We're going to learn how to pronounce the eye as in by Def Thong a year, def.

Thongs are a combination of two sounds, so they have a starting position and unending position.

In the first position.

The jaw is more dropped than in the second position.

The back of the tongue stretches up a little bit.

As the mouth moves into the second position, the jaw drops less as the front part of the tongue arches up towards the roof of the mouth.

For both the beginning and the end of this defunct, the tongue tip touches the back of the bottom front teeth.

Let's watch up close and in slow motion, where you can really see the front part of the tongue arching up.

The jaw drops and the front part of the tongue stays down with the tip touching the back of the bottom front teeth.

Immediately, the tongue moves into the second position, the top front arching up towards the roof of the mouth.

As the tongue arches up.

There's less jaw drop.

Here's the word.

Hi, jaw drops with the front of the tongue down.

Then the jaw lifts as the front of the tongue arches towards the roof of the mouth in a stressed syllable, the eye defunct curves up, then down.

Hi I in an unstrung syllable.

It's lower and flatter and pitch as well as quicker and quieter.

I I The diff thong is unstrung est.

In the word idea, I Let's take a look at this word.

The jaw drops, but just a little bit less than it would in a stressed syllable.

Then the tongue arches up towards the roof of the mouth before the tip goes to the roof of the mouth for the D the I def.

Thong stressed.

Hi, I the ID If thong unstrung est idea I I I I I.

Example.

Words.

Repeat with me.

Exercise.

I exercise wine.

I wine bright I bright guy I guy allies.

I allies Sky I Sky.

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