hi there I'm Christine Dunbar from
speech modification. comom and this is
my smart American accent training in
this video we'll look at how to
pronounce the word video so video is
stressed on the first syllable and the
letter I says the I vowel it's the same
as in visit or it it's a video watch out
that you don't make this into two tents
of an e sound not video but
video then we have the letter e saying
the E tense e sound so we have an i and
an e close together vi video this can be
hard for some people because your mouth
will want to do two e sounds or two I
sounds and it also tends to think of the
I vowel as short and the E vowel as long
but in this word video the I vowel is
long in duration and the E vowel is
short in duration the I is LAX and the E
is tense and you can get more help for i
and e in in our videos for those uh
sounds contrasting them as well as in
our sounds of English course I walk you
through those details um but know that
it's similar to a word like
City or uh busy where we have the i in a
stress syllable and the e in the
unstressed syllable and those words can
be challenging for people all right so
vi video video finally our o says the O
dip thong in English it's going to be
fairly short here because it's in an
unstressed syllable but we still want
that American o where we close and we
glide on the vowel not just video o but
o your your tongue should lift and your
jaw should close and your tongue should
also relax as you go from the shifting
from the beginning of the o to the end
of the o o
video also as I move from the e to the O
in video you might notice that there's a
little bit of a gliding Y sound
happening there I don't need a strong y
I don't need VI yo I don't want a strong
sound but when I move from from the e
shape in my mouth to the O shape EO EO
we just naturally link those two vowels
together and end up with that gliding Y
in
between once you can say video by itself
make sure you practice it in some short
phrases just so the correct new
pronunciation comes easily and naturally
to you for example thank you for
watching this video uh I'll make more
videos about your requests if you leave
me a comment and also when we make the
plural videos we have a z sound for our
letter s videos are important to my
business thanks so much for watching
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here on the channel you can get more
help for all of the Sounds in the word
video as well as all of the sounds of
English in our sounds of English course
on speech
modification. that's a great way to
build a strong Foundation to pronounce
any word you like confidently and easily
in American English that's our sounds of
English course on speech modification. I
hope you'll check it out I'll be back
again tomorrow with another word of the
day video and on Saturday we'll have our
Live question and answer class I hope to
see you there I'm Christine Dunbar from
speech
modification. remember if you want to
sound like a native speaker you can do
it speech
modification. bye everyone hope to see
you again soon