today's lesson is a little bit more about word stress which is a part of

pronunciation and the question is how do I pronounce the word jewelry like a

necklace or a bracelet or a ring and diamond the precious stone there are two

ways to pronounce these words one you can say them with two syllables and

option number two you can say that with three syllables that fantastic schwa

sound that everybody loves so let's go ahead and take a look so our words are

jewelry and diamond I actually say these words with two beats jewel ree and die mund

but it is totally acceptable to say three beats jewel uh re or die uh mund I

don't hear it diamund all that often but I do hear it so you can say either

option so let's go ahead and try the two beat version jewel REE jewel REE jewelry

and die Mond die Mond diamond so again those are two beats jewel ree die mund

great now let's do option number two with three beats and the schwa sound

remember for the schwa sound you want to make this sound very short very

unstressed not very loud and not high in pitch just a short quick uh sound another

great tip is to try to connect the schwa sound to the first syllable you don't

want to say jewel uh re connect it to that first syllable jewela jewela

jewela jewelry and same thing with diamund it's not die a mund those are

all equal we want to connect it and make it a little bit shorter connect it to

syllable one daiya daiya diamund diamund so let's give all four of those a try

jewelry jewelry diamond diamond and then

for your three-syllable option jewelry jewelry diamond

diamond so let's give those a try one more time

jewelry diamond jewelry diamonds

The diamond jewelry was beautiful give it a try I know people are going to notice the

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