We have three words today: violet the flower or a shade of purple 

violence a behavior intended to harm and violent means involving force

Let's take a look at our words.  

I'm going to start by teaching you how  to say these sounds with two beats.

I always think less is more. Let's start with  syllable one for all of these. It's the same and  

that is vi. To do this, we're going to start with  that v sound. To do this your lips are going to be  

open. You're going to be gently touching  your teeth. Sometimes they say biting the  

inside or the outside of your bottom lip. Air  is going to continue to move out of your mouth.

If you close your lips it is going to  sound like a b and we don't want that.  

It is V with the air moving out not B  with the air puffing out. So again V.

Next we're going to move to that long I sound.  To do that open your mouth in a wide circle I.  

Tip of your tongue starts very low,  back of your tongue is pulled high up,  

as you close your mouth to a smile, your tongue  will move to high and flat in your mouth.

Now for violet, we're going to end with lut.  To do this, touch the tip of your tongue to the  

back of your top front teeth. To be super  specific, where your teeth meet the roof  

of your mouth. Add that short ah and then end  with the t. Do this by touching the tip of  

the tongue to the back of the top front teeth and  the air pops out. lut vi lit violet violet violet

Now for violence, again, we're going to  start with that l and u again. For the n  

the difference here, the tip of your tongue is  still touching the back of your top front teeth,  

but instead of the air puffing out  of your mouth, it's going to move  

out of your nose, and then you're going to  pull your tongue down away from your teeth.  

It's either just behind your top teeth, or  it could be pointing down, and air is going  

to move out of your mouth for that s luns luns  luns vi luns violence violence violence

Now for violent, again, we know that  l-u-n, when your tongue is here for the n,  

air is moving out of your nose. We're going  to shift the air to puffing out of the mouth,  

and we're going to pull that tongue tip down.

lunt lunt violent violent violent

So we have violet violence violent

I do hear some people add a schwa and you can  totally do that. I actually left a little  

space there and you could say  violet, violence, or violent.  

Another difference I hear is sometimes I hear  people say a long o violet, violence, violent.

So you have many options here. I do  think saying two beats is always easiest:  

violet, violence, violent, but you do  have options. And you can add that schwa:  

violet, violence, and violent. Or you can have the  long o if you want: violet, violence, and violent.

So I have a sentence for you.  I didn't want to use the word  

violent in a sentence. It sounded so wrong.  But I googled and I have a great sentence:

The Violet Violence is a band that I learned  about while preparing for this video.

So give it a try I know people are going to notice  the difference. Please share us with your friends.  

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