hi everyone in this lesson I'm going to teach you how to remember phonemes symbols in IPA here are some of the symbols these symbols are for the vowels but I'm also going to teach you how to remember the diphthongs and the consonants these symbols each represent a sound in English some of them some of you will know and have heard of these already and for some of you will be completely new to your new subject when I was learning these what was really hard for me was to remember some of the symbols because they don't look like English letters and to associate them with a sound and I think I've I've known of these for about seven years but it was very very slowly slowly that I remembered them and the reason and the reason I've made this lesson is to make it easier for people to remember that Association and that's why I've got some pictures and sometimes it's some words that can help you remember the sound and the symbol so we're going to start we'll start here and this first column we go across the vowel chart here [iː] say cheese /tʃiːz/ cheese /tʃiːz/ you know when somebody takes a picture say cheese /tʃiːz/ the word cheese /tʃiːz/ has the sound in it next we have "ɪ" to remember "ɪ" we can remember the phrase English /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ ship /ʃɪp] the phrase English ship has the "ɪ" twice in it once in English and once in ship and I drew a picture of a ship here here we have the English flag this is the st. George's flag which represents only England and if you look inside the boat we can also see the shape of the "ɪ" okay next we have "ʊ" and if you imagine a cow in a field do you ever see them when they have that ring through their nose like that that is the same kind of shape when you see it in the nose as the phoneme "ʊ" and very conveniently that phoneme is in the word bull /bʊl/ so if we say the phrase pull the bull /ˈpʰʊɫ ðə ˈbʊɫ/ and we see that picture in our heads that can help us remember and also what's good to know about these words if you listen to me say them they sound the "ʊ" sounds slightly different in them pull the bull /ˈpʰʊɫ ðə ˈbʊɫ/ but they the two words have that sound in when we're learning the phoneme sometimes it can be a little bit confusing that they slightly change sound in some different words so I'm just pointing that out to you they have the same sound next we have "uː" mood for food /ˈmuːd ˈfɔr ˈfuːd/ and in this one I changed the shape slightly to make it a smiley face so if you're happy to be eating food it can remind you of this sound mood for food okay next here's one of the easiest ones to remember this is "e" most words with "e" in are spelt with the letter e so it makes it easier for us and this drawing that we have to remember it is wet pet /ˈwɛt ˈpʰɛt/ you know when a dog goes outside in the rain or after it's been washed it comes in the house and it shakes like that and all the all the water drops fly away this is what this picture shows he's a wet pet /ˈwɛt ˈpʰɛt/ next we have the schwa "ə" the schwa I I remember it in a few ways first I remember it is the upside down "ə" but I also remember it it's hard to say the schwa on its own without it being in a word but it's something like something like "ə" "ə" "ə" "ə" something like that it doesn't sound like it's got a question mark in it's not every time we say "uh?" it's not going up but if we just isolate the sound "ə" it is closest to being a bit confused about something so I turned the upside down "e" into a face there to help remember it next we have "ɜː" and that foul we can remember by two words first we have bird /bɜːd/ and we have worm /wɜːm/ and the worm is in the shape of the symbol the bird is not really in the shape of the symbol but we see it inside its wings next we have or and the way I remember this sound is to think of the word sword and if we look at the symbol here of the sword we can see the shape is inside the sword and here's a phrase that we can remember to make more connections in our memory and this one is called born with a sword so it's a baby holding a sword as if it's a toy next we have ah ah the word I always think of first when I consider that phoneme and bring it to mind is cat always think of cat but how I remember to write the phoneme it's a little bit more difficult than some of the other ones in a way because it's like an A next to an e but they when they come together they look slightly different than we're used to seeing them so we can remember it something like a plus E and when we bring those sounds together we get aa so then we get the word cat and if you have a medical emergency in England and you have to go to the hospital the place that you go is the accident and emergency so the drawing to remember it is an ambulance and the ambulance is driving to the accident and emergency perhaps the cat has had an accident and it's going to the accident and emergency now the next symbol to remember is ah I always remember this one ah in my mind it sounds like this sound is going up somewhere ah ah it's a little bit similar to this but with more power to it and it's more it's a more of a clear sound because this sound the schwa is always unstressed so this sound the AH we can remember it with the phrase thumbs up thumbs up and we can remember the hand thumbs up thumbs up has two of those sounds in it thumbs up next we have when we go to the doctors and the doctor wants to check our health how how are we in the back of our throats the doctor says to us say ah and he puts something on the tongue so he can look inside when we say our that sound is a lot more open our we have to open widely to say that sound in comparison to cheese cheese is a wide sound our lips are spread wide but for say our we're much more open in the shape and the last vow to learn I find this sound is very easy for me to remember oh but I find the symbol difficult to remember when I'm drawing it so it's a straight line and it's like a letter B but without the tail at the top and how I can remember this sound o is in the phrase hot body bottom it's like the Kim Kardashian of the phonemes and this is its bottom and high heel shoes and it's it's the it's the sexy phoning and we call it the hot body bottom next we're going to learn the how to remember the consonants and the diphthongs now let's look at the consonants here