hello everyone this is jennifer from
tarle speech
with a very complex question of the week
um the question today is how do we
pronounce our the unit of time
hour the possessive pronoun are the
plural present tense conjunction of to
be
you have many options my point with this
lesson today
is to just tell you pronunciation
is not about perfection it is about
being clear and consistent
and being understood by the person
that you are talking with so you can say
several of these words in different ways
so we're just going to talk about that
none of these are correct or incorrect
just think of it as an option
and then you choose whichever one works
for you be consistent with using that
and work on just being understood and
just talking because that's what it's
all about
all right so let's take a look at our
words here we have our
hour or r and
r or you have options all right so let's
take a look at these
so we have hour and hour
you can pronounce these words exactly
the same and they can be homophones
which are words that have different
spellings and different meanings
but are pronounced exactly the same way
so if you want to pronounce it this way
how do you do it i'm going to tell you
what you're going to do is you're going
to open your mouth wide
your tongue is going to be low tip of
your tongue is low
back of your tongue is pulled up high
keep your tongue there
and then move to a pucker ow
then pull your lips back a little bit
into a square tense shape you're no
longer
puckering ow
and as you do that you're going to pull
your tongue up even a little bit more
higher and a little further back for
that er the tip of your tongue
either be pointed down or flipped back i
personally
keep my tongue down for this because it
just stays down for the whole thing
hour hour
hour hour okay if you don't like that
one that's okay i have another option
for you
you can pronounce our as are
and to do that we are going to pronounce
it exactly as the word
are so again these two words can be
homophones
r and r if you choose to pronounce it
that way so if you want to say it this
way
what you're going to do is you are going
to start with the
open oval mouth tip of the tongue is
really low
back of the tongue is pulled up high
then you're going to move to those
square 10 slips
r r
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r this helps some of my students if you
think about
when you're moving from one position to
that final r
sound some of my students think about
actually
biting the outside of the back of the
tongue
with the top teeth so it's almost like
you're touching
the top teeth with the outside of the
back of your tongue
so that's for that er part of the sound
and then again the tip of your tongue
could be down or flipped back
totally up to you whichever works best
there are variations
all right so let's try this word all
together
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and then one more variation for this in
fast connected speech
i do hear a lot of people just saying er
er just that er sound when they're
connecting
their words together you'll hear this a
lot when people say
um they're they're going somewhere
instead of they
are going somewhere all right let's give
these all
a try we have hour
and hour or
r and r so again
hour hour r
r and er so
give it a try i hope people notice the
difference or not i hope that they just
understand you
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post this one randomly just to kind of
get a feel for what everyone's
thinking about just kind of talking
about the variations here so
thank you all