The Schwa Sound
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The Schwa Sound

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 11, 202625 min
  • Language lesson
  • Language learning

What is the most common vowel sound? What if I told you the answer isn’t even a letter- and most people have been using this sound their entire lives without ever knowing its name!? OK Let’s Learn all about Schwa! Reach out for questions, feedback and future episode suggestions: [email protected] Go to our new website- okletslearn.com Support the podcast and be named a producer/ inaugural supporter of the show here at this Patreon link: www.patreon.com/okletslearn OK Let’s Learn Substa...

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Welcome to the OK Let's Learn podcast. This is a family-friendly podcast where we dive into science, history, books, stories, and tons of different topics. My name is Kevin O'Keeffe, so today, OK, let's learn about Schwab. Schw- what? Schwab. Oh, you mean Charles Schwab? No, that's Charles Schwab, that famous finance guy.

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Oh, you mean a cotton schwa? No, that's a cotton swab. Yes, schwa. What is schwa? Well, believe it or not, if you want to know why the English language is so hard, if you're a grandparent, if you're a new parent, and you're wanting to teach your kids how to read, and you want know why it's so difficult like I said it's all about schwa and yeah schwa is a mystery

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and it's so amazing and you gotta know about it so okay let's learn about schwa. So what is it? It's the most popular vowel sound it's the most used vowel sound in our language. What are you talking about, Mr. O'Keeve? I thought there's an a, an e, or ih, a, uh.

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