It's my son's birthday! Happy Birthday Sawyer!
Birthday can be a really hard word for my students, let's break it down.
B consonant, that's pretty easy but the /ɜɹ/ vowel, that can be tricky. Bir,
just make the r sound. Don't try to make a vowel. B-ir, Bir,
Brrrr! Bir,
birth. And we have the unvoiced th,
your tongue tip has to peek just through but don't hold it, don't clench. Let the air flow freely.
th-, birth, birth. Birthday.
And day is not the problem part of that word. Birth-day.
Birthday.
Happy Birthday.