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hey everybody Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question
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today's question is how do I pronounce the word preliminary which means actions
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or events before or in preparation of an event so it's something you do before to
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get ready for something and so let's go ahead and take a look at this word the
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word again is preliminary so many letters that already causes people
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anxiety I know let's break this down into the syllables or beats of the word
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we have preliminary preliminary let's look at each beat in the word we're
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gonna start with what the mistake that I hear on this syllable is that people say
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Pa-rah and they actually add another beat because you're adding a sound
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between the P and the r there's no vowel sound there so you're going to put your
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lips together and be ready for that our sound and as you open your lips from the
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P say that R sound PR PR PR and this is a schwa sound that's a short uh sound
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next we have the loudest longest and highest pitch syllable our stressed
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syllable the stressed beat in the word Lim Lim so you're going to take your
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tongue from the back of your top front teeth the tip of your tongue pull it
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down into the middle of your mouth for that short i and then close your lips
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for the M Lim Pra-Lim Pra-Lim next we're gonna add the schwa syllable nice
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and short you know the drill open your mouth relaxed mouth really quick not
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super loud uh prablima prablima move to nair start by touching
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the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth air moves out of
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your nose and then add that air vowel by opening your mouth wide and then moving
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to that er sound do not touch your teeth that R and do not let your tongue move
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for the R nice and long and strong nair prablima nair prablimanair and
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end with the long e by smiling because you're so happy we are finished with
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this word let's put it all together Pra limma
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preliminair preliminary preliminary preliminary preliminary and let me cheat
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again and look at my sentence some of you have complained about my sentences
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not being very good lately so I'm trying to be better here we go
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the event required extensive preliminary planning the event required extensive
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preliminary planning give it a try I know people are going to notice the
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