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Hi, there, Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question today's
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question is a confusing word pair actually three words so not a pair three
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the words are found discovered fund a sum of money and fun enjoyable so let's
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have some fun and learn how to pronounce fund and found you've got a bonus
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sentence there how about that okay so let's start with the words they all
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begin with the same sound so let's start with that so all of these words start
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with the ffff sound to make the F sound air is going to be coming out of your mouth
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and you can gently bite the inside bottom lip or the outside of the bottom
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lip but you just have to make sure that you leave some space for the air to move
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continuously out of the sides of the mouth do not put your lips together or
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this is going to sound like a p and we do not want that we want you should be able
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to feel the air on your hand when you're saying this sound next let's look at
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that short uh sound this is very easy for the short uh sound that we hear and fun and
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fund all you're going to do is relax your mouth have your mouth slightly open your
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tongue is just neutral in your mouth and you're gonna say a short uh now to end
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word number one fun all you're going to do is then touch the tip of your tongue
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to the back of your top front teeth and the air is going to come out of your
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nose fun fun fun doing this to exaggerate so that you know to make this
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sound a little bit longer oftentimes my students drop ending sounds all together
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and we need to make sure that you say that sound and if you make the sound a
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little bit longer or make an effort to do that usually that fixes the problem
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for the word fund it's basically the word fun and then after holding your
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tongue behind the back of your top front to you for that n you are gonna pull it down
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and turn your voice box on for the D fund
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fund fund so we have fun fund fun fund okay you know how to say this nd nnnd so
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touch the tip of the tongue and then pull it down air moves out of the nose
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then it switches to out of the mouth we also know how to say the F sound so
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let's focus on the vowel and the vowel here is going to be the ow
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sound ow we're gonna start with really wide open circle mouth shape and that's
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going to help us get our tongue low in the mouth with the back of the tongue
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pulled up ow and then we're going to move to a pucker and in doing that our
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tongue is going to come from the bottom of the mouth with the back pulled up and
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it's gonna kind of be more flat in the mouth ow ow ow let's put it all together
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found found found so we have fun fund found found fund fun and now your
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sentence she found the fundraising drive to be
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fun she found the fundraising drive to be
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fun give it a try people are going to notice the difference please you know
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