The soft palate is in its raised position.
Words for exercising:
lay, lo, look, like, last, lose; black, please, close, sleep; ball, pale, kill, colonel; cold, milk, valve, hills.
The final /l/ sound is not often heard. Hold the /l/ a little longer. Practice this:bell-bell-belllll, all-all-alllll. Exercise again and again until you can produce the clear-cut voiced /l/.
The alveolar fricative consonant /r/ is articulated by the tongue tip against the back part of the teeth-ridge, the main body of the tongue being kept low and the front being held concave to the palate, and the whole tongue being laterally contracted.
