A 5-minute pronunciation sprint led by Hadar Shemesh that guides listeners through quick warm-ups and targeted pronunciation drills to practice minimal pairs, vowel contrasts, consonant drills, and reductions/connected speech. The episode is structured as a short, repeatable routine (warm-up → consonant drills → minimal pairs → vowel drills → front-vowel sets → reductions → phrase practice → outro/CTA) meant for daily practice and includes teacher prompts, example sentences, and calls to explore longer sprint products.
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Bead bid bed bad O ah ch juh Woah woah woah wo y wo wo wo FA Female hey everyone, it's Hadar. Thank you so much for joining me. Today we are going to practice a five minute pronunciation sprint. A sprint is a drill designed to help you improve your pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary through intentional repetition. I have published many sprints in the past on my channel, but today I wanted to share with you a concise five minute sprint to practice every single day when you don't have time. This sprint is going to set you up for success, warm your muscles and help you stay focused on your clear pronunciation. All right, so let's get started with a little bit of warm up. Massage your jaw, cheekbones and say. Just release the tension one more time. Good. W w Again. Whoa whoa way wo wo Y wo wo wo Again. Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Y wo wo wo Again. Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa Y wo wo wo Good. With ba ba ba ba ba ba B Again again by ba ba bo. Now with F, F F F F F F F With R Roi ro roi ro ro. Slow down if you need to roo rai ro ro. Now let's practice minimal pairs Ch. Jill. Chill. Jill Batch badge. Batch badge. Joke. Choke. Joke. Choke. Jill is so chill. Jill is so chill. The rich woman lives on the ridge. The rich woman lives on the ridge. Her joke made him choke. Her joke made him choke. Let's practice another vowel pair. O, Ah. O Ah. O Ah. O ah. Cope, cop. Cope cop. Goat got goat. Got robe. Rob robe. Rob. O ah. Oh. The cop can't cope under pressure. The cop can't cope under pressure. We just got a baby goat. We just got a baby goat. He didn't rob my robe. He didn't rob my robe. Let's practice the four front vowel sounds. Peek, pick, peck, pack. Peek, pick, peck, pack. P Peek, pick, peck, pack. Bead bid, bed bad. Bead, bid, bed bad. E, I, I, I. Reductions. The word of turns into a kind of kinda. Kinda. Kinda. Is this some kind of joke? Is this some kind of joke? Type of type a. Type a Type A. It's not the type of thing you'd forget. It's not the type of thing you'd forget. Bottle of bottle. Bottle of bottle. Can I get a bottle of water? Can I get a bottle of water? Couple of. Couple of. Couple of. Couple of. I'll see you in a couple of weeks. I'll see you in a couple of weeks. Selfish shellfish. Selfish shellfish. Selfish shellfish. Selfish shellfish. Selfish shellfish. E E E E. Sell sail. Sell sail. Men main. Men main. The men reached the main gate. The men reached the main gate. Air. Air. Where? Hair. Her hair. Her fair fur. Fair fur. Where were you today? Where were you today? Her hair looks nice. Her hair looks nice. All right, if you enjoyed this, you can definitely check out the rest of my free sprints on my channel. It's in the description below. Or you can also check out the Sprint Sprint Master and the sprint master 2.0 for daily pronunciation sprints, 10 minutes each. It's going to set you up for success, and it's super easy. You just hit play and practice along. All right, if you're done, write the word done in the comments and I will see you next time.