In this video, I'm going to teach you exactly how to pronounce the word 'won't.'
It's a three-step process. I've just been working with one of my clients on this word
and we've got down into all the difficulties that there are on the word, he's now pronouncing it much better.
So I'm gonna give you three tips right now to enable you to say the word 'won't' correctly.
The word 'won't' can be a difficult one to pronounce.
It's made up of three parts: you've got the first part which is /w/;
You've got the second part which is the /ʊ/;
and then you've got the third part which is 'nt,' okay.
So let's break it down. The first part is the 'W' sound. The 'W' sound as you know is a semivowel
and if you want special help with the 'W' sound look at this video here above now.
The 'W' sound is a semivowel, it starts with your lips in this position /ʊ/
and ends in the schwa /ə/
/w/
You've then got the middle part of the 'won't' word, which is the /ʊ/
so your lips have gone /w/
and then they're going back up to /ʊ/
'Whoa'
So this is actually a word in English, 'whoa.'
If you don't know what it means I can say to you 'whoa slow down a moment,' okay.
Or 'whoa what's going on?' It's like a bit of surprise and just expressing
'Whoa just, let's slow down!'
So a great exercise is to practice going like this:
'Whoa.'
Look how my lips go between the three sounds
/wa/, /ʊ/
'Whoa'
Repeat after me:
'Whoa'
The third and final part of the word is 'nt,' 'nt,' okay.
Now I've got a video on the 'T' sound, so have a look at that if you need help with the 'T' sound.
And then what you're doing is, you're combining the 'N' sound, which comes from your nose
with the 'T' sound that comes from your tongue at the front of your mouth it looks like this
'nt'
Now, the difficulty that my client was having was he was prolonging the sound through his nose.
So it was sounding like this
'nt'
and in the word, it was
'Won't'
Okay.
We don't want that we want it to be like this:
'nt'
Practice it with me, keep doing it until you're comfortable
'nt'
and then finally putting it all together
'Won't'
I'm gonna do it very slowly now
'Won't'
Okay.
Even slower
'Won't'
Okay.
So /w/
/w/
/ʊ/
and then 'nt'
'nt'
All together now:
'Won't'
Alright
Comment below with which part of this word that you're finding most difficult.
Is it the /w/ sound, is it that /ʊ/, is it the 'nt?'
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