Hi everyone Jennifer with a little bit of a longer short today.
We have two words: encounter and encountered. You have some options for the beginning
you are going to use a short i or a short e. It's just an unstressed syllable so remember
short and soft and quick. So we have in or en. Some of you may hear un, just that basic schwa,
and that's okay too. For the ending you can either say ter as it's spelled, or you can drop the t
all together and just say an n, ner. So let's give that a try first with the t: in counter
encounter. And now with the n in cow ner encounter
encounter encounter. Now if we add the ed in countered in countered give it a try!