hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question we have
a follow-up to last week's lesson on the y versus j sounds and today our words
are how do I say mayor and how do I say major so let's go ahead and look at the
words so a mayor is an elected official and major means important or
significantI'm going to give you two different ways to pronounce the word
mayor I found that in teaching my students
some people prefer one to the other so let's go ahead and first talk about the
Y versus the J sound in case you missed the lesson last week so for the Y
sound what you want to think about doing is making your lips a little more wide
open and the tip of your tongue is going to be down away from the teeth and you
can actually touch the back of the tongue the outsides of the back of the
tongue on the insides of the top teeth y y and your tongue is going to be
stable and it's not going to be moving for the J sound the j sound my mouth
is definitely rounded and I am going to touch the tip of my tongue to the back
of my top front teeth and then move it back so the tongue is going to move for
the j sound so we have the y versus the j so when we look at these
two words let's start with the beginning syllable number one is going to be our
stressed syllable and we are going to make sure that that syllable is louder
has a longer vowel and is a little bit higher in pitch than the second syllable
may and we're going to start by putting the lips together may and then open and
move to a smile for that long a may may for mayor you can just end with an er
may er may er may er you can say may yer may yer with the Y sound
this really confuses especially my Spanish speakers so if that Y kind of
confuses you just say her it's not a big deal
mayor or make your mayor mayor so for major what you're going to do is
you're going to end that second syllable with the j for the jer may jer
major so we have mayor mayor mayor major major major mayor major
mayor major so the mayor proposed major changes to the transportation system
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