Name: How to Pronounce SWAT, SWEAT, SWITCH, SWEET - English Pronunciation Lesson
Uploaded: 2020-10-24T02:00:44.000Z
Duration: 3 min 40 s
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hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question

today's question is how do i say the word swat

To-infinitive

to hit sweat perspiration sweet sugary and switch

to change so the focus of the lesson is mainly on the vowels but we are going to

talk about the beginning and the ends of the words briefly so to say these

words correctly we're going to start with that

sw swat so to do this you are going to have your

tongue either behind your top front teeth or

pointing down then you are going to move smoothly from that s ssss

you don't want to say sa woo you don't want to open your mouth

that's going to add that extra vowel there and we don't want

that also if you do tend to start with that

e before your s sound at the beginning you're going to want to just make sure

all right so now for the vowels we're going to

think about this from moving from the most open

so you can see my mouth opens more as i go

up and it closes as i go down my list so to say that a sound wide

open circle tongue is going to be lowest in the mouth

ah next we're going to move to that short e

sound your mouth closes a little bit and as your mouth closes your tongue moves

ih is the middle of the mouth your mouth is relaxed

and your tongue again moves up a bit and then

e is the highest and the flattest with your tongue and your mouth is

some people get confused with the spelling here for

sweat typically e a is pronounced the long e

but here it is pronounced the short e and then to end the words most of them

end with a t sound t  and to do that touch the tip of your

tongue to the back of your top front teeth

and the air gently explodes out and that is the ending for swat

and sweat and sweet but for the word switch you're going to

start by touching the teeth and then pull your tongue back for that

sound we actually have it spelled with three letters here

tch but it's only one sound the ch so let's try all these words swat swat

switch and sweet sweet sweet so give it a try

i know people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful

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