hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech our question today is how do i
pronounce literal literally literate
and illiterate i grouped all those words together even though they came from four
different people because the issue with the pronunciation is
very similar so let's take a look at all of these words we have
literal literally illiterate i'm sorry literate and ill
literate so let's tackle what is really difficult for most people it's
that flap t that you're hearing most americans
will pronounce this first t as a d so you will hear people say
litter litter so to say this part of the word let's start with the l
tip of the tongue is behind the back of the top front teeth l
and then you're going to pull it down for that short i
sound then quickly touch the back of the top of the front teeth
again for that d and then move to the er with square tense lips
litter litter litter yes that d is very very fast
in this situation litter litter litter so now that you know that you can
tackle this word by just adding the l litter l literal
literal literal and then we can add the ending here literally
literally literally
literate literate literate
illiterate illiterate illiterate some of you may be asking i hear people
say different things for the word literally yes you will you might hear
people say literally with a t you might hear people
say literally um but i personally say
literally and whichever one you choose people are going to understand you so
again you have choices for that word it could be
literally literally or literally whichever you choose let's give these
words all a try again literal
literally literate illiterate one more time because i got a
little confused literal literally
literate illiterate so give it a try people are going to notice the
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