Name: How to Pronounce MINUTE & MINUTE - American English Heteronym Pronunciation Lesson
Uploaded: 2022-08-08T17:45:16.000Z
Duration: 4 min 19 s
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Hello it's Jennifer from Tarle speech with  your heteronym lesson. Heteronyms are words  

that are spelled the same, that they have  different pronunciations, and different  

meanings. Our words today are minute which  means 60 seconds and minute which means tiny.

So to say minute which is the noun, we  are going to start with the n sound.  

To do this, lips are together, air is moving out  of your nose, then we're going to add that short i  

sound. To do that my mouth is relatively  relaxed and my tongue is flat and just behind  

my top front teeth. If you tend to  say e you need to, that's the smiling  

higher vowel e, just relax your lips  and relax your cheeks a little bit  

and your tongue will pop down  and will be right in that correct  

spot. Then touch the tip of your tongue to  the back of your top front teeth for that n.  

Air again moves out of your nose. min min min

Then we're going to end with it again short i  sound. Tongue is just behind your top front teeth  

and it's relaxed and your cheeks and your  lips are relaxed. And then we're going to  

add that t. Touch the tip of your tongue to  the back of your top front teeth. For that  

this is just like the word it. So we're going  to put that all together. minute minute minute.

For minute, which means tiny, that's an adjective,  we are going to start with the word my. Just like  

me, my, and I wrote it as my the word. But if  you're curious it is the long i sound. To make  

that i sound, you're gonna open your mouth  wide, and um in a wide circle shape. Tip of  

the tongue is low, back of the tongue is pulled  high up, and then you're gonna move to a smile. i  

As you do that your tongue is going to move and  it's going to be high and flat in the mouth.

Next we're going to move to a new syllable. To  start that new syllable we're going to start with  

the n sound. Air moves out of the nose, tip of  the tongue is touching the back of the top front  

teeth, then we're going to add that ew vowel long  vowel made with puckered lips ew. Not many places  

for your tongue to go it's just sort of flat in  your mouth there. It's not touching anything and  

then we're going to end with the t. Touch the tip  of the tongue to the back of the top front teeth.

You're probably hearing a stress  difference. Excellent since you've  

been watching a lot of these heteronym  lessons. To make the stress in syllables  

different within a word the stressed syllable  must have a longer vowel, be higher in pitch,  

and be louder. Where the unstressed  syllable is softer, lower in pitch, and  

shorter. We are going to stress syllable number  one in minute, and syllable number two in minute.

minute minute minute minute minute minute 

Give me a minute and then I will explain  the minute differences in the sounds.

Give it a try I know people are  going to notice the difference  

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Best of luck and have an amazing  weekend. Thanks so much everyone!