hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with a very long pronunciation question
today so let's go ahead and jump right in
look at all of those words oh my goodness but never fear we will get
through it okay so we have latter which means the
second choice and ladder what you would use to climb up to reach something which
is right behind me here and we have later which means at a distant time
liter which is a volume of liquid and litter trash that we would throw on the
ground and letter something that you would mail to someone okay so let's
start with the easy part the beginning of the word L you're going to stick
your tongue the tip of your tongue behind the back of your top front teeth L L
and then for the ending the DER we're going to use a lot of flap T's here
you know I'm all about easy so to do that flap T just think about saying a
very quick D sound and then end with the ER with really tense lips for that ER
and try to make that ER long and strong because the mistake that I make hear the
most is that people make that too short and with relaxed lips so it doesn't
sound long or strong enough so end with the der for all of those words okay so
we have L and der we have the beginning and the end that's the big part now
let's look at those vowels this is really going to make the difference in
these words the first two words latter and ladder both have that open short ah
sound latter latter ladder ladder now for
later you're going to have a long a sound you're going to start with really
wide open mouth for that and then move to a
smile a later later later later for liter spelled with an i pronounced with the
long e so smile for that one liter liter liter and leader is actually
pronounced the same as l-e-a-d-er so liter and leader are pronounced the same
I'll put that in the note section so you can reference that spelling and it'll be
a little clearer than it is on my whiteboard and then for litter we have
the short ih sound that short I made with very relaxed lips it's not an e with
tense and very closed lips we're going to relax the lips and let the tongue
move down to slightly ih ih so leader litter leader litter so the difference
is leader litter and then last we have letter and to say that eh sound it's
going to be a little more open than it is for the ih so we have closed a little
more open and then the most open so we have leader litter letter leader litter
letter let's give those all the try latter ladder later litter I'm sorry
leader litter letter all again from the bottom letter litter leader ladder later
ladder latter oh my goodness everybody one more time so I can get this correct
latter ladder later leader litter letter and one more time since I had those
correct that time from the bottom letter litter leader ladder later oh my gosh
later ladder latter okay one more time latter ladder later leader litter letter
helps when I look at those words it was kind of hard but I was trying to show
you my mouth so give it a try I know people are going to notice the
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