hi it's jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question
today's question is how do i pronounce drawer
a storage box in furniture and draw to make pictures or to choose like we
draw a card let's take a look at these words we have
draw and drawer these words are very confusing for a lot of my students they
are spelled similarly but they are pronounced in
a little more of an unusual way so for draw
as you know if you have been my student for a while here on youtube
we do not say a w sound at the end of a word we're not
going to say draw and add an extra w sound we're
actually just going to end this word with a vowel that oh
sound for drawer this word looks like it should be drawer
and it's not pronounced that way it's pronounced drawer and we're going to end
with that or vowel so all of these letters here
become the or vowel so how do we say these
they both start with that d r sound dr dr
to do this i recommend that your lips are ready for that r sound square tense
shape and they are going to be ready for that
er sound for the r the tip of your tongue can either be pointed down
or flipped back just as long as it is not moving and
as long as it is not touching the teeth okay
so your lips are ready you're thinking about where your tongue is going to go
for the r then you're going to start with the
tip of your tongue behind the back of your top front teeth that is
touching dr dr
and all i'm doing is pulling my tongue from here for the d and i actually make
my r with my tongue tip down so you can
pull it down or you can flip it back
whichever one works best for you dr dr next we're going to end that short oh to
do that open your mouth in a wide oval tip of
your tongue will be low in the mouth and the back of the tongue will be pulled up
and for drawer we are going to end with that
or sound and to do this you're going to pucker
and then pull back into that square tense shape for that
r or let's give those words a try draw draw
draw drawer drawer drawer draw
drawer draw drawer and now for a sentence my daughter plans
to draw flowers on the chest of drawers give it a try
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