Syllables and Word Stress – English Pronunciation Lesson
Syllables and Word Stress – English Pronunciation Lesson
In this lesson, you can learn about syllables and stress in English.
Do you know what stress means? It’s one of the most important pronunciation points in English.
When you speak English, do other people find it difficult to understand what you’re saying? If so, you might not be using stress correctly.
Pronouncing words with the correct stress can make a big difference to your English: your English will immediately sound clearer and more natural.
NOTE: there is an error at 1:41 – the stress marker in the IPA transcription of ‘banana’ should be on the 2nd syllable, rather than the 1st: /bə’nɑːnə/.
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Contents:
1. How to Count Syllables 0:40
2. How to Pronounce Stress 2:43
3. Stress in Two-Syllable Words 5:16
4. Stress in Longer Words 7:33
5. Contrasts and Vowel Reductions 11:16
In this lesson you’ll learn:
– What syllables are, and how to count the syllables of a word
– Introduction to word stress
– How to pronounce word stress in English
– How to hear the word stress when listening in English
– Rules for finding the stress of a word in English
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suggestion come under 2 , 3,4 syllable
That guy sounds like the assistant on my phn 😂😂
Ahh now i know why in a phonetic transcription on dictionary have an apostrophe (‘), i always wondering that
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I wish I Iearnt stressed words or syllable.
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They be like: describe things by using the harder things.
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This gave me STRESS.
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I imagine that native english speakers DON’T KNOW THOSE RULERS, yet, they use them because they just….find it natural to use word stress without even realizing?
the most important thing we need to speak correctly english is the notion about stress. Thank you for this lesson.
Awesome
Thank you
It was realy useful
Can a word have more than one stress eg. the word ‘pronunciation’ where nun & a are longer?
Really it’s most important lesson and you explained well.
Let we know the way we can devide the word into syllables.
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Hi. Thanks for your video. It’s very helpful. But I have a question, as the rules go, for the 2 syllable words, the nouns should be stressed in the first syllable, and the verbs should be the second. But why doesn’t the word “reSERve” (both noun and verb) follow the rule? 🤔🤔and both the verb and the noun are stressed in the second syllabl? (for there’s some exemptions for the general rule?)
Is it an Apostrophe or stress mark??
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This is what i was looking for ages. Tnx a lot
Can you explain why the stress is on "s" in the words like ‘expensive’, ‘explain’, ‘expose’, ‘expatriate’ and ‘exclude’? I mean, ‘ex’ is the first syllable in these words and it’s pronounced like "eks". How come the stress mark is on the last part of the first syllable (‘s’) treating ‘s’ as if it is a part of the second syllable? I’d be grateful if you answered. Thanks in advance.
PS: if you didn’t get the question, I can explain more.
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Awesome explanation
What’s the stressed words in moderation and about anyone please reply
We want bangla subtitles,,all videos,please
I knew core thing of stressed and unstressed syllabus of the words but I get command after more practice.Thank you.
I don’t like stressed syllables.I think It’s very hard
I got it thanks ☺️
When I was young, why did my english teacher never teach me the most important part of english level like this? He left me confused. Sometimes I learn so much when native english speakers are talking with me, I pinpoint a lot the dos and the don’ts, and I’m like, wow, why their intonation in their pronunciation doesn’t sound monotone and flat like mine does? They seem to sing it, and I like it. And right now, I get your video. Thank’s, anyway. Never run out of ideas to help us improve our english skill ! Your video is so helpful to many million people who are not native, I’m one.
Clear and great explanation.
This was very informative lession.I learn this topic very clearly.Thanks for such a helpful vedio.
What is the stresses syllable of terrified ?
In indonesian it is only given for students majoring language at university
very helpful for me cuz I’m having a test tomorrow
Informative
This helped me a lot
Flower and thought
How many syllables?
Nervous which part is primary syllable ?
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I really hope you guys answer my question , Does the rule of making a longer word of a shorter root words have anything to do with the rule of stress in prefixes and suffixes ?!! And please if there is such a video you made about this topic write down the link in your replay ! Thanks in advance ♥️
Great tips. Glad that i ran into this clip. Thanks for sharing.
A video on pronunciation under a UK flag and then mixing British and American accents but without mentioning the difference seems unnecessarily confusing to me.
Wow you explained this beautifully and easily.
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