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hi it's jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question
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today's question is how do i pronounce drawer
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a storage box in furniture and draw to make pictures or to choose like we
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draw a card let's take a look at these words we have
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draw and drawer these words are very confusing for a lot of my students they
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are spelled similarly but they are pronounced in
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a little more of an unusual way so for draw
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as you know if you have been my student for a while here on youtube
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we do not say a w sound at the end of a word we're not
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going to say draw and add an extra w sound we're
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actually just going to end this word with a vowel that oh
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sound for drawer this word looks like it should be drawer
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and it's not pronounced that way it's pronounced drawer and we're going to end
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with that or vowel so all of these letters here
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become the or vowel so how do we say these
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they both start with that d r sound dr dr
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to do this i recommend that your lips are ready for that r sound square tense
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shape and they are going to be ready for that
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er sound for the r the tip of your tongue can either be pointed down
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or flipped back just as long as it is not moving and
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as long as it is not touching the teeth okay
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so your lips are ready you're thinking about where your tongue is going to go
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for the r then you're going to start with the
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tip of your tongue behind the back of your top front teeth that is
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touching dr dr
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and all i'm doing is pulling my tongue from here for the d and i actually make
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my r with my tongue tip down so you can
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pull it down or you can flip it back
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whichever one works best for you dr dr next we're going to end that short oh to
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do that open your mouth in a wide oval tip of
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your tongue will be low in the mouth and the back of the tongue will be pulled up
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and for drawer we are going to end with that
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or sound and to do this you're going to pucker
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and then pull back into that square tense shape for that
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r or let's give those words a try draw draw
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draw drawer drawer drawer draw
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drawer draw drawer and now for a sentence my daughter plans
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to draw flowers on the chest of drawers give it a try
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