That was awesome. 1)I Have question.Do British say 'th' sound (such as this,that,then..) or as 'd" sound even in a fast dialogue.? 2)it would be great to see on CAMBLY as a tutor.you can also earn money and also We can benefit from your information get in touch with you on line
@@Englishpronunciationroadmap hi I am one of your subscriber😄 Actually I want you to please provide your speech below of your video screen .please..........
Do you remember Professor Higgins taught Eliza to say " How KIND of you to let me come" (big stress on "kind")? It's sounds so very posh and it seems to be the secret of Received English (after getting the easy business of pronouncing vowels and consonants RP) and I wish you could teach much more of these stresses and rhythms because they make all the difference.
your channel is so beneficial especially the phonetical part because I study phonetics in the college. but I think that video explains the prominence whose stress is up to the speaker, but stress has generally certain rules like thematic words and I hoped that your video explains this point. thank you anyway; you are skilful
This the first, me, commenting on a tutorial video. I'd been reading articles, books, and I understood pretty much nothing. However, what I've understood off this video is incredible. This comment might mean nothing to you, but your way of explaining is awesome. Thanks a lot. I'd like to ask one question. As for tone units, you said that the last word of a content gets stressed. So, basically, if I speak fast, for example, 50 words at a time, only the 50th word will be stressed, right?
I'm so pleased that you enjoyed the video. And thank you for your kind words. Regarding your question: you're almost correct. Within a tone unit, it tends to be the last 'content' word that is stressed. So, for example, if you were to say "I'm going to the park today", then 'park' would be the last most important content word, so it is 'park' that would be stressed. If you were to simply say "I'm going to the park", then 'park' is still the last most important content word and would be stressed (and it also happens to be the last word in the statement). But if the people you are talking to are discussing going to the park sometime soon, and you were to announce that 'I'm going to the park TODAY', then 'today' would be the last most important content word, because it is new information. I hope that helps. I love getting questions and comments so please feel free to ask anything, anytime. Speak soon, Ashley.
Thank you very much. The thing is that I've been learning english since my childhood through imitation. Somehow I manage to read texts properly but I was struggling on how to teach it. Now I know the "content" word
I just keep on watching each video one after the other. Thank you for taking your time to give answers to our sometimes unasked questions. I'm an ESL speaker. I hope to speak as good as you do someday.
I am from Algeria. I do not understand or speak of the British dialect, but I want to learn it because I love to speak to it so I will join your channel
Ashley, I've been searching for an accent coach and you're by far the best one! Unfortunately, you haven't been on RUclips for a long time. Hope you'll find time to make more videos in the future!
Thanks my dear for sharing this informative and important video. In fact most teachers including myself do not thouroughly tackle this aspect of ENGLISH
so we have a paper on the same concept and I was facing a tough time understanding it but then I stumbled upon this video and found it quite helpful. Your explanations were pretty clear and too complicated. So I'm really grateful for the same. :)
Thank you, I just realized that this thing is probably the problem while I'm speaking... Because I feel that I have said a word correctly, but still doesn't sound good tho. I have to learn this hhh
Hi there! I'm from Argentina and I found all your videos so useful! Sometimes it gets tough to study these kind of things. I mean, we speak quite different so somehow when I study from phonetic's books I do not understand some concepts. Thank you!
Hi there! Thank you for all your videos, they are SO helpful and I really enjoy them. I wish my teacher could explain as you do. Greetings from Argentina.
The video is extremely valuable. Your accent is pure and clear; it makes easy to understand the details. By the way the tone of your voice is superb :)
this lecture is what i've found for a long time. thank you for sharing your knowledge. i've never commented before, this is my first comment. that means, it's very useful and i'll try to keep studying with your channel and maybe in your website. thanks you so much!
