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Idiom LANDSLIDE — in honor of March Madness!

Tagged With: Culture, Idioms

English is full of idioms.  Learn how to use and pronounce ‘landslide’ comfortably in conversational English:  what words or syllables to reduce, how to link everything together, and the melodic shape of the phrase.

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In this American English pronunciation video, we’re going to go over the idiom ‘landslide’.

This idiom is in honor of March Madness, which will start soon.  March Madness is a college basketball tournament that happens every year about this time.  A very exciting couple of weeks for sports fans!  A landslide victory, or, to win in a landslide, is a victory by a large margin.  In basketball, maybe something like 20 points.  You could also use this term to describe an election.  He was elected Mayor in a landslide.

Landslide.  Do you notice that I’m dropping the D?  When the D comes after an N and before another consonant, you can drop the D.  Landslide.  Another example would be ‘grandma’.  No D sound there.  Grandma.

This is a two-syllable word with stress on the first syllable.  Landslide.  It begins with the Light L, ll, tongue tip here.  Ll, ll, la-.  Then the AA as in BAT vowel.  Make sure you drop your jaw for that.  Laa, aa.  Also the top lip may pull up a bit.  La-, la-.  Next is the nasal consonant N.  And you may know that AA followed by a nasal consonant isn’t really a pure AA.  We have an ‘uh’ sound in there, where the tongue relaxes in the back.  La-uh-, la-uh-n.  Before the front raises for the N sound.  Lan, nn, nn.  So it’s the front, flat part of the tongue that is touching the roof of the mouth there for the N.  Lan, landsss-, then the S consonant sound.  The teeth come together, ss, and the tongue then goes to the roof of the mouth for the L.  For the N it was touching like this, and for the L it touches like this, with the very tip.  Then the AI as in BUY diphthong.  Again, drop your jaw for the first sound of the diphthong.  -sli-.  And finally, a light D at the end, where the flat part of the tongue will quickly touch the roof of the mouth.  Landslide, landslide, landslide.

Practice your English.  Make up a sentence using ‘landslide’, record it, and post it as a video response on YouTube to this video.  I can’t wait to see it.

That’s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.

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