hey everyone it's Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question
today's question is how do I say the word water bottle and to do those we're
going to break this down into a two part lesson one we're going to talk about the
sounds in each word and then two we're going to talk about compound nouns and
how you say those correctly with the correct word stress so let's go ahead
and take a look at our words most people that I work with will say
water and that's totally fine everyone is going to understand you and people
also also say bottle totally fine you can go ahead and say it like that but if
you want to sound a little more like an American what you are going to do is you
are going to use the flap T which I like to teach as sounding like a very fast D
sound okay so let's break these two words down
let's start with the first syllable here Wah to do that you're going to round
your lips and a pucker and then open into the with a round oval mouth very
open that's going to help you get your tongue into the correct spot
Wah your tongue is going to be down the tip of the tongue will be down in the
bottom of the mouth and the back will be pulled up wah next we're going to move
to the Der this is the fast flat T sound that I was talking about just
think of it as a d to do that touch the tip of your tongue to the back of
your top front teeth quickly the voice box is on and moving and then move to
the er sound square 10 flips and you have a choice tip of the tongue can be
flipped back with the back of the tongue bunched up or tip down what the back of
the tongue pulled up either is fine let's put that together
wah der water water water next for BA dull again we're going to start lips
together for the B b and then we're going to move to that oval mouth again
with the tongue low in the mouth and the back pulled up and then we're gonna move
to the d super fast T sound that we're going to make voiced to sound like that
flap T d and then we are going to quickly move the tongue back up behind
the top teeth for the L sound and hold it there for just a second
bottle bottle bottle bottle water bottle water bottle some of you may be saying I
hear a little bit of a sound in between that D and that L you probably do there
is a little teeny tiny bit of a schwa sound there
I don't really teach people to do that because when I tell people yes there is
a little bit of a sound there I'll hear people say dull bah dull and then that
makes the word sound just a little bit off and a little bit longer than it
should be so try not to make a vowel there just try to say quickly D then to
it now bottle bottle bottle now to make this a compound noun what we are going
to do is we are going to link these two words together no pause in between those
word number one is going to be louder the vowel will be longer and it'll be
higher and pitch that's what marks stress in English louder longer and
higher that word will be louder longer and higher the second word
bottle will be a little bit lower in pitch a little bit softer and the vowel
will be quicker so let's try those all together water water water bottle bottle
bottle water bottle water bottle water bottle please fill up your water bottle
at the water fountain before getting on the flight give it a try people they're
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everybody