hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question of the week our
question today is how do i pronounce the word heal the bottom part of the foot hell
the place of evil and suffering hail pellets of frozen rain and held to hold let's take a
look at our words let's start with that h sound and get that out of the way just open your mouth
breathe out simple easy breezy your tongue isn't touching anything and let's also talk about that
l what you're going to do is touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth LLL and
you're going to hold it there for that l sound my tip is to hold it a little longer than you think
it should be a little tiny bit longer for most of my students so again think about holding that
l a little bit longer and that is going to help a lot now let's take a look at these vowels
we have the long e in heel the long a in hail and the short e in hell and in
held many of my students struggle with vowels when they come with that l sound because that l is
going to sort of color the vowel a little bit so we're going to think about moving from the vowel
to the l to make sure this vowel is long enough and sounds correct okay so let's start with the
e to do this we're going to smile and make that vowel nice and long your tongue is high
and flat in your mouth you're going to keep your tongue there and then move it up for the l heel
heel heel then for the hail you're going to open your mouth wide
and then move to the smile and then touch the teeth for the l hail
hail hail and then for the short eh sound you can see my mouth is open eh eh eh
you can just see the tip of my tongue that vowel is relaxed so my mouth is not tense at all
and it is short okay so let's look at the difference actually let's say this word first
and then we'll look at the difference hell hell hell okay so we have fairly closed mouth for heel
and then for hail my mouth opens and then closes and then for hell i'm going to start with it
a little more open hell hell hell so again heel hail hell and then for held all you're going to
do is after you hold that l sound you're going to pull the tip of the tongue down and let the
air puff out for that d okay let's try all of these words a little faster heel hail hell held
heel hail hell held heel hail held hell i messed those last two up let's try that again
heel hail hell held and now for a sentence i held the golf ball-sized hail in my hand
then threw it down and crushed it with my heel give it a try people are going to notice the
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