do we say broom and bloom and brush and blush. So this question gets um to talking about  

consonant clusters, with an l and an r sound,  and how to make those different. So let's  

go ahead and take a look at these words. We have broom and bloom, brush and blush. 

So quickly let's just talk about the endings for  broom and bloom: you're going to end with the oom  

oom, and to do that you're going to pucker, and  then you're going to close your lips for the m.

And then for the brush and blush  we're going to end with ush 

Just a short u - so your mouth is  just going to be open and relaxed,  

and then you're going to pucker sh sh sh 

ush ush ush So for the u relaxed and open mouth, nice short u  

sound uh, and then move to the puckered mouth shh,  for the sh sound two letters one sound ush ush

All right so for the br what are we going to  do - my tip is - make sure that your tongue  

is ready for the r sound before you even start  the b sound, to do that, back of your tongue  

is pulled up really really high in your mouth,  it's almost touching the roof of your mouth,  

and it's nice and tense, okay, the tip  of your tongue can do one of two things: 

the tip of your tongue can either be pointed  down towards the bottom of your mouth,  

some people even have it all the  way in the bottom of their mouth

Or the tip of your tongue can be flipped back  away from your front teeth, and if your tongue  

is flipped back away from your front teeth, make  sure at no point when you're saying your r sound  

in american english, do you touch your teeth. We  do not touch the teeth when we say the r sound.  

It's going to be a nice long and strong r  more like a vowel sound, so i'm ready for my r  

and then, got my tongue there, everybody ready  now, you're going to close your lips to say the b,  

br br br

So i'm closing my lips for the b, my  tongue is in the position for my r,  

and then, I open my lips and as I open  my lips to that square tense shape,  

I'm already in the position for  the r with my tongue. br br br

So we have broom and brush broom and brush

Now for the b l, to do that you're going  to start with the b, your tongue is just  

hanging out in your mouth for that b sound,  b, because we make the b more with our lips,  

right, then you are going to think about as you  open your mouth your tongue is going to move as  

you open your mouth and it's going to touch  the back of your top front teeth. bl, bl, bl 

So you can see my lips are opening, and as my lips  are opening, at the same time, my tongue is moving  

to touch the back of my top front teeth, I am  not opening my mouth and then saying the l,  

if i did that, it would sound like ba l, and I don't want that extra vowel sound  

in there, I want it to be nice and  smooth from the b to the l. bl bl bl

So let's put this all together  bloom brush bloom brush  

blush oh my gosh I made a mistake let me  try that again bloom blush bloom blush.

So let's try them all together we have broom brush bloom blush 

broom bloom brush blush let's try those one more time  

broom brush bloom blush broom bloom brush blush 

And now for some sentences: The florist used the broom to sweep the blooms  

that were on the floor. And 

Idon't need a hairbrush because I don't have any  blush on so I want to keep my hair on my face. 

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