Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hello everyone it is Jennifer with Tarle speech with your question of the week. Our word today is close which is to shut and some of the variations of that word. So here is our word close. So let's just look at the word itself to say close correctly we are going to start with that k sound - the tip of your tongue is going to be low in your mouth and the back of your tongue is pulled up and the air just puffs out. Then we're going to move to the l sound - tip of the tongue is touching the back of the top front teeth. What you want to do for this is you want to move quickly and you do not want to add a vowel sound between these two sounds you do not want to say KA L We do not want that you want to say kl kl kl. So how I do that is my mouth stays in relatively the same place and I move my tongue only kl kl. Then we're going to move to the long o to do this you're going to open your mouth and then pucker o. That is going to move your tongue from low in your mouth to a little bit higher O and again think about your tongue just sort of going along for the ride it's going to move up as you move from the open mouth to the pucker o. Then we're going to end with the z sound z to do this your tongue is either behind your top front teeth or pointing down it is not touching your teeth that allows the air to keep moving out of your mouth and your voice box is on and vibrating let's put it all together close close close close close Now what do we do when we add an ed, an s, or an i n g? When you add the e d all we're going to do is just add one more sound that d sound and to do that we're going to say the z z then we're going to touch the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front teeth for that d closed closed And yes your tongue will pop down a little bit after you say that d sound closed closed Now for closes and closing we need to add a second beat or a second syllable to the word. So to say closes we're going to think about adding the word is and to do that we're just going to add the short ih sound mouth is just opened a tiny bit and the tongue is behind the top front teeth that's not touching is is closes closes closes closes And then for close-ing again short i sound your mouth is slightly open. Tongue is high and flat just behind those top front teeth and then you are going to move the tongue down to the bottom of the mouth back of the tongue is pulled way high up and the air is going to move out of your nose for the ng ng closing closing closing closing closing So again we have close closed closes and closing close closed closes closing Now I do have one little bonus tip for all of you I actually have a video for the this word on my site already and that is the word clothes, like what we wear every day, and we have c-l-o-t-h-e-s. Quick tip you don't even have to say that th sound you can just say the z and that's because the z is just really strong here and overtakes that th. So again we can say close as in shut and clothes as in what we wear the exact same way as kloz close clothes close So close the door while I put on my new clothes. All right and then let's do a sentence for these words as well: My second grade teacher always closed the door, if you don't close the door, she would ask, were you born in a barn? Who closes the door in your house the most? Give it a try i know people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful we'd love a like a share and a subscribe check out our products on google play iTunes and our class options at Tarle speech thanks everyone!
A2 tongue closing kl closed mouth sound How to Pronounce CLOSE, CLOSES, CLOSED, CLOSING, CLOTHES - American English Pronunciation Lesson 1 0 Summer posted on 2021/10/20 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary