The L sound...

Hey everyone, it has been quite awhile since I did a pronunciation lesson so today I will give you a sentence to help you practice the L sound:



Now to make the L sound you put the tip of the tongue touching the top of your mouth behind your teeth and then move the tongue downwards.




This graphic came from the site Upgrade English: http://upgradeenglish.blogspot.com/2009/10/lr.html

As you can see with R the tongue is raised but NOT TOUCHING the top of your mouth behind your teeth.

A good site explaining how to pronounce the L sound is: http://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/lvsr.htm

Now let's practice the L sound~!

easy:

Lex likes lemons.

medium:

Laura laughs like a lunatic. (lunatic = crazy person)

difficult:

Little Lucy Loon likes to lick lime lollipops a lot.

More difficult:

Larry, Lois, Len and Linda left London to liquidate their lemon-lime soda business.

Ok that's all for today, have a good week!

Phil