15 Minute Morning Pronunciation Practice for English Learners

right tragedy strategy tragedies hello hello good morning to you what do you like what do you do what do you do hey it's today i'm going to share with you the ideal morning pronunciation practice you want to think of it as a physical workout or a yoga practice that you do in the morning to get energized for the day but also to build muscle and this is exactly the same thing but in this case we're talking about the articulation organs you want to do that in the morning to set yourself up for pronunciation success but

also to build the muscles of your articulation organs like the tongue and the lips and the jaw now i recommend doing it every single day so you're more in control of the sounds that don't exist in your native language but it's also going to help you sound more clear in your native language as well you can do it in the morning but you can also do it before going into a meeting or before having an important speaking gig okay let's get started but before that if you're new to my channel then hi and welcome and

this is the place for you if you want to speak english with clarity with confidence and freedom so be sure to subscribe and click the bell to get notifications so you don't miss out on any valuable lesson let's begin with massaging your jaw it's always good to become aware and kind of like relax all unnecessary tension we're going to start with that and end with that there is a muscle here at the jaw hinge that connects between the upper jaw and the lower jaw and usually we hold a lot of tension there so i want

you to massage it and kind of like try to release all the tension and maybe hum we're also warming up the voice [Music] so you don't have the morning voice and here the cheeks and again the jaw maybe move it around a little bit with your hands okay a little more okay good now we're gonna warm up the tongue let's begin by sticking the tongue out and we're gonna move it to the right and then to the left to the right we're going to do this 10 times okay so right right okay now we're gonna

stick the tongue out and bring it up and down so stick it out keep doing it i'm going to keep speaking again push it out as if the tongue wants to come out of your mouth two more and very good now let's stick it out and bring it back in really fast 10 times as far as you can okay good let's release tension and blow your lips out okay good in the next exercise we are going to clean the teeth with your tongue so you want to move your tongue around keep doing it now this

is a really good exercise especially before a meeting so you make sure that you don't have green stuff or poppy seeds stuck between your teeth i got you covered keep your lips closed good relax your lips good now we're going to use the tongue to massage the inside of the cheek as you're resisting the tongue with your cheek muscles so take your tongue the tip of the tongue and push it against the inside of your left cheek while the cheek is actually resisting it so you want to push against you want your tongue to feel

like it's fighting something as you're massaging it and get to all the different places inside your mouth and to the right good and now let's do a trill to relax the tongue for some of you this is going to be really easy if you have the trilled r in your language if you don't you can just do another lip trill and now we're going to do it while going up and down in pitch [Applause] [Music] ah massage the jaw bit more very very good you're starting to feel your mouth to feel the tongue which is

good because we need the tongue to articulate the sounds and to be able to do it clearly we need to be in control of the tongue now we're going to warm up the lips so push the lips forward as if you're pushing it for a kiss an exaggerated one and pull it to the sides forward now try to keep the cheeks out of the way right you don't want to go like this okay you don't want to get used to engaging your cheeks when pulling the lips sometimes we need that to articulate some of the

sounds like the e and the ah and we want to be able to control these muscles so just the lips the corners of the mouth and forward one more time okay very good make sure you're not holding tension in your shoulders if you do just tell your shoulders to relax tell your face to relax okay good now we're going to go into a few sounds let's start with the tip of the tongue consonants let's begin with the t sound make sure it's just the tip of the tongue touching the upper palate and now we're going

to move the tongue back a bit and switch between s and z now we're going to move on to consonants created with the lips we're going to start with a sound where you bring the lips together and release air and then the voiced version of it and then we're going to go to the nasal version of it mama let's add vowels to it and we're going to use the consonant m my my so we're going into an i diphthong you want to drop your jaw and then raise the tongue for an e sound my my

