So, we're working on making your English perfectly connected and smooth. And there's one little detail again specially for Spanish speakers that affects us all. This is something that breaks up our speech and makes it sound honestly quite messy. And with the not such a good style However, it's very easy to solve this issue. And today, we will work on fixing your SS. Start by reading the title of this So, I will not tell you yet how to pronounce this because I would love it for you to discover it for yourself after we learn how to connect the SS in English.

So, let me give you a list of words. Good. Now, of course you notice that all of them start with an S. Right. So how do you say the first word? Start the second one. Stop.

Hercules, the other ones please. snail, special snake. Now, I want you to focus on something. Say the first word again. Make That you're not saying a start. We are not using an E, before the s, it's just an S, not an S. So make sure to always say, start.

Now, be very careful because this is one sneaky little detail. Most people don't know that they're doing this. And even though it's very simple to correct sometimes students unconsciously keep saying it, but they don't recognize it. So the first step or the first objective right now is to start identifying these sound when we speak and not when we speak or avoid this or whenever you start a work with an S Got it? I speak Spanish. Okay, a little bit quicker.

I speak Spanish. It's simple and it's even better than if we don't connect it. Listen to the difference. I speak Spanish with a special sounds or I speak Spanish with special sounds fantastic. So as you can see, the S starts with a snake sound right now is snakes. So focus on this and make sure you're starting every s like that.

Starts stops Spanish special snake snail. Okay, so now that you know how to perfectly pronounce the s in the beginning of a word. Let's work with some examples. Let's start with this one. Good, or stupid small snake. or stupid small snake.

Good. I want you to pay very close attention. Maybe even record your voice in your voice recorder in your cell phone or in your computer so that you make completely sure that you're not saying a stupid small snake, right? We don't want to snake even if it's a short we want to connect it to give a sense of flow and a stupid small snake. or stupid small snake. It's add an extra ingredient that example.

Her stupid small little snake grammar last lesson for stupid small little snake Excellent. Now, take a look at this one. By now you should be saying something like I still started small. Right? I still started small. Can you hear how it allows me to speak quickly and easily instead of having to stop to enunciate every word that I am saying the T's and the DS from last lesson and the S from this lesson allows me to paste together and flow smoothly when I'm speaking.

Right. Now let's take a look at the final example of this session. This is a longer sentence so try to read it and try to connect the essence please. Good Say it again. I started speaking Spanish with small snake sounds. Let's do it again.

I started speaking Spanish with small snakes. I started speaking Spanish with small snake sounds. I started speaking Spanish with small snake sounds. I know I sound ridiculous and maybe you feel that you will be sounding ridiculous sometimes when you're practicing your pronunciation or your fluency exercises. But guess what? The more ridiculous you feel and the more comfortable you are feeling ridiculous, the better it is for your English.

You will be less intimidated in real life situations when you have to speak English. So don't be afraid to exaggerate to make mistakes and to sound ridiculous making sounds that you have probably never made before. We're expanding Think your vocal range for that you need to experiment with your voice. And sometimes, well, not always will it be perfect. That's what I'm trying to say. So, we have the technique, we have some words, and we have some examples.

By now you should know already how to do this fluency practices. Take your favorite words, the examples that were most difficult or that you feel you should improve the most. memorize them. Have them in your posted in your cell phone, in your notebook in whatever you're using. And constantly look through them so you can practice them. Remember at least twice a day, in your car in some moments in your day where you can relax and just flow for a couple of minutes.

One more thing. Remember to check your progress and to test yourself using the dictation software that you should by now already have whenever you listen and practice a new step or a new technique, take a couple of example sentences. Take out your software dictation software, and speak it to the software to make sure that it is understanding you perfectly. If not, you can check back in the lesson you can watch the steps again, and keep practicing until you have it. Perfect. Great.

I'll see you next lesson to wrap it up with the fluency step. Until then, I hope that you stay well.