hey everyone Jennifer home Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question today's
question is how do I pronounce the word stool and stool can mean a place where
you sit and it can also mean poop and it's a medical term and also stole and
stole can be a woman's scarf or to steal so let's go ahead and take a look at
these words this is actually a very quick lesson today so we have stool and
stole the difference is the vowel we have the long vowel oo and to make that
vowel think about puckering your lips and your tongue is going to be
relatively flat in your mouth and then for the O vowel your mouth is going to
open a little tiny bit to get started and when you do that the tip of your
tongue is going to be a little bit lower in your mouth and then when you close
your mouth to pucker your tongue moves up to the middle of your mouth oh oh so
we have ooo and then oh oh ooo oh so we have stool and stole a few other things to
keep in mind is when you say that s T we do not put a sound before the S or
between the s and the T it's not a stool and it's not sa tool it's a stool to do
that let the air move out of your mouth for that s and then touch your teeth for
the T t t t then a tip for the L at the end of the words make sure that you
touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth for the L sound
and hold it there for a second at the end of the word let's try those all
together stool stool stool stole stole stole
someone stole the woman's stole off of the stool give it a try I know people
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