We have two words today: medicine - the science of diagnosing  

treatment or prevention of disease and 

Madison which is a girl's name, a city in  Wisconsin, or a street in New York City.

So we have our words medicine and Madison.

Three beats in each of these words  and each word is going to end with  

the same two syllables so let's knock that out.

We have the short uh - the schwa syllable; and  then we end with syllable three which is sin.

We start with the s: sss. Tip of the tongue  is either pointed down or behind the top front  

teeth. It is not touching. Air continues to move  out. We're going to have a relaxed mouth for that  

short ih. And then the tip of your tongue touches  the back of your top front teeth for that n nnn as  

the air moves out of your nose. Now I wrote this  as sin but because it is an unstressed relaxed  

vowel you can think of also saying sun or sen as  long as it is short and as long as it is quick.

All right what's the difference between the med  and the mad? Let's break this down. We're going  

to start with the m mm. Lips are together, air  is moving out of the nose. For the d, at the end,  

going to touch the tip of the tongue  to the back of the top front teeth.  

Very specifically to the spot where the teeth  

meet the roof of the mouth. Air is going to  puff out and your voice box is on and moving.

What's the difference between these vowels?  Let's start with that very American open a sound.  

To make this sound you're going to open your mouth  in a very wide circle shape ah. Tip of your tongue  

is really low in the front bottom of the mouth,  back of the tongue is pulled really high up,  

ah. As I always say, exaggerate these sounds when  you're practicing. There's no shame in that game!  

Open your mouth really wide get your tongue  low in the front, high in the back, ah.  

Really think about moving from that closed mouth.  

You really have to move. It's closed,  really open, almost closed again.

mad mad mad

Now for med. This is what people usually  say and this is a more closed relaxed e  

sound. So we have ah eh. For the eh  sound, my mouth is slightly open.  

You can see the tip of my tongue  between my top and bottom teeth.

The back of my tongue is sort of anchored  towards the um insides of my back top teeth. eh

So again, you can see the tip of my tongue,  my mouth is slightly open, the back of my  

tongue is a little bit higher up, and kind of  anchored by the um insides of my back top teeth.

Let's put that all together med med med 

and mad mad mad

Let's try this all together medicine medicine medicine 

madison madison madison 

medicine madison medicine madison

And now for a sentence: 

Please pick up the medicine  at the Madison pharmacy. 

Please pick up the medicine  at the Madison pharmacy.

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