Hi there! I was wondering if you knew or could tell me how to put/use secondary stress. I have a suprasegmental phonetics' test tomorrow and I'd like to be clear about that. And I loved your videos, they were very useful :)
This is excellent ... but I believe the term Word stress refers to Syllable stress (i.e which syllable to stress within a word) , and your video is explaining "sentence stress" ... please clarify Thanks
I never really thought much about how we talk using our pitch. It's really interesting! I usually have an easy time talking to people and groups, I bet these things tie into that :D you got a sub :)
Now you might find this interesting: Travel on the tube or on a bus in London and you will usually hear the 2nd word stressed in a compound name: Piccadilly 'Circus Oxford 'Circus Portobello 'Road Parliament 'Square Many people also pronounce place names like that when they speak. This contrasts your (logical- in my view) advice on stressing the contrast (amongst all those squares, roads, circuses). I actually disagree much more with such pronounciation than I’m curious about it because I’ve never heard anyone from the American continent stress names like that and stressing the contrast makes much more sense as it improves clarity.
Very interesting, thank you. We didn't study stress to that depth, we only were taught about where to stress sentences in general when studying a foreigh language, but it's the first time that I hear, for example, the "Tone units". Language and subjects must be getting updated with modern times. Or I must be out of date :D Thank you. New subscriber.
Hi, thank you for this video. It's very clear. What I find difficult is to apply these tips while trying to be fluent. If I have to think about where to put the stress and what are the tone units I am just losing the line of my reasoning. So, my impression is that this kind of exercise makes me sway my attention from content to structure. Am I missing something or are there follow-up tips to overcome such a barrier?
I highly thank you for your explication but, let me suggest a useful conclusion. First, the stress is only used by the speaker to emphasise on something i.e. there are not exact rules. In another hand, some have set down very generative effective rules. Those are depending on of the quality of the sound speech i.e. we have voiced and devoiced sounds according to our phonetics and phonology study. If we learn the features of whether the voiced or devoiced sounds it comes clear how to identify the stress rules. I strongly advise checking Peter roach book of phonetics and phonology in which you find all the explanation I want to write clearly. ;)
Hi Tom, looking at the example above, a tone unit could be a clause, or a phrase of just two words. A tone unit could even be a whole sentence: it chiefly depends on when you as a speaker choose to pause (however briefly). There are many types of grammatical phrases, but for tone units I'd keep it simple and notice where the natural pauses are likely to happen. Regardless of grammar, that's when you chose to pause, therefore it's a tone unit. Hope that helps.
In some ways, they are the same. If the question was, what is the stressed syllable in a word like 'gather', we would say that the stressed syllable is the first: 'GA.ther'. But we can also ask, what is the word stress in 'gather', to which the answer would be the same. I hope that helps.
I found your videos today and I think they're fantastic. Now you have a new follower. Now I have a question about the pronunciation of "the". When you emphasize "the", must the pronunciation of that word be like /ði:/?, no matter if the next word starts with a consonant? So is it correct to pronounce "the car" as /ði: kɑ:/ if I want to emphasize the word "the"?
Hi Luis, that's great, glad to help you. So if you were saying something like 'have you seen the car that I've bought?' then the vowel in 'the' would be pronounced with a schwa. This is true for all examples where 'the' is followed by a word beginning with a consonant. However, if 'the' was followed by a word beginning with a vowel sound, as in 'the airport', 'the orange' or 'the actor', the vowel in 'the' would be pronounced 'ee'. The only exception to this rule is when using 'the' in a stressed position for emphasis. For example, 'it's THE greatest play ever written', 'she's THE best chef in town' or 'I've had THE best day ever'. In this context, the vowel in 'the' would be pronounced 'ee'. Hope that helps. Speak soon, Ashley.
In the question, "Have you read the new Dot Hutchison book?" you stress the noun, "Dot Hutchison" in a falling intonation (because it's a noun & a new information). And stress also "book" in a rising intonation( because it's a yes/no question)? Right? My next question is, should I stress the verb "read" in a falling intonation? (because the rule, in the presence of pronoun, you stress the verb)
Thanks for the question, Oliver! When you say, "in the presence of a pronoun", do you mean something like: "Have you read it?" In which case, yes, stress the verb. Otherwise, the verb in "Have you read the new Dot Hutchinson book?" could be stressed or unstressed depending on what you're choosing to emphasise. Hope that helps.
Isn't "read" a content word, Teacher? If I stressed the "read" ---- would it mean that I am asking the possibly of you reading it (the book) instead of you watching it in a movie version (based on the book)?
Getting confused about the rules: 1. Stress the content words. 2. Don't stress the structure words. 3. Statement with nouns = stress the nouns 4. Statement with pronouns = stress the verbs Teacher, what's the formula for these two: 5. Question with nouns = ?????? 6. Question with pronouns = ??????
