hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question
today's question is how do i say the word swat
to hit sweat perspiration sweet sugary and switch
to change so the focus of the lesson is mainly on the vowels but we are going to
talk about the beginning and the ends of the words briefly so to say these
words correctly we're going to start with that
sw swat so to do this you are going to have your
tongue either behind your top front teeth or
pointing down then you are going to move smoothly from that s ssss
to a pucker for the w sw sw sw
you don't want to say sa woo you don't want to open your mouth
that's going to add that extra vowel there and we don't want
that also if you do tend to start with that
e before your s sound at the beginning you're going to want to just make sure
that that air is moving out for the s
all right so now for the vowels we're going to
think about this from moving from the most open
to the least open so we have a e i ee
so you can see my mouth opens more as i go
up and it closes as i go down my list so to say that a sound wide
open circle tongue is going to be lowest in the mouth
ah next we're going to move to that short e
sound your mouth closes a little bit and as your mouth closes your tongue moves
up so we have a e i
ih is the middle of the mouth your mouth is relaxed
and your tongue again moves up a bit and then
e is the highest and the flattest with your tongue and your mouth is
smiling so again ee i e a
some people get confused with the spelling here for
sweat typically e a is pronounced the long e
but here it is pronounced the short e and then to end the words most of them
end with a t sound t and to do that touch the tip of your
tongue to the back of your top front teeth
and the air gently explodes out and that is the ending for swat
and sweat and sweet but for the word switch you're going to
start by touching the teeth and then pull your tongue back for that
ch sound switch and the ch
sound we actually have it spelled with three letters here
tch but it's only one sound the ch so let's try all these words swat swat
swat sweat sweat sweat switch switch
switch and sweet sweet sweet so give it a try
i know people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful
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