Hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question.
Two words today equate which means to consider
things to be equivalent and adequate meaning acceptable
So we have a couple variations today - so we're going to go ahead and talk about those . So our
first word is equate - i'm saying it with the schwa sound which is that short uh sound , uh
it's unstressed it's super soft super short, lower in pitch. My stress syllable here is going to be
kwait, and to say that you're going to start with the k - tip of the tongue is down, back of
the tongue is pulled up, and then you're going to round your lips for that w sound. kw kw kw
You can see because I know how to make this sound I actually
start with my lips puckered and I say the k sound while my lips are already puckered.
So you can do either next I'm going to move to that long
a sound, and to do that the tip of my tongue is low in my mouth, and my mouth is open wide,
then as I close to a smile, my tongue gets high and flat a
a a. Then i'm going to touch the tip of my tongue to the back of my top front teeth for that t t.
quait quait quait equate equate equate I do hear people say and it is acceptable
to say equate, that is totally fine with that long e sound, remember as I always say it is
about being clear and understood, not about being perfect, not about which word is perfect,
so that's a variation that I do here and people should understand you when you say that.
Now for the word adequate, we are going to stress syllable one which is the add add,
to do that you're going to open your mouth wide in a round circle for that ah sound, the tip
of your tongue will be low, back of your tongue will be pulled up, touch the tip of your tongue
to the back of your top front teeth for that d sound, the voice box is on, air puffs out. i
I'm going to move to that short unstressed swa schwa syllable the uh sound uh
A tip for you um people who might have trouble with this is to try to link that schwa to the
first syllable, so i'm not going to say add a i'm going to say add a add a add a
And then we're going to end with quit, like the word quit q-u-i-t.
The difference here is because this is unstressed, we're going to use that
short ih sound instead of the long a. Add a quit adequate adequate adequate
If you're wondering how to say this short i sound relaxed mouth -
you can just see my tongue right about here, right about at the um, bottom of my upper top
teeth there, it's not touching anywhere, and it is a little bit more relaxed in my mouth,
so it's not an e it's an ih not an e ih - so you can see just by relaxing my mouth, your tongue is
going to pop down a bit, just like mine did, so smile for the e, relax the lips, and the tongue
will pop down slightly for that short ih sound So let's put these all together again
equate equate equate adequate adequate adequate
equate adequate and now for a sentence
An adequate response does not always equate to the expected response.
So give it a try i know people are going to notice the difference! If you found this helpful please
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