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One of the most challenging, and sometimes frustrating, aspects of English is predicting where the primary stress should be in a word. Primary stress is the one syllable in a word that sticks out the most: It’s longer, louder, and higher in pitch.
In this video, we’ll dive deep into the world of primary stress and I’ll teach you, first, how to identify it, and then - how to predict it in some cases.
And if you know me, you know that effective practice is my THING.
So I’ll show you my 3-step system for identifying and practicing the primary stress.
Use it to see results and feel more confident and clear when communicating.
And to make it fun, you’ll also find a short quiz in the end.
Here are the words that are mentioned in the quiz:
Democracy
Economics
Responsibility
Graduation
Psychology
Vegetables
Employee
Sitcom
Abundance
Profitable
Comprehend
Content
Saturated
Elusive
Sexuality
Residential
Interpersonal
Hidden
Recreate
Natural
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The main points of the video:
00:00 Intro
01:15 What is the primary stress?
03:40 Examples of the primary stress: unite, condition
4:54 Two ways to identify the primary stress in words
9:54 How to predict the primary stress in certain situations
13:12 My 3-step system for identifying and practicing the primary stress
18:42 Quiz
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[@hermanoamor3606]

Every time a link appear in my mail . I learn something very important with Hadar. Sticking the right syllable out make it possible to be understood , the primary stress is the key .

[@jean-louismorgenthaler4725]

I love that punching syllables concept. Great lesson! Thanks.

[@aysegulcam7801]

Hello teacher, I am studying English language teaching in Turkey. I watched your video. I really learned a lot and I got 3 mistakes from the quiz. Thank you very much.

[@chibuikesandra7353]

I failed 2😊😊 I'm happy I found you..... In space of 30mins am already doing so good... Your a good Teacher and I love you

[@ingriddryden1607]

Love the "call it out the window" technique. I'm having soooo much fun🤣 Sending love your way💜💛🧡

[@hadar.shemesh]

Hahaha yay!! Go for it, girl!!

[@noejuarez6370]

Heart

[@ocristianoalmeida]

I wish I knew those tricks when I was a boy trying to identify the primary stress of words in my first language, at school. The way it clarifies the subject is surprising. Even more when I realize it's not just about English. The type of content I only find at Hadar's videos and podcasts.

[@TheYaruka2010]

Hello!Hadar!!8 words.I got right!😊👍

[@carlossanchez-gl8qb]

Excellent classes thank you so much for that explanation.

[@ThiagoSilva-dj9qz]

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[@thomasj.s.6613]

as a speaker of a syllable-timed language, I didn't notice before that the stressed syllable is soooo important. For us it's more important to speak each syllable clearly, and the tone of the stress can vary if it is a question, an exclamation, a calling, a joke. But the big secret was understanding that other languages don't work like that, and I needed to adapt myself. Excellent video!

[@ElMoscas114]

This lesson was such a great egg, so I greatly appreciate your support.

[@franklee1106]

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[@feliipe2935]

A great egg? What the heck is this expression?

[@1uan1mao]

@@feliipe2935 exactly lmao

[@florenciaperez768]

Thank you Hadar Your class was great 🙏🥺💓☺️🥰

[@aurorarodriguez5758]

Hadar , you are a 🌈 on my every day. today I comprehended more. about intonation and primary stress.! !!!

[@hadar.shemesh]

Wonderful!

[@shorttripwithmax787]

Hi from Russia :) Thanks for your lessons! It's amazing!

[@feliipe2935]

When i enterend this video, I wasn't sure if i needed to watch it. And I figured out i needed, it was really helpful, thanks Hadar❤️

[@ssophi4487]

Hello, Hadar. In my opinion you are the best teacher of English. I used the wrong stress in the following words: Sitcom and Saturated.

[@chibuikesandra7353]

Mine was saturated and psychology 😌

[@lauragarcia3629]

I love the way you teach.. and your pronounciation... and your accent! I’m from Brazil. 😊🥰 thank you!

