everyone this is Jennifer with Tarle speech with your pronunciation question
today's question is how do I say three words beacon which means a signal bacon
a breakfast meat and pecan or pecan a nut so let's go ahead and jump right in
we're gonna focus a little bit more on syllables today we have two beats and
each of these words and the word stress is going to be on syllable 1 meaning
that syllable 1 in all of these words is going to be a little bit louder a little
bit higher in pitch and the vowel is going to be a little bit longer so for
all three words we're gonna start by putting your lips together and then
opening them up for the b sound for the B sound your voice box is on and
vibrating but the difference with the b and the p is that for the P sound your
voice box is not on and it is not vibrating and that sound is softer its
voiceless unvoiced and we have P so let's listen to those two again b p b p now
let's add the vowel forward number one and word number three here we're going
to add an E and to say that sound we're going to smile have tense lips the tongue
is going to be high and flat and you're going to make that vowel nice and long B
and P B P now for bacon what we're going to do is we are going to open it up wide
a in a wide circle and then move to the smile for the e bay bay
so we have B BAY and P now for syllable number two in the first two
words we're going to say a short uh sound that's going to be unstressed and
you're going to have a relaxed mouth so we're gonna say B cun bay cun some
people may say I hear kind of an I sound more than a u whatever as long as it
is short that is the key here we want a short and relaxed sound so to say the
second part of both of these words we're going to start with that K sound that
I'm spelling here with a C and to do that the back of the tongue is pulled up
and the tip of the tongue is pointed down towards the bottom of the mouth k k
then we're going to relax the mouth for this short uh and then end with the n
the air is going to move out of your nose while the tip of your tongue is
behind your top front teeth and it is touching that cun so we have beacon
beacon beacon and bacon bacon bacon now for pecan because what I say you can
also say pecan it really depends on the area of the US and where you're living
so you can either say con with an oval mouth or can with a circle mouth both
cases we're going to have a wide-open mouth
so let's put that last word together pecan or pecan pecan pecan let's try
them all beacon beacon beacon bacon bacon bacon pecan pecan pecan or pecan pecan
pecan and let's try it in a sentence The Beacon cafe sells delicious bacon
pecan donuts I don't know that's a thing but that's my
sentence so give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference have
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