Unit 12 – W, Q and H Sounds Hi, this is AJ Welcome to Unit 12 W, Q, and H are the sounds we're practicing in this unit Now, most of these use kind of a relaxed mouth, especially a relaxed tongue Let's start with the W Now, the easy way to remember the W is the kissing fish, because the W sound is made with mostly your face and your lips And you push your lips and your cheeks These are your cheeks on the side Push them forward, like a little fish face Right? And then your lips just go up and down, they close and open, close and open to make the W sound You lock the air, and release it Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah Inside your mouth, your tongue is relaxed Just let it stay flat Don't move it around Just relaxed tongue The sound is mostly coming from what you're doing with your face Wah, Wah, Wah There's a bit of vibration happening in your throat also Whhh, you can put your fingers here, and you'll feel some vibration, not super strong vibration, but a little bit Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah Let's practice some words with the W sound What, what, exaggerate, make that kind of kissing, fish face very strong What, what, what Where, where, where When, when, when, when Why, why, why, why At the end of a word: How, how, how Notice that the common question words in English have W sounds in them How, how Now, now, now, now Know Here's the one that's K-N-O-W, Know It's a very soft W at the end Know, know Even the word go, G-O has a little bit of a hidden W, another hidden sound Remember we had the hidden Y, well some words have hidden Ws, especially at the end G-O, if you look at it, it sounds like it should be pronounced gah, or goh But if you say it, a lot of people make a mistake and they say, goh, goh, goh, just a pure O sound But that's not really the correct accent You need to add a little bit of a W at the end to make it sound correct Go, wah, you hear a little bit of a W at the end? It's soft It's the hidden W Go, go Show, show, show, show It's a soft W at the end, the hidden W New, new, not old, new, new Now when you practice, make it very strong Some of the Ws at the end of words are soft, but when you practice them, I want you to exaggerate and make them very, very strong That's the W Let's go to the Q Now the Q is actually easy because really, there's not a special Q sound It's just the K sound, plus the W So it's really just putting together the two sounds you now already know It's just K plus W So put your mouth in a W shape like this, you know, kissing a little bit, but first say a K sound So the back of your tongue goes up, remember, touches the top of your mouth K, K, K, K, K, right, that's the K sound K, K, make that sound, K Now, add the W at the end of it kwa, kwa, kwa, kwa Just K plus W, that's all that Q is So let's some words Quick, quick, quick Question, question, question Quit, quit, quit Quality, quality, quality Quite, quite, quite Put in the middle Require, require, require Put the K and the W together Require Equal, it’s in the middle Equal, equal, equal That’s it The Q is very simple And now, finally a super, super, super relaxed sound, the H sound The H, you're going to open your mouth first of all with the H Don't close it, and then your tongue is also relaxed All you're doing is blowing out air with an open mouth So it's actually a quiet sound Here's what it sounds like Hhh, Hhh, Hhh I'm just pushing air with my stomach, with my lungs I'm just pushing the air out suddenly but everything else is open and relaxed, just an open mouth, a relaxed tongue Everything's quite relaxed, the air comes out Hhh, there's also no vibration No vibration with the H, so it's a very, very soft, relaxed sound No vibration, open mouth, tongue is relaxed Hhh, Hhh, Hhh, Hhh, that's it Because it's such a relaxed sound, such a soft sound, you need to push that air quite hard so we can hear it Otherwise it sounds like -appy We say happy, if you don't push the air strong enough, it just sounds like -appy You won't hear the H So push it, get that strong Hhh But mouth, tongue relaxed Happy, Hhh-appy Make it strong Happy, happy Hurry, hurry, Hhh, Hhh, hurry, hurry, hurry Hard, hard, not soft, hard Hot, hot, hot Exaggerate it when you practice Hot History, history Hh, Hh History Let's put it in the middle Behind, behind, behind Inhale It means to breathe in Inhale, Hh, Hh, hale, inhale, inhale, inhale Very good Now as always, as you follow the five day process with the training audio, exaggerate the target sounds, make them extra strong, and also, don't forget about rhythm Don't forget about that music, because it's also very, very important See you in the training audio Unit 12 – Practice Session Okay You know what to Let's it I know why I want the highest quality, most powerful training in the world What I require when I speak English is for my words to flow wonderfully, like water, equal in quality to a native speaker I wish to be quite close with Americans I know I'll never quit That's why I'm not in a hurry I'm happy to go slowly, because now I require healthy improvement only However, with each improvement, my quest for quality takes a quantum leap forward, and that's why I'm quickly, quietly, wonderfully heading higher with my English speaking power And now, medium speed I know why I want the highest quality, most powerful training in the world What I require when I speak English is for my words to flow wonderfully, like water, equal in quality to a native speaker I wish to be quite close with Americans I know I'll never quit That's why I'm not in a hurry I'm happy to go slowly, because now I require healthy improvement only However, with each improvement, my quest for quality takes a quantum leap forward, and that's why I'm quickly, quietly, wonderfully heading higher with my English speaking power And now, a little faster I know why I want the highest quality, most powerful training in the world What I require when I speak English is for my words to flow wonderfully, like water, equal in quality to a native speaker I wish to be quite close with Americans I know I'll never quit That's why I'm not in a hurry I'm happy to go slowly, because now I require healthy improvement only However, with each improvement, my quest for quality takes a quantum leap forward, and that's why I'm quickly, quietly, wonderfully heading higher with my English speaking power CLICK HERE .. .Unit 12 – W, Q and H Sounds Hi, this is AJ Welcome to Unit 12 W, Q, and H are the sounds we're practicing in this unit Now, most of these use kind of a relaxed... forget about that music, because it's also very, very important See you in the training audio Unit 12 – Practice Session Okay You know what to Let's it I know why I want the highest quality, most