hey everyone jennifer from turtle speech with your pronunciation question we have three words today
place a location plays performances or kids having fun and placebo a medicine with no physical but
with psychological benefits all right let's take a look at our words we have place plays and placebo
for place in place these words are almost exactly the same they start with the same
three sounds p l and the long a play play play so to say play i'm actually going to add that in
we are going to start with our lips two together and think about having your tongue in the correct
spot for the l which is behind the top front teeth that's actually touching the back of the
top front teeth and then as you open your mouth your tongue will be in the right spot for the l
pull pull next we're going to move to the long a and to do this open your mouth and then move
to a smile for that long a my tip to most of my students is make your vowels at the end of words
a little bit longer and typically that helps fix any of the mistakes
for place we're going to add an s sound to do this tip of the tongue is either pointed down
or behind the top front teeth it is not touching air is going to move out of your mouth place
place place and for plays all you're going to do is turn on your voice for that z sound so it's
exactly the same as the s tongue is in the same spot either pointed down or behind the
top front teeth not touching the difference is your voice box is on and moving plays plays
plays so we have play place and plays you are probably hearing a little bit of a longer a
in the word plays because we have that voiced z vowels are voiced voiced sounds
are voiced that makes our voice stay on and makes that vowel sound a little bit longer
last for placebo this confuses people because it's pronounced differently we are going to
have the schwa here at the beginning pla which is a nice short relaxed mouth nice short vowel
then we're going to move to the word c to do this s sound tip of the tongue down or
behind the back of the top front teeth air is moving out no voice no touching in the teeth
and then smile for that long e c and then we're going to end with bow and to do this you're going
to put your lips together open them up and then move to a pucker for that long o bow bow bow pla
placebo placebo placebo so we have play place plays placebo play place plays placebo
and now for a sentence the children play outside in the place where the actors do a lot of plays i
couldn't add placebo in there but you can leave me a sentence for placebo if you would like so give
it a try people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful we would love a like a
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