question is how do I pronounce three words access or permission excess

meaning extra and axis a reference line let's go ahead and jump right in

because this is a little bit of a confusing lesson for many of my students

the way we're going to look at this today is we're going to think about

syllables and syllable breaks and what I mean by a syllable break is where that

little tiny pauses between syllables if you do pause too long it can sound like

you have two words but it's sort of that natural break and each beat of the word

so again think about that think about the syllables or the beats and the word

and where they break along with each sound okay so keeping that in mind let's

go ahead and look at these we have access and syllable number one is going

to be ack then we have excess and syllable number one is going to be eck

now for axis syllable number one is going to be ax and they think this is

again where the confusion is is where we break these words so let's look at word

number one access so to say this we're going to start with that ack and to do

this mouth is open wide in a round circle the tip of your tongue is low in

your mouth and the back of your tongue is pulled up ack then we're gonna end

with SeS and then to say this you're going to start with that s sound sss tip of

your tongue is either pointed down or behind the top front teeth not touching

the teeth at all air moves out and then move to that short eh sound and to do

this your mouth is slightly open and you can see just the tip of your tongue

between your top and your bottom teeth eh and then end with that SeS

ses ses let's put it all together access access access the difference

between access and excess is mouth opening so I'm going to contrast those

two we have access and then excess so for this short e again your mouth is

slightly open and you're just going to see the tip of your tongue between those

top and bottom teeth eh eh excess excess excess excess access excess access

excess and then for axis again think about the first beat here acs and to do

that we know how to say the ak and then we're just going to add that s sss by

allowing that air to move out of the mouth tip of the tongue is not touching

your teeth at all aX aX aX if this helps you this is the word aX okay and then

we're going to add the ending is you can say is s or us I'll give you some other

options here is just about that second syllable being shorter all right so we

have aX is axis axis axis if it makes it a little bit simpler for you if it's

too hard to just do this s at the end you can add another one at the beginning

there that's totally fine that will kind of all blend together and it'll sound

okay when you put it all together axis axis axis axis okay

let's try them all again access access access

excess excess excess axis axis axis give it a try I know people are

going to notice the difference if you'd like to help all of your other English

learners out there try to use those words in a sentence that was a tough one

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