Hadar Shemesh teaches the /j/ sound that sneaks into words like figure, regular, popular, and argument even without a Y. Practice the smooth glide from consonants into this sound, then repeat after her.
Practice time with Hadar. And today we are going to work on words that have a sneaky Y sound in them. Usually we tend to think that the Y is associated with the letter Y, but that's not always the case. For example, the word figure.
Figure.
There is no Y yet. Can you hear the Y sound?
Figure.
So what I want to work on today is the transition between the consonant before and and the fig.
Gear.
So you want to transition from one consonant to the other with no breaks in the middle.
Figure. Figure.
Argument. Not argument. Argument.
Regular.
Reg.
Ya. G. Regular.
Popular. Pop.
Yu. Y.
Right.
Popular.
Articulate. Articulate. She's an articulate person. Let's articulate what we want to say. Notice the difference between articulate the adjective and to articulate. That's the verb. Remember the dark l at the end? Annual. Annual. So again, popular.
Regular.
Argument.
Figure.
January Manual. Annual. You're good to go. Keep practicing it a few more times. And please share it with your friends or anyone you think might need a little bit of a Y practice today.
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