hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question
our words today are collision which is a crash or a conflict and
coalition and alliance let's take a look at these words
they look rather similar so what's the difference collision is going to have three beats or three
syllables and coalition is going to have four beats or four syllables so let's break
these down for collision we're going to start with the syllable and to do this the tongue
tip is down back of the tongue is pulled up for the and then you're just going to add that short
uh sound that schwa sound next we're going to move to the lip and to do this touch the tip of
the tongue to the back of the top front teeth and then again open the mouth it's going to be relaxed
and the tip of the tongue is going to be just below the top front teeth
you can kind of see it popping down a little bit there and then we're going to end with
jean to do this round your lips for that sound and your voice box
is on and then we're going to end with the un to do this again unstressed uh sound and then
touch the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front teeth for the end
collision collision for coalition we are going to start with
co start with the k and then round the lips to move to that long o sound ko ko ko
add the schwa the short uh syllable very relaxed mouth and then again the li
touch the teeth for the l pull it down as your lips are relaxed so your mouth is relaxed you can
have a nice short relaxed ih sound and then end this time with a shun it sounds very similar to
zhun and looks very similar but what's the difference the difference is my voice box is off
for the sh sound so we have sh versus zh so let's put this all together ko uh li shun ko uh li shun
coalition coalition coalition one more thing to keep in mind here is that we are going to
stress the li syllable and each of these words that means it's going to be louder
longer and higher than the others which are going to be shorter softer and lower in pitch so let's
try those two words again coalition coalition coalition collision collision collision collision
coalition coalition collision collision coalition and now for a sentence the coalition vehicles were
involved in a collision the coalition vehicles were involved in a collision give it a try people
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