If you want more information on the photos in this video, which have parts of the mouth drawn in, see this video on the parts of the mouth.

How to make this sound:

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The W consonant sound. This sound is similar in position to the 'oo' as in 'boo' []. The tongue is raised very high in the back, and the lips are very rounded. In the 'oo' as in 'boo' vowel sound, however, the sound feels more like it comes from here. In the W consonant, it feels further down into the throat. The tip of the tongue is not actually touching the teeth, but is further down than that, touching the soft tissue under the teeth. Well, welcome.

Here is the W consonant sound on the right compared with the mouth at rest on the left. The lips are very rounded, which means that the center part of the lips come away from the face. Here, parts of the mouth are drawn in. The soft palate is raised in this sound, and the tongue stretches up towards it in the back, but it does not touch the soft palate. The tip of the tongue is low, touching where the bottom front teeth meet the soft tissue. The W sound.

Sample words: whisper, wish, wine. Sample sentence: When would you want to see the flower show? Now you'll see this sentence up close and in slow motion, both straight on and at an angle, so you can really study the mouth position for this sound.

This sound is easy to see. The lips make the tight circle. When, 'eh' as in 'bed' [], tongue tip up for the N. Again the tight circle, would you want, again the tight circle for the W. Tongue tip up for the N and T. To see, lips pull wide for the 'ee' as in 'she' []. Tongue tip through the teeth for the, and the bottom lip up to make the F, flower, spelled with a W but it is the 'ow' as in 'now' diphthong [], show, with the 'oh' as in 'no' diphthong [].

And from the angle. Lips form the tight circle for the W. When, the 'eh' as in 'bed', tongue tip up for the N. Would, again, the lips almost closed. You want, very tight circle. To see, corners pull wide for the 'ee' as in 'she'. The, tongue tip through the teeth and the bottom lip up for the F. Flow-, again spelled with a W, but it is not the W sound, it is the 'ow' as in 'now' diphthong. Same with show, spelled with a W but here it is the 'oh' as in 'no' diphthong. You can see the lips didn't make quite the tight circle that they do with the W.

International Phonetic Alphabet symbol: []

See more information on this sound, including its occurrences in other languages, on Wikipedia's page.

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