Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles hi everyone jennifer from tarle speech we've got a great question today the words are bass the fish bass the guitar and base the bottom of something let's go ahead and take a look at these words so we have some heteronyms here what are those you don't even have to know the word it's basically words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently with different meanings and that's what we have here so this is bass the fish and bass the guitar so we have bass to say this word correctly you're going to start with the b b move to wide open mouth for that ah sound think of a wide circle shape and then end with that s sss to do that tip of the tongue is either pointed down to the bottom of the mouth or behind the top front teeth which is not touching and that air keeps moving bass bass bass this is opposed to base with the long a and bass the guitar and base the bottom are pronounced exactly the same way yes they are spelled differently so we have b a and to say that long a sound what you're going to do is open your mouth into a wide circle and then smile a that's going to help your tongue move from low in your mouth to high and flat a base base base so we have bass bass bass base base base bass base bass base and now for a sentence the bass guitarist sat at the base of the statue in the hopes that he could get the bass to come close to shore give it a try i know people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful please give us a like a share and a subscribe check out our products on google play and itunes and our classes at tarle speech thanks everyone
B1 bass base guitar mouth tarle speech tarle How to Pronounce BASS, BASS, & BASE - English Pronunciation Lesson 12 0 Summer posted on 2021/02/26 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary