Hello in this lesson we're going to do more work on training your ear to distinguish the Schweiger and
then practice pronouncing it to
let's start with a little quiz to see if you can hear in the Schwann.
Make sure you've located the quiz in your workbook so you can write your answers there.
So listen as I pronounce each word I want you to circle the vowel or the Schwann in each of the weak
syllables in these words and you'll notice there are two words that have two Schwab's.
Let's go to the first one together.
I'll read the word twice for you.
The first one letter a is woman.
Now I want you to circle the Schwan in the word woman like this.
You'll notice I circled the a woman woman you said here a shorter quieter sound as the Schwann woman
came Let's go and do the rest.
I'll read each one two times for you.
Let her be again
again.
See million.
Million
the national
national.
Police
police
f continue.
Continue
the history history
age town in challenge
I thousand thousand
J.
Successful
successful
K..
Second second
L serious serious right the next slide has all the answers.
So if you need to please stop here and return to the beginning of this section and listen again and
again until you're confident in your answers.
Are you ready on the next slide of the answers.
The Schwabe sounds are all circled in red.
Now let's go and pronounce them together.
Focus on the correct stress.
Exaggerate the stress in your practice.
So your brain and mouth can really get used to the idea of on equal stress in English which as you remember
is really really important.
Let's go ahead and pronounce them together.
A woman
B again
three million
the National
a police
f continue
G history h challenge.
I thousand
J successful k.
Second l serious.
Did you know the Schwabe is the most common sound in the English language and that's because most all
words with two syllables or more will contain at least one weak syllable.
So as you notice it's a very very high frequency sound in English so it's one that you want to make
sure that you spend a lot of time practicing.
It's really important to stress the correct syllable in words but it's also important to learn how to
stress the weak syllables.
A major characteristic of spoken English is this changing stress pattern.
Learning this should be a big priority in your practice.
The International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA uses this special symbol to represent the Schwall and it's
an easy turned upside down.
You'll see this in dictionaries textbooks and pronunciation practice materials.
All right a final activity for you.
Identify the Schwab's in the underlined words.
Find this section in your workbook and go ahead and make a note above each of the Chouan sounds right.
The upside down.
And we're going to do two for practice here before you continue doing them as homework assignments.
Number one again you're going to write the shuah above the vowel letter representing the if you're not
part of the solution you're part of the problem.
If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem.
And you'll notice there are three Schwab's.
There's one in the O in solution and there's one in the I O in solution both of them are pronounced
summer some shun solution and problem the E is also a Schwamm problem.
Problem
number 2.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Then are twice the new and until the Oh and tomorrow in the open today.
Notice the pronunciations and tail until tomorrow and today.
All of them have that short quiet us and this is our last lesson in the Schwantz and you'll find several
practice activities in your workbook.
Do not move forward to the next section until you have completed all the activities and mastered all
the concepts in this section.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon.