Hello again now that you're comfortable pronouncing the L at the beginning of words it's time to look
at the L sound in other positions
many English learners think that the L is easy to pronounce.
If you have the L in your language you'll likely assume it's the same L as an English well.
You might partially be correct.
The L in your language is probably what we call the light Elm but there's also a second type of l sound
in English that's referred to as the dark l.
But first let's do a little Else sound warm up with your mouth.
Just repeat after me the line on the left is the least long now remember for the l sound your tongue
tip should be touching just behind your upper front teeth like this line line line
number two at last.
Larry left with his large dog
three.
Let me help you with that loose lever.
For I love living large
five the last leader had a long life.
So how did you do with those.
Are you comfortable with those elves at this point.
I hope so.
Once you are comfortable with the light Well we're going to move on to talk about another version of
this el which is that dark out.
We use the light L which we've just been practicing before.
Vowel sounds notice here with these words.
We have the L and then a vowel after it.
No not I have the notation L V which L is for the l sound in V is for a vowel.
So each of these words is a light l later left and only now the dark cell is an L that we use after
vowel sounds and you'll see that I have the notation V L V is vowel in L is the al-Sayed.
So all of these words have a slightly different type of L.
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Old and help in just a moment.
I'm going to show you how to pronounce this dark l.
Do you recall the tongue position for the owl.
If you remember the tip of the tongue touches the alveolar ridge which is the bony part of the roof
of your mouth just behind your upper front teeth right here.
The you should be able to feel a bony ridge right behind your teeth.
Now the dark l we're going to have the tone tip in the same position but we also need to raise the back
of the tongue.
You see how that's a little bit different.
So that is easier said than done to break the back of your tongue correct.
So instead of just trying to raise the back of the tongue I'm going to give you a couple of easy tricks
for correctly pronouncing this dark l sound.
Choose whichever one is easiest for you.
The easiest way I believe is to flatten make your tone flat and hold the whole pung firmly against the
roof of your mouth with the tip touching the inside of your front teeth like this
la la la.
You see the tongue is firmly placed up there and I close my mouth.
An alternate way to do this is to stick your tongue out like you are pronouncing the T H.
And then bite it like this.
Either way will work for you because the idea is we need to raise the back of the tongue in addition
to the front in order to correctly pronounce this dark L.
Another thing we need to do is we need to hold that dark l longer.
Let's practice a bit.
Here are some common words that have a dark l.
We'll go ahead and follow along with me.
Make sure your tongue is firmly placed on the top of your mouth.
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Wonderful international.
Now the spelling of the L is very consistent.
You will either see L or double L and the IPA for both the light and the dark L is spelled with a lowercase
l right.
Let's do a little bit of auditory discrimination.
You know the drill just circle the one you hear circle the one in a or in B.
I'm going to just say it once so it's going to go by quickly
call
poor
tear
deal
wire
letter
saddle
level
as usual.
Listen again and again until you're satisfied and then check your answers in the workbook.
If you've gotten anything wrong go back and listen again.
Thanks for watching.