in this American English pronunciation
video we're going to learn how to make
the s & z consonant sounds
these two sounds are paired together
because they take the same mouth
position is unvoiced meaning only air
passes through the mouth and z is voiced
meaning you make a sound with the vocal
cords is to make the sounds the lips
part and the corners pull back a little
while the teeth themselves lightly touch
there are two ways to make these sounds
one with the tip of the tongue down
lightly touching the back of the bottom
front teeth or by pointing the tip of
the tongue up
you may find that the position of the
tongue tip depends on the sounds around
the s & z let's look at these sounds up
close and in slow motion the teeth
lightly touch tongue tip is down and you
can see a lot of the tongue through the
teeth
sip again teeth lightly touch the tongue
tip is pointed down
miss the tongue tip stays down as the
teeth come together
phys this time you'll see the tongue tip
point up before the teeth closed and up
the s and z sounds sip miss phys example
words
repeat with me note the letter S can
make the Z sound some-some must must
less less zip zip
cousin cousin easy this is easy
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