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Pronounce CHEEK, CHICK, CHECK – American English Pronunciation Lesson

Learn how to pronounce the words cheek, chick, and check with this American English Pronunciation Lesson.

Definitions:

CHEEK is the side of the face

CHECK is to examine or verify

CHICK is a young bird or slang for a young woman

These words are pronounced:

/ʧik ʧɪk ʧɛk/.

Sentence:

Wipe your cheek before you ask for the check. You have some of the chocolate chick from dessert on your face.

Transcript:

Hello everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your question of the week. Our question today is about three words
check which is to examine or verify
chick which is a young bird or slang for a young woman and
cheek the side of the face

So let’s take a look at our words. Okay all of these words start and end with the same sound so let’s get that out of the way.
For the ch sound start by touching the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth and then pull it back for that ch ch ch ch ch ch
Then for the k sound the tip of your tongue is way low in your mouth the back of your tongue is pulled high up sometimes it even touches the roof of your mouth and air is just going to puff out K K.
So again we have CH and K.
Now for the vowels I put the words in this order on purpose we are going to start with a relatively closed mouth for the e your tongue is going to be nice and high and flat for that sound e e your lips are tense and smiling. You are going to relax your lips slightly and your tongue is going to pop down just behind the top front teeth. So we have eeeee ih

and then you’re going to open your mouth slightly and then you’re going to see the tip of your tongue between your top and your bottom teeth eh
ee
ih
eh
ee
ih
eh

And your tongue is going to remain relatively flat for all of these sounds but again the difference here is super high for the e with the tense mouth
relax the mouth ih ih
open the mouth slightly eh

Let’s give those words a try
cheek cheek cheek
chick chick chick
check check check
cheek chick check
cheek chick check

And let’s try it the opposite way
check chick cheek
check chick cheek
One more time
cheek cheek cheek
chick chick chick
check check check
cheek chick check
And now for a sentence
Wipe your cheek before you ask for the check. You have some of the chocolate chick from dessert on your face.

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How to Pronounce WEAVE & WE’VE – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson

Learn how to pronounce the words WEAVE & WE’VE with this American English Pronunciation Lesson.

These words are homophones and are pronounced exactly the same way: W-Long E-V or /wiv/.

Definitions:

WEAVE means to interlace.

WE’VE is the contraction we have.

Sentence:

We’ve been learning how to weave a rug.

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How to Pronounce EGG, ACT, AT – English Pronunciation Lesson

Learn how to pronounce the words EGG, ACT, AT with this American English Pronunciation Lesson.

Definitions:

EGG is an oval object from a bird.

ACT means to take action.

AT is a preposition expressing location or time.

Pronunciation:

EGG is EH-G or /ɛg/

ACT is AH-K-T or /ækt/

AT is AH-T or /æt/

Sentence:

The egg is at the center of the magic act.

Transcript:

Hey everyone this is Jennifer from Tarle speech with your question of the week. So let’s take a look at these words so we have egg act and add.

So let’s start with egg the difference between these words that we’re going to be focusing on today is this e the short e is a little more closed and the short a is more open.

So if you think about those two things I think that’s really going to help you differentiate these vowels. So for the short eh sound eh you can see my mouth is open EH EH EH and you can see the tip of my tongue between my top and bottom teeth. It is not a short i ih with my mouth more closed it is a little more open EH EH EH

The vowel for the short ah is very wide open. Your mouth is in a wide circle that is going to allow your tongue tip to get way down here in the bottom of your mouth and the back of your tongue will be pulled up – ah so let’s look at the difference between those again. EH EH EH AH AH AH

You can see just by opening my mouth that helps my tongue pop down. Now let’s talk about the g and the k same position for these sounds. Tip of the tongue is going to be down back of the tongue is going to be pulled high up. We have G G G –
your voice box is on and moving. For the k your voice box is off K K K

So this sound will be a little harsher G G G
and this will be a little softer K K K

Okay so let’s try to put this together
egg egg egg

I’m gonna open my mouth more here
ah K ah K ah K

Then from here from this k with the tip of my tongue down I’m going to pull my tongue up to the back of my top front teeth AH K T
AH K T

act act act

Now for at just going to take that k out and move from low for the ah to behind the top front teeth for the t at at at

When you hear this word at in conversation you might hear at and that is the air is just stopping, the tongue is staying in the same place behind those top front teeth, it’s just not pulling down and the air is not puffing out. So you might hear that. If you say at with more um air puffing out that’s totally fine. Okay so let’s try all of these words
egg egg egg
act act act
at at at
egg act at

And now for a sentence
The egg is at the center of the magic act.

