How to Improve American English Drop the Jaw

this video is excerpts from a

pronunciation lesson that I had with a

friend from Turkey in this particular

video I’ve chosen excerpts where we

worked to break his habit of speaking

with his jaw closed like this which as

you can see makes it difficult to

understand for whatever reason many

people when they learn English simply

don’t open their mouth enough this is

especially problematic on vowels like oo

as in father and as in bed where the jaw

really needs to drop in the mouth needs

to open this is actually related to

another blog I did in which I muted the

sound and just spoke for a minute or so

to draw attention and focus to the mouth

so that people could observe just how

much it really works in American English

so here are excerpts from that lesson

goodI ceremony ceremony yeah okay so I

can see that your teeth are hardly

leaving each other set and

sick yeah ceremony good clothes okay uh

cross cross here’s what you’re doing uh

cross crawl through how much space is

between my teeth yeah about like that

across across that’s better

good the sound of a single tree sound

sound the sound yeah yeah the cross

cross cross cross cross marks one more

time the cross okay your teeth are

working but they could come a little

further apart the cross that’s better so

the sounds we worked on there are the

air as in bed

the aw as in law and the ow as in now

ceremony he wanted to say ceremony a

ceremony a cross he wanted to say a

cross

ah across sound he wanted to say sound

ow sound