everybody Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question today's
question is how do I pronounce the words quite meaning to the utmost degree and
quiet meaning not a lot of noise so to say the
words quite and quiet the big difference is one beat for the word quite one
syllable and quiet two beats or two syllables the confusion
the spelling really confuses a lot of people here because though it's the same
letters they're just in a different order for the words so let's start with
a word quite how do we save this kW what you're going to do here is a tip round
your lips and be ready for the W sound as you get your tongue in the spot for
the K so I'm gonna round my lips and think about saying a K sound to do that
the tip of your tongue is low in the bottom of your mouth and the back of
your tongue is pulled towards the roof of your mouth k k k
and then I was gonna round my lips and then I'm gonna pull my lips back and
retract them while I open my mouth a bit for that w kw kw kw next I'm gonna add an
I this is a movement vowel you move from an open mouth to a smile and then
end with a T by touching the tip of your tongue to the back of the top front
teeth quite quite quite next for quiet again we're going to start with qui and
then I think it's easiest just to think about then ending with the word it that
we all know how to say very short I relaxed mouth and then end with that T
it it it if you want to say ut or if it sounds like up to you go ahead and say
it same idea here relaxed short vowel so
you can say quiet quiet or quiet quiet so just think short vowel don't
overthink it at the end there just think short relaxed vowel in that second
unstressed syllable so we have quiet quiet quiet
quite quite quite quiet quiet quiet and let's try it in a sentence that room is
quite quiet give it a try I know people are going to know is the difference if
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