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How to Pronounce DANCE & DENSE- American English Pronunciation Lesson

Learn how to pronounce the words DANCE & DENSE with this quick English Speaking Pronunciation lesson.

These words are pronounced:

Dense: /dɛns/ and rhymes with fence, hence, pence, tense

Dance: /dæns/ and rhymes with lance

Definitions:

DANCE to move to music

DENSE a compacted substance

Sentence:

The dance crowd wanted to dance all night.

Transcript:

Hey everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question.
We have two words today:
dense which means a compacted substance and
dance which means to move to music.
So to say these words correctly both words start with the d sound. D
To say this sound you’re going to touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth, voice box is on and moving, air puffs out.
We’re going to end with the same two sounds the n – tip of the tongue is behind the back of the top front teeth, air is moving out of your nose, then you’re going to move your tongue from the back of your top front teeth, pull it away from the teeth, that is not touching, it’s either behind the top front teeth, or pointed down, and the air is going to move out of the nose, out of the mouth, excuse me for the s sound

So we have ns ns ns

The difference that we’re going to be going for here is more with the vowel sounds today. How do we say the difference between a short e a and a short a a?
For the short e open your mouth slightly and you should be able to see the tip of your tongue between your top and your bottom teeth, that is the position – the tip of your tongue right between your top and your bottom teeth, mouth slightly open, just so you can see your tongue and your lips are relaxed, you do not want to pull your lips back too much because if you pull them back and make them too tense that will close your mouth and it might sound more like an e or an ih sound.
So it might sound like that long e or that short i by accident if your lips are too tense.

For the short ah you’re going to open your mouth even wider, and the tip of your tongue is going to be low in your mouth, and the back of your tongue is going to be pulled up towards the root roof of your mouth.

So we have eh ah eh ah eh ah

So again my hand is my tongue so this is the eh sound just between my teeth; and then the ah my tongue pops way down and comes way up in the back.

So let’s put those words together dense dense dense dance dance dance dense dance dense dance
And now for a sentence: The dense crowd wanted to dance all night.
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How to Pronounce POLE & POLL – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson

Learn how to pronounce the words POLE & POLL with this American English Pronunciation Lesson.

These words are homophones and are pronounced exactly the same way: P-long O-L or /poʊl/

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Definitions:

POLE a rod or either end of a location.

POLL a record of a vote.

Sentence:

The neighborhood poll asked everyone to vote on the color for the play pole.

Transcript:

Hey everyone it’s jennifer from Tarle speech with your two for Tuesday. These are homophones – they are pronounced exactly the same way, they just have different meanings and different spellings.

So our words today are pole and that is a rod or either end of locations like the north and the south pole and then poll a record of a vote.

So to say these words correctly we’re going to start with that p sound – put your lips together and let them open up, air puffs out.

Next we’re going to move to that long o sound – to do that your mouth is going to open in a wide oval shape, tip of your tongue is low, back of the tongue is pulled up. o; and then we’re going to move to a pucker. As you pucker your tongue is going to move along as you close your mouth and it’ll end in the middle of your mouth. There it’s not touching the teeth.

Then we’re going to end with an l and to do this you’re going to touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth.

poll poll poll

I am going to give you one little extra tip here some of my students really have trouble with l at the end of the word, especially when an o sound is right before it, this is oftentimes because the lips remained puckered – you do not want to have puckered lips for that l sound it’s oolll not it’s llll

You can see my lips are pulled back a bit so again to do that it’ll be ol

poll poll poll

And now for a sentence: The neighborhood poll asked everyone to vote on the color for the flagpoles.

