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