they are the good thing about this is we don't need to learn all of them because when the phoneme symbol looks like the letter that's the way they sound so we can forget about per Berto we can forget about all the ones that we recognize already and we'll just look at all these weird symbols that we don't understand so we'll start with this one this one is mmm-hmm and we usually get it at the end of a word sing sang sung sing sang sung and another word that can help us to remember this one is a word tongue tongue when we say this sound hmm our tongue must go up to the back of our palate and and close off there to stop any air coming out mmm so if you make that sound with me now hmm you'll feel your tongue go up and that can help you remember it sing sang song to sing sang song use your tongue now we have this one looks a little bit like letter s also sounds a little like a letter s shh-shh-shh but sounds the s with the letter H it's in the word shush shh-shh next we have the word the phoneme this is a hard one to remember but actually it's not in so many so many words not it's not in that many common words so we're not going to see this one all the time it's in the word television television television and I've shown it by a TV symbol with an eye inside this is the vision part television and I also show it here to help us remember the symbol the shape here which is a little bit like a three in the way I've drawn it here is like kind of like a nose and a mouth in a cartoon style and we have the vision there as well so whatever helps if that helps you remember this also next we have this symbol this symbol has a name that many people know the these symbols also have names but they're not ones that so many people would recognize this symbol is called satyr satyr so if that helps you remember satyr it's also in the word tooth tooth this sound our tongue is next to our teeth and we as we release air we get the sound the SATA sound so what helps me remember is to visualize the shape of a tooth and let's remind ourselves how the symbol looks in a way that's that's one tooth and that's the one at the bottom so we can see that in our minds as well okay it's in the word tooth and when I make that sound my tongue is behind my front teeth and I release air now this one this see if you can follow me on this one this is a very strange-looking symbol and I was looking at trying to think of an image that could represent it or what it looks like and the best I could think of was some kind of flying bug so here's my flying bug and to make this sound we we keep our tongue in the same position as SATA but we we voice this sound with vibrations instead of air so this sound is so imagine this bug it's flying in a way in a way that it's not a steady sound like this it's not like that this bug is flying and then stopping flying and stopping and it sounds like this with its little wings and I remember it with the phrase this rhythm and again this sound is not in so many words is usually in grammar words like this those we don't have hundreds and hundreds of words for the sound so when we when we learn it in the main words that we find it the grammar words it helps us we can recognize it more easily now we have two symbols that are made up of two symbols together this one and this one are different to these because these are all just one these sounds show us in their symbols that they're made up of two sounds together well not really two sounds together a blend or they're close to that and close to that so this one is made up of the tur and but together it's choo-choo-choo-choo and the word that always comes to my mind first of all is the word chair chair chair chair so I've drawn the chair and to show that there's the two sounds in the chair I've put the T behind the chair and there as if it's sitting on the chair and finally we get to the last IPA symbol for consonants this one is in my name is in the word Jade Jade this one is made up of dirt and also what is really interesting to me about this sound is when I was I suppose it can still happen now but it's more rare when I was younger and I used to say my name to some people I would say they say what's your name I'd say Jade and they would say back Dave no Jade and I didn't know at the time that the sound J was made up from now it's partially a letter the sound der so that explains why if I said the word Jade if some people couldn't hear right there was too much noise they might have thought I said der instead so we put those together and then we get lots of words with J in it such as Jade and it's hard mmm I don't know how useful this part is if you look at the head of jade we also see it we see this symbol in the head maybe that helps you learn in them so now we have the dip songs the diphthongs are really really I think they're really really hard to remember to associate the sound with the symbols these come last I would say once you know all of these symbols and the vows then if you are still interested to learn these ones you'll just start to pick up gradually and slowly this diagram this drawing can help us remember because here is included all the diphthongs of English and his name is David dip dip stands for dips on that's his name and all the parts of his face have a dip song sound in them here's his hair air air that's that's David's hair air here's David's ear ear ear here here's David's mouth ow ow ow and here's David's nose oh oh oh so we now we've got one two three four diphthongs but there are more you are David dip the curious boy start off with you you is not actually classified as a dip song it is made up of two sounds you you and because it's a common sound in English for example in the word you it's useful for us to learn so that's why it's here you you you are David ay-ay-ay in the name David he's David a the curious boy who uh uh uh uh uh curious who uh this phoneme is not a very common one it's only in a few words in English so don't worry too much about it you're not going to see it all the time you can just learn the common words that's in curious curious and finally we have boy or it's in the word boy boy he's David the curious boy so there we are all the symbols in IPA for you to remember what you can do now is watch my other videos on learning the phonemes in English thanks for watching bye