Name: How to Pronounce IMMUNE, IMMUNIZE, IMMUNITY- American English Pronunciation Word Stress
Uploaded: 2021-10-08T17:41:59.000Z
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Hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle  speech with your question of the week!  

Our question today is how to pronounce the words

immune which means resistant to an infection immunize and immunity

So let's take a look at these  words. We have immune, immunize, and  

immunity. So let's start with word number  one. You are going to pronounce this word  

by stressing syllable 2. So that syllable is  going to be louder and higher in pitch and the  

vowel is going to be longer. And in this case we  are going to use the vowel u as in you out there listening.

No for syllable number one, I have it listed  as a short I because I think most people tend  

to read it this way. Keep in mind that this is a  short unstressed syllable so the vowel is going  

to be shorter and relaxed and unstressed. You can  say ummune or immune either is fine. They're both  

super close. The key is it's unstressed and  it's very short. So again right here we have

Now when we add the ize everything  is going to say the same.

That syllable stress is going to stay the same  

and we're going to continue  stressing syllable number two.

Last when we have immunity the stress stays  the same. Oh my goodness! If you watched my  

video last week you know that this ity is a  stress imposing suffix and it will change the  

rules and it means that you shift the stress.  In this case you don't have to shift the stress  

because we always stress the syllable  right before the Uh D. And in this case  

it's still the U so that's why this confuses  some people because we don't change that stress.

immune immune immune immunize immunize immunize 

immunity immunity immunity immune immunize immunity

So give it a try I know people are  going to notice the difference. If  

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