but we also touch on these little things like we did today, the kind of modified RP styles of English.

And if you don't know what RP is, you also learn what that is in the course.

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