hi everybody welcome to inkvid.com i'm
adam today's lesson is pronunciation and
we're going to look at the ts sound like
sound which is a little bit difficult
for non-native english speakers
especially ones that don't have this in
their own language now i'm going to try
to explain to you the tongue position
within your mouth to make this sound and
it's a little bit tricky because i'm a
really bad artist i wish i could draw it
for you but it'll confuse you more so
bear with me so we're going to look at
ts now basically this is a combination
of the two sounds so i want you to maybe
close your eyes and try to concentrate
on where your tongue is when you
pronounce the letter t
so the tip of your tongue is
reaching the top of your mouth the roof
of your mouth just behind the teeth
okay
and what you're doing is you're
squeezing the tongue up against the roof
and then you're
blowing out air you're popping out air
to make that t sound okay
then think about the s sound
with the s sound the tip of your tongue
is behind your bottom teeth
the sides of the tongue are pressing
against the roof and there's a very
small narrow space between the tongue
and the roof and you're blowing air
through that little narrow space
now what you're doing with the ts is
you're
getting the pop of the t
means you're squeezing the tongue all
the way up to the roof
you're still keeping the tip behind your
back teeth and then you're popping that
air you're pushing that first air out
through the tongue and then you're
finishing it off with an s just blowing
through that narrow space that's left
behind
so pop and then an airflow a pop for the
t and then an airflow for the s now it's
a lot easier when you think about
your tongue position and the sound when
you're actually saying words so
try to repeat after me now before you
start what i really recommend is that
you find a way to record yourself okay
you can use your phone you can use a
recorder record yourself and then try to
compare
my sound and your sound and make the
adjustments as you need okay
flat
ending so flat
but
flat if you think about like a the
british way to say a room like you rent
a flat you rent people ran flat
bots short for a robot
bot
cat
one cat many cats
shirts
shirts it's a little bit for some of you
it'll be a bit harder because of the r
to make the switch into the ts sound but
again it's
pronunciation is all about practice and
repetition repetition repetition just do
it many times record yourself listen
make the adjustments and pay very
careful attention to where your tongue
is in relation to other parts of the of
the mouth okay and the teeth
now these are all at the end of the word
what happens when you put it at the
beginning they're not that many words
that start with a ts but
tsunami
tsunami now if you'll pay careful
attention you'll realize that the t
is a little bit more pronounced you have
a little bit more of a t sound here it's
very squeeze and you have more of the s
sound with that initial pop of the t
with tsunami you hear that t a little
bit more because that's where you're
starting your sound
now a lot of people
i've heard over the years say pisa
but when you have two zeds together it's
pizza it's like a ts sound pizza
pizza
and again you have a bit of more of that
t sound because you're splitting the two
syllables pizza
pizza now again repeat repeat repeat and
listen to yourself now as a little bit
of a bonus i got a bit of a more natural
native
uh sound for these words using the ts
sound so
a lot of you will read this and you will
say it is okay first of all when you see
this when you're
contracting that it is
don't open it up again
if you see it
apostrophe s say it's
it's even if you're not comfortable with
a ts sound the more you practice the
easier it'll become the more natural
it'll be
now keep in mind that native speakers
when they're speaking at natural speed
they don't say it's okay
they say it's okay it's okay
so the the eye is often either
completely dropped or reduced to a very
subtle sound it's okay it's okay it it's
okay
and the ts sound blends with the o sound
so it sounds like
or you can even say it's like a sorry a
little messy here
a little tiny eye
and then you have
so
and then you have the k
it's okay
why because why why not shorten if you
can make it shorter make it shorter so
then you concentrate on the
ts okay sound and you blend it into like
a word by itself so you'll hear native
speakers saying it's okay
you go to a restaurant
you uh you have a you leave a tip or you
leave the money and the person the
waitress or the waiter wants to give you
changes oh it's okay it's okay
keep it right so it's okay
same with it's all right
first of all don't say it is say it's
all right
now again this is in a very
proper way of speaking you say it's all
right but again native speakers natural
speed natural situation
we don't pronounce all all the sounds
it's all right the l
is often dropped
it's all right it's oh it sounds like a
w it's all right because again the l r
are very
confusing for the time they're not
confusing they're they're so similar
sounding that it's often easier just to
drop one if you can it's all right
and then again
either drop this or make it small it's
all right
what do you think of it that's all right
what did you think of the movie oh it's
all right
what do you think of this food that's
all right
it's all right
so
we don't say the l we say like a w and
if you pay attention to some like
american speakers they don't even say
they are sometimes they'll say it's all
right so it's a little bit even more
confusing so you have to be a little bit
careful
this
should make it should make it easier for
you to understand what they're actually
saying so as soon as you hear that saw
you know it's probably it's all right
or it's okay
so
k
it's okay so that's how we combine the
two and the same for that even if it or
that same idea that's okay that's okay
it's okay
and we'll probably just drop to that
it's okay
uh that's okay
that's okay
it's okay
it's all right that's all right that's
all right
that's all right right so the
star
right
that's all right
okay so everything gets blended together
some things are dropped some things are
pronounced or enunciated a little bit
stronger or stressed a little bit
stronger but again as long as you can
get the ts sound in there everything
else will be understood
you will be able to understand native
speakers they will be able to understand
you if you
blend all these sounds and again a lot
of people the problem they have is that
their ts
sounds like like just like an s
it's all right it's all right
not a problem people will understand you
but if you say cass
that's a whole different word if you say
boss that's a whole different word here
it makes a big difference here not so
much because it's a bit more informal
it's all right
it might be a little bit confusing but
understood boss completely different
word you're going to have a bit of
confusion for your listener okay so
again remember pronunciation repeat
repeat repeat
record yourself listen compare to a
native english speaker and see where the
adjustments need to be made now
as with
other pronunciation videos it's very
difficult to make a quiz out of this so
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bye