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How to Pronounce ON, OWN, ONLY – American English Pronunciation Lesson

Learn how to pronounce the word ON, OWN, and ONLY with this American English Pronunciation Lesson. These words are pronounced: /ɑn, oʊn, oʊnli/.

Definitions:

On means in contact with a surface and part of a topic.

Own means belonging to a person.

Only means solely, exclusively, or no longer than something.

Sentence:

She only wants to be on her own when she is studying.

Transcript:

Hello everyone it is Jennifer with Tarle speech with your pronunciation question. Our question today is how do I pronounce the word on – which is in contact with a surface or part of a topic; own – belonging to a person; and only – meaning solely or exclusively or um no longer than like only a year.

So let’s start with the n sound n let’s get that out of the way to save the sound you’re going to touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth air moves out of your nose the l sound is made in the same spot this uh but the air moves out of your mouth.

So let’s also talk about the e e is that nice high flat tongue vowel is long and you are smiling so we’re going to end this word with lee lee.

Now let’s talk about these vowels o in english is very confusing for a lot of my students. It can be pronounced many different ways. We have two options here for the letter o and how we pronounce it.

For on we are going to pronounce it with an open short oh sound you can see my mouth is in an oval, it’s very open, my lips are not puckered. My tongue is going to be low in the front and pulled up and high in the back oh. You’re going to see I have to close my mouth oh on on on.

Now for own I’m going to start with that open mouth again, my tongue is going to be low the back, is going to be pulled up, but then I’m going to move to a pucker . oh oh As I close my mouth and move to that pucker my tongue is going to just come along for the ride it’s going to start here oh and it’s going to move up as I close my mouth. oh oh

And then add the n oh n own
So we have
on on on
own own own
only only only

So yes we’re going to use that long o here.

So let’s try those again
on own only
on own only

And now for a sentence
She only wants to be on her own when she is studying.
She only wants to be on her own when she is studying.

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How to Pronounce MADE & MAID – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson

Learn how to pronounce the words MADE & MAID with this American English Pronunciation Lesson.

These words are homophones and are pronounced exactly the same way: M-long A-D or /meɪd/.

Definitions:

MADE is the past and past participle of to make.

MAID is a domestic servant or a young, unmarried woman.

Sentence:

The maid made the bed.

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Transcript:

Hi everyone it’s jennifer from Tarle speech with your two for Tuesday. This is a homophone lesson. The words are pronounced exactly the same way, the only difference is the spelling and the definition.
Our words today are

made which is the past and past participle of to make and

made a domestic servant or a young unmarried woman

So to say these words correctly let’s think of three little sounds. The m sound will start. To say this sound, lips are together and air is moving out of your nose. Move to that long A – open your mouth wide to get that tongue tip low and then the tongue moves to behind the top, to the back of the top front teeth, and then after that, your tongue is there, so then, just touch the back of your teeth for that d,

made made made made made made

And now for a sentence:

The maid made the bed.

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How to Pronounce the Letters CH as CH, SH, K – American English Pronunciation Lesson

Learn how to pronounce the Letters CH in words pronounced as K, CH, and SH in this American English Pronunciation Lesson.

The letters CH can be pronounced three ways: CH, K, SH.

The letters CH are pronounced CH most of the time.

If a word is Greek in derivation, then pronounce it K like in stomach, chemistry.

If a word is French in derivation, then pronounce it as SH like in Chicago, machine, and mustache.

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Transcript:

Hi everyone it’s Jennifer with your question of the week!
This is more of a spelling tip this week and of course we’ll talk about how to pronounce the sound, but the question revolves around the letters c h and how do we know how they are pronounced. So let’s go ahead and take a look. Okay so we have two letters typically these two letters stand for one sound and that’s the ch sound or the ch.

So to make that ch sound what you’re going to do is you’re going to touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth and then the tongue pulls back for the ch ch/

You can see my lips are slightly rounded and we see this in words like cheese and much.
So again this is the default pattern.

