hi everybody Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question
today's question is how do I say the word innovation meaning a new method and
invasion which means an unwelcome intrusion
today's lesson is mostly about the schwa sound and also syllables or beats in a
word but we're also going to talk about the difference between voiced and
voiceless consonants we have a lot to get to so let's jump right in we're
number one innovation is going to have four beats
in uh vay shun word number two invasion is going to have three beats invasion so
the biggest difference here is you can hear four versus three beats and this
beat the uh the schwa syllable is super short and it's connected to the
syllables around it that's very important innovation invasion we don't
have the schwa sound we just have those three beats and both of these words the
vay is going to be our stressed syllable because it comes right before the Shun or
the zhun ending and that's a general rule and I'm sure if you've been here before
you've learned that so we've talked about that in the past last thing to
keep in mind is that the Shh and the zh sound look exactly the same when you're
watching me pronounce them the difference is is that the Shh the quiet
sh sound two letters one sound Shh my voice box is not on and it is not moving for
the zh sound again two letters one sound my voice box is on and vibrating and
moving zh so very quiet Sh and very noisy zh the key is do not touch your teeth for either of
these sounds that's key don't touch your teeth okay so let's look at the rest of
the syllables so we start with in this is the short ih sound where your mouth
is slightly open and your tongue is hi in your mouth and then move to that
n sound by touching the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front
teeth air moves out of your nose the short schwa sound uhand then move to
the Vay and to do this you're either going to bite the inside or the outside
of your lower lip and then you are going to make sure the air keeps moving out of
your mouth while your voice box is on for the vvv sound and then we're going to
move to that long a vowel and to do this you are going to have your mouth open
wide with the tip of your tongue low in your mouth and then close your mouth to
that smile e a a in uh vay and then we're gonna end with the tion again SH sound
it's the quiet sound no voicing don't touch your teeth and end with that
short uh and nnn by touching the tip of your tongue to the back of your top
front teeth while the air moves out of your nose in a-- VAY shun again
remember stress that vay it's louder longer and higher and pitch in a vation
innovation innovation innovation and now for invasion to take out the schwa in
in vay zhun invasion invasion invasion
innovation invasion the professor did not want any invasions of his privacy
when he was working on the innovation for the new product give it a try people
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