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In this American English pronunciation video,
we're going to go over the pronunciation of
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the word America.
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This week's Word of the Week is America. 'America'
is a four-syllable word with stress on the
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second syllable. America. The first syllable
is simply the schwa sound, uh. Then we have
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the stressed syllable, -mer-. It begins with
the M consonant where the lips are together.
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Then we have the EH as in BED vowel. The jaw
has to drop for that, -mer-. Then the R consonant.
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So, the tongue will pull back and up, and
the jaw will close as the tongue reaches towards
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the roof of the mouth, -mer-rr-. Then we have
the IH as in SIT vowel, Ameri-. And finally,
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the K consonant sound and schwa for the last
syllable. The tongue will reach up here, kk,
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kk, and the back part of the tongue will touch
the soft palate and release to make the K
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sound. America, America. She visited America
last May.
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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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