Your lessons are the richest and the most useful. . I've imitated repeatedly your present participle vid, and have found that, during phone calls, I now habitually generate perfect sounds and perfect grammar.. Thanks to every gem of a lesson that your brilliant mind imparts to us, I actually sound smarter and more native... Thank you gorgeous. .. I know I'm not alone when I say that... And I'll approach these techniques with the same admiration and respect I have for all your kind efforts..
I have such a hard time trying to pronounce the words "effortless" "effortlessly" "effortlessness". There are two main reasons for this: Reason # 1. The "t" sound: I know that in natural spoken english an american native speaker don't pronounce a "true t" like "tap" or "table", instead they pronounce a "held t" = the tip of the tongue touches the bony bump behind the upper teeth (AKA alveolar ridge), however there is no air release. I CAN'T do it naturally Reason # 2. Word stress: In my native language, Brazilian Portuguese, when a word has four or more syllables, the stress can only fall in one of the last three syllables in a word. In two syllable-words the stress pattern can be: DA da ( BOla, MAla) or da DA ( caJU, aMOR). In three-syllable words the stress pattern can be: da da DA (profesSOR, abriCÓ bamboLÊ), da DA da ( toMAte, baNAna, aÇUcar), DA da da (sílaba, fôlego, música). So, in a four-syllable word , five-syllable word or any other multi-syllable word, it doesn't matter how many syllables the word has, the stress can only fall in one of the last three syllables, so the stress patterns can be: da da da DA ( last Syllable): man je ri CÃO da da DA da (second to last Syllable): res pon SÁ vel da DA da da (third to last Syllable) : his TÓ ri co. In English however, if we count the syllables backwords, the stress can falls in the fourth to last Syllable: DA da da da : *EF* fort less ly *EF* fort less ness. Another crazy example is the word "Veterinary" which has five syllables and has the stress on the first syllable or on the fifth to last syllable (counting backwords): DA da da da da: *VET* er i nar y I'm not accostumed to these stress patterns, so that's why is pretty difficult for me
very interesting! Thanks for sharing. For the held T you can try making the "uh oh" sound (like when you make a mistake.) That first "uh" sound is just like a held T. There should be a swallowing feeling- or a feeling that you are cutting off the air supply.
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Your lessons are the richest and the most useful. . I've imitated repeatedly your present participle vid, and have found that, during phone calls, I now habitually generate perfect sounds and perfect grammar.. Thanks to every gem of a lesson that your brilliant mind imparts to us, I actually sound smarter and more native... Thank you gorgeous. .. I know I'm not alone when I say that... And I'll approach these techniques with the same admiration and respect I have for all your kind efforts..
I have such a hard time trying to pronounce the words "effortless" "effortlessly" "effortlessness". There are two main reasons for this:
Reason # 1. The "t" sound: I know that in natural spoken english an american native speaker don't pronounce a "true t" like "tap" or "table", instead they pronounce a "held t" = the tip of the tongue touches the bony bump behind the upper teeth (AKA alveolar ridge), however there is no air release. I CAN'T do it naturally
Reason # 2. Word stress: In my native language, Brazilian Portuguese, when a word has four or more syllables, the stress can only fall in one of the last three syllables in a word.
In two syllable-words the stress pattern can be: DA da ( BOla, MAla) or da DA ( caJU, aMOR).
In three-syllable words the stress pattern can be:
da da DA (profesSOR, abriCÓ bamboLÊ), da DA da ( toMAte, baNAna, aÇUcar),
DA da da (sílaba, fôlego, música).
So, in a four-syllable word , five-syllable word or any other multi-syllable word, it doesn't matter how many syllables the word has, the stress can only fall in one of the last three syllables, so the stress patterns can be:
da da da DA ( last Syllable):
man je ri CÃO
da da DA da (second to last Syllable):
res pon SÁ vel
da DA da da (third to last Syllable) :
his TÓ ri co.
In English however, if we count the syllables backwords, the stress can falls in the fourth to last Syllable:
DA da da da :
*EF* fort less ly
*EF* fort less ness.
Another crazy example is the word "Veterinary" which has five syllables and has the stress on the first syllable or on the fifth to last syllable (counting backwords): DA da da da da:
*VET* er i nar y
I'm not accostumed to these stress patterns, so that's why is pretty difficult for me
very interesting! Thanks for sharing. For the held T you can try making the "uh oh" sound (like when you make a mistake.) That first "uh" sound is just like a held T. There should be a swallowing feeling- or a feeling that you are cutting off the air supply.