We have three words today choir a singing group 

inquire to ask and inquiry an act of asking for information 

Kind of a tough lesson today but hang in  there i'm gonna make it as easy as possible. 

Okay so word number one choir -  spelling really confuses people.  

Been getting a lot of questions about the  ch sound I plan on doing a video about that  

the letter ch I should say n Not the sound, the letter c h,  

can be pronounced as a k, they can also be  pronounced as a ch, and sometimes as an sh. 

But today we are going to pronounce them as a k. So we're going to say the word choir we're going  

to start with that k w sound. So to say the  k tip of the tongue is down the back of the  

tongue is pulled up and then we're going to move  to the w sound by puckering your lips, kw kw kw. 

Next we're going to add the vowel ire, and to  do that you're going to open your mouth really  

wide so that the tip of your tongue can be low,  and the back of your tongue can be pulled up. 

Then you're going to close your mouth to a square  tense lip shape for that er part of this vowel  

sound, and again the tip of your tongue is down  or the back of your tongue can be flipped back. 

Let's put that all together  kw ire choir choir choir. 

And that word has one beat or one syllable - choir We are going to use the word choir in the  

next word when we say inquire. w We are going to start with the short word in. And  

to do that, we're going to have the short i sound  the ih sound. Your lips are relaxed your mouth is  

slightly open and the tongue is just at the top  of the, um, just at the level of the top teeth.

And then you're going to touch the tip  of the tongue to the back of the top,  

top front teeth for that n sound, and the  air is going to move out of your nose. So in  

and then move to choir. So because this word  is two beats we are going to have to stress  

one of the beats of the word and unstress  the other. So what does that mean.  

We are going to stress choir in this case. It's  going to be louder, longer, and higher in pitch.  

That means we have to unstress the in part,  which needs to be lower in pitch, softer, and  

shorter. The vowel will be shorter so let's  put that all together: inquire inquire inquire. 

Now for inquiry. This gets confusing  because the stress is going to shift  

to the beginning of the word, and when we do that,  we are going to have to stress the in part. That  

means the vowel is going to get shorter in this  middle part of the word. So we're no longer going  

to say ire, we're just going to say er in query,  and end with that re, and to do that r sound,  

we've talked about it already, and then e -  tongue is high and flat and your lips are smiling. 

So let's put that all together  in query inquiry inquiry inquiry

Let's give them all a try 

choir choir choir inquire inquire inquire 

inquiry inquiry inquiry and altogether 

choir inquire inquiry inquiry inquire choir 

One more time i kind of messed that last one up a  bit - choir inquire inquiry And now for a sentence 

The inquiry is to inquire  about choir job openings. 

Give it a try people are going to notice the  difference. If you found this helpful please  

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