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Podcast: Wadjasay? American English Pronunciation Practice
Episode: Practice with 4 syllable words
Description: Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks!Note: Unaccented syllables in English are normally pronounced with the infamous "Schwa" sound. Using the phonetic alphabet, this sound is written /ə/. The word "banana" would be written /bənænə/ with the stress or accent on the second syllable. Languages like Spanish keep vowel pronunciation the same whether syllables are stressed or not. Ask a native Spanish speaker to say "platano" and listen carefully to the vowels in each syllable. None of them change into a schwa sound. And that makes Spanish easier to learn...