How to pronounce symbol | American English

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Accent's Way English with Hadar


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Hey, what's up, it's Hadar.
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And this is the Accent's Way.
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Today we are going to talk about how to pronounce the word 'symbol'.
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Symbol.
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To pronounce this word, you begin with an S sound, and then you move
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on to the relaxed /I/ as in 'sit'.
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'si'.
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So it's not 'seem', but 'sim'.
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Drop your jaw, relax your lips.
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'sim', close your lips for an M.
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'sim'.
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The second syllable is a B, schwa - 'uh', and L - b'l.
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The L of the end is really dark.
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The O is a reduced vowel, so you don't really hear anything there.
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And you basically move from the B to the directly: b'l.
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Because of the dark L, it almost sounds as if there is an O sound there, but
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notice that it's not 'sim-bol', but it's just that B sound with this tension that
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you create in the back of your throat or the bottom of your tongue - b'l.
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You don't even have to lift the tip of the tongue to touch the
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upper pallet for the L at the end.
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sim-b'l.
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Okay?
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So, now I encourage you to say this word about 10 times out loud.
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And then come up with one sentence that has the word 'symbol' in it,
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and write it in the comments below so we can all practice together.
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Okay, that's it.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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If you liked this video, don't forget to like it and to subscribe to my channel.
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And if you have other words that are difficult for you to pronounce,
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make sure that you write them in the comments below, because that's
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how I can create new videos for you.
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How about that?
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Have a wonderful week and I will see you next week in the next video.
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Bye.
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