hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question the
question today how do I pronounce the words sizes which are the proportions of
something and sides which are the lateral or the side surfaces of
something let's go ahead and look at those words so the word size and sides
they do sound very similar to a lot of my students because they both end and
that Z sounds and they start with s and I so let's tackle those so start the
word size with an S sound to do this the tip of your tongue is either behind the
top of your front teeth or it can be pointed down to the bottom of your mouth
a little bit just make sure that the air is moving over the top of the tongue the
tongue is not touching the teeth and you're going to make that nice S sound
sss sss also you want to make sure you're more smiling for this sound I've heard some
people lately say Shh and that's because the lips are rounded so for this one
your lips are more pulled back sss next move to the eye we're going to do this by
opening your mouth wide so the tip of your tongue can get low in the bottom of
your mouth and then move to smiling lips with the tongue high behind those top
teeth for the I I so we have si now here's where the words differ for this Z
sound you're just going to move your tongue down a little bit back into the
same position when we had it for the s and the difference here is you're going
to turn your voice box on and it's going to be vibrating size, size, size for
the word sides we're going to have one teeny tiny difference here we're gonna
say that D sound so instead of not touching the teeth not touching the
teeth not touching the teeth we're going to not touch not touch then
touch the teeth for the d then pull that tongue away from the
teeth for that z sound so we have sides sides so I'm touching my teeth here for
the D sides sides sides so again not touching the teeth at all size and then
we're gonna touch the teeth for the D sides size and sides so let's give it a
try in a sentence measure the sides of the door so you get the correct size
measure the sides of the door so you get the correct size give it a try I know
people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful
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