The Long E sound is the smiling vowel. The tongue should rest flatly in your mouth and your lips should be wide. The most common mistake I hear during classes is a tendency to reduce this sound, perhaps to create a casual effect. It doesn’t really reduce. You need to speak the full EE every time.
Practice with the video here.
| breach | beach |
| grievance | screening |
| realize | needs |
| theme | deeper |
| peer | meaning |
| team | equal |
| genius | people |
| peak moment | deemed |
| free | frequent |
| scheme | feedback |
| clearly | secret |
| keep | eat |
| coffee | legal |
| neither | protein |
| meet | go-between |
Words with stress on the 2nd syllable: discreet, intrigue, achieve, release, winning streak, experience, retrieval, receive, believe, agree, agreement, between.
Words with stress on the 3rd syllable: creation.
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