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  • hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question

  • today's question is how do I pronounce the word ferry which is like an

  • imaginary person with wings and magical powers and ferry which is a boat a type

  • of transportation which is going to take people or passengers from one place to

  • another on a regular route so to say these words correctly we only have three

  • sounds we're going to start with the F sound fff and to do this you are going to

  • have your mouth slightly open you're gently biting the inside or the outside

  • of your bottom lips lip what you want to avoid here is putting your lips together

  • if you put your lips together this will sound like a p sound and we don't want

  • that so I gently bite the inside of my bottom lip you can gently bite the

  • outside fff and the air just needs to keep moving out of the mouth next we're going

  • to move to the air Vowel and to do this open your mouth wide tip of your tongue

  • is low back of your tongue is pulled up and then you are going to close your

  • mouth to square tense lips and as you do this the tip of your tongue is either

  • going to point down or flip back which ever one works for you just do not touch

  • your teeth and do not let the tip of your tongue move air and then we're

  • gonna end with an e by smiling let's put that all together fairy fairy fairy and

  • for my sentence the fairy godmother rode the ferry to meet Cinderella I'm

  • assuming her wings were broken so give it a try I know people are going to

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hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question

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