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May 6, 2022
How to Pronounce COURT, COURSE, COARSE, COURTEOUS, COURTESY – American English Pronunciation Lesson
Learn how to pronounce the words COURT, COURSE, COARSE, COURTEOUS, COURTESY with this American English Pronunciation Lesson.
Definitions:COURT: a tribunal, area for a game like basketball or tennis, or a romantic pursuit
COURSE: a direction, a set of dishes in a meal, or an educational class
COARSE: means rough COURTEOUS means polite and respectful
COURTESY is a demonstration of politeness or supplied free of charge
Pronunciation:COURT: /kɔrt/
COURSE/COARSE: /kɔrs/
COURTEOUS: /ˈkɜrtiəs/
COURTESY: /ˈkɜrtəsi/
Sentence:I make these videos as a courtesy to you and I am very thankful that you are all very courteous.
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Transcript:Hey there it is Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question of the week!
We have a little bit of a long one today. We have five words:
court a tribunal, area for a game like basketball or tennis, or a romantic pursuit
course direction, set of dishes in a meal, or an educational class and
course meaning rough
courteous polite and respectful and
courtesy a demonstration of politeness or supplied free of charge
Even though we have a lot of words I think the lesson is pretty straightforward today. I think spelling really confuses people here. To say all of these words we’re going to start with the K sound. K K K
My mouth is open. Tip of my tongue is low. Back of my tongue is pulled high up. Look at you! We got the beginning finished.
Okay next for the or what you’re going to do is pucker. When you pucker your tongue is just flat in the middle of your mouth. There’s not really many places for it to go. Then you’re going to pull your lips back into that square tense shape. As you do that the tip of your tongue is either going to be moving down to the bottom of your mouth or flipping back. But the back of your tongue will be pulled high up, no matter what tip of the tongue does not move. or or or
For court, then, just touch the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front teeth. That little space where the teeth meet the roof of the mouth. And for the s what you are going to do is you are just going to have your tongue behind your top front teeth or pointing slightly down. It does not touch the teeth and air is just going to move out continuously. sssss
court course
court course
court course
I should mention course and course are pronounced exactly the same and i have another video on those since they are homophones and words that are pronounced exactly the same way.
For courteous and courtesy instead of saying or I’m just going to go right to that er sound. Tip of the tongue is down or flipped back back of the tongue is pulled way high up square tense lips ker ker ker
For courteous next we’re going to move to the dee syllable. To do this touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth, air puffs out, voice box is on and moving f the dee d d d d . Smile for that long e – High flat tongue. And then end with us like you and I, us. It’s just us. And to do that, relaxed short uh sound and then add the s ssss. Ker Dee Us.
courteous courteous courteous
And now for courtesy you’re going to have Ker Duh See.
I spelled that wrong. I’m actually using that flap t there Ker duh See
courtesy courtesy courtesy
So for the duh what you’re going to do is touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth; and then, just open relaxed mouth and tongue for the uh and then end with see. For that s sound and then smile for the long e. See.
Let’s put that all together Ker duh See
courtesy courtesy courtesy
For those of you who are new to the channel I write this as a d. These d’s are actually a flap t with a super fast d sound. If you just say a d sound that’s going to be fine. You could actually say a t sound and people will still understand you say ker t us or ker tuh see.
Both will be fine but most Americans will use that flap t and say courteous and courtesy.
So let’s try this all again:
court court court
course course course
courteous courteous courteous
courtesy courtesy courtesy
And now for a sentence:
I make these videos as a courtesy to you and I’m very thankful that you were all very courteous.
So give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference! If you found this helpful we’d love a like and share and subscribe. Check out all of our products and classes at Tarle speech and I hope to see you all tomorrow have a great day! Bye!
Definitions: COURT: a tribunal, area for a game like basketball or tennis, or a romantic pursuit COURSE: a direction, a set of dishes in a meal, or an educational class COARSE: means rough COURTEOUS means polite and respectful COURTESY is a demonstration of politeness or supplied free of charge Pronunciation: COURT: /kɔrt/ COURSE/COARSE: /kɔrs/ COURTEOUS: /ˈkɜrtiəs/ COURTESY: /ˈkɜrtəsi/
Sentence:I make these videos as a courtesy to you and I am very thankful that you are all very courteous. Transcript: Hey there it is Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question of the week!
Transcript:
Hey there it is Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question of the week!
