hey everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question would
it be a holiday lesson without my assistant ok this is Claire so today's
lesson is on how to say the word Valentine I've gotten a lot of requests
for this lately and when I did a Google search I found out why there are lots of
characters in video games and movies with the name Valentine
so Valentine can also mean a card that you sign to someone or it can be a
person's name which we were just talking about and on February the 14th which is
today we celebrate st. Valentine's Day and st. Valentine is the patron saint of
lovers epileptics and beekeepers who knew I surely did not so let's go ahead
and jump right into the lesson so our word today is Valentine and Claire
decorated the board for us and so we're going to focus on three syllables val in
tine so of course for this little syllable in you can say it a couple of
ways you can say in or you can say unn the key here is that that syllable needs
to be super short and relaxed I mean so let's start with the vowel to do this
you are going to gently bite the inside or the outside of your bottom lip and
make sure the air moves out of your mouth mm-hmm do not pucker too much if
you pucker your lips it will sound like woo and that's a mistake that I hear
often move to that short open vowel ah val and then end by touching the tip of
your tongue to the back of your top front teeth bow for that middle syllable
the unstressed syllable you can either say in or in the key here is your mouth
is a bit more closed it's very relaxed and that vowel is very short in I think
it's easier to think about in because that's a word and it's easier to focus
on that and then we're going to end with tine and to do this you're going to
touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth
airs going to puff out and then you're going to move to that I vowel to do that
open wide and then smile and then end with the end mmm Val in time Valentine
Valentine Valentine Valentine and let's try that in a sentence
there are many videogame characters by the name of Valentine so we just want to
wish you and yours a happy Valentine's Day what do you say give him a happy
Valentine's Day happy Valentine's Day kisses - you have a great day bye
everybody