Pronunciation Of Clothes in English

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Accent's Way English with Hadar


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Hi, it's Hadar and this is the Accent's way.
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Your way to finding clarity, confidence and freedom in English.
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Demi asked me to make a video for her students on the word "clothes".
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It's a great word because I have a fantastic tip for you guys that will make the pronunciation
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of this word really simple.
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The beginning of the word starts with klo-klo.
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It's a K sound shifting to an L.
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The tongue goes up to touch the upper palate KL
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the tongue is heavy here
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it's a heavy L. kl and then a long ow, ow. Ow as and "go". klow, clothes. All right.
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So you start with your mouth open and you
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close it to an u. Clothes. so it's not "close".
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All right. You don't want to
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pronounce it just like a O sound.
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It's "clothes".
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Think like you're adding a little W at the end.
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The end of the word is a th-z sound. thz, thz. Clothes.
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Now if you tried making it with me now you probably feel
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that it's a little challenging, right?
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The tongue gets stuck and then it's hard to shift from the tongue being out to the z-sound.
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thz
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True. It is a difficult transition.
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That's why you can drop the th and instead of saying
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"clothes" you can say klowz, klowz
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just like "close the door", close.
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So even Americans reduce this word to "close"
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because it's definitely easier and quicker to pronounce, close.
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Now let me say a one word about this, the word "clothes".
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Make sure that you don't confuse it with a word "close", all right.
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You have two words here with the same spelling pattern
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"Close", the door, the verb and also
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the way to say the word clothes when
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it's reduced, clothes. And then you have
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"close" the adverb. I'm sitting close to you.
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"Close". I'm sitting close. "Close". Close the door.
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Or "clothes". I'm wearing new clothes.
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Clothes. Alright, that's it.
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I hope you enjoyed it. If you did please share it with your friends.
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That's it thank you for watching.
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I'll see you next week in the next video.
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Bye.
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