In this English pronunciation tutorial I'm going to give you five simple exercises to
warm up your tongue so you can get the most out of your English pronunciation practice.
These pronunciation exercises are essential for helping you to warm up your speech organs just
as you warm up your muscles before engaging in normal exercise if you do these exercises you're
going to get the most out of your pronunciation. Practice on a consistent basis and that's going to
make sure that you make the biggest improvements, in the least amount of time.
I've already done a video on how to warm up your lips, before you do your pronunciation practice so click here if you
want to see that. Let's dive in with these five simple exercises so the first exercise is this
we're going to stick our tongue right out and then what we're going to do is point it left to
right eight times and then up and down eight times so you're trying to touch your nose of
your tongue and you're trying to touch your chin with your tongue so that would look like
this follow along with me and that's going to help you get the most from the exercise.
There we go so there's eight eight eight eight and now I'm already feeling that
in my tongue the next exercise I'm going to stick my tongue out again
and this time I'm going to circle it four five times in the anti-clockwise
position like this and five times in the clockwise position like this okay let's go.
Not only am I feeling that in the tongue I'm also feeling it up here in my jaw muscles as well.
The next exercise is I'm going to touch my alveolar ridge which is the ridge in the mouth behind the teeth it's kind of here in the mouth.
Just there I'm going to touch that with my tongue 20 times, we use the alveolar ridge to touch it with our tongue to make many of the sounds in English .
So it's essential to get comfortable actually being able to touch the ridge with your tongue and this exercise is going to help you to get natural, doing that. Ready let's go.
Simple as that the next exercise we're just going to look at some consonants now that really use,
the tongue and these consonants actually touch the alveolar ridge so we're going to make the 'T' (/t/)
sound four times '/t/', '/t/', '/t/', '/t/' we're then going to make the 'D' (/d/) sound four times '/d/','/d/','/d/', '/d/' we're then going to
make the 'L' (/l/) sound eight times our tongue touches the alveolar ridge there for every one of
these consonants and then I'm going to repeat the exercise a couple of times okay. So it would look
like this '/t/', '/t/', '/t/', '/t/'. '/d/', '/d/', '/d/','/d/'. '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/'. '/t/', '/t/', '/t/', '/t/',. '/d/', '/d/', '/d/' '/d/'. '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/',
'/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/' . '/t/', '/t/', '/t/', '/t/'. '/d/', '/d/', '/d/' '/d/' '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/'. '/t/', '/t/', '/t/', '/t/'. '/d/', '/d/', '/d/' '/d/'
'/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/', '/l/'
and when you're making that '/l/' sound make sure it's just the tip of your tongue touching the alveolar ridge.
And you've not got more of your tongue touching the top of your mouth if you make words
with the 'L' sound in English at the end of the word what you'll find is more of your tongue actually
touches the roof of your mouth so we want to make sure that it's just our tongue touching the
alveolar ridge. And finally we're just going to go through two more sounds and that again are really essential, in practicing our tongue movements.
To warm it up and these are the '/k/' and the '/g/' sounds .'/k/', '/k/', '/k/'. '/g/', '/g/', '/g/' sounds just repeat along with me the following exercise.
'/k/', '/k/', '/k/', '/k/'. '/g/', '/g/', '/g/', '/g/'. '/k/', '/k/', '/k/', '/k/'. '/g/', '/g/', '/g/', '/g/'. '/k/', '/k/', '/k/', '/k/'. '/g/', '/g/', '/g/', '/g/'.
'/k/', '/k/', '/k/', '/k/'. '/g/', '/g/', '/g/', '/g/'. '/k/', '/k/', '/k/', '/k/'. '/g/', '/g/', '/g/', '/g/'. '/k/', '/k/', '/k/', '/k/'. '/g/', '/g/', '/g/', '/g/' and there you have it five simple exercises
to warm up the tongue. If you haven't done so already go through the video where I'll show
you how to warm up lips for your pronunciation and practice. Warming up is essential just think
if you're a professional athlete just think how seriously they take their warm-ups they
want to make the most of their practice and they don't want to get injured. It's the same for our
pronunciation practice. We want to get the most from it every time, and by doing these warm-up
exercises you're going to be able to start your practice feeling warmed up and ready to go.
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going to learn a really important aspect of English pronunciation I'll see you next week.