Name: How to Pronounce VULNERABLE -- American English Pronunciation
Uploaded: 2015-04-28T21:24:31.000Z
Duration: 7 min 34 s
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In this American English pronunciation video,

we’re going to go over how to pronounce the word

It’s got two dark L’s, which can be really tricky,

So the first syllable should definitely feel

like the most important syllable, vulnerable.

other three syllables and make them less important.

and they may even sound a little mumbled.

You would never want to talk this way all the time,

but in your unstressed syllables it’s great,

touches the bottom of the top front teeth. Vv, vv.

that vibrates against the teeth.  Vv, vv.

after a vowel or diphthong in a syllable.

the sound is uhl, uhl, vul-, vulnerable.  It’s dark.

they think tip of the tongue to roof of the mouth, ll.

But that’s not actually how the dark part

It’s made with the back of the tongue.  Vul-.

I’m making that sound while the tongue tip is down.

presses down and shifts back a little bit.  Vul-.

Don’t lift the middle part of the tongue,

That’s all we need for the Dark L, that dark sound.

The next three syllables are all unstressed, -nerable,

so the tongue tip isn’t touching anything, -ner-.

doesn’t need to move much, -ner-, -ner-.  Good.

That helps us make it faster and more simply.

so we're just going to bring the tongue back down,

the lips do need to come together for that.

And another Dark L, except this one is faster,

less energized, less clear because it’s unstressed.

where the back part of the tongue pulls back a bit,

It’s an L, but you don’t need to lift your tongue up.

That’s just an extra movement.  We don’t need that.

The dark sound tells us it’s a Dark L, -ble, -ble.

Now let’s watch up close and in slow motion.

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