We have a little bit of a long one today. We have five words:
court a tribunal, area for a game like basketball or tennis, or a romantic pursuit
course direction, set of dishes in a meal, or an educational class and
course meaning rough
courteous polite and respectful and
courtesy a demonstration of politeness or supplied free of charge
Even though we have a lot of words I think the lesson is pretty straightforward today. I think spelling really confuses people here. To say all of these words we’re going to start with the K sound. K K K
My mouth is open. Tip of my tongue is low. Back of my tongue is pulled high up. Look at you! We got the beginning finished.
Okay next for the or what you’re going to do is pucker. When you pucker your tongue is just flat in the middle of your mouth. There’s not really many places for it to go. Then you’re going to pull your lips back into that square tense shape. As you do that the tip of your tongue is either going to be moving down to the bottom of your mouth or flipping back. But the back of your tongue will be pulled high up, no matter what tip of the tongue does not move. or or or
For court, then, just touch the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front teeth. That little space where the teeth meet the roof of the mouth. And for the s what you are going to do is you are just going to have your tongue behind your top front teeth or pointing slightly down. It does not touch the teeth and air is just going to move out continuously. sssss
court course
court course
court course
I should mention course and course are pronounced exactly the same and i have another video on those since they are homophones and words that are pronounced exactly the same way.
For courteous and courtesy instead of saying or I’m just going to go right to that er sound. Tip of the tongue is down or flipped back back of the tongue is pulled way high up square tense lips ker ker ker
For courteous next we’re going to move to the dee syllable. To do this touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth, air puffs out, voice box is on and moving f the dee d d d d . Smile for that long e – High flat tongue. And then end with us like you and I, us. It’s just us. And to do that, relaxed short uh sound and then add the s ssss. Ker Dee Us.
courteous courteous courteous
And now for courtesy you’re going to have Ker Duh See.
I spelled that wrong. I’m actually using that flap t there Ker duh See
courtesy courtesy courtesy
So for the duh what you’re going to do is touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth; and then, just open relaxed mouth and tongue for the uh and then end with see. For that s sound and then smile for the long e. See.
Let’s put that all together Ker duh See
courtesy courtesy courtesy
For those of you who are new to the channel I write this as a d. These d’s are actually a flap t with a super fast d sound. If you just say a d sound that’s going to be fine. You could actually say a t sound and people will still understand you say ker t us or ker tuh see.
Both will be fine but most Americans will use that flap t and say courteous and courtesy.
So let’s try this all again:
court court court
course course course
courteous courteous courteous
courtesy courtesy courtesy
And now for a sentence:
I make these videos as a courtesy to you and I’m very thankful that you were all very courteous.
So give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference! If you found this helpful we’d love a like and share and subscribe. Check out all of our products and classes at Tarle speech and I hope to see you all tomorrow have a great day! Bye!
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May 2, 2022
Coffee Break Catch Up – Week in Review: April 25, 2022 – Tarle Speech English Pronunciation
Tarle Speech English Pronunciation Lesson Review
Videos from the week starting Monday, April 25, 2022Catch up on missed lessons from last week. This pronunciation practice takes less than 10 minutes. Try it! People will notice a difference.
Two for Tuesday Homophone Lesson
How to Pronounce MAIZE & MAZE – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson
Viewer Question of the Week:How to Pronounce CITY & SHITTY – American English Heteronym Pronunciation Lesson
Weekend #Shorts Quick English Pronunciation LessonsHow to Pronounce SALMON – #SHORTS Quick English Pronunciation Mini Lesson
How to Pronounce ELECTRICITY – #SHORTS Quick English Pronunciation Mini Lesson
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April 29, 2022
How to Pronounce CITY & SHITTY – American English Pronunciation Lesson
Learn how to pronounce the words CITY and SHITTY with this American English Pronunciation Lesson.
Definition:City is a large town.
Shitty means worthless, a contemptible person or action, or covered in excrement.
Pronunciation:City: s-i-d-ee or /sɪti/
Shitty: sh-i-d-ee or /ʃɪˌti/
Transcript:Hi everyone it’s Jennifer from Tarle speech with your question of the week.
A few weeks back I did a lesson on the word city and it was a short and I got a really great question and then I actually heard this mistake with a student in a class. And the word is city of course which I did the short about. But the mistake is shitty and that can be a really embarrassing mistake.
So a city is a large town and shitty means worthless, um, a contemptible person or action, or covered in excrement. So you don’t want to confuse these words. Okay let’s take a look at the words. Let’s start with the endings because they’re both the same. We have the d. This is technically a flap t but I teach it as a very fast d sound. So to say this sound you can just touch the same spot that you do for the d, which is sort of the back of the top front teeth, if you want to get super fancy, you can move that tongue a little further back on the roof of the mouth, and just go for that fast d sound. Then add that long e. Smile. Ttongue is nice and high and flat. d d d.
