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Hey guys, I'm on my way to take a look at my wedding venue.
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You're going to come along and study American English pronunciation in this real-life English video.
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In today's video, we're going to do a listening comprehension quiz on two-syllable words.
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Can you identify which syllable is stressed?
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Why does it matter?
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Even if all of the sounds in a word are correct, one must speak with long versus short syllables in order to sound American.
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One of the main things I work on with advanced students is shortening short syllables.
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It has an amazing impact on reducing their accent.
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Let's get started.
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So, the space that we're getting married in used to be a chocolate factory about a century ago.
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Getting.
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What syllable is stressed? Is longer.
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Does it sound like da-da or da-da?
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Getting.
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Da-da.
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The space that we're getting married in.
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Married.
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Dada. Or, da-da.
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Married.
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Dada.
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The space that we're getting married in.
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Used to be a chocolate factory.
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Chocolate.
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Wait, is this a two-syllable or a three-syllable word?
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Chocolate.
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Chocolate.
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There are many words in English with first syllable stress that can be pronounced with either two or three syllables.
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I tend to pronounce them with two.
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Chocolate.
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Other examples?
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Family.
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Restaurant.
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Chocolate.
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Dada.
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Used to be a chocolate, chocolate, chocolate factory about a century ago. About.
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Dada. Or, da-da. About.
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Dada.
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Used to be a chocolate factory about a century ago.
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Ago.
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Dada. Or, da-da.
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ago.
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Da da.
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Used to be a chocolate factory about a century ago.
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Ago.
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Ago.
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So the space that we're getting married in used to be a chocolate factory about a century ago,
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and now And now it's a photography studio.
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Painted all white, with hardwood floors.
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Painted.
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Dada. Or, da-da.
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Painted.
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Dada.
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Painted all white, with hardwood floors.
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Hardwood.
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Dada. Or, da-da.
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Hardwood.
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Dada.
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This is a compound word.
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Most compound words have stress on the first word.
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Compound words are words made by putting two other words together.
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Other examples, bedroom.
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Keyboard.
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hardwood floors, hardwood floors, hardwood floors.
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It's a little industrial as you can see.
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Little, da-da, or da-da.
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Little, da-da.
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It's a little industrial.
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It's a little industrial.
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It's a little industrial, as you can see.
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Exposed brick up there.
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Exposed.
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Da-da. Or, da-da.
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Exposed.
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Da-da.
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Exposed brick.
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Exposed brick.
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Exposed brick up there.
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Metal rafters.
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Metal.
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Dada. Or da-da.
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Metal.
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Dada.
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Metal rafters.
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rafters, da-da, or da-da, rafters, da-da.
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Metal rafters, metal rafters, metal rafters.
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And now it's a photography studio, painted all white, with hardwood floors.
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It's a little industrial as you can see.
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Exposed brick up there.
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Wa- um, metal rafters.
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This used to be the smokestack of the factory.
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Smokestack.
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Another compound word.
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What does that mean?
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Stress is probably on the first syllable.
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Smokestack.
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Dada.
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This used to be the smokestack of the factory.
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And yeah, this is where we're going to do it, where we're going to get married.
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Gonna.
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Dada. Or, da-da.
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Gonna.
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Dada.
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And yeah, this is where we're gonna do it, where we're gonna get married.
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So we came back today.
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Today.
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Dada. Or, da-da.
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Today.
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Da-da.
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So we came back today, today, today, so that we could sort of think about decorations and layout.
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Layout.
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Another compound word.
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Dada. Or da-da.
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Layout.
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Dada.
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Sort of think about decorations and layout.
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But I'm really excited about the space.
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Really.
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Dada. Or da-da.
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Really.
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Dada.
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But I'm really excited about the space.
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This used to be the smokestack of the factory.
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And yeah, this is where we're gonna do it, where we're gonna get married.
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So we came back today so that we could sort of think about decorations and layout.
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But I'm really excited about the space.
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Now it gets harder.
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You won't hear the word on its own slowly outside of the sentence.
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You'll only hear the word in the sentence.
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Can you still tell which syllable is stressed?
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I think, I think these tables come with the space, these high tables.
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Dada.
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I think these tables come with the space, these high tables.
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Yeah.
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Exciting.
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Another three-syllable word that I've turned into a two-syllable word.
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So, I think the tables are going to go here.
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And the bar is probably going to be somewhere else.
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Dada.
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And the bar is probably going to be somewhere else.
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And the bar is probably going to be somewhere else.
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Dada.
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Is probably going to be somewhere else.
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We are having alcohol at our wedding.
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Da-da.
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The ing ending will never be stressed.
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We are having alcohol at our wedding.
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We are having alcohol at our wedding.
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Da-da.
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We are having alcohol at our wedding.
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Some people choose not to.
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Da-da.
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Some people choose not to. Although most people do.
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Duh-dah. Although most people do.
