hey everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question
today's question is a rather long one I have a lot of words for you so I'm going
to skip the definitions because we want to jump right into the lesson and the
lesson today is about two things the long e versus the short i sound and the
N nnn versus the m mmm sound at the end of
words so let's look at the word list that we have for today we have the word scene
and seen and sin seem and seam and sim which is short for simulation so let's
look first at the ending sounds the M versus the n this gets super confusing
for my students because in many languages the n sound is the only
sound that can end a word that is a nasal which means the sound is coming
out of your nose you do have nasals in many other languages like the M sound
but typically that sound comes at the beginning of a word so my students get
really confused with this ending so for the n sound the air is going to come
out of your nose and you are going to touch the tip of your tongue to the back
of your top front teeth nnn nnn nnn for the M sound mmm your lips are just
going to be closed and the air is going to come out of your mouth so again the
difference is nnnn vs. mmm mmm easy breezy right now for the long e versus
the short I sound for the long e your tongue is going to be high in your mouth
and flat it's going to be behind your top teeth e your lips are going to be in
a smile and they're going to be tense E e then for the ih sound which is a
little bit less tense your mouth is going to be relaxed and your
lips are going to then just relax and pull in a bitso we have e-ih -e-ih -e-ih you can
see that difference tense versus relaxed really pulled back only versus slightly
pulled back the tongue will go from E way at the top way up here to ih e Ih e ih I like
to tell my students don't really think about moving your tongue think about
moving your lips in your mouth and that really is going to help your tongue get
into the right spot so think about those lips e ih e ih so again let's remember the N nnn
and the M mmm okay let's put it all together we're gonna start these words
it's just the S sound super easy breezy just tongue is either behind the top of
your teeth or pointed down into the bottom of your mouth
don't touch anything and just let that air move out of your mouth ssss so for the
first two words we have seen seen seen sin sin sin seem sin and then for
seam seam seam Sim Sim Sim let's try it backwards sim seam sin seen seen sin
seam sim so give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference if
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