Name: How to Pronounce TRAITOR & TRADER - American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson
Uploaded: 2021-10-12T18:10:15.000Z
Duration: 3 min 14 s
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Hi everyone it's Jennifer from Tarle speech  with your two for Tuesday. This is a homophone  

lesson - two words that are pronounced exactly  the same way. So again these words are pronounced  

the same way. They have different spellings  and different definitions for words today are  

trader, which is a person who buys and sells  goods; and then a traitor, a person who betrays.

So two syllables, two beats in these  words. We're going to start with that tray.  

This is a little bit tricky so let's break this  down a bit. You're going to start with that t  

sound and that is made by touching the tip  of your tongue to the back of your top front  

teeth. You are then going to move directly  to that r sound. You have options for this.  

You can either flip the tip of your tongue  back away from your teeth or point it down  

to the bottom of the mouth and the back of the  tongue is going to be pulled up. Have your lips  

ready as soon as you start this word  in a square tense shape for that r. tr

So what i'm doing here is my tongue is here, my  lips are ready for the er, and I move my tongue  

down to the bottom of my mouth and I pull  the back of my tongue up for that r. tr tr

You can do tr tr that's a little bit harder for  me, but I can do it if I think about it. And then  

we're going to end with that long a sound. To do  this your mouth opens wide, tip of the tongue is  

low, back is pulled up, and then your tongue moves  too high and flat and smiling lips. tray tray

Then we're going to end with that syllable der.  To do that touch the tip of the tongue to the  

back of the top front teeth and then pull it  again down or flip it back for the er sound.  

This is actually the flap t and what that is,  is think of it as a super fast d sound. Okay  

so I'm going to teach it as the d sound. If  you say it slowly it's going to be fine but  

officially and technically, you want it to be  super fast you want it to be that flap sound.

So let's put all that together tray der tray der 

trader trader trader traitor traitor traitor

The trader was known as a  traitor amongst his co-workers.

So give it a try I know people are  going to notice the difference. If  

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