recently I've had a lot of students from all different language backgrounds who

really have a lot of trouble with the T sound the SH sound and the CH sound

so we're going to look at all of those sounds today and I think this might give

some of you insight into why these sounds are so confusing

so our words today are two which 2 too & to are all pronounced the same I have a

video on how to pronounce these 3 words if you're interested I'll put the link

in the description we have the word shoe what you wear on your feet and then chew

which means to masticate your food all right so let's start with the word 2 to

say the let's start with that actually the ew sound here the vowel the vowel

is the same in all of these words which is really going to highlight the initial

sound so for the ew sound all you're going to do is really pucker your lips

for that ew and your tongue is going to be flat in the middle of your mouth and

everything's going to be tense your tongue and your lips and your mouth ew

this vowel is long and I always say to my students make sure that your vowels

at the end of words are a little bit longer that's really going to help you

because most of my students make vowels too short so we have the ew ew and ew so

for the T sound to make a T sound you're going to touch the tip of your tongue to

the back of your top front teeth most people can do this for the SH sound in

shoe your tongue is not touching your teeth your tongue is in the middle of

your mouth Shh behind your top front teeth it's pulled

a little bit back it's not where it is for the s sssss it's more back Shh and

you're gonna round your lips and when you round and pucker your lips this is

going to help your tongue get in the right spot because when you make your

mouth smaller by closing it or bigger by opening it there are only so many places

where your tongue to go so try that it usually works for people so again we

have t where we touch our teeth and Shh where we do not touch our teeth okay now

here's where the magic happens all right the set the T sound

plus the is SH sound pronounced very quickly together make the CH sound you

heard it correctly t plus SH make the CH sound another thing to keep in mind even

though I'm saying SH and CH sound there was really no H sound in there I'm

using these diagraphs or two letters that we typically write together to

represent these sounds because you really will see that a lot in American

and English spelling rather so again we have T plus s H equals CH so touch the

tongue for the T to the back of the top front teeth

pull it back for the SH and you have to ch ch chew so let's try those all too, shoe to shoe chew

chew shoe too and now for a sentence I had to not chew my gum when I asked the clerk

for two of the same shoe give it a try people are definitely going to notice

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