Hello and welcome back in this lesson I'm going to teach you how to correctly pronounce the L sound
in different places in words and train your brain to hear the difference between L and R sounds
r n l sounds are often confused by non-native English speakers even if you think they're not a problem
for you.
You very well may find them challenging in certain positions.
For example the L at the end of words tends to be mispronounced by most non-native speakers.
Look at the top position for L.
It looks very different from the R tone.
The most important difference is that for the l the tongue touches the roof of the mouth just behind
the upper front teeth.
Compare the two pictures of how to pronounce these sounds.
Notice that top position for the L The tongue is touching the roof for the mouth.
For our if you remember the tongue does not touch any part of the mouth.
You can very clearly see the distinction here.
Let me illustrate both the L and the R tongue positions with my mouth.
First I'll illustrate the l la la you very clearly see how my tongue touches the alveolar ridge which
is the bony part of the mouth just behind your upper front teeth.
It's right here.
Now let me illustrate the r sound for you again.
We've done the are several times now.
If you remember the most important part about the R is that your tongue is not touching any part of
your mouth.
It should not be touching the roof of your mouth or your teeth.
Let me illustrate that for you right now RA.
Notice how my tongue is hovering in the middle of my mouth not touching anything.
Take a look also also the lip position the lips for the L are spread and are loose.
La la.
Now let's look at the lips for the r sound rather rough.
They are round.
They look like I'm getting ready to kiss somebody Right.
Very different.
Let's take a look at some common words beginning with the L sound.
Now if you remember I take all of your words from the top five hundred most frequent words in English.
So these are words that you are likely to use frequently live.
Love large later long and learn.
Let's do a bit of auditory discrimination.
We've done this before.
You know how it works.
I will say one of the two words you will circle the one that you hear circle either column A or column
B all the column a words begin with L all the column B words begin with R..
Take a moment to locate this page in your workbook before I begin
write the first one right.
Lane
Lech
rake
wrist
lead rate
no I did those very quickly and I know you might want to go back and listen a few more times to make
sure that you've got it right.
So go ahead and stop here if you need to.
And rewinds we're going to do another auditory discrimination activity this time in sentences in each
sentence.
You'll see a pair of words there.
Only difference is whether they are an L sound or an R sound at the beginning.
Circle the one that you hear me say.
Number one it's the long one
the company rent me the car for the weekend.
Don't sit on my rap.
It's a really long load.
It's next to the rock
now.
Don't forget to check your answers in the Workbook for both of these practice activities.
If you've gotten any wrong.
Make sure you go back and listen again until you can hear it.
By the way how are you doing on the song assignments.
I hope you're making time to sing every day I find singing the most effective way to effortlessly improve
your overall oral English skills.
Keep working on it.
It will really pay off.
Thanks for listening.