Hello again and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation

podcast.

My name is Mandy and this is podcast number five.

Today we are going to continue our study of the two liquid sounds, the R sound and L sound.

Today's practice sentence is, I would really like a little red wagon like Loras.

We'll come back to that later.

Did you practice last week's practice sentence?

On Thursday, Thelma threw three red rocks.

I'm going to start only going back and reviewing the past three shows practice sentences or word sets.

Our S sound, Z sound practice with the S endings from two weeks ago was,

cats love boxes, dogs love beds.

Remember that the final sound of the word before the S ending dictates if the final S

will be an S sound or Z sound.

And our word set from episode two was

dime time, dense, tense,

code, coat, tide, tight,

spend, spent.

Last week we talked about the fact that the general American accent is erotic accent,

meaning we say our R sounds, no matter where they occur in the word.

Today we are going to compare the R sound to the L sound. I find that

students from Asia tend to have a lot of trouble with both of these sounds, and if your native

language is Japanese, you probably already know the struggle with the R sound and L sound.

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