Just seen your other comment about rules - I'd always ask yourself, "which words are the most important in THIS particular context?" Notice that I just stressed a pronoun :) Cheers, Paul
Hi Srinija, thanks for your comment. It's the 'a', so 'pro.nun.ci.A.tion'. However, there is something called a secondary stress on 'nun' as well. I talk a lot more about this in my Intonation Training, which you can find here: englishpronunciationroadmap.com/shop/
Thanks for this video it really helped me a lot but my question is that Is there about thirty word stress rules in English or more than because my lecturer told me so
Sir l would like to put a question regarding the usage of stress in English. Which syllables are stressed if a word has three or four syllables ? lm eagerly waiting for your reply. thanking u
Sir! I am from India and learning british english accent by my own watching RUclips videos, but don't have money to join any course, can you help me by means?
Sorry , proffesor, But I didn't get the meaning : *Did you know that she crashed THE car?* ( maybe "this" or "that" or "a" Like , What sort of car?) What does "the best" have to doin the case when asker emphasise "THE"?
Great question. Sometimes we stress 'the' to single out the importance of a place or person or event or object. For example, "it is THE restaurant in town" meaning "it is the BEST restaurant in town". So in the question in the video, it's suggesting that perhaps the person whose car has been crashed, owns many cars, but this is their best one. I hope that helps.
Oh, that does. It makes sence. I'll check my dictionaries to look up ''the'' with meaning ''the best''. And thank you for both : your explanation and your videos
Se Ti It means to single out a car from a group of cars. Like, she crashed into a Bugatti Veyron of all the other cars parked there. It's THE car of all cars.
Se Ti it doesn't have to mean the best, that's a very simplistic view of it. It could mean the infamous / famous, or the one that everyone has been talking about recently (maybe it's a car that breaks down a lot or that is difficult to drive, and all her friends told her she would crash it if she kept driving it, then when the speaker is saying "did you know she crashed THE car" they were implying "the one everyone told her to stop driving"). The important point of emphasizing "THE" in a sentence in this way is that the person listening would know what you mean by using an emphasized THE (so you wouldn't do this if you know the person would have no idea what you are referring to).
you need to be living in England with English people not foreigners in order to be able to pick what the teacher is trying to explain otherwise you will never get it .
Thank you so much. This is very useful :) I never expected you to answer my queston with a video. I will share this with my classmates. Thanks again.
My pleasure Mariano. Glad you found it useful.
That was awesome.
1)I Have question.Do British say 'th' sound (such as this,that,then..) or as 'd" sound even in a fast dialogue.?
2)it would be great to see on CAMBLY as a tutor.you can also earn money and also We can benefit from your information get in touch with you on line
@@Englishpronunciationroadmap hi I am one of your subscriber😄
Actually I want you to please provide your speech below of your video screen .please..........
You hit the nail in the head. Thanks for making this video!
Do you remember Professor Higgins taught Eliza to say " How KIND of you to let me come" (big stress on "kind")? It's sounds so very posh and it seems to be the secret of Received English (after getting the easy business of pronouncing vowels and consonants RP) and I wish you could teach much more of these stresses and rhythms because they make all the difference.
your channel is so beneficial especially the phonetical part because I study phonetics in the college. but I think that video explains the prominence whose stress is up to the speaker, but stress has generally certain rules like thematic words and I hoped that your video explains this point. thank you anyway; you are skilful
This the first, me, commenting on a tutorial video. I'd been reading articles, books, and I understood pretty much nothing. However, what I've understood off this video is incredible. This comment might mean nothing to you, but your way of explaining is awesome. Thanks a lot. I'd like to ask one question. As for tone units, you said that the last word of a content gets stressed. So, basically, if I speak fast, for example, 50 words at a time, only the 50th word will be stressed, right?
I'm so pleased that you enjoyed the video. And thank you for your kind words. Regarding your question: you're almost correct. Within a tone unit, it tends to be the last 'content' word that is stressed. So, for example, if you were to say "I'm going to the park today", then 'park' would be the last most important content word, so it is 'park' that would be stressed. If you were to simply say "I'm going to the park", then 'park' is still the last most important content word and would be stressed (and it also happens to be the last word in the statement). But if the people you are talking to are discussing going to the park sometime soon, and you were to announce that 'I'm going to the park TODAY', then 'today' would be the last most important content word, because it is new information. I hope that helps. I love getting questions and comments so please feel free to ask anything, anytime. Speak soon, Ashley.
