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Here we are in my bathroom for an English lesson.
A lot of the country names end in the letter A,
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in American English those are all schwa.
So for example, we have China, ə.
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We have Russia, ə.
We have Indonesia, we have
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Australia which sound similar to Austria,
and as a kid I sometimes got that mixed up.
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You probably can't see Austria from there can you?
It's very small compared to Australia.
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Let's see, we have India, ə.
We have
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Libya, ə.
Romania, ə.
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Angola
We got Nicaragua, ə.
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Argentina, ə.
So many country names
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end in the letter A, in American English we
pronounce that as a quick unstressed schwa, ə.
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