Name: How to Pronounce SEEM SEAM SIM SCENE SEEN SIN - Long E, Short i, M, N - English Pronunciation
Uploaded: 2020-09-16T19:16:36.000Z
Duration: 4 min 12 s
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hey everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question

Present continuous

today's question is a rather long one I have a lot of words for you so I'm going

To-infinitive

to skip the definitions because we want to jump right into the lesson and the

lesson today is about two things the long e versus the short i sound and the

N nnn versus the m mmm sound at the end of

words so let's look at the word list that we have for today we have the word scene

and seen and sin seem and seam and sim which is short for simulation so let's

look first at the ending sounds the M versus the n this gets super confusing

for my students because in many languages the n sound is the only

sound that can end a word that is a nasal which means the sound is coming

out of your nose you do have nasals in many other languages like the M sound

but typically that sound comes at the beginning of a word so my students get

really confused with this ending so for the n sound the air is going to come

out of your nose and you are going to touch the tip of your tongue to the back

of your top front teeth nnn nnn nnn for the M sound mmm your lips are just

going to be closed and the air is going to come out of your mouth so again the

difference is nnnn vs. mmm mmm easy breezy right now for the long e versus

the short I sound for the long e your tongue is going to be high in your mouth

and flat it's going to be behind your top teeth e your lips are going to be in

a smile and they're going to be tense E e then for the ih sound which is a

little bit less tense your mouth is going to be relaxed and your

lips are going to then just relax and pull in a bitso we have e-ih -e-ih -e-ih  you can

see that difference tense versus relaxed really pulled back only versus slightly

pulled back the tongue will go from E way at the top way up here to ih  e Ih e ih I like

to tell my students don't really think about moving your tongue think about

moving your lips in your mouth and that really is going to help your tongue get

into the right spot so think about those lips e ih e ih so again let's remember the N nnn

and the M mmm okay let's put it all together we're gonna start these words

it's just the S sound super easy breezy just tongue is either behind the top of

your teeth or pointed down into the bottom of your mouth

don't touch anything and just let that air move out of your mouth ssss so for the

first two words we have seen seen seen sin sin sin seem sin and then for

seam seam seam Sim Sim Sim let's try it backwards sim seam sin seen seen sin

seam sim so give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference if

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