Now the difference. Here is the s in city and the s h in shitty. Can’t believe I’m saying this word so much um but I want you to avoid embarrassment, so i’ll just keep going. All right the sh is a sound one sound but it is spelled with two letters. We do not say an s and an h. No. Iit is a shh.
You can see for the sound, my lips are rounded and puckered, and air is moving out of my mouth. My tongue is behind my top front teeth shh. It is flat and it is high up sh. It is not near the front teeth, but it’s pulled back a little bit shh. Okay, now for the s sound in city. My tongue is a little more forward and you can see my mouth is sort of smiling. When my tongue is more forward you have a couple of options. Your tongue can be flat or the tip of your tongue can be pointed slightly down.
All right let’s try those two together
Sssssss
Shhh
Sssssss
shhh
For a lot of people just focusing on the lips solves this whole problem. So if you’re having trouble start there first and then really think about the tongue.
All right let’s put these all together.
d c d city city city
I’m smiling for that whole word.
Now shih d shih dee
shitty shitty shitty
I like to think that my face looks kind of uh and that might be a little shitty. If that helps you we’re gonna go with it. All right let’s try them together again:
city shitty city shitty city city city shitty shitty shitty
And now for a sentence:
I think the city is beautiful even though some people told me it was shitty.
So give it a try. I know people are going to notice the difference. If you found this helpful, please share us with your friends, and give us a like. Iif you need help, check us out on tarle speech.
Thanks so much everyone have a great week!
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April 26, 2022
How to Pronounce MAZE & MAIZE – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson
Learn how to pronounce the words MAZE & MAIZE with this American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson. These words are homophones and are pronounced exactly the same way.
Definitions:Definitions: MAIZE is corn, a yellow color, or a grass.
MAZE is a confusing network of passages.
Pronunciation:These words are pronounced MAZ or /meɪz/.
Sentence:Please had me the maize colored book so I can finish my maze.
This may be helpful:HOMOPHONES – words spelled differently but pronounced the same
Transcript:Hey y’all!
Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation your two for Tuesday homophone lesson.
Two words, two different spellings, two different meanings, pronounced exactly the same way- only one way!
Our words today, this is a request, these are not super common words.
We have maize which is corn, a yellow color, um or, a grass and
maze, which is the more common word, a confusing network of passages
Let’s look at our words. All right, so to say these words correctly, we’re going to start with that m sound. Lips together, air moves out of your nose.
Then we’re going to move to that long a sound, and to say that long a sound, open your mouth in a wide circle, tip of the tongue is down, back of the tongue is pulled high up. Then move to a smile and your tongue will move to high and flat in your mouth. a a a
Then we’re going to end with that z: z. To do this, the tip of your tongue is behind your top front teeth. The tip can be either pointing down or just behind your top teeth. The key is do not touch your teeth. Your voice box is on and moving.
Someone asked recently, um, should my whole mouth be vibrating? And my mouth is vibrating when I say the sound. So that is okay let’s put this all together:
maize maze maze maze maze maze
And now for a sentence:
Please hand me the maize colored book so I can finish my maze.
Give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference. If you found this helpful please give us a like and a share. And, If you need more help, check out our products and our classes at Tarle Speech. Thank you so much everyone. Have an amazing week!
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April 25, 2022
Coffee Break Catch Up – Week in Review: April 18, 2022 – Tarle Speech English Pronunciation
Tarle Speech English Pronunciation Lesson Review
Videos from the week starting Monday, April 18, 2022Catch up on missed lessons from last week. This pronunciation practice takes less than 10 minutes. Try it! People will notice a difference.
Two for Tuesday Homophone Lesson
How to Pronounce RUFF & ROUGH – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson
Viewer Question of the Week:How to Pronounce SENT, CENT, SAINT – American English Heteronym Pronunciation Lesson
Weekend #Shorts Quick English Pronunciation LessonsHow to Pronounce AUTISM – #SHORTS Quick English Pronunciation Mini Lesson
How to Pronounce PIZZA – #SHORTS Quick English Pronunciation Mini Lesson
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April 22, 2022
How to Pronounce SAINT, SENT, CENT – American English Pronunciation Lesson
Learn how to pronounce the words SAINT, SENT, and CENT with this American English Pronunciation Lesson. Sent and cent are homophones and are pronounced exactly the same way.
