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How to Get a British Accent – Lesson 6 – “Emphasis & Word Stress”


so we’ve talked about the basics of
British pronunciation today we’re
talking about emphasis first let’s have
a quick review of everything we’ve
learned so far if you watch the first
lesson you know that we talked about the
glottal tea and its uses take a look at
this sentence above my head again how do
you say this using only the glottal tea
you could say like this let’s eat out
later and in the second lesson we talked
about the schwa Rinna’s uses remember
the schwa is the weak form is the Earth
sound take a look at this sentence above
my head here how would you say this you
could say my brother ate a banana
how would you say this my sister bought
a new computer remember the lesson we
talked about buyer but could be
pronounced like a liar could be how are
you but which way to pronounce it well
the first question would be how are you
the focus is on the state of being up so
the first question would usually be how
are you for example how are you again
the focus is on the state of being are
the response might be
yeah good how are you the focus is on
the other person so the focus is on the
word you not R so for this reason he
said how are you
how are you yeah good how are you in
another question like did you go out
last night remember we could pronounce
it like did you go out last night in the
first question the emphasis is on what
happened in this case go out so did you
has that weak form
didja did you go out last night and the
response yeah did you again the focus is
on the other person so the emphasis is
on the you in this case he pronounced it
yeah did you did you go out last night
yeah did you and then with have you
questions a question like have you been
to Brazil could be said like this if you
been to Brazil again the focus is on
what happened so the emphasis is on the
verb have you been to Brazil but the
response yeah you again the emphasis you
so it sounds like this if you’ve been to
Brazil yeah you notice also that being
sometimes is pronounced like in again
depends on the speed of talking so
thanks for watching our series of
British accent lessons what do you find
difficult to pronounce with the British
accent maybe you’d like us to cover
something in the next lesson if so
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