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  • hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question

  • today's question is how do i say costume special clothes

  • custom a tradition and customer a person buying goods let's take a look

  • at these words the spelling gets super confusing

  • all right so let's go ahead and jump right in for

  • costume this word is going to be more different than the other two words

  • we're going to start with the k sound tip of the tongue is down back of the

  • tongue is pulled up keep your mouth open and say the open oh

  • sound and the tongue still stays low in the mouth kos

  • close the mouth and as you close the mouth the tip of your tongue

  • will either stay low or will be behind your top front teeth for that s

  • kos then we're going to move to the ch sound yes the ch sound two letters

  • that equal one sound do this touch the tip of your tongue

  • to the back of your top front teeth and then pull your tongue

  • back ch ch

  • and then we're gonna round for that ew and then

  • close the lips for the m and the air is going to move

  • out of the nose costume costume costume

  • costume now for custom and customer both of those words are going

  • to start with the kuss syllable and to do this we're going

  • to start with that k and then you're going to have a relaxed

  • mouth for that nice short usound and then end with the s s

  • for custom we're going to end with the tum to do this touch the tip of your

  • tongue to the back of your top front teeth

  • short vowel for that uh sound with the relaxed mouth and then end with the m

  • m custom custom custom now for customer

  • we're going to have this short schwa sound here this short uh in the middle kuss ta

  • and then end with the mer and to do this lips closed

  • and then square tense lips for that er customer customer customer

  • costume costume costume custom custom custom

  • customer customer customer and now for a sentence

  • customers hurried to buy a costume to follow

  • the custom give it a try people are going to notice the difference if you

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hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question

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