PRONUNCIATION: Consonant clusters with initial -s

The pronunciation of the spelling S Cloze (1): afterdifficultbefore vowel eh easy after consonant oh JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3JXUwMDAzJXUwMDA5JXUwMDFkJXUwMDE3 another Cloze (2): afterdifficultbefore vowel eh easy after consonant oh JXUwMDNiJXUwMDBjJXUwMDAxJXUwMDFkJXUwMDFjJXUwMDAxJXUwMDBmJXUwMDBmJXUwMDFh , for example sc, sk, sl, sm, sp, st and sw...this pronunciation is Cloze (3): afterdifficultbefore vowel eh easy after consonant oh JXUwMDNjJXUwMDBkJXUwMDBmJXUwMDAwJXUwMDBmJXUwMDBhJXUwMDE2JXUwMDE5JXUwMDE4  for Spanish speakers because we don't have these sequences of sounds at the beginning of a word. The mistake is to pronounce an " Cloze (4): afterdifficultbefore vowel eh easy after consonant oh JXUwMDNkJXUwMDBk " vowel Cloze (5): afterdifficultbefore vowel eh easy after consonant oh JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3JXUwMDAzJXUwMDA5JXUwMDFkJXUwMDE3  the cluster; for example, when we pronounce Spain we say "/espein/" instead of /spein/ or when we want to say "start" we say /estart/ instead of /start/To break that habit, a good tip is to exaggerate the pronunciation of /s/ before you pronounce every word, let's do it: sssssspeak, ssssssstart, sssssssmell. The exercises below will help!