Okay, here we go. All right. So you see what I just highlighted there?
Yeah.
All right. Does that symbol look familiar? Yes. This right.
So this is, uh,
the schwa symbol and we use the schwa sound,
okay, when we want to unstress the vowel,
right? It's the reduced vowel. Okay?
So the vowel, this is the unstressed vowel.
So for example, let's just take, for example, this word. Can you say this word?
Table.
Okay, good. So change the pitch on the stress syllable for me. Table
Change the intonation, the pitch, the melody.
Table.
Right? So you change the, the intonation.
So what we learned here is that this syllable /a/...
that's the primary stress syllable..but
the other syllable is the schwa sound.
TA bull, right? So we get,
we get long and short sounds. We get a long sound. Whoops,
let me undo that. Um. So we get a,
a long sound and a short sound.
We get a long sound and a short sound,
a long sound and a short sound, et cetera.
And that means that that second syllable is the schwa sound. Okay.
Say all these words for me.
Table, office,
meeting, clever,
happy, printer.
Okay, good.
I love what you did on the first syllable you made the first syllable long,
you used intonation,
but you did not always use the schwa, that short sound,
on the second syllable. So for example, instead of saying off-eece, no.
It's not offeece, no. It's office.
So you wanna make it short office, try it.
Office.
Right. And meeting .
Meeting.
Right. Clever. Clever. So longer on the first.
Clever.
Happy.
Printer.
Right. And that second syllable is that, uh, uh,
that short syllable or it's a variation of that
sound. It's but it's right around the middle of the mouth. Okay?
Now this I'm gonna send you because you start to see all these rules. Okay.
This is a rule about syllable stress when the stress is on the first syllable of
two syllable words, okay.
These are examples where the stress is on the second syllable. So in this case,
we do a schwa here and a long syllable here.
We do a schwa here and a long syllable here.
So I want you to go ahead and say these words and see if you can start with,
uh,
uh, duh, duh, decide. Uh, uh, uh, agree. Eh, eh, eh, exchange. Try it.
De side.
Du Decide.
Duh side.
Now, connect it, decide.
Decide.
Duh.
Duh-cide. Duhcide.
Decide, give your melody.
Decide.
Yes. Do it again.
Decide.
Good. Do it again.
Decide.
Duh, decide.
Decide.
Okay. But it's not DUH side. Right.
So you're getting it most of the time. But the, but the concept is it's short.
It's quiet. Duh, duh, duh, decide.
Decide.
Yeah. Make it longer over here.
Decide.
Good. Go to the next one.
Agree.
Uh, uh, uh, agree.
Agree.
So do three times, uh, uh, uh, agree.
Uh, uh, uh, agree.
Good. Now I want you to use your hand. We're gonna go to the next one.
We're gonna say, uh, uh, uh, exchange.
Uh, uh, uh, exchange.
Good. And bring your hand higher for me so I can see it.
And now let's go to the next one. Try it, uh, uh, uh, allow.
Good.
Go higher pitch, allow.
Uh, uh, uh, allow.
Good. Do the next one.
Duh, duh, duh, discuss.
Duh, duh, duh. Discuss.
Duh, duh. Duh, duh duh discuss.
Okay, now that's okay. It doesn't sound too dee, deescuss.
But you are changing it a little bit. You're moving more to a Dee,
deescuss. Instead of duh duhscuss.
So the purpose here is that you make this,
you wanna have the least amount of movement done so that you
can get to the stressed syllable, watch discuss.
When you get to the stressed vowel, you've gotta move your jaw to get that ah,
duhscuss. Discuss. Duh. Discuss. There
it is. So right. So you get discuss.
Discuss.
And then let's try.
Discuss.
Good, and then try, uh, uh, uh, enjoy.
Uh, uh, uh, enjoy.
Good. Good.
So what we're exploring now is we're exploring the schwa sound,
and it's really good practice for you to do this kind of, uh,
da, right. Um, or in the case of these two syllable words,
it's, it's gonna be BA Ba right?
So that schwa happens here. So you could just kind of play with LAla,
BAba, TAta, PApa. You could, you know,
you can take any consonant and just play with LAla
MAma, MAma, right? You're just playing with a consonant. Try that for me. Say,
say, um, MAma.
Mama. NAna.
Now. Right. But keep it together.
NAna.
LAla and then LAla.
LAla.
And then, and then TAble, TAble. OFfice.
Office.
Meeting.
Clever.
Happy.
Printer.
Good. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect.
So you just played with the music of the rhythm,
and then you said those words perfectly.
Now we'll just go back here and we'll just do this one more time to wrap it up.
Repeat after me. We're gonna say, decide. Oh.
Just when I read, uh, is small.
It's harder.
Yeah. But, but in this case, when I say the words,
I don't see the words and only, uh,
say.
Yeah, cause you hear,
cause the problem with English is that we don't pronounce the way we write.
So when you look at the spelling,
you automatically think about Spanish and how you would say that letter.
And we don't do that. Okay. So this is good.
So we're just gonna do these last words one more time. Just repeat after me.
Okay. If you, you don't have to read, if you don't want just,
it's gonna be like this. Decide.
Decide.
Agree. Exchange.
Exchange.
Allow.
Discuss.
Enjoy.
Good.