Hi everyone it's Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question.
Today's question can be a very embarrassing mistake if you pronounce this word incorrectly,
and the word that we are going to talk about today is fact - and that means information or evidence.
I'm sorry i just hit my light . Um so let's take a look at that
word we have fact f a c t.
So we are going, let's talk about this word first, and then I'll give you the mistake
in a little bit, so stay tuned! So to say this word correctly,
we're going to start with the f sound ffff And to do this you are going to let the air
move out of your mouth continuously, and you are going to either gently bite the inside, or the
outside of your bottom teeth, it's not really a true bite, it's like your teeth are touching,
and the air is going to continue to move out, So that means your lips need to be open.
Then here's the important sound here we are going to move to that open ah sound.
It's a very american sound, we're going to open our mouth very wide, in a circle, ah,
and when you do that, the tip of my tongue is very low in my mouth, and the back of my tongue is
pulled up high towards the roof of my mouth - ah. Next keep your tongue in relatively the same
position, and your mouth will close a little bit for the k,
and then bring the tip of the tongue from the bottom of the mouth to the top of the mouth
behind the top front teeth, and you're going to say that t sound. Let's put it all together fact
fact fact fact fact fact
Now the fact of the matter is if you say this word incorrectly it could
sound like you are saying [ __ ] um which is a very bad situation, and it can also mean
sexual intercourse, it tends to be um, a word that we wouldn't use maybe at work so much,
or um in polite conversation, so you want to avoid that mistake.
So let's give this word one more try fact fact fact
So give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference!
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