are bear the animal and bare meaning not covered let's take a look at our words

we have bear be i R and bear b ar e both of these words are going to be

pronounced with a B b put your lips together and open them up while your

voice box is moving and then the r movement vowel air air to make this

vowel open your mouth in a nice wide circle this will help get your tongue in

the correct place with the tip down and the back pulled up air as you close your

mouth and move to a nice tense square what you're going to do is you're going

to keep the tip of your tongue in the bottom of your mouth and the back pulled

up as you close your mouth your tongue should get into the right the

correct position for that er vowel if you are one of those people that

pronounce is the er vowel with your tongue flipped back away from your teeth

that's fine the key is do not touch your teeth and

do not move your tongue for the R sound it doesn't trill or flap or tap or

anything like that it's just nice and stable so let's put it all together bear

bear bear bear bear bear the bear walked through the bare woods the bear walked

through the bare woods give it a try I know people are going to notice the

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