hello everyone it's jennifer from tarle
speech with your question
of the week the question today is what's
the difference between
the short e sound e
in the word met and in the word
get and the long a sound
a in the word mate
and gate so let's take a look
at some of these words and listen to the
differences
so we have over here lut
get bet
met and wet
we're going to contrast that with the
long a in
late gate
bait mate
and weight so what's the difference
between
these two sounds let's start with the
short
e the e sound
to make this sound your mouth is going
to be slightly open
you will be able to see your tongue
between the top and the bottom teeth
when your mouth is slightly open
my tongue is relatively flat in my mouth
the back is slightly pulled up but
overall
i think of it as more being a little bit
flat
for the a you can see my mouth
opens more the tip of my tongue
points down and the back of my tongue
pulls up a little bit more
a a
my mouth closes slightly
to move to more of a smiling mouth and
my tongue just kind of goes along for
the ride
my tongue is going to go from low in the
front to a little bit higher
a and the reason it gets higher is
because i'm closing my mouth so again
the tongue just kind of
moves along so let's look at the
difference again we have the short e
e e again my mouth is relatively static
it's not moving
my mouth is slightly open and you can
see the tip of my tongue between the top
and the bottom teeth for the long
a my mouth opens pretty wide tip of my
tongue is down
um and then it is going to move up as i
close my
mouth a
a a again we have
e a so let's give that a try in some
words let's start with the short
so we have let
get bet
met wet and the long
a late
gate bait
mate and wait
and let's contrast these and i'm
actually going to fix this i erased my
last word here
okay so we have
let late
get gate
bet bait
met mate
wet weight let's give those all a try
again
let late
get gate bet
bait met
mate wet and
wait now if this is difficult you can
kind of break that word apart and try
the sounds separately
let and let's break this one apart
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late so when you break those sounds
apart you can really feel how much your
tongue needs to move
for those vowel sounds so one more
practice try here
let late get gate
bet bait met
mate wet weight so give it a try
i know people are going to notice the
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