Maine Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
SPLs, Megan, others
I need help and maybe it's too hard to try and tell me in text - but I am having trouble pronouncing the difference between wh /hw/ and w /w/. I was working on a wh lesson with a student today and I just couldn't figure out how to make an /h/ sound before a /w/ sound to make wh /hw/. Unless, I say it all breathy and pretentious, like the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland, and that just confused the poor kid!
It might be that I over pronounce /w/ so its more like /w//a/
I also think that I don't really make the /hw/ sound when I say wh words - I say /w/.
The lady who did the training said that you have to talk like a newscaster during lesson, and not use dialect, so how should my mouth move to say /w/ and how should it move to say /hw/ ?
Re: SPLs, Megan, others
I vaguely remember talking about this in phonetics ages ago. In most areas in this country, the dialect we speak uses /w/ instead of the /hw/.
If you're trying to differentiate the difference, maybe talk about voicing. Many sounds in our language are voice/unvoiced cognates, meaning that they're made identically, and are distinctive because of voicing. Such as /p/ is voiceless, /b/ voiced; /t/ voiceless, /d/ voiced; /k/ voiceless, /g/ voiced. Maybe describe it as /w/ is voiced and /hw/ is unvoiced?