hi there Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question today's
question is how do I pronounce the words God and in this case I'm spelling god
with a small G because my sentence is going to be talking about a Greek god
and in in that terms we're talking about a Supreme Being if we're talking about
God in monotheistic religions you would capitalize that word and add a capital G
so the word is god a Supreme Being and we have the word guard which means to
watch over this is a confusing word pair for many of my students because we have
the oh sound which does not occur in a lot of languages and that sound is made
with a very wide open oval mouth
this is contrasted with the are vowel where you move your mouth from that wide open
oval to an R sound for the er are spelling here really confuses people
so u a R we're only going to pronounce as the are movement vowel and that's not
the way that it really looks so to start both of these words you're gonna start
with the G sound and do this tip of your tongue is going to be down low in your
mouth and the back of your tongue is going to be pulled up almost touching
the roof of your mouth or and some people touching and that is going to be
for the g g g sound we're gonna end with the d sound and to do this
touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth the G and the D
sound our voice for your voice box is going to be on and vibrating so we have
g and d so let's go ahead and put these words together God God God
guard guard guard god guard guard god and now for a sentence
excuse me I lost it there for a second the Greek god of safety is said to guard
travellers the Greek god of safety is said to guard travellers give it a try
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