How to pronounce /ɑː/

vowel · voiced · 🇬🇧 Mostly British

Practice target: RP — Received Pronunciation

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How to make it

Long version of /ɑ/. British BATH vowel — 'path' /pɑːθ/, not /pæθ/.

Common slip: American learners use /æ/. Make it long and back: jaw open, tongue retracted.

No universal L1 substitution is asserted; personalize from the learner's measured baseline.

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“bath, father. bath, father.”

No R sound in “father”? That’s correct: RP (Received Pronunciation)drops an R that isn’t followed by a vowel (“car” sounds like “cah”).

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Choose a scene, then try one example word in a natural reply. This focus is self-directed, not a sound-specific assessment.