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hello everyone it's jennifer from tarle speech with your mini christmas series we have two words
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today that are homophones again we have slay which means to kill um or to amuse or impress
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and sleigh which is a sled for passengers pulled by horses or
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reindeer so let's take a look at these words we have sleigh
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and slay so to say these words correctly we only have to focus on three sounds today
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so we're going to start with that s sound to do this the tip of your tongue is either pointed down
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or right behind the top front teeth that is not touching and the air is going to continue
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to move out of your mouth next touch the tip of your tongue to
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the back of your top front teeth for that l sound
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you can see i'm keeping my lips in about the same position as i do this doing that will help
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you avoid adding an extra vowel between those two sounds if you are a spanish speaker and some other
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speakers from different other language backgrounds do this be sure to not add an extra sound before
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the s it is not eslay it's just slay and then we're going to end with that long a we're going
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to do that by opening the mouth wide and then moving a smile and that will help your tongue
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shift from the bottom of the mouth nice to the top and nice and flat so let's put that all together
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lay slay slay slay slay slay and now for a sentence santa will slay and impress in his new
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shiny sleigh and i hope that he comes to visit you and brings you everything that you're wishing for
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this year so if you found this helpful please give us a like and a share spread some christmas cheer
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