{"id":172410,"date":"2023-04-04T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/?p=172410"},"modified":"2024-06-14T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T17:16:17","slug":"which-uh-vs-ah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/which-uh-vs-ah\/","title":{"rendered":"CUP [\u028c] vs. COP [\u0251]\u2026are you sure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"EOP SCXW136480090 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:480}\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100365547 BCX0\">CUP and COP. These are two of the trickiest <\/span><span class=\"ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW100365547 BCX0\">vowel<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW100365547 BCX0\"> sounds in American English but don\u2019t worry, after this quick-but-powerful training video you\u2019ll have it mastered.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"entry-tags\">Tagged With: <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/english-pronunciation\/\" rel=\"tag\">English Pronunciation<\/a><\/span> \u00a0 <strong>YouTube blocked? <\/strong><a href=\"#video\">Click here to see the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/82f3dLbdChg\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"Are YOU sure about these American English sounds?\" title=\"Play video &quot;Are YOU sure about these American English sounds?&quot;\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/82f3dLbdChg<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/82f3dLbdChg\" title=\"Are YOU sure about these American English sounds?\">Are YOU sure about these American English sounds? (https:\/\/youtu.be\/82f3dLbdChg)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<h2>Video Transcript:<\/h2>\n<p>When I first started teaching pronunciation, I was really surprised that COP and CUP sounded the same to many of my students.<\/p>\n<p>Cop<\/p>\n<p>Cup<\/p>\n<p>What? They seem so different to me. Then I got to hear the sounds from my students\u2019 perspective, and I started to understand why. I guarantee by the end of this video, you are going to know how to learn to not only hear these two sounds perfectly, but how to say them perfectly yourself. I\u2019ve seen lots of students who end up sounding native on these sounds when they work the way I\u2019ll show you to in this video.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, there is nothing wrong with having an accent from another language when you speak English. Your accent is beautiful. But if it\u2019s your goal to sort these two vowels out, let&#8217;s do it. If you don\u2019t already have it, click here for my free cheat sheet on the sounds of American English, you\u2019ll get photos for each sound like you\u2019ll see in this video, link in the video description<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s go back to our minimal pair cop and cup. A minimal pair is a set of two words where only one thing is different, in this case, the middle sound, the vowel. Let\u2019s watch in slow motion, then we\u2019ll compare the mouth positions<\/p>\n<p>Cop<\/p>\n<p>Cup<\/p>\n<p>Now here is a freeze frame of AH and UH.<\/p>\n<p>So on the top, we have ah like in cop and the bottom we have uh like in cup. And I mean wow, look how similar the lips are. They look almost the same. If you only look at the lips, you might now see any difference at all but there is a difference with the tongue. Up here on Ah, look at this. We can see my back molars in a way that we cannot see in the uh as in butter vowel. So the tongue is definitely doing something a little differently. Also here, do you see how the tongue even the front part looks a little bit darker than it does here. This was hitting the light more than the tongue for the ah vowel. Now, let\u2019s look from the side. Now, here we\u2019re comparing three things. The mouth at rest with the ah vowel and the uh vowel and I\u2019ve drawn in my teeth, my hard palate, my tongue, my soft palate. The first thing I want you to notice it the tongue position in the mouth at rest and how it\u2019s very similar to the tongue position is the uh as in butter vowel. You\u2019re not doing much. The main thing I notice is here in the soft palate. So the soft palate hangs in the back of the throat and when it hangs down like this, air comes up here and that\u2019s how we make nasal sounds