English Pronunciation Lesson | -TION suffix

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hello I’m Emma from English I’ve got a
pronunciation lesson for you today one
that I think you’ll find incredibly
useful I’m going to give you some tips
that will help you to pronounce
thousands of English words words that
end in T I om now I bet that you’re
already thinking of some examples of
English words that end in tion of you
there are so many this part of the word
is a suffix a common ending in an
English word
now words that end like this in English
are almost always a noun and the
pronunciation of this syllable is always
unstressed it’s always an unstressed
syllable which means it’s really quick
chené chené yeah tion is pronounced shin
if it was written like it’s it’s
supposed to sound it would be like this
well phonetically it’s hmm these are the
phonetic symbols the sounds not the
letters Shh an unvoiced consonant sound
oh the unstressed vowel sound the schwa
and mmm a voiced consonant sound now
bring all of those sounds together and
you get Shh sure sure it’s really really
fast
in fact often the schwa sound is
absorbed into the consonant sounds
because it’s unstressed we hardly hear
it at all so if you see it in a
dictionary written like this
it means that the sound is absorbed into
the consonant sounds around it Shh mm-hm
now these words are a special bonus for
Spanish and Portuguese Italian and
French and German and Dutch native
speakers because there are patterns
between words in your language and words
in English which means you instantly
know the meaning of thousands of English
words the pronunciation rules that you
learn in this lesson will help you to
correctly pronounce all of these words
in English okay let’s build up with some
extra syllables to practice using this
suffix within some bigger words
okay practice out loud with me caution
tradition frustration conversation
shenzhen now there are a couple of
exceptions to this pronunciation rule
just a couple so don’t worry when the
consonant sound is the sound right
before the tion the pronunciation
becomes chin instead of shun instead of
Shh question exhaustion digestion one of
the wonderful patterns that exists in
English is that you can attach tion to
the end of many verbs to create an L it
creates the noun that is the action of
the verb I mean take a look at how many
in an earlier lesson I talked about the
importance of word stress in spoken
English using the correct word stress
will help you to sound much more natural
when you speak English like I said the
tion suffix is always unstressed so
which syllable should you stress it’s
actually simple it’s the syllable before
tion the stress pattern is consistent
through our English pronunciation the
syllable before tion is the stressed
syllable action action caution caution
tradition tradition frustration
inspiration inspiration construction
construction invention invention
infection infection description
interruption interruption population
innovation innovation transformation
transformation it’s consistent across
all syllables TI om doesn’t have to be
the final suffix either it can be
followed by Al or al ly traditional
traditionally international
internationally but the stress pattern
is exactly the same even now the stress
syllable is the one before tion
International traditionally well that’s
it for this lesson I hope that this
little pronunciation tip showed you just
how easy it is to start practicing the
correct pronunciation of all of these
words remember that there are thousands
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