hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech
with your pronunciation question
this is kind of a tough one today our
words today are
thirst which is the feeling of a need
for a
drink and thrust meaning
to push so let's take a look
at these words okay so we have thirst
and thrust so what we're going to do is
we're going to try to break down
this break the word down into two pieces
first the th
and to say this sound what you're going
to do is you're going to stick your
tongue
out of your mouth and you are going to
make sure that there is a space
between your teeth and your tongue for
the air to continue
out my tongue actually looks like a
little cup
when i put my tongue out of my mouth for
the th sound
you can see it's like a little tiny u
that's going to allow the air to move
out of my mouth over my tongue for that
th sound okay
so we've got that one down now what we
are going to do
is we are going to tackle the second
part of the word both of these words
end with this st sound and that sounds
like this
to do this what you're going to do is
you're going to have your tongue
behind your teeth it's not touching for
that s sound
and the air is going to move out of your
mouth
and then you're going to touch the tip
of your tongue to the back of your top
front teeth for that t
and it's going to pop down and let the
air puff out
okay so we've got the and the s
now for the next part of the word this
vowel what are we going to do with all
this craziness in here
okay for the er vowel what you are going
to do
is you're going to make square tense
lips
the tip of your tongue is either pointed
down or flipped back
back of your tongue is pulled up high
er er
so let's put this one all together
first
first first
thirst first
for the second word thrust what we're
going to think about
is we're going to think about starting
with the r and then adding an
uh sound after the r
okay so we're going to say the r again
again square tense lips tip of the
tongue down or flip back
then you're going to slightly relax and
open your mouth for that
sound
[Music]
and my tongue is just relaxed in my
mouth for that short
u sound the uh sound all right so let's
put this
word together slowly
[Music]
us thrust
thrust thrust
thrust so let's try them both thirst
thirst thirst
thrust thrust
thrust thirst
thrust now i did want to add but i
didn't want to do this at the beginning
to confuse
anyone if you
skip that th sound and you by chance
touch your teeth by accident
it is going to sound like
trust
so again if you touch your teeth for
that th sound and you close the air off
you will say trust and we don't want
that we want it to be
thrust here's another mistake you could
possibly
say the word just
and the reason you would say that is
that your tongue touches your teeth
to start that j sound and then pulls
into
the middle of your mouth
ja ja just
so let's try these words all together
thirst thirst thirst
thrust thrust thrust
trust trust trust
and just just just
now i have a sentence with just a few of
these words
in it the hiker thrust the bottle under
the faucet so we could quench
his thirst so give it a try
people are going to notice the
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