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#10: American English pronunciation of the u (as in put) sound and oo sound

The u sound in the word put confuses a lot of people because of its spelling and strange pronunciation; many non-native speakers and ESL students accidentally substitute the oo sound
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Hello listeners around the world! I have to say, I am surprised at the international audience this podcast has been getting. I started producing the American English Pronunciation podcast to give extra instruction to my students and to offer reminders for my former students. So I am excited to see that there are so many people from all over listening. So far, Japan and Spain have the most listeners outside the United States. If you are listening from outside the United States, please, send me an email and say hello. Tell me how you like the podcast. You can send emails to podcast@pronuncian.com.

If you are a new listener, welcome. My name is Mandy, and this is Seattle Learning Academy's American English Pronunciation Podcast. And this is episode number 10.

We worked on vowels during episodes 8 and 9. We studied the long vowels, which are usually the easiest vowels, then went on to short vowels. If you can remember the key words from those episodes, hooray to you. If not, here they are again.

The long vowel key words are, and you should repeat after me if you are in a place where you can talk to yourself: cake, keep, bike, home cute. Remember, the long vowels sound like their letter names, a, e, i, o, and u.

Much harder are the short vowels. Here are their key words. Cat, bed, sit, top, sun. Those sounds were (short a, short e, short i, short o, and short u).

Our final five vowel sounds don't fit into a neat category, so I'm just going to call them the "other vowels". I want to say again that the linguists don't all agree on the number of vowels or which ones there are. I teach what I have found to most help my students over the past 3 years of working with them on pronunciation. At Seattle Learning Academy, and for this podcast, we teach 15 vowel sounds.

We aren't going to study all of the last 5 vowel sounds today because I want to be able to focus on two harder sounds. Next week we'll wrap up the introduction to the vowel sounds with the final three vowels. So, today we'll only have two key words, soon and put. That should be easy, right? So I'll add a practice sentence back in today as well. Here it is: Good fruit looks like good food should.

Let's begin with the horrible sound in the middle of the sound put. The (u sound) sound. This sound is hard for a number of reasons. First, its spelling makes students think it should sound like something else. I'm going to call this sound "u as in put" because if I just call it the u sound, you may confuse it with the short u. Listen to the difference in sound (u sound, short u) Put, sun. The u as in put sound is also spelled o-o, like in the words book and foot, and so students often accidentally say it like the oo sound in the word soon. The sound in the word soon is what I call the oo sound. Listen to the difference in the short u, u as in put, and the oo sound. (short u, u sound, oo sound) Sun, put, soon. Another spelling for the u as in put sound is oul, as in could, should, and would. I want to make sure you understand that there is no l sound in any of those words. They are all only three sounds. Could, (k sound, u sound, d sound), should (sh sound, u sound, d sound) and would (w sound, u sound, d sound)

The u as in put sound actually isn't in very many different words, but that does not make it a less important sound, because many of the words it is in are words we say a lot. Words that we use a lot are called "high-frequency words". There is a Wikipedia page that I really like that deals with word frequency in TV and movie scripts. I like this frequency chart, even though it isn't perfectly scientific, because it is more accurate to words we say than t