Hello everyone this is Jennifer from Tarle speech. I've got a really interesting question today how
do we say broom and bloom and brush and blush. So this question gets um to talking about
consonant clusters, with an l and an r sound, and how to make those different. So let's
go ahead and take a look at these words. We have broom and bloom, brush and blush.
So quickly let's just talk about the endings for broom and bloom: you're going to end with the oom
oom, and to do that you're going to pucker, and then you're going to close your lips for the m.
And then for the brush and blush we're going to end with ush
Just a short u - so your mouth is just going to be open and relaxed,
and then you're going to pucker sh sh sh
ush ush ush So for the u relaxed and open mouth, nice short u
sound uh, and then move to the puckered mouth shh, for the sh sound two letters one sound ush ush
All right so for the br what are we going to do - my tip is - make sure that your tongue
is ready for the r sound before you even start the b sound, to do that, back of your tongue
is pulled up really really high in your mouth, it's almost touching the roof of your mouth,
and it's nice and tense, okay, the tip of your tongue can do one of two things:
the tip of your tongue can either be pointed down towards the bottom of your mouth,
some people even have it all the way in the bottom of their mouth
Or the tip of your tongue can be flipped back away from your front teeth, and if your tongue
is flipped back away from your front teeth, make sure at no point when you're saying your r sound
in american english, do you touch your teeth. We do not touch the teeth when we say the r sound.
It's going to be a nice long and strong r more like a vowel sound, so i'm ready for my r
and then, got my tongue there, everybody ready now, you're going to close your lips to say the b,
br br br
So i'm closing my lips for the b, my tongue is in the position for my r,
and then, I open my lips and as I open my lips to that square tense shape,
I'm already in the position for the r with my tongue. br br br
So we have broom and brush broom and brush
Now for the b l, to do that you're going to start with the b, your tongue is just
hanging out in your mouth for that b sound, b, because we make the b more with our lips,
right, then you are going to think about as you open your mouth your tongue is going to move as
you open your mouth and it's going to touch the back of your top front teeth. bl, bl, bl
So you can see my lips are opening, and as my lips are opening, at the same time, my tongue is moving
to touch the back of my top front teeth, I am not opening my mouth and then saying the l,
if i did that, it would sound like ba l, and I don't want that extra vowel sound
in there, I want it to be nice and smooth from the b to the l. bl bl bl
So let's put this all together bloom brush bloom brush
blush oh my gosh I made a mistake let me try that again bloom blush bloom blush.
So let's try them all together we have broom brush bloom blush
broom bloom brush blush let's try those one more time
broom brush bloom blush broom bloom brush blush
And now for some sentences: The florist used the broom to sweep the blooms
that were on the floor. And
Idon't need a hairbrush because I don't have any blush on so I want to keep my hair on my face.
So give it a try people are going to notice the difference - if you found this helpful please
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