How to pronounce GENUINE | American English Pronunciation
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Accent's Way English with Hadar
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Hey there it's Hadar and this is the
Accent's Way.
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Today we are going to talk about how to pronounce the word 'genuine'.
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I genuinely believe it is an important word to know how to pronounce.
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Genuine.
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Three syllables the first one is Jen-
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Jen-
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"It's like my best friend Jennifer's nickname'. Jen-
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"Hey Jen what's up?"
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You start with it J sound then E as in 'red' and then you bring the tip of the tongue up for the N. Jen-
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Then it's the word 'you'. That's the middle syllable but it sounds like the word 'you'.
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Jen-yuw-yuw, Jen-yuw.
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And then finally in the last syllable, we have a reduced vowel ə, the schwa and an N, N.
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But when you connect the 'yuw' and the N you get something new. Can you guess what it is?
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yuw-w'n, yuw-w'n
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That's right! A W sound.
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yuw-w'n, Jen-yuw-w'n.
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The primary stress is on the first syllable so it's higher in pitch and longer.
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JEN-yuw-w'n
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"That was a genuine gesture".
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A genuine gesture
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"That is a genuine tongue twister".
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Genuine, genuine.
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Okay if you liked this video I'm sure you're going to love my "50 most commonly mispronounced words".
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If you go on my website you can download it and get my audio and a list of the words written out phonetically.
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So there is no confusion cuz I write English phonetically
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unlike everyone else writes it with these weird spelling patterns
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I have no idea why but that's just how it is.
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Okay, thank you so much for watching!
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Have a beautiful, beautiful day and I
will see you next week in the next video
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bye.
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