Master American English! Sentence Rhythm Part 2

American English rhythm comes from the syllable stress in a sentence. Stressed syllables are longer and unstressed syllables are shorter, and it's this back and forth between long syllables and short syllables that gives spoken English its unique rhythm. In this video, you'll perfect your American English rhythm with a fun clapping exercise - only the stressed syllables get the "beat"!
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[@after3ty326]

I have watched a lot videos about English rhythms teaching, but this one is the best when she clearly speaks the beat on the stressed word. Thanks

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[@ramzy-6566]

great as always. thank you . i'll watch it again, before i go to sleep, the rhythm makes me happy.

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Thanks! That is awesome to hear! :) The clapping rhythm can get stuck in your head sometimes, haha.

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The clip is very helpful and musical too. Thank you!

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[@edflam7555]

what a great video! what I find the most challenging is to unstress function words, I wonder if it would help squeezing them with the content word so they sound as one word, example, I need to find a place to live. I NEEDtə FINDə PLACEtə LIVE. I don't know if this makes sense thanks for the awesome content!

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi Ed - Thanks for your comment! Yes - I think your idea can definitely work, especially for the function word "to", since oftentimes it is the most unstressed word in a sentence (or you can think of it as the least stressed word in the sentence, if that is more helpful!). So it is a great idea to think of a phrase like "need to" as one word, "needtuh", with stress on the first syllable NEED. :)

[@ramzy-6566]

3:07 Hello, you said ( such as ) is your tongue was behind the lower teeth, when you pronounced the sound z in ( as ) or the tip of the tongue only was behind the lower teeth and the blade or arch your tongue or laminal tongue for z up behind upper teeth. Thank you.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi Ramzy! When I said the /z/ in "as", my tongue tip was down behind the lower teeth, but the blade of my tongue was up, and the sides of my tongue pushed against the inside of my front molars. My tongue also curved into a slight "u" shape to allow the air to travel out of my mouth along a groove in the center of my tongue. I hope this helps! :)

[@ramzy-6566]

@@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent Thank you so much for every detail on the reply. - I'll start from scratch stady american accent. Or Chinese language five sounds.

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[@ivomoreira42]

This topic is particularly tricky to me, because Portuguese (my native language) is both a stress-timed and syllable-timed language, being the European way more stress-timed than the Brazilian version, the one that I speak. But here there's loads of accents and the way I speak is closer to the Portuguese from Portugal. Argh, what a sick sh*t, hahaha

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Haha! Yes, I can see how that would be tricky for you! :)

[@ramzy-6566]

6:25 in the sentence ( after work ) did you notice your lips are rounded as always for ( r or colored r ) as in (after) but in the word (work) the lips was wide for or - is that because the w sound. i send email to you about this. Thank you.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi! I just send you a reply today :) And now I understand your question about the /w/ consonant a little bit more. What most likely happened is my lips rounded the normal amount for the ER in "after", but they rounded more than usual at the end of the ER sound in preparation for the upcoming /w/ consonant. In fast speech, the ER in "after" links together with the initial /w/ in "work", so the lips move to the /w/ position during the ER vowel (at the end). Then when I said "work", my lips probably rounded the normal amount for the OR vowel since there wasn't a /w/ sound coming next. I hope this helped to further clarify things! :) Let me know if you have more questions about it.

[@ramzy-6566]

@@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent I'm sorry I forget the word ( not ) in the question. 6:25 in the sentence ( after work ) did you notice your lips are not rounded as always for ( r sound or colored r ) after the sound W as in (work) the lips first rounded then was wide for colored r (or) sound - is that because the w sound affected or influence next sounds. as the letter or sound r influence the the letter before and make it rounded the lips as in gray or train. i'm sorry for w sound.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

@@ramzy-6566 Thanks for the clarification! Hmm, I'm not sure if the /w/ sound influenced my lip rounding for the ER vowel in that way. If I say a different consonant instead of the /w/, like "after shirk" or "after lurk", it looks like my lips round the same amount for each ER vowel, but there might be slight differences due to the proceeding consonant. So I think it's possible that the /w/ influenced the lip rounding of the ER vowel, but I was still able to pronounce the correct ER sound because my tongue compensated for it by doing "more of the work" to make a good ER sound. But I'm not sure! Sorry this answer isn't very definitive! By the way - did you receive my email I sent last week in response to your question? Sometimes my emails go into the recipient's spam folder, so I wanted to make sure it went to your inbox! :)

[@romanr.4821]

I wonder if there are differences between male and female speaking patterns..

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi Roman - Thanks for your comment! Yes, I think there are some differences between male and female speaking patterns, especially related to vocal pitch, intonation, and volume. If you searched for "differences between male and female speaking patterns in English," I'm sure you'd find a lot of studies on this topic!

[@romanr.4821]

@@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent thanks, keep up your great work it has really helped me to improve my American English accent.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

@@romanr.4821 Awesome - glad to hear it! :)

[@mariavelasquez6528]

hello, it is my first time I watch your video, it has been very helpful. I am wondering if you have video to listen numbers. I am working in a call center and as a hoster to receive reservation. Thanks

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi Maria - Thanks so much for your comment! I'm so glad this video has been helpful :) I don't have a video about the pronunciation of numbers, yet, but it's on my to-do list! :) Be sure to subscribe with notifications turned on so you don't miss any future videos!

[@Liftercode]

I thought the clap was only on the stressed sylable

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Thanks for your question :) The clapping should be timed to a syllable that has stress, and that can be primary, secondary, or even tertiary stress - just not on the weak (unstressed) syllables. I hope this helped! :)

[@natashatashu3966]

Im so bad using my face muscle for accent american but let's see

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi Natasha! Thanks for your comment :) I know it may feel silly or strange to move your face so much, but I promise it will feel more natural the more you do it. Use a mirror so you can make sure your face is actually moving more!

[@natashatashu3966]

@@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent I'm from India at New Delhi. Nd i try to speak infront of mirror but when I don't look in mirror and speak, i automatically come back to that situation where I don't use face muscle and result is so unnatural accent