English Winners, here is a pronunciation lesson. An important part of
pronunciation is understanding syllable stresses. To understand syllable stresses,
you need to know what a syllable is. So what is a syllable? Let's start out with
a simple information quiz. Look at the picture: how many syllables are in each
word? I'll give you a moment to figure it out...
pause the video, and when you're ready, get back to me, okay? So now I'll explain
to you what a syllable is. A syllable is a sound; it's just one sound. When I say a
word like comedy, and comedy has three syllables, that means there are three
sounds that make up the word comedy. And you can hear them: co-me-dy. Co-me-dy. Three
syllables. So, breaking syllables down further: they're made up of two types of
letters: you've got your vowels - AEIOU, and sometimes Y - and then your consonants,
which are all the other letters that I didn't just say. Sometimes a vowel by
itself can be a one syllable word, like 'A' or 'I'. Other times, to make the long vowel
sound like 'O' or 'U' we need to add a consonant. So we have words like 'owe' and
'you'. These are words with meanings and they have just one syllable one sound,
even though three letters are making up each of those words. Some other examples
of one syllable words that are made up of both vowels and consonants are words
like tree and stove. You'll notice the E in stove is silent,
making it just one syllable. Another type of syllable that might seem
a little confusing at first has something called a diphthong.
That's just a very confusing way of saying that two vowels can come together
to make one sound. Here are some examples on the board
behind me: touch, taut, belief, deed, again. So look at touch; we have O and U. Look at
Taut: A and U. I'm not going to say all of them. But the word 'Again'. We have the
ain sound: A and I together. Some British people might say agAIn. Most Americans is
just 'IN'... again. Now this is also very important of some syllables: they end
with the vowel sound and then the next syllable is started by the consonant.
Some examples on the board are: tracker, bottle, and never. You'll notice with
tracker, the first syllable ends with a vowel A... TRA... and then the next syllable
starts with a C - a consonant - CKER. And then bottle: the first syllable ends with
a vowel, O... BO... and then the next syllable is started with a consonant
T... TLE... You see? I know you do. Sometimes, however, you will have
syllables that end on the consonant. These sometimes happen with voiced
syllables, where you got to turn on this part of your vocal cords. A lot of
consonants where you have to turn on those vocal cords are consonants like: M,
N, the ING sound - ing - then you -of course - have L, R, D...and things like that.
i'll show you some word examples: boulder, stronger, mommy, darker, stranger. Look at
the words one more time. I want you to see how each example ended their first
syllable on a consonant, but then a new consonant started the next syllable. For
instance: darker. DAR and with a consonant R and then KER - that syllable starts
with a consonant again. Stranger: the first syllable ends with the N... Strain...
and then GER - the next syllable - starts with a consonant, understand? Before we
get off of this lesson, I'm going to introduce a few example words that can
be a little confusing at first, because we need to understand the unusual words,
too. So let's put them up on the board: Beautiful...that has five vowels and three
sounds... beau...ti...ful. Baroque - that's a time period in European
history associated with the art world - it's four vowels... two sounds: Ba...Roque. And
then: conceive... four vowels... two sounds. Con Ceive. This should help you
understand how to say more of the words you encounter every day, and I want you
to see these rules and pay attention to them, so when you see a new word, you can
pronounce it with greater accuracy. Obviously, you're not going to get it
right all the time if these words are new to you, but, as you learn the rules,
you can say new words that you've never seen before and pronounce them right...
most of the time. So I'm going to throw up the words we saw at the very
beginning of the lesson, and see if you've done any differently. Look at
these words: blind, banana, never, mommy, conceive. How many syllables are in each
word? So blind: one syllable. Banana: three syllables... ba-na-na. Never: two syllables...ne-ver.
Mommy: two syllables... mom-mee. Conceive: two
syllables... con-ceive. So now that you have some understanding of syllables, you can
start pronouncing words that you might have been unable to before. If you liked
this video, tell me... if you want more lessons on syllables. Until then, I'm
curious to see where you are in the world. There are people from many
different countries watching these videos, so please tell me down in
COMMENTS below. Write down what country you're from. I want to know. In the
meantime, check out my video on syllable stress, and the other one on- its a
pronunciation playlist, I think you'll enjoy them, and see the rest of my
channel for business English. Keep on winning, English winners. I'll see you
later.
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