لهجه ی بریتیش - استرس کلمات و تاکید

So we’ve talked about the basics of British pronunciation. Today we’re

talking about emphasis. First, let’s have a quick review of everything we’ve learned so far. If you watch the first lesson, you know that we talked about the glottal T and its uses. Take a look at this sentence above my head again. How do you say this using only the glottal T. You could say like this: Let’s eat out later. And in the second lesson we talked about the schwa and its uses. Remember the schwa is the weak form is the /e/ sound. Take a look at this sentence above my head here. How would you say this. You could say this? My brother ate a banana. How would you say this? My sister bought a new computer.

Remember the lesson we talked about “Are you” but could be pronounced like “How are you?” could be “how are you?” But which way to pronounce it. Well, the first question would be “how are you?” The focus is on the state of be, “are”. So the first question would usually be “how are you?” For example, “how are you?” Again, the focus is on the state of be, “are”. The response might be “yeah, good how are you?” The focus is on the other person, so the focus is on the word “you” not “are”. So for this reason he said “how are you?” “how are you?” “yeah good how are you?”

In another question like “Did you go out last night?”, remember we could pronounce it like “Did you go out last night?” In the first question, the emphasis is on what happened, in this case “go out”. So, “did you” has that weak form “didja”. “Did you go out last night?” And the response “yeah, did you?” Again, the focus is on the other person, so the emphasis is on the “you” in this case he pronounced it “yeah, did you?”

“Did you go out last night?” “yeah, did you?” And then with “have you” questions. A question like “Have you been to Brazil?” could be said like this “Have you been to Brazil?” Again, the focus is on what happened, so the emphasis is on the verb. “Have you been to Brazil?” But the response “yeah, have you?” Again, the emphasis “you”, so it sounds like this, “Have you’ve been to Brazil?” “yeah, you?” Notice also that “be” sometimes is pronounced like “bin” again depends on the speed of talking.

So thanks for watching our series of British accent lessons…