Schwa Mill: The American English Pronunciation Show

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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.

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Little red house. Crazy old man. Where do you put the stress in American English pronunciation? How does the pitch change? 

This Fluent American English pronunciation video takes a look at how stress and pitch change in different types of three word groups, which are extremely common in English!



This quick Fluent American English pronunciation video shows the use of tag questions in American English. Specifically, we'll  be looking at English intonation patterns in tag questions to show how rising intonation or falling intonation have completely different meanings when used with English tag questions.


Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.

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American English shadowing exercises are for people interested in expanding their American English accents, whether you are located in the US, North America, or other areas around the world. For the best use of shadowing exercises in American English, listen to a section of audio, pause, and repeat what you hear. Try to use the same pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch patterns, and linking that you find native English speakers use; record yourself and compare the differences.

The full video: https://youtu.be/DRjF-kWWvK8

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American English shadowing exercises are for people interested in expanding their American English accents, whether you are located in the US, North America, or other areas around the world. For the best use of shadowing exercises in American English, listen to a section of audio, pause, and repeat what you hear. Try to use the same pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch patterns, and linking that you find native English speakers use; record yourself and compare the differences.

Find mp3 versions of our exercises here: www.fluentamerican.com/podcast

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I get it--when learning a language, we want to pronounce phrases in a way that sounds natural and feels natural.

However, what feels and sounds natural to us is influenced by our first language.

So sometimes, even if we say something right, we may not fully understand why it's right.

With that in mind, I think we need to re-evaluate the VALUE we put on correct sounds and more on understanding what makes them sound so natural

Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.



#wakeupamerican #fluentamerican #americanenglish

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Fluent English and American English shadowing exercises are for people interested in expanding their American English accents, whether you are located in the US, North America, or other areas around the world. For the best use of shadowing exercises in American English, listen to a section of audio, pause, and repeat what you hear. Try to use the same pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch patterns, and linking that you find native English speakers use; record yourself and compare the differences.

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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.

The exercises are taken from our Telegram group, where we provide daily pronunciation corrections to make sure you have a couple of minutes of practice and feedback from native speakers every day.

See more of what our Telegram group is like here: https://youtu.be/FDwPuwstUEo

Today, we'll go over intonation patterns, focusing on wavering intonation patterns that English learners rarely use

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One of the biggest differences between how American English native speakers and language learners sound has to do with the vowels or consonants we use. 

The reality: we often struggle to feel natural adding the elements we need to use in our pronunciation, especially when it comes to pronouncing vowels and consonants like native speakers. We're going to talk about phenomena like dark L to understand how they sound.

Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.

Watch the video here: https://youtube.com/live/AkZjTXGWsno

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American English shadowing exercises are for people interested in expanding their American English accents, whether you are located in the US, North America, or other areas around the world. For the best use of shadowing exercises in American English, listen to a section of audio, pause, and repeat what you hear. Try to use the same pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch patterns, and linking that you find native English speakers use; record yourself and compare the differences.

Find video versions of our exercises here: www.youtube.com/fluentamerican

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One of the biggest differences between how American English native speakers and language learners sound has to do with the vowels or consonants we use, but not in the way you may expect.

The reality: we often struggle to feel natural adding the elements we need to use in our pronunciation, especially when it comes to joining words together in a sentence with American English contractions. So, let's study how to link words in American English with contractions

Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.

#wakeupamerican  #fluentamerican #americanenglish

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