How to Pronounce R and H Brazilian English Learner Tips
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm are you brazilian are you
learning english great you’re in the
right place today we’re going to talk
about two letters that my brazilian
students often mix up and even though
pronunciation is not the end of the
world it’s great for other people to be
able to understand you and i also want
to make sure that you can understand TVs
and movie shows if you mix up these
words it’s gonna be really difficult to
completely understand what people are
saying and express yourself first i want
to tell you two words and i want to see
if you can tell the difference between
these two words are you ready the first
one is really and the second one is
hilly hmm are these words the same are
they different well they are definitely
different the first one has an R really
and the second one has an H hilly so at
the end of this lesson I’m gonna give
you a little quiz to see if you can tell
which word it is I hope after this
lesson you’ll be able to start to hear
the difference and then you’ll be able
to start to pronounce it differently
yourself I know that Brazilian
Portuguese ours are different than
English ours especially American English
ours but in this lesson I want to help
you pronounce our R and not H oftentimes
Brazilians mix up these two sounds
because in Portuguese they could be
quite similar so let’s practice a sample
sentence together and I want you to
listen to my pronunciation and repeat
after me
are you ready really Robert runs happily
up hills I set this slowly and I
emphasize the R’s in the ages but that’s
okay because we’re prac
see now so I want to say it one more
time with emphasis and then we’re gonna
say it quickly are you ready
really Robert runs happily up hills
really Robert runs happily up hills did
you see when I was speaking slowly the
shape of my mouth was different for the
R in the H really Robert runs happily
happily my mouth is much more open
happily up hills let’s practice this
mouth shape with two more words that
sound similar except for R and H they
are red head red head do you see how my
mouth is more open for the H and it’s
more closed for the are red you can kind
of feel some vibration here too red head
if we use a piece of paper you can see a
little bit of air coming out head head
head this is with the H sound happy
Hills head red there’s no movement red
it’s just still because the our sound is
here not with air coming out alright are
you ready for your quiz I have two words
put together to challenge you they’re
kind of two crazy words put together
that don’t make much sense but we’re
gonna practice this just for
pronunciation the first one is really
red and the second one is hilly head so
one of them uses only the R sound and
the other one uses only the H sound I
want you to guess is number one R or H
and is number two R or H while you’re
listening I want you to write a comment
below this video before you hear the
answer are you ready for number one it’s
the same as I just said before really
read Hille head really read haley head
red chilly head number one really red
number two hilly head what do you think
is our which one do you think is H right
a quick comment below and then I’ll tell
you the answer in just a moment
I hope that you enjoyed this video about
R and H let me know any other sounds
that are challenging for you so that you
can improve your pronunciation and be
understood more are you ready to know
the answer number one really red are
number two hilly head H I hope that you
could start to hear the difference in
this pronunciation maybe you were only
looking at my mouth healy head really
red and that could help you I hope that
this will help you also to use it
yourself because that’s the goal I want
you to be able to use it thanks so much
for learning English with me and I hope
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