Building Fluent End-of-word Consonants Thru Practice.
Six end of word "Z" sounds. Apply the sounds in sentences using a tongue twister to keep it fun.
A simple tongue twister to master the end-of-word "z" sound.
The following is a simple tongue twister often used by public speakers to "loosen the tongue" before speaking. There are a great many of these, but this one is unique in that it practices the end-of-word "Z" sound 6 times.
Like with the first poem, the first step is simply to speak it correctly. Very slow is fine. place your fingers on the side of your voicebox as I showed you in vid 1 to feel that you are aspirating correctly as this is the goal.
First, a small challenge to give a visual aid to the sounds. It helps.
She sells seashells on the seashore.
If she sells seashells on the seashore,
how many seashells does she sell?
1. rewrite in phonetic script. Mark the 6 end-of-word "Z" sounds.
2, Practice as with Razing. First slow until correct. Faster only when correct.
Remember : Perfect first. Fast after. "Practice in this way or waste your time and sigh."
End result is fluent plurals and present tense sounds making every single sentence you the student speaks clear and concise.
This is generally combined with my "muscle memory aspiration trick". When plural words end, many second language speakers need think to remember whether the sound is Z or S, but there's an easy trick foreignors use (we never remember yet are always correct. Why?). Here's the trick:
if your voicebox is open at the end of the word before the s, than it stays open (aspirated). If your voicebox is closed at the end of the word before the s, than it stays closed (unaspirated). This habit can be built through my other practices.