Name: How to Pronounce PRELIMINARY - American English Pronunciation Lesson
Uploaded: 2020-09-16T19:26:22.000Z
Duration: 3 min 2 s
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hey everybody Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question

today's question is how do I pronounce the word preliminary which means actions

or events before or in preparation of an event so it's something you do before to

get ready for something and so let's go ahead and take a look at this word the

word again is preliminary so many letters that already causes people

anxiety I know let's break this down into the syllables or beats of the word

we have preliminary preliminary let's look at each beat in the word we're

gonna start with what the mistake that I hear on this syllable is that people say

Pa-rah and they actually add another beat because you're adding a sound

between the P and the r there's no vowel sound there so you're going to put your

lips together and be ready for that our sound and as you open your lips from the

P say that R sound PR PR PR and this is a schwa sound that's a short uh sound

next we have the loudest longest and highest pitch syllable our stressed

syllable the stressed beat in the word Lim Lim so you're going to take your

tongue from the back of your top front teeth the tip of your tongue pull it

down into the middle of your mouth for that short i and then close your lips

for the M Lim Pra-Lim Pra-Lim next we're gonna add the schwa syllable nice

and short you know the drill open your mouth relaxed mouth really quick not

super loud uh  prablima prablima move to nair start by touching

the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth air moves out of

your nose and then add that air vowel by opening your mouth wide and then moving

to that er sound do not touch your teeth that R and do not let your tongue move

for the R nice and long and strong nair  prablima nair prablimanair and

end with the long e by smiling because you're so happy we are finished with

this word let's put it all together Pra limma

preliminair  preliminary preliminary preliminary preliminary and let me cheat

again and look at my sentence some of you have complained about my sentences

not being very good lately so I'm trying to be better here we go

the event required extensive preliminary planning the event required extensive

preliminary planning give it a try I know people are going to notice the

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