hi it's jennifer from tarle speech with
your pronunciation question of the week today's question um is about
four words fight flight kick and click but the bigger question is how
do i pronounce l blends and i've gotten several
questions about that so we're going to talk about l blends
with these four words today all right so we have
fight flight kick and click so how do you say those l
blends if you've been watching my channel for a
while you know that the l is made with the tip of your tongue behind your
top front teeth but the mistake i hear with these l
blends is that often times people will add a second
syllable because they add a vowel between and
they will say fa light or ca lick
instead of flight and click so how am i doing this
what i'm doing is i am focusing on sound number one and then i am thinking
about keeping my mouth in basically that
position and then just moving my tongue for the l
sound so for the fl ffff your mouth is going to be slightly open
you're kind of gently biting the inside or the outside of that
bottom lip air is moving out of my mouth ffff
then what i'm going to do is keep my mouth in that same spot
and just try to move your tongue up to the back of the top front teeth
yes your mouth will open probably a little bit more for this one
but not very much let's try that fl fl fl you can see my tongue moving
fl fl fl and then you end with the rest of the
word ight flight flight flight
for click and the k get your mouth ready for that k
sound your mouth is open tip of the tongue is low in the mouth and the back
is pulled up and then you're going to think about
keeping your mouth there not moving it anymore
and then just touching the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front
teeth so again think about just moving your tongue
cl cl cl click click click
so we can contrast these to
light fight flight lick
kick click so give it a try i know people are going to notice the
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