today's question is how do I say the word water bottle and to do those we're

going to break this down into a two part lesson one we're going to talk about the

sounds in each word and then two we're going to talk about compound nouns and

how you say those correctly with the correct word stress so let's go ahead

and take a look at our words most people that I work with will say

water and that's totally fine everyone is going to understand you and people

also also say bottle totally fine you can go ahead and say it like that but if

you want to sound a little more like an American what you are going to do is you

are going to use the flap T which I like to teach as sounding like a very fast D

sound okay so let's break these two words down

let's start with the first syllable here Wah to do that you're going to round

your lips and a pucker and then open into the with a round oval mouth very

open that's going to help you get your tongue into the correct spot

Wah your tongue is going to be down the tip of the tongue will be down in the

bottom of the mouth and the back will be pulled up wah next we're going to move

to the Der this is the fast flat T sound that I was talking about just

think of it as a d to do that touch the tip of your tongue to the back of

your top front teeth quickly the voice box is on and moving and then move to

the er sound square 10 flips and you have a choice tip of the tongue can be

flipped back with the back of the tongue bunched up or tip down what the back of

the tongue pulled up either is fine let's put that together

wah der water water water next for BA dull again we're going to start lips

together for the B b and then we're going to move to that oval mouth again

with the tongue low in the mouth and the back pulled up and then we're gonna move

to the d super fast T sound that we're going to make voiced to sound like that

flap T d and then we are going to quickly move the tongue back up behind

the top teeth for the L sound and hold it there for just a second

bottle bottle bottle bottle water bottle water bottle some of you may be saying I

hear a little bit of a sound in between that D and that L you probably do there

is a little teeny tiny bit of a schwa sound there

I don't really teach people to do that because when I tell people yes there is

a little bit of a sound there I'll hear people say dull bah dull and then that

makes the word sound just a little bit off and a little bit longer than it

should be so try not to make a vowel there just try to say quickly D then to

it now bottle bottle bottle now to make this a compound noun what we are going

to do is we are going to link these two words together no pause in between those

word number one is going to be louder the vowel will be longer and it'll be

higher and pitch that's what marks stress in English louder longer and

higher that word will be louder longer and higher the second word

bottle will be a little bit lower in pitch a little bit softer and the vowel

will be quicker so let's try those all together water water water bottle bottle

bottle water bottle water bottle water bottle please fill up your water bottle

at the water fountain before getting on the flight give it a try people they're

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