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A student recently asked me about:
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Skull
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Dull
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These are really hard words. The dark L does
affect the vowel, it's not pure a vowel.
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The tongue presses down and back a little bit
for that dark L and it starts doing it right
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from the beginning. So it colors the vowel.
I honestly think the best way to work with
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these words is to just listen and repeat
over and over. I've seen my students make
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great transformations with sounds they can't
really distinguish when they just repeat.
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So let me do a couple for you here now.
I say it, you say it back out loud:
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So I say the word, I start
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the sound and then I feel the back part of my
tongue moving to press down and back a little bit.
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