Never forget! The 'schwa' sound in individual words

English Sound Building - British Pronunciation

It's a new year! Let's smash some language learning goals and flex those pronunciation muscles!
In this episode of English Sound Building, we learn more about the most common sound in English: schwa. This sound is important in distinguishing between stressed and unstressed syllables, and stressed and unstressed words (we'll talk about this more in a future episode).
In the first few minutes, I give some tips on making the sound. If you're happy with that, feel free to skip straight to 3.50 ready for the workout to begin. We look at some common words containing schwa, as well as some fun and challenging sentences with a lot of schwa sounds.
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