Written Representations of the Schwa 📹
Written Representations of the Schwa 📹
Sound School 5.0
Week 1: Introduction
Week 1: Introduction
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Course Resources
Course Resources
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Week 2: Fixed Vowels
Week 2: Fixed Vowels
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Week 3: Moving Vowels
Week 3: Moving Vowels
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Week 4: Consonants
Week 4: Consonants
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Week 5: The Schwa Sound 🤭
Week 5: The Schwa Sound 🤭
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Week 6: /TH/ Bite your Tongue! 👅
Week 6: /TH/ Bite your Tongue! 👅
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Week 7: How to speak in the past like a native 👍
Week 7: How to speak in the past like a native 👍
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Week 8: The 3 T's of English
Week 8: The 3 T's of English
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Week 9: The American R Sound 🤭
Week 9: The American R Sound 🤭
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Week 10: Final M & N 🙊
Week 10: Final M & N 🙊
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Week 11: Questions? 🤔
Week 11: Questions? 🤔
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Week 12: The Dark L
Week 12: The Dark L
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Week 13: The scary /IH/ sound
Week 13: The scary /IH/ sound
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Week 14: Intonation & Imitation
Week 14: Intonation & Imitation
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Week 15: Intonation Patterns
Week 15: Intonation Patterns
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Week 17: Tools & Techniques - Simple Concepts
Week 17: Tools & Techniques - Simple Concepts
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Week 18: Tools & Techniques - Complicated Conversation
Week 18: Tools & Techniques - Complicated Conversation
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Week 19: Tools & Techniques - Music
Week 19: Tools & Techniques - Music
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Week 20: Big review
Week 20: Big review
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Ask Me Anything Archive
Ask Me Anything Archive
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Live Coaching Recordings
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Written Representations of the Schwa
Ok so now that you know a how to produce the schwa, let’s just start with some fun facts about the schwa sound.
It is the most common sound in English. That’s crazy.
Uh…the schwa sound is um...a sound that we produce all the time, unconsciously. We don’t think about it’s production, uhh, it just comes out of our mouths naturally. We say the schwa all the time.
The som do schwa can be represented by any vowel. That’s even crazier.
And serves as further proof that you written English doesn’t have anything to do with the way we speak. So for example with the letter /a/, we have words like.
About. Above. What? What are you talking about. Around. Amazing. Another. Apartment. Again. Banana. Canada. America.
Ah that is a good one. America. If you say Ah-merica-that is a dead giveaway that you are not from around here. America.
But it can also be represented with the letter “e” like different, petition, celebrate.
Or sometimes we use the “i” spelling like president, experiment.
Or we can use the “o” like of, occur, develop.
And then we have a ton of other crazy combinations like “cion”. Nation, education, permission.
Or “sion”, like profession, depression. I think you might suffer from depression after this lesson.
Ok, so the moral of the story here is that the schwa is everywhere! We use it all of the time and it is represented in almost every possible written vowel combination.
So let’s try to discover when and how to use it.