hey there Jennifer from Tarle speech today's question is a super a popular
question that I'm finally getting to how do I say the word qualitative meaning
descriptive data that measures qualities versus quantitative which is countable
data that measures amounts so let's go ahead and look at these words
qualitative and quantitative we're going to break these down into syllables and
hopefully make it a little bit easier for you good news the last three
syllables are exactly the same so let's start there
let's start in the middle here atay atay we're gonna have that schwa syllable
there schwa syllable super short unstressed relaxed mouth uh always link
it and connect it to the syllable before and the syllable after so for here we're
gonna connect it to the TAY and to do that you're going to touch the tip of
your tongue to the back of your top front teeth and then add that a and to
do that open your mouth and then move to a smile at a atay atay and then next
we're gonna end with div again touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your
top front teeth for that D short I with the relaxed mouth ih and then end with
the vvv sound voice box is on so your throat is vibrating and moving and you're
gently biting the inside or the outside of your bottom lip and that air just
moves out okay not spending a whole lot of time on this ending cause that's usually
not what the situation is or the problem for most people so we have a tative a
tative a tative you can see we're stressing that tay syllable all right
where does the confusion come in the beginning of course all right so we have
qual and the other word is Kwan now let's start with the qual to do this
your lips are going to be rounded for that w but you're not going to be saying
it you're going to start with a k and to do that tip of your tongue is in
the bottom of your mouth back of your tongue is pulled up kw kw and you're
gonna then add that oh vowel wall wall think about saying the word wall like
the wall behind me and then end by touching the tip of your tongue to the
back of your top front teeth for that l qual qual gonna hold that l a little
tiny bit while that air comes out of your mouth to make sure you really say
that l sound qual qual now for Kwan what you're going
to do is you're going to do the exact same thing but this time the air is
going to come out of your nose for that N Kwan kwan instead of out of the mouth
for the qual qual so it's qual Quan Qual Quan now you do have an option here some
people do say quant and they really add that T there to differentiate but I do
hear especially in more conversational and connected speech people dropping
that T and saying Quanah tative so let's put those all together we have
qualitative qualitative qualitative and quantitative quantitative quantitative
you can also say quantitative if you want that's totally fine and let's try
those again qualitative quantitative qualitative quantitative the scientists
collect both qualitative and quantitative data give it a try
I know people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful
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