← SayItLikeNative

How native speakers pronounce “schwa”

22 examples from real videos — listen, replay, loop.

1 / 22

syllables are exactly the same so let's start there let's start in the middle here atay atay we're gonna have that schwa syllable there schwa syllable super short unstressed relaxed mouth uh always link

Learn How to Pronounce QUALITATIVE & QUANTITATIVE - American #English Pronunciation Lesson

Example sentences

syllables are exactly the same so let's start there let's start in the middle here atay atay we're gonna have that schwa syllable there schwa syllable super short unstressed relaxed mouth uh always link

Learn How to Pronounce QUALITATIVE & QUANTITATIVE - American #English Pronunciation Lesson

Jen-yuw-yuw, Jen-yuw. And then finally in the last syllable, we have a reduced vowel ə, the schwa and an N, N. But when you connect the 'yuw' and the N you get something new. Can you guess what it is?

How to pronounce GENUINE | American English Pronunciation

number two, for perfect, we're going to use a  short i sound or a short u sound. This is going   to be more of a schwa sound which is a relaxed,  unstressed vowel. So let's start with that f,   to do this, you are going to think about touching  the inside or the outside of your bottom lip  

Learn to Pronounce PERFECT & PERFECT - American English Heteronym Pronunciation Lesson #learnenglish

are reduced to a very neutral small simple sound and that is the schwa sound which is a neutral sound and it sounds something like this. /ə/ So, for each word for each of those four words, there is the proper pronunciation.

How to pronounce AND, OF, OR and FOR in a sentence| Reductions in English

For entrance when we're going to stress  syllable number one. You're going to have   the schwa the uh sound in syllable number  two. So we're going to add that short   uh sound mouth is relaxed and open short quick  vowel uh. Again add that n and then pull the  

Learn to Pronounce ENTRANCE & ENTRANCE - American English Heteronym Pronunciation #learnenglish

Since syllable number two is stressed in  the verb we also know a general rule is   other vowels in the unstressables  may become a schwa. And we have   that situation here so for the verb. We're  going to say pra with the schwa sound pra.

Learn to Pronounce PROGRESS & PROGRESS - American English Heteronym Pronunciation #learnenglish

+ 16 more — use the ‹ › arrows on the player above to hear them all.