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hey all jennifer from tarle speech with your pronunciation question today's
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question is how do i pronounce the word niece
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which is the daughter of your sibling and
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knees the joint in your legs all right here are our words
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so to say the words we are going to start with exactly the same
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two sounds the n e to say the n sound tip of the tongue
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touches the back of the top front teeth air moves out of the nose and then
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smile nice high flat tongue for that e and that e is nice and long
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knee knee and yes we do have a silent k here which we are not going to
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say to end the word that's where we have the
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difference for nice we are going to have what we
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call the soft c which is pronounced as an s
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and to do that tip of the tongue is behind the top front teeth are pointing
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down air continuously moves out ssss ssss
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niece niece niece now for knees
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your tongue is going to do exactly the same thing as i described for the s it's
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either behind the top front teeth or pointing down it is not touching the
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difference is your voice box is on moving and
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vibrating for that z sound zzzzz
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putting the voicing on for that z sound is going to make the e
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before it sound a little bit longer all right so let's put these all
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together we have niece
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and knees niece knees niece niece
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niece knees knees knees and now for a sentence
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my niece fell and skinned her knees give it a try people are going to notice
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