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Hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech with your question of the week!
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Our question today is how to pronounce the words
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immune which means resistant to an infection immunize and immunity
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So let's take a look at these words. We have immune, immunize, and
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immunity. So let's start with word number one. You are going to pronounce this word
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by stressing syllable 2. So that syllable is going to be louder and higher in pitch and the
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vowel is going to be longer. And in this case we are going to use the vowel u as in you out there listening.
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No for syllable number one, I have it listed as a short I because I think most people tend
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to read it this way. Keep in mind that this is a short unstressed syllable so the vowel is going
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to be shorter and relaxed and unstressed. You can say ummune or immune either is fine. They're both
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super close. The key is it's unstressed and it's very short. So again right here we have
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immune immune immune
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Now when we add the ize everything is going to say the same.
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imuniz immunize immunize immunize
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That syllable stress is going to stay the same
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and we're going to continue stressing syllable number two.
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Last when we have immunity the stress stays the same. Oh my goodness! If you watched my
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video last week you know that this ity is a stress imposing suffix and it will change the
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rules and it means that you shift the stress. In this case you don't have to shift the stress
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because we always stress the syllable right before the Uh D. And in this case
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it's still the U so that's why this confuses some people because we don't change that stress.
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So we have im you nadi im you nadi
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Let's try them all together:
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immune immune immune immunize immunize immunize
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immunity immunity immunity immune immunize immunity
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So give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference. If
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