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Pronunciation skills: The idiot sounds /ɜː/ and /ə/

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Did you know that there is not one but two idiot sounds in the phonetic chart? In this video, pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the visibility and the physicality of these sounds, helping learners with the long vowel sound /ɜː/ and the most famous of all the phonemes, the schwa /ə/

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