hey everybody Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question
today's question is how do I pronounce the word preliminary which means actions
or events before or in preparation of an event so it's something you do before to
get ready for something and so let's go ahead and take a look at this word the
word again is preliminary so many letters that already causes people
anxiety I know let's break this down into the syllables or beats of the word
we have preliminary preliminary let's look at each beat in the word we're
gonna start with what the mistake that I hear on this syllable is that people say
Pa-rah and they actually add another beat because you're adding a sound
between the P and the r there's no vowel sound there so you're going to put your
lips together and be ready for that our sound and as you open your lips from the
P say that R sound PR PR PR and this is a schwa sound that's a short uh sound
next we have the loudest longest and highest pitch syllable our stressed
syllable the stressed beat in the word Lim Lim so you're going to take your
tongue from the back of your top front teeth the tip of your tongue pull it
down into the middle of your mouth for that short i and then close your lips
for the M Lim Pra-Lim Pra-Lim next we're gonna add the schwa syllable nice
and short you know the drill open your mouth relaxed mouth really quick not
super loud uh prablima prablima move to nair start by touching
the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth air moves out of
your nose and then add that air vowel by opening your mouth wide and then moving
to that er sound do not touch your teeth that R and do not let your tongue move
for the R nice and long and strong nair prablima nair prablimanair and
end with the long e by smiling because you're so happy we are finished with
this word let's put it all together Pra limma
preliminair preliminary preliminary preliminary preliminary and let me cheat
again and look at my sentence some of you have complained about my sentences
not being very good lately so I'm trying to be better here we go
the event required extensive preliminary planning the event required extensive
preliminary planning give it a try I know people are going to notice the
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