[@lccatto]

I agree with Laura. The pronunciation is very clear

[@RaviGhai]

You trapped me from the very start ! Great example ... God Bless and keep it up !

[@georgekurien5018]

How great of you that you go through the subject In a deep manner ! You are certainly a great teacher !

[@Sereno44]

I never forget the first video of you that I saw, which was about how to pronounce the boroughs of New York about two years ago. From then on, I always follow you and you teach me a lot.

[@hadar.shemesh]

Haha that’s the first video you saw? Nice!

[@eirinoulapapa5741]

Thank you Hadar! I really admire you and appreciate your help! You're very good at what you're doing.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@childrenseducation4540]

It's very important for my syllabus of M.A English u helped a lot.

[@raghuramteke1952]

Excellent guidance on pronunciation. Thanks madam.

[@leonardocardenas708]

It´s always good to learn English with Hadar, thanks for your lessons!!

[@TheGatewayProductions]

Nobody likes stress but we can always learn to manage it. Well done!

[@brunopinheiro5456]

I was able to identify the primary stress in all of the words you mentioned in the end. I went to the website to check my answers and I got all of the words right. Thank you so much for your amazing job. You're the best.

[@JohnreyVillanueva-sz5jq]

"Drag it an stretch it forever" ❤

[@lesliebonilla8330]

Thank you, now I've learned how to identify the stressed.

[@beo.teacher.0014]

I'm a first time teacher for ESL and your videos are very helpful for me. Nice job Hadar!

[@genesiselizabethacunamarca5490]

I love your videos! Did you know you are my favorite youtube teacher!? God bless you! Thank you so much for all!! Greetings and blessings from Venezuela!!

[@gloriasteaching]

What a fantastic explanation, Hadar. Thank you!

[@lumavis9294]

I loved this lesson. Thanks Hadar! ☺️

[@jdenglish5735]

Such a valuable video. Thank you so much, Hadar!!

[@EconoFranciscoCastro]

This lesson was very important for me.

[@redcoff]

I love love your videos, they are so helpful! I'm taking Communication Disorders courses and refer to your videos frequently. Thank you.

[@santiagowagner3459]

Just Loved it!!! Thanks a lot!

[@fridaydaniel2644]

thanks for sharing this an awesome video.

[@ahmadmuhialdin.1828]

You are wonderful , Hadar ...

[@7and7and7is]

Thank you Hadar; you are an inspiration! This is information learners really need to know, and your suggestions to use arm movements with practicing primary stress are so helpful. Pronunciation is a physical activity like dance, so associating it with other physical movements like arm raising brings it into the body where muscle memory can do its thing. Since seeing the video "Teaching Pronunciation: Seven Essential Concepts with Judy B. Gilbert | The New School" I've been a big fan of Judy Gilbert, and I ask learners to hold an elastic band and stretch it as they exaggerate the length of the primary stresses of content words, especially those that are also the peak stresses of sentences. I'll be sharing a link to this video with students.

[@rkperfect80]

Awesome way you have Hadar to learn English... Thanks and keep teaching and motivating...

[@ubonwanduangkaew4446]

Thank you so much. Your video helps me a lot❤️

[@pablonicolasangulo4356]

Amaizing Hadar. This one Is probably your best video! Thanks you so much! Was so usefull. Muchas gracias!

[@juliehui6364]

Your heart is very kind. I understand.

[@falahshalan8610]

Amazingly clear and complete

[@JessicaS0105]

This lesson is great, and love the pronunciation

[@buttterrr1127]

You are the best....and I watched your videos on daily basis 🤗❤️❤️

[@Anil_H]

Thank you very much.lt's really a excellent way to practice.

[@m.faical5441]

Thank You my teacher

[@bekayedoumbia2604]

Like you said you're the new sound of English, so learn English with your methods is like to know a tree since its root. Thanks for this video I really appreciated.

