hi everybody Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question today's
question is how do I say computer program and I'm going to expand that
lesson for you and we're going to work on several things we're going to work on
number one how to say those words of course and number two we're going to
work on a compound noun and how you go about doing that and then I'm throwing a
little bonus and we're going to add some different endings so you have more bang
for your buck today okay so the words are computer program let's look at the
syllables we have cum really short schwa sound in there cuz that's the
unstressed syllable cum pew and you're going to really make that syllable
louder longer and higher in pitch and then we're gonna end with a der yes we
have that flap T in there don't overthink it too much just think about
saying a fast D sound that helps most people so let's put that all together
computer computer computer computer all right if you want to say a T you're
totally fine you can say computer and everyone's going to understand you but
technically we do say that flap T there which sounds a little bit more like a
d alright next for the word program we're going to stress syllable
one and we are going to make that oh nice and long make that syllable a
little bit louder hand a little bit higher in pitch Pro Gram program
program so we have computer program so when you say those two words separately
they both get stress for word one and stress forward - now when we put those
together and make them a compound noun which means we take two words smush them
together and it creates a new vocabulary word so we know what a computer is we
know what a program is but when you have a computer program it means something
individual and different so we put these two words together you're going to
stress word one in a compound noun and the second word is going
to be less stressed and then you're going to link those words together with
no pause in between so I'll say them first as just separate words computer
program now if we're linking it together we're making that compound noun computer
program computer program computer program now people went on to ask
different questions about this how do I say the word programmer and programming
okay so all we're going to do here is we are going to add a new syllable for each
of those programmer programing that's a little bit unstressed because we're just
adding that suffix on to that word but same rules apply you want to stress word
one more because we're making these into compound nouns and unstress word two a
little bit but within those two words don't forget you still do have a stress
syllable that gets super confusing so remember you have syllable stress in
each word the PEW and the pro but then when you're stressing word one this
whole word is going to be a little bit louder longer and higher than the second
word so let's put that all together computer program computer programmer
computer programming so computer program computer programmer and computer
programming so the computer programmer likes programming the computer so that
the computer program can work to the best of its ability give it a try
people are going to notice the difference if you found that helpful
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