Definitions:
SAINT a holy or virtuous person
SENT to mail a letter or to propel
CENT a small monetary unit
Pronunciation:
SAINT: s-long a-n-t or /seɪnt/
SENT: s-short e-n-t or /sɛnt/
CENT: s-short e-n-t or /sɛnt/
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Transcript:
Hi everyone! Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question of the week!
The words today are:
cent which is a small monetary unit
sent to mail a letter or to propel and
saint a holy or virtuous person
So let’s take a look at our words. The words are relatively the same. The only difference today is going to be the vowel sound. So let’s start with those consonant sounds.
To say the s sound correctly let’s start with that s. And to do this, the tip of your tongue is either down towards the bottom of the mouth – pointed down. Or it is behind the top front teeth. It is not touching any place in the mouth. Air is just going to keep moving out of the mouth.
Then let’s finish the ending of the words too because those are both the same. For the n sound touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth for that n air moves out of your nose. Then pull the tongue down for the t. Air is just going to puff out.
Now let’s look at that eh versus the a sound. Okay for the short e sound the eh sound, what you’re going to do is your mouth is going to be relaxed, and it’s going to be slightly open. You should see the tip of your tongue between the top and the bottom teeth. The back of my tongue is flat and the back of my tongue is almost touching the inside of my back teeth.
Now for the A sound. We’re going to practice this by really moving the mouth A. And to do this you can see I start with a very wide open mouth and then I move to a smile. When I do that, the tip of my tongue starts way low in my mouth, back of the tongue is pulled high up, and then my tongue moves to high and flat, behind the top front teeth, and it is not touching my teeth at all. A A
Let’s try these in words so we have eh in sent sent sent
And A in saint saint saint
sent saint
sent saint
sent sent sent
saint saint saint
And now for a sentence:
The child sent Santa a story about Saint Nicholas.
Give it a try. I know people are going to notice the difference!
If you found this helpful we always love a like and a share and if you need more help check us out at Tarle speech. Thanks so much everyone have a great week!
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April 19, 2022
How to Pronounce ROUGH & RUFF – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson
Learn to pronounce the words ROUGH and RUFF with this American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson. Both of these words are pronounced the same way.
Definitions:ROUGH means not smooth or not gentle.
RUFF is what a dog says or a lace collar.
Pronunciation:These words are pronounced RUF or /rʌf/.
Sentence:The dog yelled ruff when it stepped on the rough ground.
This may be helpful:HOMOPHONES – words spelled differently but pronounced the same
Transcript:Hi there Jennifer from Tarle speech with your two for Tuesday. We have two words that are spelled differently but they are pronounced the same. So these two words are spelled differently, have different meanings, and are pronounced the same way.
Our two words today are:
rough meaning not smooth or not gentle and
rough what a dog says in the united states or what I learned from googling it could also mean a lace collar.
Who knew? I did not know!
So here are the words: rough and ruff.
So to say these words correctly, you have three little sounds. Start with that r rrr. To do this square tense lips. The tip of your tongue is either pointed down or flipped back. It is not touching your teeth and it is not moving. It just stays in the same place. The back of your tongue is pulled high up and is tense in the back of your mouth er.
Next relax your mouth for that short uh sound. Tongue is just flat in your mouth.
And then we’re going to end with the f to do this think about gently biting the inside or outside of your bottom lip with your top teeth. F FFFF
You don’t really bite, but your teeth get really really close. That’s just kind of a good way to think about it. And for that f sound you are going to think about touching your top teeth to your bottom lip.
You still need to have your lips open. If your lips close, it’s going to sound like a p, and we don’t want that. We want that air to keep moving out.
Let’s put it all together
rough ruff
rough ruff
rough ruff
And now for a sentence:
The dog yelled ruff when it stepped on the rough ground.
So give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference. And if you have a minute, please tell me what does a dog say in your language? I always love to hear what animals say in different languages!
So if you found this helpful, please give us a like and a share. Don’t forget to subscribe and if you need help please check us out at Tarle speech.com.
Thanks so much everyone have a great week!
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April 18, 2022
Coffee Break Catch Up – April 11, 2022 – Tarle Speech English Pronunciation
Tarle Speech English Pronunciation Lesson Review
Videos from the week starting Monday, April 11, 2022
Catch up on missed lessons from last week. This pronunciation practice takes less than 10 minutes. Try it! People will notice a difference.
