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hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question
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today's question is how do i say costume special clothes
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custom a tradition and customer a person buying goods let's take a look
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at these words the spelling gets super confusing
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all right so let's go ahead and jump right in for
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costume this word is going to be more different than the other two words
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we're going to start with the k sound tip of the tongue is down back of the
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tongue is pulled up keep your mouth open and say the open oh
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sound and the tongue still stays low in the mouth kos
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close the mouth and as you close the mouth the tip of your tongue
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will either stay low or will be behind your top front teeth for that s
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kos then we're going to move to the ch sound yes the ch sound two letters
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that equal one sound do this touch the tip of your tongue
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to the back of your top front teeth and then pull your tongue
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back ch ch
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and then we're gonna round for that ew and then
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close the lips for the m and the air is going to move
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out of the nose costume costume costume
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costume now for custom and customer both of those words are going
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to start with the kuss syllable and to do this we're going
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to start with that k and then you're going to have a relaxed
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mouth for that nice short usound and then end with the s s
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for custom we're going to end with the tum to do this touch the tip of your
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tongue to the back of your top front teeth
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short vowel for that uh sound with the relaxed mouth and then end with the m
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m custom custom custom now for customer
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we're going to have this short schwa sound here this short uh in the middle kuss ta
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and then end with the mer and to do this lips closed
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and then square tense lips for that er customer customer customer
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costume costume costume custom custom custom
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customer customer customer and now for a sentence
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customers hurried to buy a costume to follow
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the custom give it a try people are going to notice the difference if you
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