How To Pronounce the L Sound in American English Part 2 | The Dark L Sound
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In this American English pronunciation lesson you will learn all about the pronunciation of L at the end of words and syllables (the Dark L sound). You will learn how native speakers make this sound and we will also discuss alternate tongue placements you can use to achieve the Dark L.
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Be sure to check out the Light L lesson to learn how to pronounce L at the beginning of words and syllables and learn how L is different from R: • How to Pronounce the L...
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OMG I've had this problem literally all my life. So many people tried to teach me how to properly pronounce the dark L, but I never really got it. Your video was it! Now for the first time of my life I was able to understand what it is and how to pronounce it! Thank you!!!
I watched alot of dark l videos but i got it from ur video
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I'm an Egyptian teacher of English. I always pronounce the light and dark "L" .. in the same way you say it.
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I've been speaking American English my whole life. I've never heard of this "Dark L" before. The way I pronounce "L" is that it is shorter at the front or middle of a word and longer at the end of the word. In both cases, the tongue is pressed on the ridge behind the teeth. Perhaps more of the tongue is pressed against the ridge on a terminal "L", but it certainly is not a sound that I make in the back of the mouth; I certainly don't use the uvula. I think, for foreigners learning English, it is helpful to understand that there are variations in the way native speakers of English actually pronounce the language.
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"While I wait" or "While I'll wait" excellent statements for practice W sound & dark L together.
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I never had trouble with "Dark L", but I never thought about it at this theoretical level. Thank you, Keenyn.
I had been so desperate about this Dark L sound until I realised that I'd been pronouncing this dark L correctly all the time. Thank you :)
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Thank you very much for the lesson of consonnant l
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I've used tip of my tongue to pronounce the Dark L, struggled to pronounce that. This is a life changer. Thanks!
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There are a lot of resources that teach how to pronounce this sound but so far I found this video is the most effective. Thank you so much!
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I might have started understanding this sound for the first time in my 8 years of English leaning. Thanks so much for sharing this lesson!
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Can you please make more videos of dark ll sound? You are a nice teacher.
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This amazing. Up until this time I didn't know that my native language has not such 'dark' L sound. For example I used to pronounce Email as ih-meo rather than ihm-eh-oh
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This is really really helpful!Here in China,we tend to pronounce the dark L sound as "oh" because there's no dark L sound in Chinese and it really sounds like "oh".Words like "old","told","world" are really hard for us to pronounce correctly and most of the time we just omit the dark L sound.Now I finally figured out how to pronounce it!Really appreciate it.谢谢！xie xie!
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I was stress with the dark L until watched your video. That's such a good approuch to pronounce this sound. Love you 😘
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What a lovely lady, what a good lesson on the dark "L". Thank you very much, Marko.
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is the tip of tongue for the dark l in the word ( else /ɛls/ ) touch behind lower teeth or upper teeth.
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I didn't know this about the two different kinds of 'L' sounds. Very appreciated and helpful.
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with the dark L sound, but finally I got something! thank you so much!
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Need video about light L as well
The best video teaching how to pronounce dark L in my experience. Thanks, Keenyn!
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I was into the idea to pronounce the most accurately possible the dark L that I really force a gag to study the movement of my mouth. It was really painful but worked.
Awesome teacher, very accurate.
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Thank you so much! I'm not used to say this L .But let's practice and see what happens next.
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Thank you for play by play demonstration on sounding out this letter!
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You video explained what I had been confused about L sound. I didnt know there are two different L sounds : ) It is a big thing for me ^^ Thank you !! I will work on these L sounds !!
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For words that has a L after the first alphabet, do we also use a dark L? If so how do we make the transition smoother.
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What about the "l" in the word "left"?
I think this is an exception because it's a dark "l" here even though it's in the beginning of the word... what do you think?I'm I right?
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Thank you so much, the uvula expression is extreamly useful for me
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final solution for my L pronunciation, really appreciated!
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Thank you very much. Perhaps for the first time I begin to understand the dark L sound. You are a wonderful teacher
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Great. Thanks you.
Great!This is the first time I find a video lesson where I can actually learn how to make that sound without getting confused, or feeling like I'm not going to get it the right way. Your uvula tip is gold - I'll definitely go for it whenever I'm working on that L sound. Thanks for taking the time to help us out!
Awesome!!! You are most welcome! So glad that tip was helpful for you! And, well, any excuse to say "uvula!" Such a fun word! 😄😄😄
I couldn't agree with you more! Also, that's also a tough word to say because of that "v" sound, especially for us the ones who speak Spanish as first language - we tend to pronounce it as "b," hahaha! Keep it up!
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