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  • hey everyone Jennifer from tarle speech today I have your pronunciation question

  • three words and a BOGO a buy one get one free

  • the words are West the direction waist the middle of your body and waste to be

  • care less about conserving resources two words are pronounced exactly the same

  • thank goodness and so let's go ahead and jump right in so the words here the

  • difference is going to be the vowel so the beginning of the word W the W

  • sound pucker your lips for that W and the air just keeps coming out of your mouth

  • and the ending for these two words we're going to say S T S T so to say that s T

  • combination you're going to say that s sound and keep that air moving out of

  • your mouth to make the S sound your tongue does not touch your teeth to stop

  • that air for the T sound touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top

  • front teeth ST ST ST

  • okay now let's tackle the vowels for West West Eh EH EH

  • my mouth is going to be slightly open and my mouth is going to be relaxed and

  • stable and static it's not going to move for that vowel EH EH EH I call this kind of

  • the smirking sound because it's not really an E where I'm smiling but your

  • lips are kind of pulled to the side a little bit

  • the difference from this vowel and a is that for the a my mouth is going to move

  • from wide open to a smile a so we have at the short e and a that movement vowel

  • that's long so EH A let's put it all together West West West waste waste

  • waste

  • west waste west waste when we were heading west we did not waste a lot of

  • food so my waste got bigger give it a try

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