English Pronunciation - Sentence Stress and Rhythm

In English Pronunciation, Sentence Stress is one of the most difficult things for students to master, but it is very important if you want to really take your English pronunciation to the HIGHEST LEVEL!

In this lesson, I'm going to show you how Sentence stress works in English, and how to listen and hear the 'rhythm' of English, which many people call it's 'music'. This English lesson about Sentence Stress will help you to understand when Native speakers are speaking very fast and also help you to speak faster in English too!

Firstly, one important thing to know, is that in English we can divide words into CONTENT words and GRAMMAR words. Content Words are important, they are Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs. Grammar Words are less important, they are pronouns and prepositions etc. The tempo of English, that means the speed at which people speak and read, is set normally by the CONTENT words. In this lesson I show you a great example of this and how this is the reason many learners of English become confused when they hear native english speakers saying some words REALLY fast and others slower and more loudly.

Secondly, when you EMPHASIZE (stress) a word in English you can change the meaning of a sentence. I show you another great example of this in this Video Lesson.

When you are speaking English, if you find that other people are not understand you easily, it might be because you are not using STRESS and INTONATION correctly. Hopefully, after this video, you will understand it a bit better and can improve in this area of English Pronunciation.

00:00 Introduction
00:35 Word Stress vs Sentence Stress
00:59 Word Stress
01:42 Sentence Stress
02:25 Content Words and Grammar Words
05:12 1 2 3 4
09:18 Emphasis using stress
14:45 Correcting someone using Stress
16:38 TEST TIME
20:00 Advice (Poems)

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