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By at the end of this lesson, you’re going to see why fast speaking natives are so difficult to understand. And you will even train your pronunciation to speak more clearly and fluently. This lesson is all about correct word stress in English. And if you watch until the end of the video, we even have a test for you. So let’s jump into that.
You need to learn that English is a stress timed language, not a syllable timed language. Syllable timed languages stress every syllable in a sentence about the same, for example in languages like Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese or Mandarin. Stressed time languages on the other hand like Russian, German, and English stress some syllables differently than others.
This may sound confusing and scary, but the good news is that in English this is predictable. Because it is divided between two types of words: content and function words. To illustrate this take a look at how I say the following “You can always spot someone who’s never seen one of his plays before”. You may have noticed that that’s not how you’re supposed to talk, but rather you need to stress the content words and reduce the function words.
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Source: Learn English With TV Series Channel on Youtube
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