Name: How to Pronounce PLAY, PLACE, PLAYS, PLACEBO - English Pronunciation Lesson
Uploaded: 2021-06-18T17:40:31.000Z
Duration: 4 min 14 s
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hey everyone jennifer from turtle speech with your  pronunciation question we have three words today  

The imperative

place a location plays performances or kids having  fun and placebo a medicine with no physical but  

with psychological benefits all right let's take a  look at our words we have place plays and placebo  

for place in place these words are almost  exactly the same they start with the same  

three sounds p l and the long a play play play  so to say play i'm actually going to add that in  

we are going to start with our lips two together  and think about having your tongue in the correct  

spot for the l which is behind the top front  teeth that's actually touching the back of the  

top front teeth and then as you open your mouth  your tongue will be in the right spot for the l  

pull pull next we're going to move to the long  a and to do this open your mouth and then move  

to a smile for that long a my tip to most of my  students is make your vowels at the end of words  

a little bit longer and typically  that helps fix any of the mistakes  

for place we're going to add an s sound to do  this tip of the tongue is either pointed down  

or behind the top front teeth it is not touching  air is going to move out of your mouth place  

place place and for plays all you're going to do  is turn on your voice for that z sound so it's  

exactly the same as the s tongue is in the  same spot either pointed down or behind the  

top front teeth not touching the difference  is your voice box is on and moving plays plays  

plays so we have play place and plays you are  probably hearing a little bit of a longer a  

in the word plays because we have that  voiced z vowels are voiced voiced sounds  

are voiced that makes our voice stay on and  makes that vowel sound a little bit longer  

last for placebo this confuses people because  it's pronounced differently we are going to  

have the schwa here at the beginning pla which  is a nice short relaxed mouth nice short vowel  

then we're going to move to the word c to  do this s sound tip of the tongue down or  

behind the back of the top front teeth air is  moving out no voice no touching in the teeth  

and then smile for that long e c and then we're  going to end with bow and to do this you're going  

to put your lips together open them up and then  move to a pucker for that long o bow bow bow pla

placebo placebo placebo so we have play  place plays placebo play place plays placebo  

and now for a sentence the children play outside  in the place where the actors do a lot of plays i  

couldn't add placebo in there but you can leave me  a sentence for placebo if you would like so give  

it a try people are going to notice the difference  if you found this helpful we would love a like a  

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