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  • welcome to the minute of speech today's lesson is a very common mistake it was

  • recommended by a high school client in Taiwan says and said which are different verb

  • conjugations of to say to pronounce these words correctly focus on the vowel

  • sound not the spelling to pronounce says start with with the tip of your tongue

  • behind your top teeth and the air moving out of your mouth move to the short eh vowel

  • that is somewhat open end with a z by placing your tongue tip behind your top

  • teeth and the air will move out of your mouth be sure your voice box is on and

  • moving says to say said start with s with the tip of your tongue behind her top teeth

  • and the air moving out of your mouth move to the short vowel eh that is

  • somewhat open end with d by touching the tip of your tongue to the back of your

  • top front teeth be sure your voice box is on and moving said let's try it says

  • says says said said said Matthew says you said that yesterday

  • Matthew says you said that yesterday

  • try it people will notice the difference

welcome to the minute of speech today's lesson is a very common mistake it was

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