today's question is another long one how do I pronounce the words green the color

grin a small smile grain wheat and grown to grow something or groan meaning

to moan so let's start with the G R that's the easiest to tackle to do this

we're going to start with the tongue in the bottom of your mouth for the g sound

and when you say the g sound the back of your tongue is pulled up and the tip

of your tongue is pointing down g g then from here gr you are

basically going to keep I at least keep my tongue and almost exactly the same

spot and what I do is I move my lips into a square tense shape and that helps

me get to that er sound er er yes my tongue is moving inside of my mouth but

just by moving my lips that helps get the tongue in to the correct spot if you

do make your R sound with the tip of your tongue pointed back that is fine

then just move from that G back to the r the key is is to say this smoothly

without adding an uh sound between you do not want to say ga green or ga ring

and just a nice smooth transition between the G and the R gr gr

okay let's move on to the vowels actually let's look at that ending sound

the n sound to make that end sound you're going to touch the tip of your

tongue to the back of your top front teeth this is important you want to make

sure that you put your tongue behind your top front teeth and hold it there

for a second to make sure that that n sound is nice and pronounced and a

little bit longer the mistake that I hear are some of my students make is

that they say green and it's so super short and they move the tongue away and

so you want to make sure you hold that n found just for a little extra second

now to get to the vowels for the e sound you're just going to smile e for the

short I sound think of moving from that e so your tongue is going to be really

high in your mouth and flat and it's going to be high in your top front teeth

and for the ih sound you open your mouth slightly and your tongue is going to

just fall slightly in your mouth it's going to be just a little bit lower it's

still flat and think about relaxing your mouth so tense mouth for the e and

relaxed mouth for the ih green grin green grin now for the grain you are going to

say the a sound and to do that you open your mouth in a wide circle and then

move to that e sound by smiling and this is a tense mouth shape for a ain

grain and last for grown and grown good news they're pronounced exactly the same

we are going to say o with an oval open mouth shape we're just going to get your

tongue low in your mouth and then you're going to pucker we're just going to help

your tongue move up into the middle of your mouth oh oh

groan so we have green grin grain groan grown grain grin green the farmer had to

grin when he looked at his grain that was very green that had grown a lot from

the rain give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference if you

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