How to say RESOLUTION | American English

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And today we're going to talk about how appropriately the word 'resolution'.

Resolution.

So, we begin with a 're' sound.

R - round your lips, pull the tongue in - there's a lot of tension

there engaged in the tongue - and then you open it to an E - 're'.

Drop your jaw a little.

're'.

Then, the next syllable is 'zuh', 'zuh'.

It's a schwa sound after a Z sound: 'zuh', 'zuh'.

're-zuh', 're-zuh'.

So there is no 'o' sound there, although it's spelled with an O.

Resolution.

Okay?

It's not 're-zo-lution' - 're-zuh-lution'.

Then we move on to the primary stress - LUW, LUW.

It's an L sound, a little heavy, and then an 'uw' vowel, it's a long vowel.

Also, the primary stress is always longer, louder and higher in pitch.

We definitely hear it here: 're-zuh-LUW'.

And then again, sh'n, sh'n, a reduced vowel.

We shift from the 'sh' sound to the 'n' - sh'n.

're-zuh-LUW-sh'n'.

ta-da-TA-da.

Resolution.

Resolution.

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