We have a little bit of a long  one today. We have five words:  

court a tribunal, area for a game like  basketball or tennis, or a romantic pursuit 

course direction, set of dishes in  a meal, or an educational class and 

course meaning rough courteous polite and respectful and 

courtesy a demonstration of  politeness or supplied free of charge

Even though we have a lot of words I think the  lesson is pretty straightforward today. I think  

spelling really confuses people here. To say  

all of these words we're going  to start with the K sound. K K K

My mouth is open. Tip of my tongue is  low. Back of my tongue is pulled high up.  

Look at you! We got the beginning finished.

Okay next for the or what you're going to do is  pucker. When you pucker your tongue is just flat  

in the middle of your mouth. There's not really  many places for it to go. Then you're going to  

pull your lips back into that square tense  shape. As you do that the tip of your tongue  

is either going to be moving down to the bottom  of your mouth or flipping back. But the back of  

your tongue will be pulled high up, no matter  what tip of the tongue does not move. or or or

For court, then, just touch the tip of the  tongue to the back of the top front teeth.  

That little space where the teeth meet the roof  of the mouth. And for the s what you are going  

to do is you are just going to have your tongue  behind your top front teeth or pointing slightly  

down. It does not touch the teeth and air is  just going to move out continuously. sssss

court course 

court course court course

I should mention course and course are pronounced  exactly the same and i have another video on  

those since they are homophones and words  that are pronounced exactly the same way.

For courteous and courtesy instead of saying  

or I'm just going to go right to that er sound.  Tip of the tongue is down or flipped back  

back of the tongue is pulled way  high up square tense lips ker ker ker

For courteous next we're going to move to the dee  syllable. To do this touch the tip of your tongue  

to the back of your top front teeth, air puffs  out, voice box is on and moving f the dee d d d  

d . Smile for that long e - High  flat tongue. And then end with  

us like you and I, us. It's just us.  And to do that, relaxed short uh sound  

and then add the s ssss. Ker Dee Us. courteous courteous courteous

And now for courtesy you're going to have Ker  

Duh See. I spelled that wrong.  

I'm actually using that flap t there Ker duh See courtesy courtesy courtesy

So for the duh what you're going to do is  touch the tip of your tongue to the back  

of your top front teeth; and then, just  open relaxed mouth and tongue for the uh  

and then end with see. For that s sound  and then smile for the long e. See.

Let's put that all together Ker duh See courtesy courtesy courtesy

For those of you who are new to the channel  I write this as a d. These d's are actually  

a flap t with a super fast d sound. If you  just say a d sound that's going to be fine.  

You could actually say a t sound and people will  still understand you say ker t us or ker tuh see.

Both will be fine but most Americans will use  that flap t and say courteous and courtesy.

So let's try this all again: 

court court court course course course 

courteous courteous courteous courtesy courtesy courtesy

And now for a sentence:

I make these videos as a courtesy to you and I'm  very thankful that you were all very courteous.

So give it a try I know people are going  to notice the difference! If you found  

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