my and then we're going to go into mamma may okay now we're going into the a as in day diphthong starting with an e shifting into an e mamma may mamma may mamma may then we're going to do a long always and go mamamoo mamamoo mamamoo good the next diphthong is going to be mamamooy mama moy mama moy oyas and finally we're going to use the ow diphthong mao mama mao mama mao just like in mouse mao so we're going to do all five of them one after the other mamma mai mamma may mamma mo

mama moy mama mao let's do it again mama my very good now we're going to move to the back of the mouth pronouncing the from there i want you to shift to the high e sound so the tongue pulls back for the g and then forward for the high e and then good so let's do it a few times and then from there we're going to move on to the tense ooh sound a back open vowel sound goo goo kakaku kakaku gagu make sure you push the lips forward for the oo sound let's do it

two more times cool very good and now i want you to yawn like raise the soft palate by yawning good and let's find the voice and bring the voice to the chest hello hello good morning hello hello good morning so you want to bring your voice to the chest hello hello good morning to you hello hello good morning to you and then let's bring that voice to the head hello hello good morning to you hello hello good morning to you you want to feel the vibrations here and maybe a little bit to the your nose

hello hello good morning to you hello hello good morning to you okay let's move on to some tongue twisters let's start with my favorite unique new york unique new york unique new york let's do it again unique hyu high e unique new york unique new york unique new york let's say it again a little faster unique new york unique new york unique new york unique new york now as you're moving through the days if you do it every single day you'll see that it's a lot easier for you to say it faster the next one

is good blood bad blood good blood bad blood the good has that back open uh as in book cook and look and the blood has a cup sound good blood good blood i hope you can hear the difference bad blood here we have the as in cat a forward front vowel bad blood good blood bad blood good blood bad blood good blood bad blood good blood bad blood good blood bad blood good blood bad blood good blood bad blood good blood bad blood the next one is tragedy strategy tragedy strategy ch ra j d tragedy

strategy tragedy strategy tragedy strategy tragedy strategy tragedy strategy tragedy strategy tragedy strategy tragedy strategy good i used to confuse this one all the time let's do some th warm-ups so let's start with just sticking the tongue out and pronouncing a voice th versus a voiceless th now we're going to work on transitions and to th l th you can also use the voiceless th very good and now sth make sure you stick the tongue out the tongue is not too tight against the teeth so the air comes out let's do it a few more times

very good relax your lips release air [Music] and massage your jaw again good very good finally let's do some chunks what are you what do you what do you what are you what are you what are you what are you what are you what are you what are you what are you what do you want what do you want what do you want what do you want what do you like what do you like what do you like what do you like what do you do what do you do what do you do what do

you do what do you say what do you say what do you say what do you say next one is going to go gonna go gonna go gonna go gonna go gonna go gonna go gotta go gotta go gonna go gonna go i'm gonna go i'm gonna go i'm gonna go i'm gonna go she's gonna go she's gonna go she's gonna go she's gonna go i'm gonna go home i'm gonna go home i'm gonna go home i'm gonna go home i'm going to go to the office i'm going to go to the office i'm going

to go to the office i'm going to go to the office next one is could have could have coulda coulda coulda coulda coulda coulda coulda notice that the d is really really light it sounds like a flap t like a like an r in spanish i coulda i coulda i coulda i coulda i coulda i coulda i could have done that i could have done that i could have seen it i could have seen it i could have been there i could have been there i could have done it i could have done it i

could have seen it i could have seen it i could have been there i could have been there coulda coulda coulda coulda coulda shoulda shoulda shoulda shoulda shoulda should have shoulda shoulda okay that's it to wrap it up i want you to put your palm on your belly one on your belly one in your chest and try to breathe into the hand that is on the belly and breathe out close your eyes breathe in to your belly not to your chest and breathe out and last time and as you exhale you can also release a

sound breathe into your belly okay that's it as i said in the beginning i recommend doing it every single day and when you do you will feel the improvement and how easier it is for you to articulate sounds in english and in your native language as well now to make it fun and to hold each other accountable every time you complete this exercise write in the comments done so we know that you did it again today have a beautiful beautiful day and i will see you tomorrow bye