American English Stress

What you’ll learn

Requirements

Description

/aihæv’tu/ "I have TWO!" (meaning I own two items)

Versus.

/ai’hævtu/ "I HAVE to!" (meaning I’m obligated to do it)

Or

The difference in naturalness of:

We are going to miss the train if we do not hurry up and get to the station.

vs.

We’re gonna missth’train if wedon’thurryup ‘nget t’th’station.

· WHICH words to stress ..to MASSIVELY impact your meaning,
· which words to AVOID stressing. so your meaning isn’t lost entirely!
· You’ll master strategies like REDUCTIONS, the mysterious “SCHWA” sound,
· You’ll learn the STRONG vs WEAK versions of words and how the same word can be pronounced in two ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ways!
· and. you’ll learn the truth about FORMAL vs. INFORMAL speech that nobody talks about!

Sentence stress matters. And you don’t want to be caught messing up your message!

We’re going to have so much FUN learning together! Are you ready? Let’s go!

Who this course is for: