Name: アメリカ英語で単語の発音を間違えている3つの理由 (Three Reasons You're Mispronouncing Words in American English)
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If you're like most people, you're probably concerned that

you're not pronouncing words correctly in English.

After all, when we're speaking another language, it can be hard to know if the sounds that

we hear inside our heads are actually coming out correctly.

In my case, worrying about my accent kept me from speaking confidently for many years.

That's why I emphasize helping you speak more clearly so that you're more easily understood

I want you to feel more confident than I did when speaking Spanish.

In this video, I'm going to share three reasons you may be mispronouncing words in English.

My goal is to help point out these particular mistakes so that you can start focusing attention

on them, work on them, improve them so that you can feel a little more confident that

you're communicating as clearly as possible.

So let's talk about the three reasons you may be mispronouncing words in English.

Number one, you're making each and every syllable the same length.

This is a super common problem for non-native English speakers.

English is what we call a stress-timed language.

In a stress-timed language, the rhythm is measured by the beats in between stressed

syllables, and I'll talk about that in just a moment.

Other languages are syllable-timed languages.

This means that the beats are counted by each syllable being more or less the same length.

Take a moment and consider this question.

Is your language a syllable-timed language or a stress-timed language?

Chances are you speak a syllable-timed language.

So that means when you're speaking English, you're making each syllable the same length.

This means that you're probably mispronouncing the word.

In English, words include stressed syllables, unstressed syllables, and reduced syllables.

Each word has a syllable that receives the most stress.

This is when one syllable is longer, louder and higher in pitch.

I'm sure you can understand why, if you're making each syllable exactly the same length,

you're not pronouncing words in English correctly.

When we have a stressed syllable, the vowel sound is going to be incredibly clear and

Like I said, it's longer, louder and higher in pitch.

Longer words may also include unstressed syllables.

This is where these syllables are a little bit shorter,

This is when we make the vowel sounds sound like the schwa, which is the "uh" sound in

We're not going to go into too much depth on word stress here in this video, but if

you want more guidance, please be sure to check out my free email course, Sound More

Natural in Just Five Days at soundmorenatural.com.

To pronounce words more accurately, you need to pay attention to the stressed syllable.

One syllable will be longer, louder and higher in pitch.

Let me just tell you that one of the reasons I have an accent when I speak Spanish is that

I'm still stressing syllables like I would in English.

Spanish tends to have more even syllables.

And in order to reduce my accent, I'm going to have to reduce the stress that I use naturally

So now that you're aware of the importance of making sure one syllable is longer, louder

and higher in pitch, let's talk about reason number two.

The second reason you may be mispronouncing words in English is that you're stressing

Since you've probably been listening to English for years, whether you're listening to music,

watching TV or movies, or even interacting with native English speakers, your ear has

But if you're mispronouncing a word, it may not actually be your articulation of sounds,

You may actually be putting stress on the wrong syllable.

A common example I hear is the word "hotel."

Many non-native speakers stress HO-tel, they put stress on the first syllable.

This may be interference from their native language

or how it's pronounced in their native language.

But in American English we pronounce the word "hotel" with stress on the second syllable.

You'll notice that "tel" is longer, louder and higher in pitch: ho-TEL.

A longer example is the word "experience."

Some people stress the first syllable EXperience, but it's exPERience.

You want to make sure that syllable - exPERience - is longer, louder and higher in pitch.

If you shift around the stress, the word is going to sound off even if you pronounce every

Another example - education, we stress the "a": eduCAtion.

Sometimes people stress a different syllable like EDucation and it doesn't sound natural.

EduCAtion: make sure you stress the correct syllable.

If you don't stress the correct syllable, it may be a little hard to understand you

and it's going to make the word sound "off."

A third reason you may be mispronouncing words in English is that you are substituting a

At times, there is some overlap between the consonant sounds you use in your native language and

we use in English, but at times they're similar, but not quite right.

When you're first learning a language, it's very common to find a similar sound,

This helps make it a little easier to try to get the sound out correctly, but as you

continue to advance and you want to improve how you sound and reduce your accent, you're

going to need to stop substituting these intermediate sounds.

In fact, sometimes the sound you're using from your native language

isn't exactly the same way we would form the sound in our mouths in English.

So it comes out sounding like an intermediate sound.

A super common example for speakers of Asian languages is substituting the "l" sound for

the "r" sound or the "r" sound for the "l" sound.

Both of those sounds are kind of in the same position in your mouth.

I'm not going to get into too many details here, but just pay attention when you say

the word "really," are you making sure to say "really" like we would in English, putting

the "r" inside our mouth, that American "r" and sticking your tongue out to make that

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