We have two exceptions for you.
We have the k sound and this is in words that are more greek in derivation and again two letters are going to be one sound the K. To make a k sound tip of the tongue is low in the mouth back of the tongue is pull up air just puffs out and we see this pattern and the word chemistry stomach and school.

And then last we have these two letters ch pronounced as the sh sound the s h sound again typically two letters accounting for one sound for this sound your lips are rounded your tongue is not touching your teeth and the air just continues to move out.
We see this in words again typically a french derivation in words like champagne and machine and mustache.

So again we have three ways to pronounce the letters c h

The overarching general rule is we’re going to pronounce this as CH and we see that in words like cheese and much

and we can also pronounce them like a k sound when they’re in more of a word that comes from greek and we would see that in chemistry stomach and school

and then last sometimes we pronounce these letters as an sh in champagne machine and chicago my state my hometown i’m sorry um
and the reason we do this is because those are more french in derivation

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How to Pronounce AIR & HEIR – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson

Learn how to pronounce the words AIR and HEIR with this American English Pronunciation Lesson.

These words are homophones and are pronounced exactly the same way: AIR or /ɛr/.

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Definitions:

Air is what we breath.

Heir means a person legally entitled to property.

Sentence:

The heir took a deep breath of air when she realized the sum of the inheritance.

Transcript:

Hey there everyone jennifer with Tarle speech with your two for Tuesday homophone lesson. These words are pronounced exactly the same way with different spellings and different meanings. Our words are air – what we breathe and heir – a person legally entitled to property To say these words correctly we have one r vowel sound air – to say this correctly we’re going to open the mouth wide air. It’s going to be in a wide oval, tip of the tongue is low, back of the tongue is pulled high up, then we’re going to move to that er sound air and to do this you’re going to move to square tense lips. My tip of the tongue continues to stay down in the bottom of the mouth, and the back of the tongue is pulled up some, people do flip that tongue back and that is okay. Let’s put that all together air air air air air air And now for a sentence The heir took a deep breath of air when she realized the sum of the inheritance . Give it a try people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful please share us with your friends and give us a like you can also check out all of our products on google play and itunes and our classes at tarle speech thanks everyone have a great week.

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How to Pronounce SUNDAY & SUNDAE – American English Homophone Pronunciation LessonHow to Pronounce BIRTH & BERTH – American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson

Learn how to pronounce the words SUNDAY and SUNDAE with this American English Pronunciation Lesson. These words are homophones and are pronounced exactly the same way: s-short u-n-d-long a or /sʌndeɪ/.

Definitions:Sunday is a day of the week. Sundae is an ice cream treat.Sentence:I plan to enjoy a sundae on Sunday.

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Transcript:

Hi everyone it’s jennifer with your two for Tuesday!

Two for Tuesday are two words with different spellings, different meanings, and they are pronounced exactly the same way. They are homophones, so again: spelled differently, different meanings, pronounced exactly the same way.

So our words today are Sunday the day of the week
and sundae an ice cream treat.

So to say these words correctly we have two beats
sun
and day

So let’s start with syllable number one:
To say sun we’re going to start with that s sound: air moves out of your mouth, your tongue is not touching anything; and then, we’re going to move to that short uh sound, that short u, then end with the n by touching the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front teeth. Air is going to move out of the nose for that n.
sun sun sun

For the second part, for day, again,
touch the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front teeth for that d – the air is going to puff out, your voice box is on and moving. Then you’re going to open your mouth wide for that A sound. And when you open your mouth wide the tip of your tongue is going to be low on your mouth, the back of your tongue is going to be pulled up: a, and then you’re going to close your mouth to a smile to finish that vowel.

day day day
sun day
sun day
sunday sunday sunday

And I have sun underlined because that is the syllable that we are going to stress in the word. That syllable will be louder, higher in pitch, and longer.

sunday sunday sunday

I do want to just comment that I do hear some people say sunday for this word sunday it’s a variation I don’t hear it very often, but i do hear it every once in a while. And sometimes I hear it in a movie so I did want to comment on that. But again let’s practice one more time our words are
sunday sunday sunday

And now for a sentence
I plan to enjoy a sundae on Sunday.
I plan to enjoy a sundae on Sunday.

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