How to Pronounce T Dark L American English

I recently received an email Rachel one

sound that I’ve always had trouble

reproducing convincingly is TL this is

the sound and words like mental title

brittle capital and bottle the word

Seattle is especially difficult for me

to say correctly it would be great if

you can make a video on how to reproduce

this sound also is the TL in the words I

listed even pronounce the same it seems

like there’s something different going

on you’re exactly right the T’s in those

words are not all pronounced the same

when it comes to wondering how to

pronounce a T I will put a link on my

website to a video that someone else has

made but I think is a very good

explanation for that but let’s talk

about the pronunciation of these words

mental mental is the one word out of the

ones that you listed where I would

actually say a sound for the T mental he

is mental so to make that your tongue

has to pull away from your teeth and let

air out it then goes into the dark L

because this L is ending a syllable mint

ol so the jaw has to drop and the tongue

has to bunch up a little bit to make

that vowel-like sound before the tongue

moves to make the L mental mental all

all so the tongue pulls away fattens up

a little bit and then finishes up by

curling to make the L mental now as I’ve

said in previous blog entries about the

dark L the tongue does not always

necessarily move up into that position

to finish off the L mental mental you

will definitely hear native speakers

pronounce it that way men tol so in that

case the tongue simply pulls back from

the T to fatten up to make that

vowel-like sound mental and leave it at

that the word title in this case the

second T is pronounced as a D dull dull

we

means the vocal cords need to keep

producing sound through that movement in

this word more so in the word mental the

movement of the tongue feels very sharp

to me title drew the D it’s in position

here dull dull and it pulls back very

quickly to make that all all sound for

the dark L before the tip of the tongue

moves back in so the tip of the tongue

is pressing therefore the D dull oh it

comes away to make that vowel-like sound

dull and it moves back up to make the

final part of the dark L sound title

title is the same as the rest of the

words you listed brittle capital bottle

where it’s a D sound going into a dark L

sound and this is also true of the word

Seattle Seattle Seattle C ad Dole

Seattle