American pronunciation lesson #1: The "æ" sound. Listen to the

audio for the pronunciation.

You can find this sound in "ask," "apple," "at," "hat," and many other English words.

It is not the "ɛ" sound, which you can find in words like "dress," "pet," "elf," or "empty."

It is not the "ɑ" sound, which you can find in words like "talk," "palm," "pot," etc.

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Chiara La M 2020.04.12 09:01

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Thank you. I said "apple " in the wrong way :)
yeon 2020.04.12 09:03

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actually it's hard to find out any differences while im doing these pronunciation
hongjing 2020.04.12 09:08

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Thanks a lot 😊
linbei 2020.04.12 10:40

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Thank u
远山 2020.04.12 14:51

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Thank you very much! It help me so much!
ivy123 2020.04.12 16:23

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It's a little hard to read this pronunciation
Riley 2020.04.12 16:39

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@ivy123 it's called International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) pronunciation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Vowels
ivy123 2020.04.12 16:47

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@Riley thank you very much!
chinatsu JAPAN 2020.04.21 06:04

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Your timeline is very valid and kind!!
Archangela_201 2020.11.24 23:29

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Very difficult 😭😭
Yusuke 2020.11.28 09:16

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That's exactly what I was thinking. I often see Taiwanese people laughing at Japanese English especially at this "a" sound of map, bad, apple or rap because Japanese speakers tend to pronounce it as /a/ as in calm or palm but even Taiwanese people didn't sound right to me since they don't make the difference between "bad" and "bed" and I wasn't just sure since no native English speakers have mentioned this explicitly. Thank you so much for sharing this and disabusing English learners of misunderstanding of the sound.