Tutorial Transcript

Hello everyone! Here i am again with more exercises from Russian speech therapists. Today I'm going to show you how to pronounce Russian SH sound stay with me to learn more. First a quick test, if you're capable of pronouncing Russian SH or not I want you to put your turn into a cup shape like that. Imagine that you can put something there Look here. You see that deep tongue. like that. If you can do that it's perfect. Wait another minute and i will show you what to do next. if you cannot make your tongue look like that don't worry! you'll learn how to do it. you will need a spoon, and you just make your tongue to have that shape like this. I want you to stick your tongue out and press it with the tea spoon to your upper lip, like that. And maybe you will need to press really hard, because some people have problems doing that. Especially if you have tongue tie, I mean you have that short thing under your tongue. Here be careful! don't put too much stress on your tongue, okay? Maybe you will make gliding movements like that So be careful. if you're feeling some pain there, relax! no need to be in a hurry. okay? just maybe more days doing that than hurting yourself. After you've learned how to make your tongue to look like a cup like that. I want you to make a couple of exercises. Number one: You stick your tongue out, make it look like a cup and breathe, and count to four 1234 back 1234 back. Have a look. ... Do it for 30 seconds. You really need those muscles to work. Next step: imagine that something... maybe a snowflake is a on the tip of your nose and you want to make it fly from there. Like that. You really need to feel the air here. Not here, not somewhere here. Here on the tip of your nose. put your tongue out and breathe. Practice it. It's really difficult! seems easy, but actually it's not. Next step: you put the cup shaped tongue behind your teeth. Try it, put it behind your teeth. If you open your mouth doing that, you will see the opposite side of your tongue. Like that. And now I want you to exhale while putting your town there. Try. And that's when you will have Russian SHH. Hard SHH sound. Also there is another way of having that sound, and here we will need the spoon again. If you know how to pronounce SSS sound and I guess almost everyone knows how to do it, I want you to make a long SSS and while doing that long SSS, move your tongue deeper in your mouth. Like that. And you will hear SHHH coming So let's try it. Long SSSS. Hear that? SSS turned to SHH when you moved your town a little bit deeper. The most important part is that you need to understand where exactly your tongue is in your mouth after you moved it. So next time you will be able to put it right there to start with SHHH sound. After you've learned how to pronounce the isolated SHHH, try to combine it with vowels. And maybe other combinations. Use your imagination. So that was it for today. Thank you very much for watching! and don't forget to subscribe to my channel to receive more Russian lessons. bye-bye:)