How to Pronounce ITS & IT’S – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson
How to Pronounce WIND & WIND – American English Heteronym Pronunciation Lesson
How to Pronounce LITTLE – #SHORTS Quick English Pronunciation Mini Lesson
How to Pronounce PERPETUAL – #SHORTS Quick English Pronunciation Mini Lesson
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April 15, 2022
How to Pronounce WIND & WIND – American English Heteronym Pronunciation Lesson
Learn to pronounce the words wind and wind with this American English Pronunciation Lesson.
Definition:Wind is the natural movement of air.
Wind means to twist or wrap.
Pronunciation:These words are spelled the same but pronounced differently: /wɪnd/ or /waɪnd/
Learn more Heteronyms:Heteronyms: Words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciation and meanings
Transcript:
Hi everyone! Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question.
We have two words today. This is kind of confusing. They’re spelled exactly the same way. But they have different meanings and different pronunciations.
So we have:
wind which is the natural movement of air and
wind to twist or to wrap
So let’s take a look. So if you watch my videos I did have a video on these spelling exceptions, um, that typically when we have a closed syllable, we are going to pronounce the vowel as a short vowel as in wind. So we’re going to have that short vowel typically. That’s normal that we see. However, with ind the exception is we are going to use a long i and say wind.
So again english english english – making things confusing! We actually have an exception to the exception rule here so let’s just talk about the sounds. Okay so let’s start with that w sound www. To do this you’re just going to pucker your lips.
Then let’s fix the endings too and just get that part over with, so let’s do the end. You’re going to touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth with that N. Air is going to move out of your nose and then for the d, d, you’re going to pull your tongue down. Air is going to puff out of your mouth. Your voice box is on and moving. Now for the short i sound. Think about having a relaxed mouth and the tip of your tongue is going to be just behind your top front teeth and your tongue is going to be relaxed.
If you tend to say e for this sound, think about relaxing everything. Relax your lips, relax your tongue, just let everything sort of relax. You’re going to even have a little slight dip in the middle of your tongue and you’re just going to say ih.
wind wind wind
Now to say wind, we have that long I sound. And to do this you are going to open your mouth really wide, tip of the tongue is low, back of the tongue is pulled high up. Then you’re going to move to a smile. As you move to the smile your tongue will end high and flat in the mouth i i.
Wine d wind wind
So we have wind wind wind and wind wind wind wind wind wind wind
And now for a sentence:
The wind made it difficult to wind the Christmas lights.
The wind made it difficult to wind the Christmas lights.
Please give it a try. I know people are going to notice the difference!
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April 12, 2022
How to Pronounce ITS & IT’S – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson
Learn how to pronounce the words ITS and IT’S with this American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson. Both of these words are pronounced the same way.
Definitions:ITS means belonging to or associated with; its is a possessive pronoun
IT’S means it is; it’s is a contraction
Pronunciation:They are pronounced ih-t-s or /ɪts/.
Sentence:That box. Yes, it’s on its side.
This may be helpful:HOMOPHONES – words spelled differently but pronounced the same
Transcript:Hello! It is Jennifer from Tarle speech with your two for Tuesday homophone lesson.
Homophones are words that are pronounced exactly the same way. They just have different spellings and different meanings. Our words today are:
its: the possessive pronoun and
it’s: the contraction of it is
So let’s take a look at these words. They’re actually spelled the same we just have that little apostrophe that makes it different. So to say these words correctly we’re going to start with that short ih sound. To make this sound, your mouth is going to be relatively relaxed, it is slightly open, and you can see the tip of my tongue just behind the top front teeth. It is not touching. You can see it like right here.
ih ih ih
If you close your mouth more and you smile, e, and your mouth becomes tense you’re going to have that e sound. So just relax your mouth a little bit.
My tongue is still relatively flat in my mouth. But the difference between the e and the ih that I can feel my tongue relaxing, and instead of having my tongue completely flat for that e, it’s going to pop down a little bit. And I can feel relaxation in the middle of my tongue there. Then we’re going to move to that t sound. To do this, touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth. Air puffs out. Then pull the tip of your tongue down. It can actually be pointing all the way down into the bottom of your mouth. That is totally fine. Just as long as that air keeps moving out for that s sound. Let’s put it all together.
it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s
Some of you may be asking, but what about eats? Doesn’t it sound like eats? It’s a little bit different. The e is the sound that we just talked about which is super flat tongue, which is really high in your mouth, and smiling lips that are tense.
eats eats eats
Relax the mouth. Relax the tongue.
it’s it’s it’s
And now for a sentence:
That box, yes, it’s on its side.
Give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference. If you found this helpful, please share us with your friends, don’t forget to give us a like. If you need more help check out our classes and products at Tarle speech thanks so much everyone have an amazing week!
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