your / you're

[Noelia]

I was wondering about the pronunciation of these two. When I say "you" I say it with the "yoo" sound but when I say "your" I say something like "yor"

I hope you understand what I mean, it's hard to write about phonetics.

But a couple of days ago, I heard in a movie, someone saying "your" with a "yoor" sound, which would make more sense, but it's not what I was used to do.

How do you pronounce it?

[Robie]

I think I pronounce both like "yur".

I want to go to your house.
You're the best teacher in the whole wide world.

When I say those two sentences, they sound exactly the same. If I make a distinction it's when I say "you are the best teacher...blah, blah, blah" but that changes it out of the contraction form to a more formal form.

Robie

P.S. John, it's sucking up to the proverbial "best teacher in the whole wide world" or bribing her that gets Karma points!

[johnr]

Hola Noelia,

Tus preguntas siempre son fantásticas. Te felicito.

Diría 'your' y 'you're' igual, pero claro con acento inglés.

Espero que te ayude y si tienes más preguntas, cualquier hora del día, dime y te contestaré lo más pronto posible.

Que tengas un buen día etc etc.

[sendai]

I was wondering about the pronunciation of these two. When I say "you" I say it with the "yoo" sound but when I say "your" I say something like "yor"

I pronounce them like this, too, and I think most people I know do also.

[chrisbutler]

You can say either word with almost any vowel sound you like and someone in the English speaking world will recognise the accent as theirs !

My ife and I say your differently becasue she has a south London accent and I have a north London accent.

The sounds I think you are describing are the correct ones for RP English in the UK.