Hi there! Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question.
Our question today is how do I pronounce the word meter and a meter is a unit of length.
To pronounce this word we are going to think of two beats me and der.
Let's start with that me. Put your lips together for that m air moves out of your nose
then smile and your tongue will be high and flat in your mouth for that long e me.
Now for the der. This is actually a flap t which I like to teach as a
really fast d. And to do that you're going to touch the tip of your tongue
to the top of your mouth super fast. Almost to your front teeth but a little bit further back,
kind of where your skin just starts the roof of your mouth.
Then you're going to end with that er. To do this square
tense lips your tongue is either pointing down or flipped back. But the back needs to be pulled high
up and it needs to stay there and be stable. Tip of your tongue is not moving. Again it
is pointed down or flipped back. We don't want that tongue to be moving.
Let's put that together me der.
Now when we add a prefix to this word, the word meter is going to stay the same
and we can add centa meter or milli meter. The tip for you here is
is that we are going to use that schwa syllable in that word. So you're going to have sent a
meter centimeter and mill a meter millimeter. So we have again meter centimeter and millimeter.
Now what about this? What about when we have a suffix with meter
in it? when we have a suffix with meter in it what is happening is we are going to pronounce that
differently because the stress changes. So when we add the ometer
to a word we are always going to stress that om part. Add the schwa uh and then end with a der.
So let's give that a try. We have thermometer and speedometer. So we have thur mom udder and sped
ometer so thurmometer
spedometer
thermometer thermometer thermometer speedometer speedometer speedometer
Let's flip back and try these words again so you can hear the difference. We have
meter centimeter and millimeter
Now we're going to change the stress for the ometer suffix which is the ending
for words like thermometer and speedometer. So I hope you found this tip helpful.
Give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference and if you found
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