Learn to Pronounce the American English P Sound - Ultimate Pronunciation Challenge Master Class

Hi everybody, it's Jennifer from Tarle speech. Welcome to week one of the ultimate pronunciation challenge this 50 week master class in all of the american consonant and vowel sounds Is starting today. We are starting with the p Sound so let's go ahead and jump right in and learn How to pronounce this sound and how to spell it so let's start with the phonetic symbol the phonetic symbol for the p sound Is just the letter p For spelling purposes we can spell this sound with one Or two p's together We would hear this in the word perfect or in zipper perfect zipper How do we say this sound to say this sound We are going to talk about what your lips are doing your tongue and the airflow Your lips start as closed and then they open Your tongue is just neutral in the middle of your mouth And the air is going to puff out your voice is off So this looks like and sounds like this A couple of tips air puffs out for this sound but it is Less than many other languages do I hear a lot of my students say With a lot of air or puff and then they add a vowel Just a little bit of air puffs out and in some cases We just have No air really puffing out we can just close the lips And that would be a non-aspirated sound so I could say the word up a little bit of air puff out Or I could say up And no air puff sound either is okay up or up All right. Let's take a look at some Words and i'm going to have you just listen and then you're going to repeat after me put post pattern pink posted happy supply tipping opposite approach up beep stop sheep airdrop Repeat after me put post pattern pink posted happy supply tipping opposite approach up beep stop sheep airdrop Okay, how did you do everyone? All right, are we ready for some sentences let's try those i'm going to read these twice just listen This is a positively perfect plan for practicing pronunciation Now you give it a try This is a positively perfect plan for practicing pronunciation One more time This is a positively perfect plan for practicing pronunciation And sentence number two peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers Okay, everyone. How did you do? If that was tough a couple of tips Think about adding a pause peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers So i'm pausing after sort of each thought or idea or phrase in my sentence peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers Tip two is if it's still difficult make your pause a little bit longer peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers Pauses are fine longer pauses make it even a little easier If you want to practice this sound more, please join me tomorrow Thursday I am going to post a video of me pronouncing a list of p words with the p sound at the beginning On friday, it will be p sound in the middle of words On saturday the p at the end of words and on sunday in sentences These are totally free You can log in to youtube Every day and practice and follow along with me watch them as many times As you want in the description I will have a playlist just for the p sound and then I will have a playlist for the entire master class That you can follow along with and bookmark that If you want to have all of these practice repeat after me's at your fingertips They are available on the itunes store and several different versions of books. I will Post links to those in the description as well And I also have word lists for follow-along practice with audio files only and those are available on google play And on the teacher's pay teacher's store Good luck, everyone. I hope to see you tomorrow to follow along with me Don't forget to tell your friends about this free 50 week ultimate pronunciation challenge. I will see you tomorrow