Usually, we tend to think that the y is associated with the letter Y, but that's not always the case.

For example, the word "figure". figure.

There is no Y yet.

Can you hear the y sound? "Figure". So what I want to work on today is the transition between the consonant before and the y.

So you want to transition from one consonant to the other with no breaks in the middle. "Figure", "figure". "Argument", not "argument", "argument". "Regular", "reg-ya", "regular". "Popular". "Pop-ya", ya, right? "Pop-ular". "Articulate", "articulate".

She's an articulate person.

Let's articulate what we want to say.

Notice the difference between "articulate", the adjective, and "to articulate".

That's the verb. "Gen-u-ary", "gen-u-ary". "Man-u-al", "man-u-al".

Remember the dark L at the end. "An-u-al", "an-u-al". So again, popular, regular, argument, figure, "gen-u-ary", "man-u-al", "an-u-al".

You're good to go.

Keep practicing it a few more times, and please share it with your friends or anyone you think might need a little bit of a ya practice today.