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  • hey Jennifer from Talre speech with your pronunciation question today's question

  • is how do I pronounce psycho which is short for psychopath and cycle a site or

  • series or to ride a bike this lesson will help many students but especially

  • I'm thinking about my students from China who speak different Chinese

  • dialects and languages the last L in a word is really confusing so that's the

  • focus of the lesson today final L vs. the vowel so at the beginning of

  • both of these words is exactly the same we start with the s sound ssss and air is

  • just moving out of your mouth you are not touching your teeth then we're going

  • to move to long I open your mouth wide and then move to a smile that vowel is

  • nice and long for the K tip of the tongue down back of the tongue pulled up

  • psych psych psych then we will move on to the last sound for si ko you are

  • going to move your mouth from open to a punker si ko psycho psycho psycho and

  • then for cycle what you're going to do is keep your mouth and relatively the

  • same spot and then just move the tip of your tongue up and touch the back of the

  • top front teeth cycle cycle cycle you might hear a little vowel in

  • there that is true because I'm moving from the K to the L but just think about

  • ending with that L psycho cycle psycho cycle psycho cycle psycho

  • psycho psycho cycle cycle cycle and now for a sentence the psycho was riding his

  • cycle give it a try people are going to notice the difference if you found this

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