Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles hello everyone it's jennifer from tarle speech with your mini christmas series we have two words today that are homophones again we have slay which means to kill um or to amuse or impress and sleigh which is a sled for passengers pulled by horses or reindeer so let's take a look at these words we have sleigh and slay so to say these words correctly we only have to focus on three sounds today so we're going to start with that s sound to do this the tip of your tongue is either pointed down or right behind the top front teeth that is not touching and the air is going to continue to move out of your mouth next touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth for that l sound you can see i'm keeping my lips in about the same position as i do this doing that will help you avoid adding an extra vowel between those two sounds if you are a spanish speaker and some other speakers from different other language backgrounds do this be sure to not add an extra sound before the s it is not eslay it's just slay and then we're going to end with that long a we're going to do that by opening the mouth wide and then moving a smile and that will help your tongue shift from the bottom of the mouth nice to the top and nice and flat so let's put that all together lay slay slay slay slay slay and now for a sentence santa will slay and impress in his new shiny sleigh and i hope that he comes to visit you and brings you everything that you're wishing for this year so if you found this helpful please give us a like and a share spread some christmas cheer with your friends if you're looking for some more help you can check out our products on google play itunes and all of our class options at tarle speech thanks so much everyone merry christmas
B1 slay sleigh tongue top front tarle tarle speech How to Pronounce SLEIGH ? & SLAY ? American English Christmas Pronunciation Lesson 11 0 Summer posted on 2020/12/22 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary