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Phonemes are anything but phony. They're kind of like the building blocks for any sounds or words you can make. Take a look at this video to learn more.
Transcript
- 00:03
[Dino and Coop singing]
- 00:13
Repeat after us: [Girl making the sounds]
- 00:15
Ee.
- 00:16
Ooh.
- 00:16
Ah.
Full Transcript
- 00:17
Sh.
- 00:18
Th.
- 00:19
Ng.
- 00:20
Err.
- 00:20
Heh, well, that was fun.
- 00:22
See you next time! [Girl looks shocked]
- 00:23
Okay, just kidding.
- 00:24
We did that for a reason, and it wasn’t just to make you look silly. [Girl walking away]
- 00:27
All those sounds?
- 00:28
They’re examples of phonemes.
- 00:30
A phoneme is exactly what you just heard – a unit of sound that is combined with other [Coop pointing at a blackboard]
- 00:34
units of sounds to make words.
- 00:36
When you read a word and say it out loud, you're using phonemes.
- 00:40
It's the difference between saying ki-ck and ki-ss.
- 00:43
Or ruh-ea-ch and tuh-ea-ch. [The sounds are highlighted]
- 00:47
The different phonemes or sounds are what allow us to listen and distinguish words from
- 00:51
one another.
- 00:52
Which means – whether you realize it or not – you're using phonemes every day. [Phonemes shown on a calendar]
- 00:56
Each language has its own set of phonemes, and the English language has 44 in total. [Dino pointing at a blackboard]
- 01:01
“Segmenting phonemes” is the act of breaking a word down into its individual sound units. [Coop pointing at a blackboard]
- 01:05
Take the word cat. [A cat walking in a field]
- 01:07
It has three phonemes, written like so: cuh, ah, tuh.
- 01:12
In order to segment a word into its phonemes, simply say the word out loud and listen to [Dino pointing at a blackboard]
- 01:16
the sounds that make up the particular word.
- 01:18
Okay, okay, we hear all you dog people complaining. [Man looks annoyed]
- 01:20
Sure, we can segment “dog,” too. [Dog walking on grass]
- 01:23
Dog.
- 01:23
Duh.
- 01:24
Aw.
- 01:24
Guh.
- 01:25
Dog.
- 01:26
Happy?
- 01:27
The nice thing about phonemes is that if you know how to speak, then they should come naturally [Baby in a basket]
- 01:31
to you.
- 01:32
If you're someone who spent your early years being raised by apes…this might be a little
- 01:37
harder to grasp. [Ape appears]
- 01:38
So just in case you happen to be Tarzan and you want a cheat sheet, here's a table of [Man swinging on a jungle vine]
- 01:42
every single phoneme in the English language.
- 01:44
You can print it out and put it on your bedroom wall!
- 01:46
That's what we did!
- 01:47
…Okay, so we have a weird decorating style. [Girl's room covered in phonemes]
- 01:49
Don't judge us…
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