hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question our question today
is how do i say precedent which is an example and president which is a leader so here are two words
precedent and president so both of these words are going to have three syllables the middle syllable
is going to be the schwa and the ending syllable dunt will be exactly the same these words also
both begin with the pre and those are exactly the same the difference is this s sss and z
zzzz which is voiced that is the main difference in these two words just one little sound
so to say precedent what you're going to do is you're going to start with that pr prr prr
and to do this get your lips ready for that r sound and your tongue is either going to be
pointed down or flipped back for that r you're going to be ready for the r when you get your
lips together for the p sound right so prr prr you can see my lips are a little tenser and a little
um square when i start that p sound typically i would just say p p but i'm going to have my
lips together for that r sound so that i don't add a sound between those two sounds prrr prrr
then i'm going to move to that short eh sound to do that your mouth is going to be open and
tongue is about middle of the mouth and then we're going to add the s to do this the tip of
the tongue pointed down to the bottom of the mouth and the voice box is not on the air is going to be
moving out of our mouth sss press press now if you are saying president all you're going to do
instead of having the voice box off here is you're going to turn the voice box on and it
is going to move and vibrate zzzz zzzz it's the only difference so we have press and prez press
prez some people will say that the vowel sounds a little bit stronger and that is true because of
that voicing that e is going to be a little tiny bit longer then we're going to move to the short
uh sound relaxed mouth and then end with dunt to do this touch the tip of the tongue to the back of
the top front teeth super short uh sound again put the tongue back to the back of the top front teeth
air moves out of your nose for the n and then we're going to pull the tongue down for the t
press dunt precedent precedent precedent president president president
precedent president and now for a sentence the council president likes to use precedent when
making decisions so give it a try people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful
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