question today is how do I pronounce ruler which is the wooden or plastic

instrument that we use to measure to make this lesson a little easier I'm

actually going to teach how to say the word rule first and then we're going to

move to ruler I know this causes anxiety for a lot of you out there because

there's an R and an L but hang in there we will get through it okay so let's

start with the first word rule which is our root word here so we're gonna start

with the R sound rrrr to do this think about having square tense lips okay this is

gonna limit where your tongue can go in your mouth and then where should your

tongue go your tongue can either point down into the bottom of your mouth with

the back pulled up or the tip of your tongue that part right there can flip

back towards the back of the mouth either is acceptable it's whichever

works for you but the key is do not touch your teeth that's probably the

mistake that I hear most often is people touch their teeth and then it sounds

like a D sound or an L sound and I also hear a lot of people moving the r and we

don't do that in english in english as you know the r is very static so we are

just going to keep that tongue in the same place not moving rrr next you're

going to round your lips to move to the ew vowel and then touch the tip of your

tongue to the back of your top front teeth for the llll okay let's put that all

together rule

rule rule rule rule now we need to add the R at the end of the word the vowelized

r here and we need to add that to say ruler so the way I do it is my

tongue tip is in the bottom of my mouth for this R I touch my teeth for the L

and then I let my tongue come back down for that so it's ruler now if

you flip your tongue back you just need to think about keeping the tongue back

ruler and then flip it back so take it slowly at first and then we will go up

to speed and again the key is for this R is don't touch your teeth and that's

very difficult because you have the L here where you do touch your teeth so we

have again rule and ruler now if this is really difficult for you think about

breaking this word into two parts rooo rooo rooo and then try the ler ler

ler and then put them together ruler ruler ruler ruler so let's try those

both rule rule rule ruler ruler ruler is there a rule for how we should measure

with a ruler give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference if

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