hello Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question today's
question is how do I say the word theory which is an idea that can explain
something and theoretical and theoretically these words are very very
confusing because as many of you know when you add a prefix or suffix to a
word in English most of the time the word stress on the root word stays the
same but there are a few exceptions I have a class on tion endings where this
happens where you change the word stress so if you are interested in that I'll
put a link below but for today we're gonna think about theory theoretical and
theoretically and I'm gonna give you a new quick rule that when you see this ic
suffix added to a word you are going to change the word stress and that's why
these words I think are so difficult for people let's start with the word theory
I hear a few mistakes I think the biggest one is that you really need to
say the the vowel ear thear theory and make that e at the end of the word very
very long I'm actually going to add a line over top of that so that you know
to make this sound long that's a long vowel there because I use the symbol
below so I want to be consistent okay so now when we get to theoretical we're
gonna break the syllables up a little bit differently and we're gonna say thee
with the long e again you can see the line on there the schwa uh and then we're
gonna stress this syllable because it's right before that ic okay thee uh re
re remember louder longer and higher for a stressed syllable thee uh re
Dickel and you're just going to add like the man's name dick and then end with
ul theoretical theoretical same thing for theoretically
we're gonna change that word stress from theory where we're stressing syllable
one to right before that ic syllable so we're gonna say again thee uh re and
then instead of saying dickel we're gonna say dick Lee and we're going to
end with that Lee so let's try all of these together theory Theory Theory
theoretical theoretical theoretical theoretically th theoretically
theoretically sorry about that saying that word so many times actually
confused me so let me try those one more times as I messed up theory theoretical
theoretically give it a try I know people are going to notice the
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