hey there jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question of the
week our question today is a very common one
it's what's the difference between this and these
so let's talk about the first sound and get that out of the way that th
sound
in each of these cases for this and these it is going to be the voice sound
so the voice box is on and moving the tip of your tongue should be out of
your mouth and there should be enough space between your top and
teeth and your tongue for air to move out
and over your tongue that is key if you completely
touch the tongue to the teeth it's going to sound like a d
sound we don't want that you want the air to keep moving ththththth
okay now for the differences between the vowels and the last sound
let's start with this here so for the e sound it is a long vowel it's the
smiling vowel and your tongue is very high in your
mouth it is behind the top front teeth and is not touching
e e e for the short i sound this is sound
my tongue is going to pop down just a little bit and my mouth
really relaxes so i go from tense lips for the e
to relaxed lips eee ih eee ih eee ih
and in moving my lips my tongue goes from very high and flat
to a little bit further down in my mouth and more relaxed eee ih eee ih
now for the next sound we have the z sound even though we spell this word
with an s we are going to say a z a z is exactly
the same as the s sound so let's talk about that first for the s sound
tip of your tongue is behind your top front teeth or pointed down a little bit
air keeps moving out of your mouth sssss your voice box is off for the z
same thing you're doing for the s but your voice box is now on zzzzz
so let's try to put that all together we have
this this this these these
these this these do you like this
or do you like these give it a try i know people are going to notice the
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