Hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question we have
a long question today five words and we're just going to go ahead and jump
right into it so you can see all of the words here so the words are whale while
wheel will and well okay first things first
most people in the u.s. no longer pronounce WH differently than they
pronounce just the letter W when it's in a word so most of the time when you see
WH again most of the time we are going to say w there is an exception in the
word who where we actually pronounce that WH letter combination as an H but
most of the time we're going to pronounce it as a W sound
so again silent letters here so no H pronunciation in whale while and wheel
easy-breezy right okay so all of these words start with the
same sound www to make that W sound really round your lips into a pucker
www okay there we go now all of these words end with an L sound and to do this
you're going to touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front
teeth this is really key that you put your tongue there behind your top front
teeth and you hold it there if you do not your vowel sounds will sound
incorrect so make sure for the L at the end of a word you hold it behind the top
of your back front teeth ooh hold it there for just a second now let's get
into the vowel sounds and tackle those when you see an e at the end of the word
in a word like this oftentimes that means that we have the silent e rule in
effect so the vowel that is um in middle of the word is actually going to
be the vowel that is pronounced and that vowel is going to be long so we have an
a here and an I here a long vowel is always pronounced as its letter name so
for here we have w a l whale whale whale for the next word we have the long
I sound which is pronounced the same as you would say eye so we have w il while
while while you have another spelling tip for you when you see two vowels
together oftentimes we follow the rule that when
two vowels go walking the first one does the talking and the second one is silent
so in this case we're going to make that e long and only say one e wheel wheel
wheel so let's listen to all of those long vowel words whale while wheel now
let's get into those short vowels which I distinguished by making them a
lowercase and also by putting a little short symbol above it whereas on the
other vowels I have the line across that signifies hold that a little bit longer
so for these vowels we have ih as in will ih ih as opposed to eh eh yes they sound
super duper similar and in some parts of the u.s. people kind of merge these
words a little bit but the difference is the short ih is a little less um how would I
describe it I would say is a little more relaxed and your mouth is narrower ih as
opposed to the eh your mouth is a little tenser and it is a little bit wider so
we have will and well will well so you can see with
my mouth it's staying relatively in the same spot for will will as opposed to
well well so let's try all of those words together whale while wheel will
well and from the bottom up well will wheel while whale give it a try I know
people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful
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