How to Pronounce YESTERDAY - American English Pronunciation
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In this American English pronunciation video,
we're going to go over pronunciation of the
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word 'yesterday'.
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This week's Word of the Week is 'yesterday'.
This is a three-syllable word with stress
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on the first syllable. Yesterday, yesterday.
It begins with the Y consonant sound, yy,
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yy, where the front part of the tongue raises
and touches the roof of the mouth here, yy.
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The tongue tip stays down. Many Spanish speakers
will want to say jj, jj, and make a jj sound
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instead, with the tip of the tongue up. We
want to keep the tip of the tongue down. Ye-,
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ye-, ye-. Then we have the EH as in BED vowel.
So, the jaw does need to drop for that. Ye-,
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ye-. The syllable ends with the ST consonant
cluster. Yest-, st, st, and then we have the
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schwa/R sound. Yester-, yester-, er, er, er.
It's unstressed, so it's going to be lower
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in pitch, a little quieter, yester-, er. A
lot of people will want to make this just
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an 'uh' sound. Yest-uh, yest-uh. That's not
right. To get the R sound, make sure your
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tongue pulls back and up into that position.
Yester-, yester-. And finally, -day. The D
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consonant sound, and the AY as in SAY diphthong.
Make sure you drop your jaw for the first
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half of that diphthong. Da-, day, day. Yesterday.
I got it yesterday.
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That's it, your Word of the Week. Try it
out yourself. Make up a sentence with the
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word, record it, and post it as a video response
to this video on YouTube. I can't wait to
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watch it.
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That's it, and thanks so much
for using Rachel's English.
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