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Hadar Shemesh breaks down how X sounds in English. It's usually two consonants blended together: /k/ + /s/, like in exercise and expect. Practice saying them separately, then connect them until they sound like one sound.

Hadar Shemesh breaks down how X sounds in English. It's usually two consonants blended together: /k/ + /s/, like in exercise and expect. Practice saying them separately, then connect them until they sound like one sound.
The letter X can be pronounced with two consonants, a sequence of consonants and as in cake and as in sun as in excuse. Exercise, expect, exceed, expand, execute. If pronouncing those two consonants one after another is challenging for you, just move around between the two consonants and then gradually try to connect them. Make it seem like it's one sound. X expect.

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