we have three words breathe to inhale or exhale breath

one little inhalation or exhalation and brief a short period of time so let's

go ahead and look at these words we have breath breathe and brief the beginning

of the words that br combination are the same so to do this think about

saying the R sound before you even start the word get your tongue in the right

spot for that R sound and then you're going to put your lips together and then

open them as you're saying the R sound for breath

this is super helpful because if you don't do that and you're not ready for

that R sound I will hear people say bah-r and then you add an extra syllable to

the word and it would sound like bah-reath instead of breathe so again think

about that R sound again your tongue can to be pointed down or tipped back just

don't touch your teeth say the B sound as you're ready for the R sound BR

BR okay now let's tackle the endings to really

where the confusion in these words lie for breath we have the short e and then

the voiceless th so for the voiceless th our throat is not vibrating so that

sound is going to be softer so we have eh-th for the th sound you're going to

stick your tongue out of your mouth and do not touch your teeth now to get

super technical the back of your teeth can the back teeth may touch your tongue

but when I tell people to do that inevitably someone then flattens their

whole tongue to the top teeth and then nothing comes out so to make this sound

think about not touching your teeth breath

breath breath what we want is we want that air to be moving continuously out

of the mouth for that th and no voice on for that breath now on to the word

breathe we have that long e that smiling vowel the key here is to make that vowel

long e breathe then as you see what I just did there I'm going to stick my

tongue out of my mouth again try not to touch your teeth that stops the air keep

the tongue away from the teeth and out of the mouth let the air move over your

tongue and your voice is going to be on breathe breathe

that voicing is more important than most people think because not just the vowel

here gives us some length but when you have that voiced sound it actually

sounds like that previous vowel is longer so don't forget the voicing and

it's super key here so we have breath and breathe breath breathe lastly for

the word brief this mistake comes from the fact that people aren't sticking

their tongue out of their mouth enough for the th so what happens is it sounds

like a F and to make an F sound your tongue is in your mouth your lips are

slightly open and the air just keeps coming out some people gently bite the

bottom lip for this sound so we have long e here brief brief brief

breathe breathe breathe breath breath breath breath breathe brief brief

breath breathe I have to look at my sentence for you take a brief moment to

breathe taking shallow breaths will help to calm

you down give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference if you

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