hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your two for tuesday
homophones or two words pronounced exactly
the same way i'm going to teach these words as homophones but there is a
variation to one of the words today and we will
talk about that a little bit our words are patients which
are people who receive medical care and patience
the ability to wait let's take a look at these words i'm
going to teach them exactly the same because in connected
speech when people are talking quickly often
this t sound drops completely and you do not
hear it so that makes things a little bit easier that we can pronounce them
exactly the same so to say these words correctly we're
going to start with syllable one pay to do that lips together
and then open wide and move to a smile aaa aaa
you can see my tongue moves from low to high
as i say that then we're going to end with
shuns and to do this round your lips for that
shh your tongue is not touching anything in your mouth air keeps moving out
add that short uh sound with the relaxed mouth and tongue
and then touch the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front teeth for the
n air is moving out of your nose then end
with the s again your tongue is not touching your
teeth it is either pointed down or it is behind the top front teeth
let's put that all together shuns pay
shuns patience patients patience
now if you do hear people say pay shunts with that ts at the end
that is totally fine and if i was stressing that word in a sentence
you would definitely hear a stronger t but again
when most people are saying both of these words that t disappears and you
don't hear it as much so that is a totally fine option
to say these words exactly the same let's give them a try
patience patience patients and now for a sentence patients had
great patience while waiting in a long line to see the
doctor the patients had patience while waiting
in line to see the doctor give it a try people are going to notice the
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