How to Pronounce SEE YOU American English
In this American English pronunciation video,
we’re going to study
the pronunciation of the phrase ‘see you’.
This is part of a sentence study series
where we look at a short common phrase
and discuss it’s pronunciation.
The stressed syllable in this phrase is
‘see’, the verb.
So the rhythmic structure is DA-da. DA-da.
See you. See you.
See begins with the S,
so the teeth are together, Ssss,
and the tongue tip is pressing the back
of the bottom front teeth.
For the EE,
the tongue tip stays where it is,
but the front part of the tongue will reach
towards the roof of the mouth, about here.
See EE.
The corners of the lips
might pull a little wide.
Since it’s stressed, it should have
the shape of a stressed syllable:
a little curve up in the voice,
and then the pitch falls, see.
See. See. See. See you.
We glide right into the next word
with the glide consonant Y.
So you have to lift the tongue just enough
so it’s touching the roof of the mouth.
See Yy, yy.
Push it a bit forward
on the roof of the mouth and hold air in your
throat so you get this kind of sound mixed in.
Yy, yy.
See you, see you.
You can probably tell
I’m reducing the vowel in ‘you’ to the schwa.
Yuh, yuh. It’s very short,
since it’s an unstressed word.
See you, see you.
That itself is a common phrase,
but often you’ll hear it with an add-on,
like ‘see you later’, or ‘see you tomorrow’.
And now let’s look at the phrase
up close and in slow motion.
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