Repeat after me
I was trying to teach Jake how to say words that start with S – I was teaching him what my father taught me because I too had the same problem. I went around saying “pagetti” and “neaky” and “top” for a long time till my father said to just say s then the word – so it was s pagetti, then s neaky, and then s top. It worked. While I was going through a repertoire of words that start with s and how to say s first before the word, Jake was trying to tell me about R’s bat mobile and I couldn’t hear him, so he thought I didn’t know how to say it, so he said, “Repeat after me, bat – mo – bile.”