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hi this is Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question today's
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question is how do I say the word Constitution which are the fundamental
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principles of a an organization or a country so let's take a look at this
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word Constitution we're going to break this down into syllables and so think of
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this more as a word stress lesson this week so word stress here is going to
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really impact this word and it's a little different than is typical the
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word stress is going to be more towards the end of the word because we have that
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tion ending I have a class on that I feel interested in how to pronounce
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those tion endings so I'll put a link at the bottom of the video for you so let's
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start with syllable number one con it's gonna be nice and short yes there is
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that open vowel the short con and then we're gonna quickly move into this
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really short syllable Consta con sta and you're gonna have that schwa sound
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there consta then we're gonna move to the stressed syllable - to stress the
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syllable we're going to make it a little louder the vowel a little longer and the
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pitch a little bit higher that being said most of my clients really mess up
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syllable stress because the vowels are too short and typically the same length
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so make sure that you make this vowel extra long to get that stress correct
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and then last we're going to end with the tion syllable tion consta two shun
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Constitution Constitution Constitution Constitution give it a try I know people
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will notice the difference if you found this helpful
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