there i'm christine dunbar from
speechmodification.com and this is my
smart american accent training
in this video we'll look at how to
pronounce giggle
and
giggling
so looking first at the word giggle
it's a funny sounding word it has
the first syllable is stressed so the
gig syllable is stressed and then the
second syllable is just this little
syllabic l sound the o sound
that is probably what gives people the
most difficulty with this word
um we have in our
uh playlists on speechmodification.com
on our courses a lot of help for that
syllabic l
basically it's a dark l that you put on
at the end of the word you're going to
want to go from your g to your o pretty
quickly and not spend a lot of time on
that
the vowel in giggle is the vowel if like
in
kit
or gig and um
the
uh
when i'm moving from the from the gig to
the o i may have a little bit of kind of
a schwa sound that's typical for that
dark el or that's a labical goal so the
back of my tongue is down sounds a
little bit like an uh before my
uh little sound giggle giggle
then when we go to giggling we have two
options one is
is uh similar to giggle
plus an ing
the other is to leave that ah out and
you can go right to between the g to the
l the g to the ol giggling giggling um
this uh if you have it there giggling is
gonna be very fast so i'm just saying it
now giggling slowly but when you hear
people use the word he was giggling
giggling um giggling you're gonna have a
very short second and third syllables
whichever one is easier for you is is
okay to do it may be hard to do that
kind of
schwa dark l transition in which case
trying
to just
have the gig
ling pronunciation
or or gig gling might help you
in that case what you're gonna do is
build from the back so trying the
ling
gling
giggling giggling
you can go right from your gu to your o
we tend to have a little bit of a pause
there i think a lot of american speakers
will do
giggling
i'm again not saying that in a natural
way i'm just trying to emphasize the
three syllables they'll say giggling
whereas british speakers might say more
like giggling giggling
with with a clear two-syllable
pronunciation
in any case uh you
have your e sounds in both and then your
ng sound in giggling
so if in case you're wondering uh to
giggle or giggling is another word for
laughter and typically it's
not a big laugh but a small giggle
small laugh
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help for the sounds of english in our
sounds of english course it goes through
each sound in american english talks
about how it's spelled what accent error
patterns to watch out for and how to
use it different ways it's spelled and
most common words that it's in it's a
great way to build a foundation to be
able to understand and pronounce any
word that you like in american english
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bye everyone hope to see you again soon