and that is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease so here is our word

epidemic let's think about the syllables of this word today so we have the schwa

syllable here the uh this really throws a lot of people off many of my students

when they see that I in the middle of the word they always say e and often we

do pronounce that as the schwa sound the uh sound that's a very relaxed very

short vowel just want to start with ep and to do this your mouth is slightly

open it's more open than the e or the ih sound it's the eh you should see the tip of

your tongue between your teeth and then we're going to move to that P sound

p p ep ep then we're going to link and add that up eppa eppa and then switch to

them touch the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front teeth you know how

to do that eh look for that tongue in the middle your open mouth and then close

your lips for the M mmm air moves out of your nose and then end with the ik again

your mouth is a little more closed for the short I sound than it is for that eh

sound in dem it's a little more closed and then end with that K eppa Demick

epidemic epidemic epidemic epidemic epidemic epidemic and now for a sentence

in 1918 there was a worldwide flu epidemic give it a try I know people are

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