but for the vowels in American English, the soft palate is closed for all of them. So the main thing I notice is that is a big difference and what that means is there\u2019s a little bit more feeling of space here in the back than there is when the mouth is at rest. So if you\u2019re resting your mouth and you drop your jaw a little bit, you may feel a little extra space creation back here and then you say uh. Super relaxed, try not to do a thing to your tongue or to your throat, Uh. Now for ah, the tongue is different, isn\u2019t it? And we saw that. We saw how this part of the tongue in the forward-facing photo was darker because it\u2019s just not quite as far forward as this, as the tip of the tongue in the uh as in butter vowel. And that also let us see the tongue pulling back a little bit here is also what let us see those back molars in the front-facing photo.<\/p>\n<p>So, the difference between ah like cop and uh like cup has to do with the tongue. Soft palate is up in both of them. Jaw drop, very similar in both of them. Lips, neutral and relaxed in both of them but for ah like father, like cop, ah, ah. There\u2019s just a little tension in the tongue as it does something. It presses down and back a little bit, the uh as in butter vowel try to do absolutely nothing with your tongue, no tension make it match the feeling of the tongue when the mouth is at rest.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s just look at our forward-facing photos one more time. The top one. Ah. The back of the tongue is doing a little bit more work pressing down and back, let\u2019s us see a little bit more of what\u2019s happening in the mouth. Ah. For the uh as in butter, the front of the tongue is a little bit higher, it\u2019s a little bit more forward, that\u2019s covering up a little bit more of what we see.<\/p>\n<p>The main issue my students have is both AH and UH sound like AH. So I\u2019ll say, COP, CUP. And they\u2019ll say, COP, COP. They can\u2019t quite get that UH sound because of relaxation. Remember in UH, you want the tongue and throat to be very much so like the mouth at rest. Just jaw drop, no other muscles engaging. And this relates to a concept called placement. It doesn\u2019t have to do with your tongue, lips, jaw, but it\u2019s how muscles in your neck and maybe face affect sound. If you haven\u2019t seen this video, it\u2019s on placement and it\u2019s absolutely the best thing I\u2019ve ever made. I will link to that video in the video description but that will also help if you\u2019re having a hard time perfecting UH.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019ve just looked at a comparison of AH and UH, compared the physical differences. Useful to know, but knowing that alone probably won\u2019t improve these vowels much for you if they\u2019re really tough.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing is listening practice. I remember I had a Chinese student once when I was living in New York city; she lived over in Jersey City, and she said \u201cRachel, these two words sound the same to me.\u201d Cop, cup. \u201cHow can I practice them when I don\u2019t hear them?\u201d And by working with her I discovered something incredible. It didn\u2019t actually matter if she could hear the difference. I made an audio file for her of a bunch of minimal pairs, it was maybe 10 minutes long, with a bunch of repetition, and she listened to it every day, once or maybe twice for about a week. Then, she could hear the difference. Then, she started repeating with the audio, and she did that training for maybe a week, and when we next met, she sounded totally native on these words. And she couldn\u2019t even hear the difference in them before. I also had a Russian student once, same thing. Couldn\u2019t hear that difference AH, UH, and after a month, sounded native on all those minimal pairs. You listen enough, and your brain will sort it out. You don\u2019t have to DO anything.<\/p>\n<p>And you might think, 2 weeks? One month? That\u2019s a lot of time to dedicate to one pair of sounds. Yes, but. I\u2019ve found that my students when they improve in one area of the American accent, they always improve in other areas too. If you master these vowels, your placement will get better. Better placement usually makes everything you say sound more natural. So everything builds on it.