Secrets to Speaking in the Rhythm of English

English prosody course: https://www.nanheebyrnes.com/p/gramma... English rhythm is the final frontier if you are learning English as a foreign language. The English rhythm is due to pitch moving up and down at regular intervals. To make this happen, various things need to be learned. First, finding the beats, that is, how many stressed syllables are there in the phrase. Then, you need to know how to group them into rhythm units, which is to say how to group unstressed syllables. After these basics, you further need to be aware of various methods natives use to keep the regularity. In this video, we discuss the most common ones: 1. Rhythmic Stress Deletion: Certain stresses are dropped for smoother rhythm. Example: The BIG BROWN BEAR → The BIG brown BEAR 2. Rhythmic Stress Shift: Stress moves to fit the sentence rhythm. Example: Hong KONG → The HONG Kong GOvernment 3. Syllable Elision: Entire syllables are skipped for efficiency. Example: li.bra.ry → li.bry 4. Phoneme Dropping: Shortened pronunciations of common words. Examples: of, to, have → [ə] is, has → [s] or [z] because → [kəz] them → [əm] These techniques are key to mastering the natural rhythm of English! English courses: https://www.nanheebyrnes.com/p/gramma...