hey everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question of the week it's a very
long question today we have the words sigh to exhale sign an indication or a notification
sin a transgression science the study of physical or the natural world since because and conscience
your inner voice it's a lot of words all right let's take a look i tried to break this down
into two columns with the long i and the short iso let's talk about the long i first
this vowel is going to be tense and you are going to start with an open mouth
i and move to a smile of course i'm exaggerating i get comments in some of my videos saying i don't
make my i like that this is for teaching purposes so again to get your tongue in
the right place you're going to open your mouth wide in an oval i and then move to that smiling
shape and that's going to get the tongue tip down low and then high and flat i i i i
next for the short ih sound you're going to relax your lips my students often confuse this sound
with the long e because they look very similar so we have e and then relax your lips a little bit ih
so your tongue is going to be high and flat but not as high as the e it's going to pop down a
little bit because you are relaxing your cheeks and your lips and your mouth so we have e ih e ih
so hopefully that helps you get the difference between those two
vowels we're going to have the letter s the s sound to start these words um to do this
you are going to just have the tip of your tongue either pointing down or behind the
top front teeth it is not touching and the air is going to continue to move out and then for
the n sound nnn the tip of the tongue is going to touch the back of the top front teeth and the air
will move out of your nose so those are the basic sounds that we're going to use something else to
keep in mind is that we have some situations where we have two syllables instead of one so
let's start with the one syllable words and try to put those all together so we have sigh sigh sigh
sign sign sign sign and then the short i sin sin sin sin and sinse
sinse sinse since now for that ns some people will ask me about this um you're going to touch
the teeth for the n nnn and then pull the tongue down for that s as you do that make sure that
the air is moving out of your mouth for the s practice it slowly in two parts n s n s ns ns
it's always a great tip take it slow at first and then speed it up now we have the word science
spelling really confuses people here so we're just going to have think of the um sounds s-i
sigh and then we're going to end short i ins science science science science
and then for conscience you have some options i've been getting a lot of comments about
is it a short eye is it a short e is it a short u focus on clarity and just having a short relaxed
vowel sound there to get the word stress correct for these unstressed syllables so i wrote it as
the short i because we're studying this and i think that lends to the lesson and um it's a
little bit easier to remember if you're learning but technically it is the short u the schwa sound
you have an option you can either say ns as the ending or you can do nts both are
acceptable okay so we have conscience conscience conscience i tend to not say the t but you can say
conscience conscience conscience either is fine so let's give them all a try sigh sigh sigh
sign sign sign science science science sin sin sin since since since conscience conscience conscience
and now for a sentence i don't have one oh my goodness that means you have to write one down
so since i don't have a since i don't have a sentence some of you may think
that is a sin it will weigh heavy on my conscience but science tells me since you all are so smart
that you can leave your sign or your signature in the comments section and leave a sigh of relief
after you write a sentence give it a try people are going to know this difference
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