hi everyone welcome back to my channel learn academic English I'm Jenna and I
teach intermediate and advanced level lessons for English Learners who want to take their English
to the next level in my experience teaching English over the last almost 25 years I have
learned a lot about how to help people with their pronunciation and one of the things that I have
learned is that word stress is one of the easiest and most important ways to improve your speaking
English has a very up and down Rhythm and as a result we like the sound of word stress because
it helps us to recognize the words and it creates more of that Melody of English so every time that
you say a word that has more than one syllable you want to think about where the word stress is which
syllable sounds a little bit stronger usually the way that we make word stress is by making the
voice go up on the stressed syllable and you can practice that for example in the word information
if you say information that does not have word stress we should say it like this information
information can you hear which syllable sounds higher information May and if I practice saying it
I can try to raise my voice a little bit higher on that stressed syllable in for nation information
so there are many word stress rules in English but one of the word stress rules that you want to
pay attention to is how to stress words that have suffixes and suffixes are those letters at the end
of the word like shun or Iko or itty that change the part of speech of the word these are words
that usually come from Latin and they have very predictable word stress rules these are rules that
you can learn and there are very few exceptions so in today's video we're going to look at just
three common suffixes and we will learn the word stress rules for those please don't forget to give
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if you want more lessons like this one okay let's get into those rules so the first one is for
the suffixes i o n and i a n these are suffixes that make nouns in English and we have condition
conclusion negotiation physician this is another word for a doctor electrician this
is a person who works with electricity Indonesian someone who's from Indonesia
and correction there are many many many words like this in English but can you hear the word stress
it goes on the syllable that comes before the suffix so all you have to do is notice where the
suffix is and put the word stress on the vowel before okay so condition conclusion negotiation
physician an electrician Indonesian Indonesian and correction okay let's look at the next group and
these are adjectives that end in ich or ickle for example realistic antibiotics political
technical psychological and photographic this is the adjective form of photograph
like a photographic memory okay so where is the word stress well it follows the same rule that
we saw before it's going to be on the syllable before the suffix for example realistic realistic
antibiotics biotics political so here's the suffix here how about this one the
suffix is equal so we're going to put the word stress on the previous vowel technical
psychological psychological notice that when the O is stressed it often sounds like a big
wide ah psychological and photographic photographic so again all you have to
do is find the suffix and put the word stress on the syllable that comes before
okay let's look at the last group the last group is nouns that end in IDI
itty and let's look at these diversity publicity minority humidity identity priority okay so where
is the word stress it follows the same rule you're going to find the suffix and then you're
going to put the stress on the syllable before diversity publicity minority humidity identity
and priority so again just find the suffix and the word stress is on the syllable that precedes it
so I'm sure that you can think of many other words that fall into these categories and
I would love for you to share some of those in the comments below but before
we go I wanted to mention that one tip for remembering these rules is to have a
key word for each of them so for this first category the key word might be information
and that's a word that you already know and you know that the word stress is in formation then
when you see a new word like negotiation you're going to remember that it follows the same pattern
for the second group that we saw of adjectives you might remember the word logical
so you can say okay well the suffix must be this one and the stress goes on the syllable before
and last for this group you might remember the word majority that's a common word that
you probably already know majority if you have questions please let me know in the comments below
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