A short pronunciation tutorial by Hadar Shemesh explaining how to articulate the English word "rarely." The speaker describes mouth/tongue placement for R and L sounds, jaw movement, vowel quality, and demonstrates the full word in example sentences.
How to pronounce the word Rarely. You start with an R sound round your lips. Bring the tongue in. Sides of the tongue touch the sides of the teeth. The tip of the tongue is not touching anything. Then it's the air. As in dare. You drop your jaw, drop the tongue. Don't keep it up, because then the sound is gonna. The word is gonna sound muffled. Re. Re. As if you're about to say red. But then you bring the tongue up again for the R. Rare. Right. So back to the same position. Rare. And then from here, you bring the tongue up and forward to touch the upper palate for the L. Rare. And then a high E. Rarely. Rarely. I rarely see her. Rarely.
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