Name: How to Pronounce WIND & WIND - American English Heteronym Pronunciation Lesson
Uploaded: 2022-03-18T17:40:06.000Z
Duration: 3 min 25 s
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Hi everyone! Jennifer from Tarle Speech  with your pronunciation question.

We have two words today. This is kind  of confusing. They're spelled exactly  

the same way. But they have different  meanings and different pronunciations.

wind which is the natural movement of air and wind to twist or to wrap

So let's take a look. So if you watch my videos I  did have a video on these spelling exceptions, um,  

that typically when we have a closed syllable, we  are going to pronounce the vowel as a short vowel  

as in wind. So we're going to have that short  vowel typically. That's normal that we see.  

However, with ind the exception is we  are going to use a long i and say wind.

So again english english english -  making things confusing! We actually  

have an exception to the exception rule  here so let's just talk about the sounds.  

Okay so let's start with that w sound www. To  do this you're just going to pucker your lips.

Then let's fix the endings too and just get  that part over with, so let's do the end.  

You're going to touch the tip of your tongue to  the back of your top front teeth with that N.  

Air is going to move out of your nose and then for  the d, d, you're going to pull your tongue down.  

Air is going to puff out of your mouth. Your  voice box is on and moving. Now for the short i  

sound. Think about having a relaxed mouth  and the tip of your tongue is going to be  

just behind your top front teeth and  your tongue is going to be relaxed.

If you tend to say e for this sound, think  about relaxing everything. Relax your lips,  

relax your tongue, just let everything  sort of relax. You're going to even have  

a little slight dip in the middle of your  tongue and you're just going to say ih.

Now to say wind, we have that long I sound. And  to do this you are going to open your mouth really  

wide, tip of the tongue is low, back of the tongue  is pulled high up. Then you're going to move to a  

smile. As you move to the smile your tongue  will end high and flat in the mouth i i.

So we have wind wind wind and  wind wind wind wind wind wind wind

The wind made it difficult  to wind the Christmas lights.

Please give it a try. I know people  are going to notice the difference!

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