How to say FOREIGNER | American English

Hey guys, it's Hadar and this is the Accent's Way

and today Abed Rahim asked me to talk about

the word foreigner.

He says that he keeps saying it as 'for-reign-er'

and in fact, I've heard a lot of people saying it this way

and I've heard 'for-rain-er' as well

or 'for-en-er' and you know what,

I have one word for you, 'schwa'.

Because it's all one big schwa.

There is no A and there is no eh, it's all reduced

except for the first syllable so let's start.

You begin with the 'for' as in 'door', as in 'norm', okay?

'For', you start with an F sound and then create an aw sound

by dropping jaw, raising the back of the tongue

and rounding the lips just a bit.

'Faw', make sure not to bring the tongue up for the R

too quickly 'cause then it's gonna sound like 'furner',

'furener', and that's a different sound

and the whole word will sound just like one big R, okay?

So, drop your jaw, keep your tongue down, faw, faw,

and then bring the tongue up, round your lips,

make sure that the sides of the tongue touch

the insides of the upper teeth, ruh,

and release it to a schwa. ruh

That's it, that's the middle syllable, ruh.

So simple, so short.

Faw-ruh, ruh, faw-ruh-n'r.

So that's an N shound, another schwa blended with the R,

so here you do wanna bring the tongue up immediately

after the N, n'r, n'r.

It's not 'ner', there is no 'eh' sound here.

N'r, faw-ruh-n'r.

Some people may pronounce it with a more open sound,

fah, fah-ruh-n'r, okay?

But most people will reduce it and round the lips

for an aw is in 'door'.

Foreigner.

Foreigner, or on the other hand we have the word foreign.

I'm speaking a foreign language.

Or she's a foreigner.

Or I'm no longer a foreigner.

Okay, that's it, I think this word is relevant for all of us

'cause we're all foreigners and we are proud

of being a foreigner so we need to know how to say it.

Foreign.

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