a follow-up to last week's lesson on the y versus j sounds and today our words

are how do I say mayor and how do I say major so let's go ahead and look at the

words so a mayor is an elected official and major means important or

significantI'm going to give you two different ways to pronounce the word

mayor I found that in teaching my students

some people prefer one to the other so let's go ahead and first talk about the

Y versus the J sound in case you missed the lesson last week so for the Y

sound what you want to think about doing is making your lips a little more wide

open and the tip of your tongue is going to be down away from the teeth and you

can actually touch the back of the tongue the outsides of the back of the

tongue on the insides of the top teeth y y and your tongue is going to be

stable and it's not going to be moving for the J sound the j sound my mouth

is definitely rounded and I am going to touch the tip of my tongue to the back

of my top front teeth and then move it back so the tongue is going to move for

the j sound so we have the y versus the j so when we look at these

two words let's start with the beginning syllable number one is going to be our

stressed syllable and we are going to make sure that that syllable is louder

has a longer vowel and is a little bit higher in pitch than the second syllable

may and we're going to start by putting the lips together may and then open and

move to a smile for that long a may may for mayor you can just end with an er

may er may er may er you can say may yer may yer with the Y sound

this really confuses especially my Spanish speakers so if that Y kind of

confuses you just say her it's not a big deal

mayor or make your mayor mayor so for major what you're going to do is

you're going to end that second syllable with the j for the jer may jer

major so we have mayor mayor mayor major major major mayor major

mayor major so the mayor proposed major changes to the transportation system

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