The Stressed R is found when R begins a word, or follows a consonant. This is a difficult one to pick up, because it employs your entire mouth to produce it. You are totally capable of doing it, however, you just need some time to focus on your lip movements!
Practice along with me reading the text below:
Practice These Phrases to get a clear Stressed R
Road trip to Rhode Island.
Bring Rob’s red book to read on the road.
Ricky really has a great reason to reap rewards.
Read and write the right way before taking a right.
Listen for these idioms and practice your Stressed R!
Give a run for their money Make someone work hard to achieve
We didn’t win, but we gave them a run for their money!
Ruffle Fathers People being offended by an action or remark.
He ruffled feathers with his comments about the budget.
Bring to the table What you have to offer or contribute
Let us know what you can bring to the table if you want to join.
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The Stressed R is found when R begins a word, or follows a consonant. This is a difficult one to pick up, because it employs your entire mouth to produce it. You are totally capable of doing it, however, you just need some time to focus on your lip movements!
Practice along with me reading the text below:
Practice These Phrases to get a clear Stressed R
Road trip to Rhode Island.
Bring Rob’s red book to read on the road.
Ricky really has a great reason to reap rewards.
Read and write the right way before taking a right.
Listen for these idioms and practice your Stressed R!
Give a run for their money Make someone work hard to achieve
We didn’t win, but we gave them a run for their money!
Ruffle Fathers People being offended by an action or remark.
He ruffled feathers with his comments about the budget.
Bring to the table What you have to offer or contribute
Let us know what you can bring to the table if you want to join.
Request to join the exclusive Accent Training Community through this link:
https://www.skool.com/american-accent-training-5858/about
Apply to train 1 on 1 with Pat through the link below:
Accent Training Application
Welcome to the English out loud podcast, a podcast where I give you tips on how you can enhance your spoken English. My name is Pat I'm from Toronto, from Canada. And, uh, and this is actually my first time ever having a, a live audience on clubhouse. Well, I make this podcast as I speak. I've got five listeners and thank you very much each and every one of you for joining, because it makes it a lot more fun. It keeps me motivated when I've got a little audience. I find I like, I like speaking to an audience. I'm good at it. Maybe that's for them to decide today. I want to be talking all about the American R sound, the stressed American R sound to be exact. You see the stress to American. Our sound is the R that we hear. If R is getting a word like in the word, red, real, uh, railroad really that's so stressed. Our sound just as well are when it is following a continent is going to be a stressed are like, we hear this in the word tree or the word. Great, raw great, uh, stressed are in a previous episode, I talked a little bit about the unstressed R which is the sound R it's a sound that we get when R is not starting a syllable, but when our is coming after a vowel and I'll get that to get into that more T tail and other time, but let's get into this stressed our stuff. So, as I mentioned, our starting a word, we want to focus very closely on this because you see this sound. It actually employs your entire mouth, your lips, your jaw, your tongue, everything needs to be focused on to get this sound nice and clear. Not to mention this is the most difficult sound in the American accent to learn. This is not one that you're going to get overnight. This is one that you're going to get. Well, if you listen to this podcast again, you're going to get it. And actually also, if you do some practice exercises, such as my episode, episode 53, how do you practice the R sound? You listen to that episode and you read along in the script and you're going to have a fantastic R sound in no time. That's how you practice it. Now you see in many languages, the difficulty of the R sound is tapping your tongue to the roof of your mouth. And if this is you, you want to really pay close attention to where your tongue's moving in your mouth. When you're talking, you see if you feel that the tip of your tongue goes up towards the roof of your mouth, you got to focus on pointing it down. You gotta focus on it out of the way. Otherwise you're going to have that kind of sound. And we of course want to avoid that if you want the American, are that sound isn't bad. It's not a bad sound in English by any means. However, if you don't want to make that anymore, well, here's how you do it. We got to stretch it out a little bit. We got to get a good feel for the, our position, that, or kind of mouth position. Here's how we make that position. I'll give you a quick rundown for my friends on clubhouse here at the moment. Here's how you make that our position. We're going to have the jaw dropping down, uh, with the tongue, go down low in the mouth. Uh, then the corners of your tongue come up words. They come up words towards the teeth, the top teeth in the roof of the mouth, your tongue poles back, and the sides of your tongue are up touching your top teeth around the middle of your mouth. Here's what this sounds like when you make that transition, a R a R. That's what that sounds like. And Mr. PAE, boon, would you be able to give that a shot for me? Can I hear you try and make an ER sound? Yep. Ah, yes, sir. Could I hear that one more time? I'll show this one. If you like, I could show this one on the podcast area. I'll make you a star. Uh, that's it. That's it. Uh, are you okay? Bring your tongue back real tense. You bring your jaw up with it. The next step. Now just read out a couple of words with this R sound you want to repeat after me far car, uh, our, um, we're really stretching this sound out star. Now that is the unstressed are now when we employ the stress star, like I said, when R is starting a word, here's what we got to do. We start with the tongue polled back in that our position with the tongue high up in the mouth, pull back and tense. You want to ensure