everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question
our question today is how do i pronounce the word poem
a type of writing to express emotions with
typically in a pattern poet and poetry here are the words
poem poet and poetry let's look at syllable number one
for all of these words since it is exactly the same
so to start all of these words we're going to start with
po to do that you're going to press your lips together
and then open them and move to a pucker for that long
o po po po
then for words one and two poem and poet we're only going to have two syllables
this does get a little confusing um a lot of my students just think this
is poem and pot because typically when we have two
vowels together we only say one but in this case we're going to
break that into two syllables so we have po um and this word
uha sound relaxed mouth very short vowel
and then close your lips for that and the air is going to move through the
nose poem poem poem now for
poet just think about ending that word with it i t it
it and to do this relaxed mouth short vowel tongue is higher in
the mouth and relaxed and flat it and that by touching the tip of the
tongue to the back of the top front teeth
it poet poet poet so again we have
poem and poet now for poetry everybody's favorite the
schwa sound is in the middle of this word to
say the schwa syllable this syllable is going to be super short
the shortest syllable in the word and you were just going to say the uh
sound super relaxed mouth super short vowel and then end with the
word tree and to do this touch the tip of the
tongue to the back of the top front teeth
and then move to square tense lips with the tongue either pointed down
or flipped back to that r and then smile for the long e
tree tree tree you can see and you've probably
learned this tip if you've been my student for a while
i have my lips in that square tense shape
for that r sound as i start my t so that i'm ready
tree tree tree po a tree poa
tree poetry poetry poetry so we have
poem poet and poetry and now for a sentence
poetry is beautiful especially the poem by the young poet give it a try
people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful
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