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Finding stressed syllables

syllable as being stressed you're right F after director the second syllable very low in pitch flat and quick half what about the word nothing again it's the first syllable ing...

Course: Smoother American pronunciationSection: Talking about your daySubtitles: en

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first

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syllable as being stressed you're right

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F after director the second syllable

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very low in pitch flat and quick half

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what about the word nothing again it's

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the first syllable

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ing endings even though this isn't an

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ING verb will be unstressed nothing nah

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nah nothing

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after this nothing after this nothing

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after this nothing no plans no plans

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nothing reduces in this phrase I'm

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really hearing this as two different

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stressed words they're both one syllable

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no plans no plans no plans no plans no

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plans no plans no plans no plans should

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we get dinner

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yeah should we get dinner one of the

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things I noticed is I'm dropping the D

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sound should we should we should we get

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should we get should we get that's

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helping me say this less important word

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even faster should we get dinner should

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we get dinner should we get dinner

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should we get dinner I noticed that the

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T here is a stop T I don't release it

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it's not get dinner it's get get get get

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dinner get

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