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  • everybody Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question today's

  • question is about two vowels when an L comes after them and it's the short e

  • and the short I if the problem with these two vowels that they look very

  • similar we're going to actually skip definitions today you can go ahead and

  • Google those because I want to jump right in to the body of the lesson on

  • how to pronounce all of these words you're going to learn six words today

  • love it we have hill bill and fill hell bell and fell so let's start at the

  • end of these words we have two letter L's ending the word but we're going

  • to end these words with one L sound L and to do this touch the tip of your

  • tongue to the back of your top front teeth and be sure to hold the tongue

  • there for a second you want to make sure that you're

  • holding your tongue there because the mistake that I hear is people pull it

  • down or don't touch it at all and then it makes all of the vowels sound

  • incorrect so make sure you get a nice L at the end of the word so it sounds like

  • it is there L LL okay now what's the difference between these two vowels they

  • look almost exactly alike and I'm going to say them and you can see this so we

  • have ih eh ih eh ih eh now I'm exaggerating when I actually say these words bill Bell they

  • look almost exactly the same so think about it this way for that short I sound

  • and ill or fill bill and hill the tip of your tongue is going to be behind

  • your top front teeth it is not touching and it's going to be flat il il il so

  • your mouth is relatively closed but your mouth is open and your lips are very

  • relaxed so again relaxed mouth slightly open and your

  • tongue is going to be a little bit higher in your mouth behind the top front teeth

  • it's not an e I hear that mistake sometimes it's a little more open a

  • little more relaxed which allows the tongue to just pop down just a little

  • tiny bit for ill ill ill now for the L ll you can't open your mouth quite a bit

  • again it's going to be relaxed and your tongue is then going to move up but the

  • mistake that I hear is that people open their mouth too much

  • and when you open your mouth too much it might sound like you're actually saying

  • al al and that's not what we're looking for we're looking for that nice el el el so

  • here's my tip for you this is what I suggest that you do you are going to

  • open your mouth enough so that the tip of your tongue and your flat tongue in

  • your mouth will be able to point at you between your top and your bottom teeth

  • so your teeth are slightly open and then you're going to make sure that your

  • tongue is pointing at you between the top and the bottom teeth el el el this

  • is different than ill ill ill so you can see for ill my mouth barely moves because my

  • tongue is pretty high up there and then it just pops up to touch the teeth but

  • for the eL el eL you can see my tongue and then it moves up there so I'm going to

  • get slightly closer so we have ill ill ill el el el let's add these two words

  • let's start with the ill hill bill fill and now to the eL hell Bell fell so

  • we're going to contrast them hill hell bill bell fill fell let's go backwards

  • fell fill bell bill hell hill now let's try a few sentences climbing the

  • large hill was hell bill we can also use that as a man's name bill rang the bell

  • and lastly be sure after you fill the bag that nothing fell on the floor give

  • it a try I know people are going to notice the difference if you found this

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  • so much I will see you again all soon buh-bye

everybody Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question today's

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