[@TheNivKo]

תודה רבה ❤️

[@zakariaomer17]

Thank so much

[@bosschahal567]

Thank you for helping us

[@sudarshandas4270]

OH MY FREAKIN GOD THE PUNCHING THING SOOOOO ON POINT TO MY UNDERSTANDING. Gonna save my exam with that.

[@cecile6461]

Thanks Hadar for this video. I had sixteen out of twenty.

[@luxio8895]

Out of 20, I got wrong 3! I'm getting the hang of it!!

[@hadar.shemesh]

Amazing!!

[@ajengyulisthiana984]

Much love!!

[@odageoyama5172]

I am almost there. I have been struggling with this topic. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I didn't get three right though.

[@reinaldojosenoriega7605]

Hi Hadar. I found this video and your teaching really usefull for me, I´ve learned that a primary streesed syllave most be in the first syllave when the word has only two syllaves and it is a noun; and in the second syllabe when it´s a verb. Thank for be a excelent and motivating teacher and help me a lot through yor viedos, gmail texts and even through the In-fluency Community, where I have been participating since almost one month ago and posted 3 videos about your weekly topic discussions. Blesses (excuse me for my many grammar mistakes in my writeing, I´m trying not use google translator...)

[@aqua123670]

thank you !!

[@ArulPalanisamy]

Thank you

[@mariaperrier9032]

Great class!

[@carlosagaitan]

Awesome class! It was useful and to roll with the punches!!!

[@dianam.5957]

You are amazing¡¡ and so inspiring

[@RafiqulIslam-zg9fq]

Primary stress important to improve listening capability

[@anggelo9268]

The best tips ever!

[@yawalakdiruscio8671]

Thank you so much was helpful .

[@feliciapermuter4716]

the most important!!!!! you are so right!!!! this is the reason that even though I know a lot of words, is very hard for people to understand me and for the same reason,i's hard for me to understand native english speakers you a excellent teacher. thank you so much!!!

[@hadar.shemesh]

So happy this helps!! 💕💕

[@franciscoviana8068]

It’s really a great class!

[@Khaled77114]

Thanks You’re the best

[@mauriciob5757]

Thank you ver y much

[@buonleo]

Great Lesson! 🙂 I realised that in English word stress is much more important than in my native language, because in English if you misplace the primary stress, the pronunciation of vowels also changes, in Italian we have no weak forms, so it will sound a bit funny, but perfectly understandable to anyone, unfortunately the same is not true in English.

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You are but a singer, Hadaaar😌💖❤️🎶🎵

[@marlenemirabales3716]

Great lesson. Thanks a lot.

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I just love you....... The way you teach solves every minor problem that I face in english .....pls pls pls also teach us how to put stress on the right word and also the words like shuda ,wuda kind of letter tht Americans mix when they speak.... It's really easy to understand you and I really would recommend everyone if in case they really want to learn english then atleast see your video once..M sure they'll surely will fall in love with the way you make your lessons clear and easy .....Keep doing this .....God Bless you👍👍👍👌👌👌

[@koluchaw3728]

Wow!good teaching. l'm B.A second in Burma.

[@sumayyahalharbi6194]

Sooooo good thank you so much. I love this video your advice your comment about being clear! The best helpful vid regarding this topic thanks! ❤

[@liyathomas5439]

You are the best Hadar...

[@ameliapasillas2239]

I did better than I expected!!! Still, a long way to go.

[@ninsr4528]

Thank you mam!

[@sangrambaliarsingh8719]

Awesome teacher

[@mauribelbravo8311]

I got wrong 4 out of 20. Thank you so much. You are so excellent coach and teacher. I appreciate to you!!

