hi there Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question today's
question is how do you pronounce the word mansion or a very large house and
mention which would be to say something about or to comment on something so here
are our words sorry my board got all turned around there
so the words our mansion and mention so these words are going to end the same
way with the tion so let's start with that so to say this Shh your lips are
going to be rounded and your tongue is not touching anything in your mouth it's
just behind your top front teeth Shh and the air is going to continue to move out
of your mouth then think about moving to that n sound nnn ip of the tongue is
touching the back of the top front teeth and the air is moving out of the nose
shun shun yes there is a little bit of an uh in there for the tion but if you
just think about moving from that Sh to that n sound that's going to get that
little sound in there and you don't really have to think about adding any
other vowel shun shun now for a man and men what you're going to do for man is
you're going to think about moving from your lips being closed for that M sound
mmm open really wide for that ah and the tongue is going to be very low the tip
is going to be very low in the mouth and the back is going to be pulled up a bit
and then you're going to move closed again for that n sound nnn
man man man and then for men you are going to start with that M sound again
and end with the n sound the difference here is your mouth is not going to open
as much your mouth is going to be open and the tip of your tongue will be about
behind the front teeth of the bottom front
teeth so about here men men men so you can see my tongue does not move as much
so I have man and men man and men I have a whole video on man and men if you want
that I will link it below so let's put this all together we have mansion
mansion mansion mention mention mention mansion mansion mansion mention mention
mention and now for a sentence did you mention you are staying at the mansion
did you mention you are staying at the mansion give it a try people are going
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