hi there jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question our question today
is how do i pronounce the word curious which is eager for knowledge or strange
here is our word curious so we're gonna have a few options here most of the time i say
curious and to do this we're going to have three syllables and let's start with the
endings because that's the easiest we are going to have the middle syllable e long e smile and
then us to do that relaxed mouth and then the s sound tip of the tongue is down or behind the
top front teeth air just moves out yes yes yes easy breezy now what about the beginning this
is the confusing part for most people we're going to start with the k tip of the tongue
is down and the back of the tongue is pulled up air is going to puff out voice box is off
then we're going to move to the yeah sound to do this keep the tip of your tongue down if you
need to you can gently bite the outsides of the back of your tongue for the sound the key here
is do not touch your teeth you do not want to touch your teeth with the tip of your tongue
you want to keep it down and away then you're going to move into square tense lips for that
er sound i think it's easiest here just to keep your tongue down the whole time but if you're
one of those people that flip your tongue back for your r that's fine just remember
do not touch your teeth and do not let the tip of your tongue move for that er sound cure cure cure
i do hear some people say cure and round their lips more cure either is fine just pick one and
stick with that remember it's all about clarity it's not about perfection and there really is no
perfect because there are all types of variations so let's give this a try and put it all together
cure e us curious curious curious or you can say curious curious curious whichever you prefer
what about curiously all we're going to do is add the lee at the end curiously
curiously curiously so for curiosity the difference is we are going to shift the
syllable stress to the os right before the a d and what we're doing here is we're using a schwa
and then we're moving to that flap t which i say think of as a very fast d sound adi
curios adi curiosity curiosity curiosity let's give them all a try
curious curious curious curious curious curious curiously curiously curiously
and curiosity curiosity curiosity that was a tough one i was getting some tongue issues
there myself so take it slow and here we are in a sentence if you are curious about pronunciation
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