I have a quick follow-up to last week's  lesson. I was going through my requests  

and I noticed a pattern here. Last week we talked  about o with an l at the end of a word. And today  

we're going to be talking about o with an n at  the end of the word, which is almost exactly  

the same tip that I'm going to give you from  last week, which is to make sure your tongue  

hits the right spot behind your top front teeth  and that you hold it there for that n sound. So  

I guess some of you can just stop watching the  video now; but I hope you continue to watch.

All right, so we have two sounds today O  and N. That's the n sound where the air  

will move out of your nose for that  sound. Okay so let's start with the  

O. If you watched last week you know that my  mouth moves from open to a pucker for that o  

sound. When my mouth moves my tongue tip starts  low in my mouth with the back of my tongue pulled  

up and then it moves to sort of in the middle  of my mouth. The front is going to, the tip,  

is going to be pointing out the front of my mouth  and the back is still pulled up a tiny bit. o o o

Now last week we talked about L this week we are  talking about N. Your tongue is in the same spot.  

Your tongue is going to be touching the back  of your top front teeth. Very specifically  

it's going to be touching where your teeth  meet the skin part of the roof of your mouth.  

The difference here is air  is moving out of your nose.  

I also suggest that you follow my other tip  from last week which is to try to pull your lips  

back a little bit more into a smiling  shape and they should not be as rounded or  

puckered at the end. That's going to help you sort  of get that difference between those two sounds.

For those of you that it sounds like maybe your  n isn't there or maybe um you're also struggling  

with not getting that nice long o in  there and then this will help you sort of  

transition from that o into the n sound. Okay  so let's put those two sounds together O N.

And I just thought about this we're actually  practicing a real word here so i'm going to write  

this down. And our word is own. Now let's  try this combination in some other words:

phone phone phone stone stone stone 

cone cone cone bone bone bone 

loan loan loan and zone zone zone

One last final tip for all of you out there  is don't be afraid to really move your mouth  

to really go for those sounds and really  exaggerate. What you're doing often times,  

that's the difference, it's just people are afraid  to move their mouth and if you try to move it a  

little bit more, oftentimes that solves a lot of  problems. So one more time through with the words 

own phone 

stone

cone bone 

loan and zone

So give me a sentence and give it a try people are  going to notice the difference. If you found this  

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