American Accent trainin A lar vowel, on the other hand, is very reduced. In fact, you don' t need to move your face at all. You only need to move the back of your tongue and your throat These sounds are very different from most other languages Under Lax Vowels, there are four reduced vowel sounds, starting with the greek letter epsilon [el, pronounced eh; [i] pronounced ih, and [u] pronounced u, which is a combina tion of ih and uh, and the schwa, [el, pronounced uh--the softest, most reduced, most relaxed sound that we can produce. It is also the most common sound in English. The semivowels are the American R(pronounced er, which is the schwa plus R)and the ameri can L(which is the schwa plus L). Vowels will be covered in greater detail in Chapters 3, 8, nd 11 Voiced Consonants? Unvoiced Consonants? A consonant is a sound that causes two points of your mouth to come into contact, in three locations-the lips, the tip of the tongue, and the throat. a consonant can either be unvoiced (whispered)or voiced(spoken), and it can appear at the beginning, middle, or end of a ord. You'l notice that for some categories, a particular sound doesnt exist in English Initial Medial Unvoiced Voiced Unvoiced Voiced Unvoiced voiced bu ble avoid 200 aces raises pressure Pleasure crush garage gouger either smooth gumn xit player wool collect swImme connect finger nng