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everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question today's
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question is another embarrassing mistake these are actually great suggestions our
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word is that which refers to a specific thing fat which means someone weighs too
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much and fart passing gas or flatulence so let's take
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a look at these words and learn how to say them so you aren't embarrassed so
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word number one that we typically don't tell people in America that they are fat
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so you want to make sure that you learn how to say the word that and so you
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don't say fat instead that would be very embarrassing so we're gonna start with
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the f sound let's look at the difference between the F and the th this
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is a very confusing combination for many of my students for the th we're going to
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stick your tongue out of your mouth th and you're going to allow the air to move
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over the top of your tongue to do this you must leave space between your teeth
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and your tongue because I am very advanced at this because I've been doing
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it all my life I actually just have a little divot in my tongue where the air
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comes out and that's fine I do tell my students try not to touch your teeth at
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all because then this will avoid making that T sound by touching your teeth also
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when you stick your tongue out of your mouth that will avoid you making the
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f sound and the sound this F sound is made by gently biting your top teeth to the
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inside of your bottom lip and some people do it to the outside of the
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bottom lip f f either is fine and the air is going to keep moving out of your mouth
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so we have ff and th th and in this case we're actually going to voice this th sound in
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this word and it's going to have your voice box on and moving and it's going
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to be that that that so we have fat and that fat and that make sure for
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the vowels let's move on to that next for this short a sound that your mouth
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is open in a wide circle when you open your mouth and a wide circle that will
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help you get the tip of your tongue really low in your mouth and the back of
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your tongue will be pulled up ah ah ah you can even see my tongue there ah so
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we have fat and that so what happens here with this fart why do people say
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that instead of fat or that all right so right here we have the ARE vowel and
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to do that you're going to open your mouth wide to allow that tongue to get
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flat in your into the bottom of your mouth with the back pulled up and then
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you're going to move to that er sound ARE I hear people kind of skip that R sound
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because their mouth isn't tense enough to be an a tense square at the end and
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it sounds more like an a sound and then when that happens that's when you might
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have people think that you're saying fat but also if you're not really quite sure
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what you're doing and you move your mouth a little too much then it could
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sound like fart so let's give all those words a try fat fart that fat fart that
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I'm gonna add one more word here and that word is vat which would be a giant
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container to hold things and this mistake would be heard if you are
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voicing that F sound if you voice the F sound vv vv it sounds like
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a V so we would have vat that fart and fat so let me give you my sentence did
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that fat man fart give it a try I know people are going to notice the
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