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s get into the training. You\u2019re going to see and hear ten minimal pairs at regular pace. If you can\u2019t hear the difference, just listen. If you can hear the difference, repeat out loud in the pauses.<\/p>\n<p>A quick note on the symbols and sounds before we start comparing these minimal pairs. We\u2019ve talked about ah versus uh like in cup versus cop but we\u2019re also going to be comparing another vowel, the ah as in law vowel with uh. This is another vowel that my students often mix up with uh and ah as in law is very similar to ah as in father so you\u2019ll see minimal pairs like cop and cup. And you\u2019ll also see minimal pairs like caught and cut. So even though it\u2019s not the exact same vowel that we\u2019re comparing, it\u2019s very similar and it\u2019s going to be great to get these sorted out as well.<\/p>\n<p>Bonk<\/p>\n<p>Bunk<\/p>\n<p>Boss<\/p>\n<p>Bus<\/p>\n<p>Bought<\/p>\n<p>But<\/p>\n<p>Caught<\/p>\n<p>Cut<\/p>\n<p>Cop<\/p>\n<p>Cup<\/p>\n<p>Cost<\/p>\n<p>Cussed<\/p>\n<p>Cough<\/p>\n<p>Cuff<\/p>\n<p>Crossed<\/p>\n<p>Crust<\/p>\n<p>Dawn<\/p>\n<p>Done<\/p>\n<p>Dog<\/p>\n<p>Dug<\/p>\n<p>Already, your brain is starting to do some clarifying of these sounds. I have 18 more minimal pairs. Let\u2019s work with them. Now, you\u2019ll hear each one at regular pace, then slow motion.<\/p>\n<p>Doll<\/p>\n<p>Dull<\/p>\n<p>Doll<\/p>\n<p>Dull<\/p>\n<p>Flawed<\/p>\n<p>Flood<\/p>\n<p>Flawed<\/p>\n<p>Flood<\/p>\n<p>Fond<\/p>\n<p>Fund<\/p>\n<p>Fond<\/p>\n<p>Fund<\/p>\n<p>Gone<\/p>\n<p>Gun<\/p>\n<p>Gone<\/p>\n<p>Gun<\/p>\n<p>Got<\/p>\n<p>Gut<\/p>\n<p>Got<\/p>\n<p>Gut<\/p>\n<p>Hot<\/p>\n<p>Hut<\/p>\n<p>Hot<\/p>\n<p>Hut<\/p>\n<p>Lock<\/p>\n<p>Luck<\/p>\n<p>Lock<\/p>\n<p>Luck<\/p>\n<p>Long<\/p>\n<p>Lung<\/p>\n<p>Long<\/p>\n<p>Lung<\/p>\n<p>Pawn<\/p>\n<p>Pun<\/p>\n<p>Pawn<\/p>\n<p>Pun<\/p>\n<p>Pop<\/p>\n<p>Pup<\/p>\n<p>Pop<\/p>\n<p>Pup<\/p>\n<p>Robber<\/p>\n<p>Rubber<\/p>\n<p>Robber<\/p>\n<p>Rubber<\/p>\n<p>Rot<\/p>\n<p>Rut<\/p>\n<p>Rot<\/p>\n<p>Rut<\/p>\n<p>Shot<\/p>\n<p>Shut<\/p>\n<p>Shot<\/p>\n<p>Shut<\/p>\n<p>Song<\/p>\n<p>Sung<\/p>\n<p>Song<\/p>\n<p>Sung<\/p>\n<p>Stock<\/p>\n<p>Stuck<\/p>\n<p>Stock<\/p>\n<p>Stuck<\/p>\n<p>Strong<\/p>\n<p>Strung<\/p>\n<p>Strong<\/p>\n<p>Strung<\/p>\n<p>Tong<\/p>\n<p>Tongue<\/p>\n<p>Tong<\/p>\n<p>Tongue<\/p>\n<p>Wrong<\/p>\n<p>Rung<\/p>\n<p>Wrong<\/p>\n<p>Rung<\/p>\n<p>So you know the assignment. Listen to these two minimal pair sections every day this week. If it\u2019s more convenient for you, rip the video, download it, keep the audio only and edit it so you\u2019re hearing each word 3, 4, 5 times in a row. I don\u2019t care if you do that. Permission granted to do what you need to do to work with this audio. Listen daily, repeat out loud daily. This is what all my students do in Rachel\u2019s English Academy. They have all the materials they need, the method, to train on every sound and every aspect of American English. And this is why they see amazing improvement. Now, if you have joined the channel membership, thank you, you get access to two extra videos, link in the video description. The first is a listen and repeat with four repetitions for each of these 28 minimal pairs, paced out with the right timing and gaps for the training. You get to see the mouth up close and in slow motion, of course. And the second video is for after you\u2019ve really solidified the difference in these sounds then you hit hard the training of the UH vowel with your new-found lower placement,104 for common words, regular pace, slow motion, with repetition, gaps for repetition for the training. If you want access those, click the join button to see what else you get in addition.<\/p>\n<p>And here it is, that video that I said is the best thing I\u2019ve ever made. I work with all sorts of different languages, I work with a sound mixing engineer, and we go through an anatomy lesson all to reveal to you how the core sound of American English is different from the core sound of your native language, and how to switch to a new placement when speaking English. Thanks so much for studying with me. Check out Rachel\u2019s English Academy to learn about my in-depth training courses in the American accent and please subscribe with notifications on to stay on top of all my English lessons, I absolutely love being your English teacher. 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