hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question today's
question is how do I pronounce three words access or permission excess
meaning extra and axis a reference line let's go ahead and jump right in
because this is a little bit of a confusing lesson for many of my students
the way we're going to look at this today is we're going to think about
syllables and syllable breaks and what I mean by a syllable break is where that
little tiny pauses between syllables if you do pause too long it can sound like
you have two words but it's sort of that natural break and each beat of the word
so again think about that think about the syllables or the beats and the word
and where they break along with each sound okay so keeping that in mind let's
go ahead and look at these we have access and syllable number one is going
to be ack then we have excess and syllable number one is going to be eck
now for axis syllable number one is going to be ax and they think this is
again where the confusion is is where we break these words so let's look at word
number one access so to say this we're going to start with that ack and to do
this mouth is open wide in a round circle the tip of your tongue is low in
your mouth and the back of your tongue is pulled up ack then we're gonna end
with SeS and then to say this you're going to start with that s sound sss tip of
your tongue is either pointed down or behind the top front teeth not touching
the teeth at all air moves out and then move to that short eh sound and to do
this your mouth is slightly open and you can see just the tip of your tongue
between your top and your bottom teeth eh and then end with that SeS
ses ses let's put it all together access access access the difference
between access and excess is mouth opening so I'm going to contrast those
two we have access and then excess so for this short e again your mouth is
slightly open and you're just going to see the tip of your tongue between those
top and bottom teeth eh eh excess excess excess excess access excess access
excess and then for axis again think about the first beat here acs and to do
that we know how to say the ak and then we're just going to add that s sss by
allowing that air to move out of the mouth tip of the tongue is not touching
your teeth at all aX aX aX if this helps you this is the word aX okay and then
we're going to add the ending is you can say is s or us I'll give you some other
options here is just about that second syllable being shorter all right so we
have aX is axis axis axis if it makes it a little bit simpler for you if it's
too hard to just do this s at the end you can add another one at the beginning
there that's totally fine that will kind of all blend together and it'll sound
okay when you put it all together axis axis axis axis okay
let's try them all again access access access
excess excess excess axis axis axis give it a try I know people are
going to notice the difference if you'd like to help all of your other English
learners out there try to use those words in a sentence that was a tough one
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