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And we're getting married and having the reception all here in this same space.
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It used to be really typical to get married in a church, less so now.
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Most of my cousins have gotten married outside.
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Most of my cousins have gotten married outside.
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Dada.
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Duh-dah.
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Outside can actually have stress on either the first or the second syllable, depending on how you're using it.
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Most of my cousins have gotten married outside.
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A lot of my friends as well.
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We can't do that because it's going to be January in Philadelphia.
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Duh-dah.
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I could have reduced this further to just cuz.
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Cuz.
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We can't do that because it's going to be January in Philadelphia.
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Um, but hopefully this will be just as lovely.
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Duh-dah.
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Um, but hopefully this will be just as lovely.
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We're going to have lots of candles everywhere, candles, candles, candles.
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Dada.
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We're going to have lots of candles everywhere, candles, candles, candles.
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And the chocolate that used to be made in this factory,
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it was the precursor to the Hershey's Kiss.
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Dada.
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It was the precursor to the Hershey's Kiss.
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It's shaped the same.
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It's called a Wilburbud.
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And we're going to have a lot of those for our guests to enjoy as well.
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Dada.
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And we're going to have a lot of those for our guests to enjoy as well.
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Unless we eat them all before the wedding.
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Dada.
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Unless we eat them all before the wedding.
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Unless we eat them all before the wedding.
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Da-da.
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Unless we eat them all before the wedding. Which might happen.
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Dada. Which might happen.
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We are going to have a full dinner for our guests.
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Dada.
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We are going to have a full dinner for our guests.
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That's pretty typical as well.
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Dada.
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That's pretty typical as well.
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So I guess I'm curious about if you've been married before, what was your wedding like?
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What was the space like, the venue?
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Was it outdoors, indoors?
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Was it in a church?
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So let me know in the comments below.
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So I guess I'm curious about if you've been married before, what was your wedding like?
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What was the space like?
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The venue, was it outdoors, indoors, was it in a church?
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So let me know in the comments below.
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The venue, was it outdoors, indoors, was it in a church?
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So let me know in the comments below.
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Let's review all the words with stress on the first syllable.
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Dada.
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Getting.
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Married.
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Chocolate.
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Painted.
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Hardwood.
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Little.
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Metal.
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Rafters.
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Smokestack.
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Gunna.
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Layout.
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Really.
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Tables.
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Probably.
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Having.
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Wedding.
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People.
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Cousins.
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Gotten.
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Lovely.
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Candles.
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Hershey's.
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Happen.
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Dinner.
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Pretty.
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Venue.
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Comments.
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Outdoors.
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Indoors.
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Now let's review all the words with stress on the second syllable.
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Duh-dah. About.
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Ago.
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Exposed.
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Today. Although.
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Outside. Because.
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Enjoy.
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Unless.
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Before.
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Many more two-syllable words in English have stress on the first syllable than the second.
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Was there anything about the pronunciation of a word or a phrase in this video that you found interesting?
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Next week, I'll release a bonus video with other topics from this trip to the venue.
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Alright guys, that's it.
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And thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Two-Syllable Words - Can you Identify Stress? American English”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: dada, word, syllable, married, chocolate. Questo video contiene 259 frasi e 1451 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 16:44. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 87 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 82% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| syllable sostantivo | /ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/ | sillaba |
| hardwood sostantivo | /ˈhɑɹdˌwʊd/ | legno di latifoglia |
| rafter sostantivo | /ˈɹɑːftəː/ | passafuori, trave |
| candle sostantivo | /ˈkæn.dəl/ | candela |
| expose verbo | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | esporre, evidenziare |
| distress sostantivo | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | angoscia, pena |
| venue sostantivo | /ˈvɛnjuː/ | luogo, territorio |
| compound sostantivo | /ˈkɑmpaʊnd/ | composto, miscuglio |
| brick sostantivo | /ˈbɹɪk/ | mattone, laterizio |
| indoors avverbio | /ɪnˈdɔɹz/ | dentro, al chiuso |
| outdoor aggettivo | /aʊtˈdɔː/ | a cielo aperto, all'aperto |
| decoration sostantivo | /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/ | decorazione |
| precursor sostantivo | /pɹɪˈkɜː.sə/ | precursore |
| pronunciation sostantivo | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | pronuncia, pronunzia |
| playlist sostantivo | /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/ | playlist |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| come back verbo | tornare |
| check out verbo | investigare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Can you identify which syllable is stressed?
- The space that we're getting married in.
- It's a little industrial as you can see.
- It's a little industrial, as you can see.
- Can you still tell which syllable is stressed?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più vero | used to be |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've turned · have gotten · you've been |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | can be pronounced · be made |
| Possibilità con “might / may” might/may + verbo — qualcosa di possibile ma non certo | might happen |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 40 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we're, gonna, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, shorten /ˈʃɔɹtn̩/, comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/, reception /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come syllable, hardwood, rafter.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.