question this is a very common question that I get from my clients who live here

in Chicago Illinois with me how do I pronounce Chicago Illinois let's take a

look at the spelling of these words first Chicago Illinois spelling is not

helping us here so let's break these words down into the syllables so CH most

of my clients usually say Ch which is a perfect guest because that's typically

what we say but in this case we're going to pronounce it as a Shh sound

so to make that sound round your lips and keep that air moving out of your

mouth add the short uh sound sha move to caw the second syllable do this by

saying the k sound which was made with the tip of your tongue pointing down and the

back of your tongue pulled up towards the roof of your mouth then you're going

to move to the oH vowel by opening your mouth wide sha caw end with a go again

we're going to start by placing that tip tongue tip down and pulling the back of

the tongue up for the G sound it's the exact same position as the K the

difference here is that the G sound is voiced so your voice box is going to be

vibrating Chicago Chicago next we're going to move to Illinois start by

saying the word ill like you're feeling sick it's the short I ih sound and then you

end that syllable by touching the tip of your tongue to the back of your top

front teeth ill and then we're going to move to everybody's favorite the schwa

syllable uh just add that little short sound

illuh and then end with noi do this by touching the tip of your tongue to the

back of your top front teeth while the air moves out of your nose and then

the oy vowel we do that by puckering and then pulling the lips back a bit

illa Noi Illinois another quick tip is when you're pronouncing names of a city

and a state make sure that you add a little pause between the two and you're

going to make the first word a little more stressed so make it a little louder

the vowels a little longer and the pitch a little higher Chicago Illinois Chicago

Illinois I live in Chicago Illinois give it a try I know people are going to

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