He has a great video about intonation you should watch if you still need a good audio visual representation :)
Sir. I am grateful to you.Thanks for your videos.
I could listen to you talking all day long. I love your accent...
Thank you very much. The thing is that I've been learning english since my childhood through imitation. Somehow I manage to read texts properly but I was struggling on how to teach it. Now I know the "content" word
Thank you very much for the lesson. Nice explanation. Look forward to getting more such videos...
I just keep on watching each video one after the other. Thank you for taking your time to give answers to our sometimes unasked questions. I'm an ESL speaker. I hope to speak as good as you do someday.
I am from Algeria. I do not understand or speak of the British dialect, but I want to learn it because I love to speak to it so I will join your channel
you explain things excellently in a very clear voice.
So far the most informative video I have found on the clear intonation explanation! Thanks a lot!
Ashley, I've been searching for an accent coach and you're by far the best one! Unfortunately, you haven't been on RUclips for a long time. Hope you'll find time to make more videos in the future!
We're working on it, thank you for your kind words!
I am an English teacher.I have got your video very useful.Thank you.
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fabulous video - I will be recommending this to all my IELTS students. Really, really well explained, thank you.
Thank you!!!!! From Argentina
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Thanks my dear for sharing this informative and important video. In fact most teachers including myself do not thouroughly tackle this aspect of ENGLISH
Great lessons! thank you very much! Greetings from Moscow
Many thanks! This was really very helpful. And you explain very well with relevant examples.
so we have a paper on the same concept and I was facing a tough time understanding it but then I stumbled upon this video and found it quite helpful. Your explanations were pretty clear and too complicated. So I'm really grateful for the same. :)
Really It's a beneficial video with an amazing way of explaining ! Keep going teacher you're a great instructor !
I had the same doubt, and thank you for clearing it. You are an amazing Teacher!
Thank you, I just realized that this thing is probably the problem while I'm speaking... Because I feel that I have said a word correctly, but still doesn't sound good tho. I have to learn this hhh
I am a new student. And I was found your video very helpful.
Thank you.
Brilliant, I glad to hear that.
Hi there! I'm from Argentina and I found all your videos so useful! Sometimes it gets tough to study these kind of things. I mean, we speak quite different so somehow when I study from phonetic's books I do not understand some concepts. Thank you!
thank so much your advices about rise falling intonatin are very useful
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Intonations is something I have to improve. Thanks
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that video very beneficial for me... please discuss about primary and secondary stres words..
Hi there! Thank you for all your videos, they are SO helpful and I really enjoy them.
I wish my teacher could explain as you do.
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Thank you so much , I'd struggled with this problem for a while .Keep going man! 👍🏼🇬🇧
The video is extremely valuable. Your accent is pure and clear; it makes easy to understand the details. By the way the tone of your voice is superb :)
this lecture is what i've found for a long time. thank you for sharing your knowledge. i've never commented before, this is my first comment. that means, it's very useful and i'll try to keep studying with your channel and maybe in your website.
thanks you so much!
Testlerimde bana çok yardımcı olduğunuz için çok teşekkür ederim
very educative!
Hi there! I was wondering if you knew or could tell me how to put/use secondary stress. I have a suprasegmental phonetics' test tomorrow and I'd like to be clear about that. And I loved your videos, they were very useful :)
Excellent!
This is excellent ... but I believe the term Word stress refers to Syllable stress (i.e which syllable to stress within a word) , and your video is explaining "sentence stress" ... please clarify Thanks
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I never really thought much about how we talk using our pitch. It's really interesting! I usually have an easy time talking to people and groups, I bet these things tie into that :D you got a sub :)
Now you might find this interesting:
Travel on the tube or on a bus in London and you will usually hear the 2nd word stressed in a compound name:
Piccadilly 'Circus
Oxford 'Circus
Portobello 'Road
Parliament 'Square
Many people also pronounce place names like that when they speak.
