Soft palate and other parts of the Mouth American English Pronunciation
all of my sound videos have photos of
the mouth with the parts of the mouth
drawn in so I want to take a quick
minute to talk about those parts of the
mouth most of them are obvious tongue
teeth throat but I want to talk a little
bit about the hard and soft palate the
hard and soft palate are what make up
the roof of the mouth so if you take
your tongue and slide it along at the
top of your mouth you can feel the hard
palate and when you get way for the back
the soft palate so the soft palate is
very far behind there and it feels soft
compared to what comes before it now the
soft palate is raised in all sounds of
English except for three consonant
sounds the N the M and the ng this is
probably not something that you need to
think about or worry about too much I do
want to tell you about it because it
appears in all the photos but it’s quite
natural to raise the soft palate the
thing that I will say about it is if
someone is telling you that your sounds
sound too much in your nose or too nasal
that probably means that your soft
palate is lowered when it should be
raised the soft palate raises naturally
when you yawn so that is one way to
think about how to raise what it feels
like back there to raise the soft palate
now I will step through all the parts of
the mouth as they are not identified in
every sound video these represent the
front teeth in the mouth both top and
bottom and here the rest of the top
teeth this is the hard palate the soft
palate raised here because this is the
AH as in father vowel the throat and the
tongue so this is the anatomy of the
mouth as I draw them in in the sound
adios and of course in each sound things
like the soft palate and the tongue will
be in different positions