hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about
American English pronounce the pronunciation consonant blends now a
couple videos back a couple lessons ago consonant blends were discussed but we
only talked about two letter consonant blends like BL PR things like that
well there are also consonant blends we consider them consonant plans that have
three consonants in them that blending their sounds together now as you can see
one of them there's a you hear that's a bit of an exception all right we'll talk
a little bit about that in a moment consonant blends looking at three letter
combinations three letter sets a set okay instead of a pair of two we have
the set of three and the ones we're looking at SC AR SC AR s here the C
sounds like a cake scrap or crook yeah r-run run scratch scratch scratch
yeah the C doesn't you don't hear a K sound
you barely get to see in their butts
scrub scrub it's there scratch scratch now what is scratch
well if maybe you have a rash from mosquito bite on your arm you're going
to oh you want to scratch it because it itches
it itches did hear I hate you and you scratch it that's a scratch one
definition of a scratch the person's voice is very good squeaky and scratchy
we say it's a scratchy voice not boys scream scream here we have EA
sounds like e em MA scream scream scream you go to a horror
movie a scary movie and you hear women getting chased by a vampire or something
and they're screaming you screaming boobies could be embarrassing we go over
here SPL SEPA the spa flat plots sip sip sip specific spots low splash hey s as
as H together ash L lash splash splash splits
let's Y jump into the water you speck on top of the water slack the fat bit of
water it will splash right don't slash in the bathtub your mother will be angry
splendid splut splut p.m. sunlit n di d did the it did splendid
that's like saying something is excellent great wonderful it was a
splendid dinner thank you so much something that's very good SP r SP are
sprung spring spring what happens right after winter springtime spring comes the
season of spring flowers bloom and birds sing spring we have SPR stress ruff ruff
what is a why sound like a one hey spray take away the SPF Ray take away s you
have prey perhaps you you like to pray
took place today spray take a bottle with some liquid in it maybe you spray
your windows and then you watch them to get them clean sqr okay now you is a
verb I use a verb no it's not a bird Jill is a vowel all
right we have sq you well where do you see Q you is going to follow it that's
English okay squit and it makes this squid squid
squid so squ ar8 ar e here sounds like air air
we've got that e we have the consonant we've got another ball a and a sounds
long a square what's the square it's a shape square I considered myself to be a
bit of a square how about you now this this isn't a square it's a rectangle a
square would have four even sides the same same Lakes Heights squeeze that's Q
you this might be a little difficult to see down here and apologize for that
squeeze squaw e EE sound like EES zis is a squeeze okay maybe you like to have
lemonade with fresh lemons so you take a lemon the fruit a citrus fruit you cut
it in half and you squeeze the outside of that half of lemon so the juice goes
into a glass maybe you mix it in with some water perhaps a little sweetener or
sugar of some kind you squeeze it maybe when you see your your little sister or
your daughter or someone she's so cute you just you want to give her a big
squeeze squeeze STR STR
what strip strip strip Stewart eat street strip eat EEE sound like eat here
tea tub Street well straight look out the window you probably see a street
with many cars on it it's rush hour many many cars are on the street a
street a road a lane a drive an Avenue a Boulevard basically the streets
Str stress drop oMG what is o ng sound like umm umm take off to G it sounds
like on with the Jeep again you can't see it too good but this is a Jeep okay
strut um now strong means the opposite of weak right someone who's strong maybe
they have big bulging biceps they can lift heavy things
mmm strong guy or gal strong a strong relationship maybe two people who get
along very well when they have problems they get over them and their
relationship continues because they have a strong relationship a strong marriage
STR through through through th the arc rub-rub throat throat dry
Oh Oh W sound like Oh ro what is throw me well if you have a ball and you throw
it throw the ball catch the ball okay throw up oat Oh a tea sounds like oat
oat okay so we have throat what's the throat
right here this is my throat this what do we call this some learnings how about
the Adam's apple you see my Hana devil men have this
yes but women know anyways we all have a throat man any women that's the thrill
all around the whole part here this is your neck but we call this front portion
the throat and that is the end of this lesson
thank you for watching this video and I look forward to seeing you at our next
lesson good bye for now