Congratulations to all for making it so far, based on what I've heard, people have a tendency to leave
their courses incomplete.
It was partially why I tried to keep my course as short as possible.
Any hope?
You did a great job completing the course so far.
We're getting close to the end of the course, and I hope I could teach you everything I knew thoroughly
in a practical way.
Please leave us a comment and mention the things you would have changed if you could change anything
in this course in this video.
Listen, I'd like to move the content to the next level.
We're going to talk about one of the most important topics in English pronunciation, which you will
find very effective.
By mastering this, you can utterly lose your accent and sound extremely bitter, according to some
statistics, this note does not exist in some languages.
That's why you can find many English speakers unable to produce this sound, how to produce it.
It's the easiest sound that you can ever produced by far, because I can dare say it's almost nothing.
A very relaxed, unstressed sound which we call the schwa sound.
Just open your mouth a little like this.
Oh.
A.
Oh, relax everything, your jaw, your lips, your tongue, and put out a very short sound like this.
This is the.
That's it.
Pause the video if you want to give it a try.
How to recognize it easy.
Find a relaxed, unstressed, fast sound in every word and sentence.
And it's a loss.
Let me give you some cases to see how you can find the schwa sounds in English.
First articles.
Articles are supposed to be unstressed because by using them we don't want to convey a specific meaning.
Hence there's no stress on them.
For example, a book.
A book.
A girl or the book?
The the restaurant second words that end in O, R and E R, such as comp., adjectives like better or
or better, harder, faster the sound or better, easy.
The reason is that the letter R has a kind of ishwar sound in it when we pronounce it on its own.
Listen to me.
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah.
So as a practice, take as many words that in ah as you want and pronounce them to understand how it's
done.
Third words that start with an unstressed a for example, a word like Apple doesn't count because a
is trist apple.
Apple destress is at the beginning of the word.
Look at these words and pronounce them before I do.
Now it's time for the correct pronunciation of these words about about, of course, I'm trying to exaggerate
over here, pay attention to the short soire sound over here about.
About again.
Again.
Analysis and analysis, sometimes you might want to put stress on the beginning of the word again.
All right, you say again.
All right.
But that's another case.
That's totally another case in regular situations.
We say again, again, the sound I personally believe imitating these categories can help you take a
very effective step towards the perfect American accent.
Remember that the sure sound is the opposite of emphasizing a syllable.
Of course, it's difficult to understand a syllable is stressed or not.
But just looking at a word, however, it can be a really challenging practice.
So take some complex words with more than two syllables and try to guess if it's trist to pronounce
them clearly or it's unstressed to use the Schwarcz out.
Let me give you some examples in advance.
F a s t.
Fast, fast.
Take this word and put it in this word breakfast.
Breakfast, it's no longer fast, it's fast.
It's not fast, it's first breakfast, this is what I want you to do, so take some words and see if
you can pronounce them correctly or not and then check the dictionary.
See you later.