[@psmylife6832]

@hadar This is brilliant, somewhere in the back of my mind I knew this, but articulating it as well as you did, has brought it to my consciousness, and I intuitively feel this is going to help me learn my first new language better/ easier/ faster. You might like to use this comment, in your class to help illustrate this principle of stress. I'm a native English speaker from Adelaide, South Australia, where we tend to have more of an upper class British accent. I noticed about half way through this video (@10min02secs), you used the word concrete, and it sounded unnatural to me, as there was virtually no stress on the word at all. That is to say it was rather 'flat'. And it threw me for a bit, because I’m used to hearing primary stress on the first syllable. So there's a story for your classes in the future. The rest of your English was flawless though. Meanwhile, I've challenged myself to learn Khmer (Cambodian) as my first language. KZbin is so good. The instructor is Dara. He has a great KZbin channel that I’m learning from, as well a a few others. Anyway, he was talking about 'special correctors' that are used in the Khmer alphabet. I thought they corrected the sound. It took me three weeks to realise that they were actually 'special characters'. This is the third You Tube videos I'm watching after looking for IPA stuff to help me pronounce the Khmer alphabet/ words correctly. The first looked at vowels and was extremely helpful. Thanks. The second video I looked at was an interview you had with one of your students from Mexico, which was also very useful. Keep up the good work. And I’ll definitely be watching more of your videos. And recommending them to others. Wishing you all the best. Phil xo PS I'm learning my first new language at 52.

[@monleonreyl.8141]

thank you , you saved me

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Great!

[@aabbe762]

Really,it helps.Thanks

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Very useful. Thank you.

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You are a great thatcher y thank very much 😉

[@veronicamendez7364]

Hadar you are amazing, you are so funny great lessons thank u for all this content

[@abubiful]

Thank you Hadar, it is a very helpful video for me. I failed 5 words.

[@rjoulam.8607]

Thanks

[@helenerodrigue2534]

Thank you for the quiz, 75%

[@gailk30]

Love it!

[@robertodomingues12]

Great video! I'm struggling with English pronunciation. In your challenge, I got 4 wrong: profitable, content, saturated and elusive.

[@saadramadhanmuhi864]

Thank you so much _ teacher

[@FluencyonitsWay]

I love her hair 👌

[@archanaselvanathan240]

Hi Hadar, I’m happy to watch this video, while going through the quiz I can recognise 15 to 16 words correctly, but while speaking I am not able to focus on what should I do

[@useful0119]

wonderful

[@Khaled_Fadl]

This is just wonderful specially the fake stress at the first sentence in the video 🤣

[@ralphotero3053]

Hadar, thank you for your excellent lesson on the importance of stress when pronouncing English words. It will be most helpful to your ESl students. I am myself an ESL student and after many years of struggling with the English language, I still feel unsure about where the main stress should be placed on a few choice words. Perhaps you might be able to help. Here are a few of the words in question; Formidable - Celebratory - Disciplinary - Preferable- Explicable- Contemplative- Communicative- Affluent- Ancillary- Exploitative- Irrevocable - Patina- Vagaries- Cerebral- Centenary- Chilean- Dirigible- Hospitable- ignominy- Impious- comparable.-- integral - Internecine - Desultory. preparatory- Proboscis. I know these are not common words, but knowing the correct or the most "educated" pronunciation would be helpful. Dictionaries show the variant pronunciations, but they are reluctant to indicate a preference. You need not respond to this request as I fully understand you are a very busy lady, but for the benefit of your students, you may want to discuss the pronunciation of some of the simpler, less esoteric words that your students are more likely to come across in their reading.

[@7and7and7is]

Ralph Otero, May I suggest searching these words in YouGlish. I got 1410 hits for "contemplative" most of which seemed to place the stress on the second syllable, which in my opinion is the most correct pronunciation. But that's just my opinion and pronunciation, like grammar, is descriptive, not prescriptive, (which is perhaps why dictionaries are reluctant to indicate a preference) so you get to decide for yourself based on what you find in a survey of a word's actual use.

[@ralphotero3053]

@@7and7and7is I appreciate your response and I will take you up on your suggestion, Thank you.

[@Al3jov]

Thank you, Hadar! You explain super clear, I love your videos. Do you have any books for this topic ?

[@hadar.shemesh]

Unfortunately I don’t , but if I come across something I will definitely share!