hey everybody happy Friday Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation
question this is a very common question that I get from my clients who live here
in Chicago Illinois with me how do I pronounce Chicago Illinois let's take a
look at the spelling of these words first Chicago Illinois spelling is not
helping us here so let's break these words down into the syllables so CH most
of my clients usually say Ch which is a perfect guest because that's typically
what we say but in this case we're going to pronounce it as a Shh sound
so to make that sound round your lips and keep that air moving out of your
mouth add the short uh sound sha move to caw the second syllable do this by
saying the k sound which was made with the tip of your tongue pointing down and the
back of your tongue pulled up towards the roof of your mouth then you're going
to move to the oH vowel by opening your mouth wide sha caw end with a go again
we're going to start by placing that tip tongue tip down and pulling the back of
the tongue up for the G sound it's the exact same position as the K the
difference here is that the G sound is voiced so your voice box is going to be
vibrating Chicago Chicago next we're going to move to Illinois start by
saying the word ill like you're feeling sick it's the short I ih sound and then you
end that syllable by touching the tip of your tongue to the back of your top
front teeth ill and then we're going to move to everybody's favorite the schwa
syllable uh just add that little short sound
illuh and then end with noi do this by touching the tip of your tongue to the
back of your top front teeth while the air moves out of your nose and then
the oy vowel we do that by puckering and then pulling the lips back a bit
illa Noi Illinois another quick tip is when you're pronouncing names of a city
and a state make sure that you add a little pause between the two and you're
going to make the first word a little more stressed so make it a little louder
the vowels a little longer and the pitch a little higher Chicago Illinois Chicago
Illinois I live in Chicago Illinois give it a try I know people are going to
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