How to Pronounce WERE WHERE WERE American English Pronunciation

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Are you confused when people say WERE, WHERE, OR WE'RE? Are people confused when YOU say these words? Is it hard to pronounce these words? I can help. • Watch this video and learn why these words are confusing. Learn how to pronounce WERE, WHERE, OR WE'RE like an American. Practice words and sentences. Improve your English pronunciation. Improve your American accent with an experienced English teacher. • To donate, please go to https://paypal.me/coopos?locale.x=en_US • • Confusing English Words • Pronounce Difficult and Confusing Eng... • Word Practice • English Pronunciation Practice - Word... • English Vowels • English Vowels - American English Pro... • English Consonants • English Consonants - American English... • • Recommended Dictionaries are below • Online Dictionaries • The Free Dictionary • http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ • Cambridge Dictionary • https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/ • Collins Dictionary • https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dic... • Merriam-Webster Learner’s Dictionary • http://learnersdictionary.com/ • • Paper Dictionaries – Beginning to High-Intermediate • Merriam-Webster's Essential Learner's English Dictionary • USA https://amzn.to/2EIbtjc • Longman Dictionary of American English • USA https://amzn.to/2UiVmOz • • Paper Dictionaries – High-Intermediate to Advanced • Merriam-Webster’s Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary • USA https://amzn.to/2SGabt0 • Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English • USA https://amzn.to/2EvRcvX • • As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. • TRANSCRIPT: • Hi. I'm Denise. Thank you for watching my • video. Today I'm going to talk about how • to pronounce the three words were, where, • and we're. These words are, they look very • similar but they do have different • sounds so that's what I'll be talking • about today. • I'll talk about how to pronounce them. I • will give you some rhyming words for • each of these words, and then I will • give you some sentences towards the end • of the video that you can practice • saying with me, all right. Okay. Please • remember to like this video and to • subscribe to my channel if you haven't • already and please share this video with • your friends. Also, there's a donation • link in the description box if that's • something that you're interested in. • Okay. All right. Before I talk about the • pronunciation I do want to say that this • word here is actually a contraction of • two other words. This stands for the two • words 'we are.' A contraction is when we • remove one or more letters from a word • and then put the two words together. So • in this case we remove the letter A from • the word 'are' and we replace it with an • apostrophe. Okay. So that's what we have • here. W-E is the word 'we' apostrophe R-E. • The apostrophe is for the letter A in 'are' • and then we have R-E, okay. All right. • Now, about the pronunciation. Each of • these letters begins with, each of these • words begins with the letter W and the • sound /w/. The sound /w/ is made with the • letter W. To make that sound I round and • push out my lips like this. My tongue, the • back of my tongue is high in my • mouth, in the back of • my mouth. It doesn't touch the back of my • mouth but I raise it high. And then I • open my mouth and release the sound /w/ /w/. • My vocal cords vibrate when I make this • sound. When we make this sound, we then • move directly into the next the next • vowel sound, the following vowel sound in • the word. So each of these begins with • /w/ but then the shape of the mouth • will change depending on what sound • comes next. • All right. And if you want more details • about this sound, I have a video about • that that you could watch if you wanted. All • right. I'm going to now just talk about • the sounds after the /w/, after the letter W. • You'll see that these words all have the • letter R and a sound for R, but the R • combines with the vowel in front to make • a new sound. This sound is often • transcribed in many different ways, okay. • And the dot-dot-dot here means that • there are even more ways. I have just written • some of them here. I don't want you to be • concerned about the transcription. But I • put some of these up here because I know • that some students are interested in • that, and by seeing the transcription • written that may help some of you, okay. • But what I mostly want you to do is just • look at my mouth. I will be just saying • the sounds after the /w/ for right now. • This one is /əɹ/ /əɹ/. Notice for this I • also have rounded lips and my lips are • pushed out just as they were for the • /w/. They're not as tight but but • they're pushed out and rounded. Okay. You • see that my lips are protruding

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