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It's my son's birthday!
Happy Birthday Sawyer!
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Birthday can be a really hard word
for my students, let's break it down.
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B consonant, that's pretty easy but the
/ɜɹ/ vowel, that can be tricky. Bir,
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just make the r sound. Don't
try to make a vowel. B-ir, Bir,
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Brrrr!
Bir,
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birth.
And we have the unvoiced th,
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your tongue tip has to peek just through but don't
hold it, don't clench. Let the air flow freely.
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th-, birth, birth.
Birthday.
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And day is not the problem
part of that word. Birth-day.
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Birthday.
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Happy Birthday.
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