This contrasts your (logical- in my view) advice on stressing the contrast (amongst all those squares, roads, circuses).
I actually disagree much more with such pronounciation than I’m curious about it because I’ve never heard anyone from the American continent stress names like that and stressing the contrast makes much more sense as it improves clarity.
Very interesting, thank you. We didn't study stress to that depth, we only were taught about where to stress sentences in general when studying a foreigh language, but it's the first time that I hear, for example, the "Tone units". Language and subjects must be getting updated with modern times. Or I must be out of date :D Thank you. New subscriber.
Thanks. It's great to hear that you're making new discoveries. Speak soon.
Hello
thanks for making this vedio. it is quite useful. could you explain more on how to pick out the different tone units for a sentence.thanks man!
Hi, thank you for this video. It's very clear. What I find difficult is to apply these tips while trying to be fluent. If I have to think about where to put the stress and what are the tone units I am just losing the line of my reasoning. So, my impression is that this kind of exercise makes me sway my attention from content to structure. Am I missing something or are there follow-up tips to overcome such a barrier?
You look like a character straight out of a Shakespearean play. Great explanation!
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I highly thank you for your explication but, let me suggest a useful conclusion. First, the stress is only used by the speaker to emphasise on something i.e. there are not exact rules. In another hand, some have set down very generative effective rules. Those are depending on of the quality of the sound speech i.e. we have voiced and devoiced sounds according to our phonetics and phonology study. If we learn the features of whether the voiced or devoiced sounds it comes clear how to identify the stress rules. I strongly advise checking Peter roach book of phonetics and phonology in which you find all the explanation I want to write clearly. ;)
Can we get a video on pte preparation.
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Can you raise the volume of your voice?
Sorry, I can't hear it, but I'm sure the material you delivered is very useful and appropriate what I need.
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Great video. When talking about tone units you also describe them as "phrases" - are tone units the same thing as grammatical phrases? Many thanks!
Hi Tom, looking at the example above, a tone unit could be a clause, or a phrase of just two words. A tone unit could even be a whole sentence: it chiefly depends on when you as a speaker choose to pause (however briefly). There are many types of grammatical phrases, but for tone units I'd keep it simple and notice where the natural pauses are likely to happen. Regardless of grammar, that's when you chose to pause, therefore it's a tone unit. Hope that helps.
nice videos, may I know what is the difference between stressed syllable and word stress?
In some ways, they are the same. If the question was, what is the stressed syllable in a word like 'gather', we would say that the stressed syllable is the first: 'GA.ther'. But we can also ask, what is the word stress in 'gather', to which the answer would be the same. I hope that helps.
I found your videos today and I think they're fantastic. Now you have a new follower. Now I have a question about the pronunciation of "the". When you emphasize "the", must the pronunciation of that word be like /ði:/?, no matter if the next word starts with a consonant? So is it correct to pronounce "the car" as /ði: kɑ:/ if I want to emphasize the word "the"?
Hi Luis, that's great, glad to help you. So if you were saying something like 'have you seen the car that I've bought?' then the vowel in 'the' would be pronounced with a schwa. This is true for all examples where 'the' is followed by a word beginning with a consonant. However, if 'the' was followed by a word beginning with a vowel sound, as in 'the airport', 'the orange' or 'the actor', the vowel in 'the' would be pronounced 'ee'. The only exception to this rule is when using 'the' in a stressed position for emphasis. For example, 'it's THE greatest play ever written', 'she's THE best chef in town' or 'I've had THE best day ever'. In this context, the vowel in 'the' would be pronounced 'ee'. Hope that helps. Speak soon, Ashley.
Wow I didn't know that. Thanks a million.
That was great. But is there a rule for syllable stress in a word.
Sir please reply my query. I love your teaching .i want to give stess on the word teaching. Is this word speaks in rising or falling intonation?
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In the question, "Have you read the new Dot Hutchison book?"
you stress the noun, "Dot Hutchison" in a falling intonation (because it's a noun & a new information). And stress also "book" in a rising intonation( because it's a yes/no question)? Right?
My next question is, should I stress the verb "read" in a falling intonation? (because the rule, in the presence of pronoun, you stress the verb)
Thanks for the question, Oliver!
When you say, "in the presence of a pronoun", do you mean something like:
"Have you read it?"
