hey everyone Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question the
question today is how do I pronounce ruler which is the wooden or plastic
instrument that we use to measure to make this lesson a little easier I'm
actually going to teach how to say the word rule first and then we're going to
move to ruler I know this causes anxiety for a lot of you out there because
there's an R and an L but hang in there we will get through it okay so let's
start with the first word rule which is our root word here so we're gonna start
with the R sound rrrr to do this think about having square tense lips okay this is
gonna limit where your tongue can go in your mouth and then where should your
tongue go your tongue can either point down into the bottom of your mouth with
the back pulled up or the tip of your tongue that part right there can flip
back towards the back of the mouth either is acceptable it's whichever
works for you but the key is do not touch your teeth that's probably the
mistake that I hear most often is people touch their teeth and then it sounds
like a D sound or an L sound and I also hear a lot of people moving the r and we
don't do that in english in english as you know the r is very static so we are
just going to keep that tongue in the same place not moving rrr next you're
going to round your lips to move to the ew vowel and then touch the tip of your
tongue to the back of your top front teeth for the llll okay let's put that all
together rule
rule rule rule rule now we need to add the R at the end of the word the vowelized
r here and we need to add that to say ruler so the way I do it is my
tongue tip is in the bottom of my mouth for this R I touch my teeth for the L
and then I let my tongue come back down for that so it's ruler now if
you flip your tongue back you just need to think about keeping the tongue back
ruler and then flip it back so take it slowly at first and then we will go up
to speed and again the key is for this R is don't touch your teeth and that's
very difficult because you have the L here where you do touch your teeth so we
have again rule and ruler now if this is really difficult for you think about
breaking this word into two parts rooo rooo rooo and then try the ler ler
ler and then put them together ruler ruler ruler ruler so let's try those
both rule rule rule ruler ruler ruler is there a rule for how we should measure
with a ruler give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference if
you found this helpful as always we'd love a like a share and subscribe if you
need some help please check out our products on Google Play and iTunes and
our class options on Tarle speech dot comm thanks so much I hope to see you again
soon