hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech with
your pronunciation question today's question is how do i
pronounce the words modern current times and modem
a gateway to the web let's take a look at our words we have
modern and modem so to say these words correctly we're
going to think about two syllables ma
dern and mo dum these words really get confusing because
of the spelling but if you think about it this way it's
going to be much easier so let's start with
modern so to say modern we're going to think about this
short oh sound and to do this your mouth is going to be open in a wide
oval shape tip of your tongue is going to be low in the mouth and the back of
the tongue is going to be pulled up oh for the o
you are going to move from an open o to a puckered
mouth this is going to allow your tongue to move from
low to a little bit higher in the mouth o
o so we have ma and mo ma mo
then we're going to move to the endings the difference here is the
earn and the um so to say dern focus on this e r
n and to do this you're going to have square
tense lips for that er er tip of the tongue is either down or flipped back
whichever one it is just not touching the teeth
and then you're going to end by touching the back of the top front teeth for the
n earn earn
ma dern modern modern
modern and then for modem we're going to end with that um and to
do this your mouth is going to be open and
relaxed for that uh sound nice and short and then close your
lips for the m m dum
mo dum modem modem modem so again we have
modern modern modern modem modem modem
modern modem and now in a sentence a modern modem is required if you
work remotely give it a try people are going to notice the difference if you
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