In which case, yes, stress the verb.
Otherwise, the verb in "Have you read the new Dot Hutchinson book?" could be stressed or unstressed depending on what you're choosing to emphasise. Hope that helps.
Isn't "read" a content word, Teacher?
If I stressed the "read" ---- would it mean that I am asking the possibly of you reading it (the book) instead of you watching it in a movie version (based on the book)?
Getting confused about the rules:
1. Stress the content words.
2. Don't stress the structure words.
3. Statement with nouns = stress the nouns
4. Statement with pronouns = stress the verbs
Teacher, what's the formula for these two:
5. Question with nouns = ??????
6. Question with pronouns = ??????
Spot on. And if we didn't want to do that, there'd only be a minor stress (or no stress at all) on 'read'.
Just seen your other comment about rules - I'd always ask yourself, "which words are the most important in THIS particular context?"
Notice that I just stressed a pronoun :)
Cheers,
Paul
thank you very much you really helped me😊😊 whether i'am new in this area did I say it right ?????
Thanks. Nearly, you'd say 'I'm' and not 'I'am'. Hope that helps.
what Syllable is the stress In the word "pronounciation" ?
Hi Srinija, thanks for your comment. It's the 'a', so 'pro.nun.ci.A.tion'. However, there is something called a secondary stress on 'nun' as well. I talk a lot more about this in my Intonation Training, which you can find here: englishpronunciationroadmap.com/shop/
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Thanks for this video it really helped me a lot but my question is that Is there about thirty word stress rules in English or more than because my lecturer told me so
Sir l would like to put a question regarding the usage of stress in English. Which syllables are stressed if a word has three or four syllables ? lm eagerly waiting for your reply. thanking u
Word stress vs sentence stress
what is Sentence Stress and Intonation?thx if you answer this!
i want buy the course but i need know how i will pay there are not option dolar
Where are you brother? It's been a year you haven't showed up.
What's the different between word stress and syllabe stress?
Sir! I am from India and learning british english accent by my own watching RUclips videos, but don't have money to join any course, can you help me by means?
But what about statements?..........Also thanks for this.......
I want eng conversation Ashlay through conversation.
it is trye that one vowell .=syllable ?????
Hi, you're on the right track for sure. Have a look at our video on stressed syllables: ruclips.net/video/9-X5dsqOqeQ/видео.html
The sound volume is so low. I turnd my phone voulme up to the maximum but it was so hard hearing your teaching.
Sorry , proffesor, But I didn't get the meaning : *Did you know that she crashed THE car?*
( maybe "this" or "that" or "a" Like , What sort of car?)
What does "the best" have to doin the case when asker emphasise "THE"?
Great question. Sometimes we stress 'the' to single out the importance of a place or person or event or object. For example, "it is THE restaurant in town" meaning "it is the BEST restaurant in town". So in the question in the video, it's suggesting that perhaps the person whose car has been crashed, owns many cars, but this is their best one. I hope that helps.
Oh, that does. It makes sence. I'll check my dictionaries to look up ''the'' with meaning ''the best''. And thank you for both : your explanation and your videos
Se Ti It means to single out a car from a group of cars. Like, she crashed into a Bugatti Veyron of all the other cars parked there. It's THE car of all cars.
Se Ti it doesn't have to mean the best, that's a very simplistic view of it. It could mean the infamous / famous, or the one that everyone has been talking about recently (maybe it's a car that breaks down a lot or that is difficult to drive, and all her friends told her she would crash it if she kept driving it, then when the speaker is saying "did you know she crashed THE car" they were implying "the one everyone told her to stop driving"). The important point of emphasizing "THE" in a sentence in this way is that the person listening would know what you mean by using an emphasized THE (so you wouldn't do this if you know the person would have no idea what you are referring to).
hello there.. please I need to know how you pronounce words like fear , dear, near ..
could you please help me find and contact native British to improve my English.
Please increase the loudness.
• Why do the rules for marking stress and intonation keep changing? Don't we have any fixed rules?
Help me , please 😭
you need to be living in England with English people not foreigners in order to be able to pick what the teacher is trying to explain otherwise you will never get it .
I've been to England for a couple of short stays, but I perfectly understand everything the guy says and explains)