that your teeth are close together. If your jaw is dropped down, you kind of get a bit of a distorted sound. You get a little bit of a sound. That's like our, it's not quite what we want. So we got to keep the teeth close together. Here's the tricky part. You want to bring the corners of your lips in, towards the center as if you're pushing them away from your face as if you got like a, a bird's beak. You know what I mean? Like a beak of a bird pushing the lips away from your face. Whoa. And you want to try saying that? Just like that as if it's a w Whoa, Whoa. You see, when we make the stressed, are we make the w movement with the lips? Whoa, Whoa, pushed away from the face to make a stress. Are we put the tongue into the, our position and we make the w movement RA RA keeping the teeth close together, very close together. That's important. And watching that the tip of your tongue does not bounce off of the roof of your mouth. If it does, you're gonna roll the sound a little bit. You're going to get something more like Aurora. And I mean, for me, Hey, it took me a lot of time to learn, to make the sound as a Spanish is my second language. And so I know the difficulties of, uh, of forcing your muscles into new movements. I know it's not easy, but you can do it because I did it now. Here's what I'd like you to do. We want to get that raw with the tongue pulled back into the, our position and with the lips making that w movement we're going to make this sound five times like Ruh, Ruh, Ruh, Ruh, Ruh. If you have a dog, they should have woken up by now. They should probably they'll probably be answering back. So sorry, but now repeat after me a few words here, small one syllable words that employ this sound run rush. And how about rough and red? You see that movement is, is one that you want to teach your muscles to do effortlessly. You want to repeat that movement many times. And that's what we're about to do right now is repeat that movement so that you can make that effortlessly. Like I said, repeat these just some quick phrases here that, uh, you could repeat after me now. Could I hear run away? Good. Get rest. And a and Z man, could I hear you try saying that as well? Get rest?
Speaker 2:That's
Speaker 1:A good art. That's a good R sound. Well, I've got here some difficult sentences that I'm going to read out. What I'd like you to do is repeat them after me. Oh right. And pie Boone you as well. What if the both of you could, uh, actually, if you could mute, well, no, you know, you could do it with the microphone. We'll do it one at a time. So could I hear road trip to Rhode Island?
Speaker 2:[inaudible]
Speaker 1:Very good. How about that pie bone? Could I hear that?
Speaker 2:We're rolling. Very good.
Speaker 1:Sounding good. And could I hear, I wrote it. That's so good. Are rhe really stretching the lips out to holding that our position raw. Here's some tricky sentences
Speaker 3:With a lot of stress ares
Speaker 1:That we want to take a look at. Ricky really has a great reason to reap rewards is a tricky one there read and write the right way before taking a right and bring Rob's red book to read on the road. So all of those, I will indeed have posted in the description of my podcast so that, uh, anybody who's interested can practice them. I like to always add in some idiomatic expressions before I wrap up any podcasts, because idiomatic expressions are extremely useful. When you use idiomatic expressions confidently, you show people that you are comfortable using metaphors. You're comfortable speaking in ways that may not make sense to people who don't understand that expression. For example, if you give someone a run for their money, it is a common expression. You know, people will say, Hey, we didn't win, but we gave them a run for their money. That means that you're making somebody work hard to achieve something, working real hard to achieve something. You gave them a run for their money. Another one here, we'll say a ruffled feathers. This means that people are offended by something. If there are ruffled feathers, ruffled feathers is literally referring to a bird. When a bird gets angry about something, you know, they ruffle their feathers. They, they make their feathers big and fat. That's how they show their displeasure. Well, that's what this idiom refers to people being offended. So he ruffled feathers with his comments about the budget, ruffled feathers, real good idiom to keep in mind. One more that I'd like to bring up here before we wrap things up for today is bring to the table. Things that we offer, things that we can tribute are things that we bring to the table. And that's got that art. It's a stressed are after the B bring. If somebody says, you know, let us know what you can bring to the table. If you want to join in, that's like saying, uh, let us know what you want to contribute. Let us know what you can offer, bring to the table.
Speaker 3:Well,
Speaker 1:This has been a fantastic podcast episode for today. Uh, I'd like to thank my friends here on clubhouse for, uh, listening on, and I'm going to do a little bit more in the future on the R sound indeed. Both on clubhouse. Uh, I'll do, uh, uh, uh, broom in the future with some exercises, with a number of exercises on how you can practice that stressed are. And, uh, I will also have this episode out for anybody who wants to relisten to this stuff for anybody who is here on clubhouse though, while I have you folks here, does anybody have any questions or anything pertaining to the, our sound? Because anybody who has any questions on clubhouse may also have questions that you know, my podcast audience members have. And Hey, if, uh, if you folks want to ask, well, you may be saving somebody else, some trouble who can't communicate it. Does anybody have anything? Well, I guess not today, no questions today. That's all right. I'll be back on later. And if anybody has any questions, feel free to let me know. Well, folks enjoy your day. I know that we're all at different times of the day around here. So enjoy your day, enjoy your evening. Enjoy your morning. I've had a fun time recording this podcast episode. I've got you new listeners. Now. I hope well have a wonderful day and you'll be hearing many more good things from me in the days to come have a good one.