Accent Reduction - Word Stress Lesson

[pstcontrl]

Thanks for pointing out that "accent reduction" is probably not the right name for this type of class. I was always suspicious of the claim that a class of any length could help a non-native speaker, past the critical period of course, "lose" their accent. I enjoyed watching your video. Thanks

[netcruizer]

good information thank you. i have a very slight accent. I think it is with your "R"s. I like ur teaching style. u have a beautiful office.

[liyaliu7]

Very informative video! Thank you so much. I am looking forward to trying your pronunciation software.

[wgiacca]

This is really helpful! I never noticed this pattern before.

[mihazisu]

Thank you so much Lynn

If I knew this 10 years ago when I came here (US)

Never too late Love the lesson Looking for more Impresive Thanks

[ReduceYourAccentLA]

Happy Valentine's Day 2010

Los Angeles, California

USA

[GianBarbarona]

Huh, she teaches accent reduction but she has an accent herself!

[AccentMasterLynn]

Everyone has an accent! Some are canadian, southern east coast or standard American!

[Burbankla]

great video, thanks

[sayasarah]

well, i think she's right about driving.

[bartben75]

this really helped alot, like it was my lesson in primary schooling and now i forgot bout it.. . . .this really helped alot, thanks madam. . .coz im looking forward to be a linguist. . .and i uh, have a question. . .is there such word as grotesque and qro-tesque?

[cybertubie]

Great videos. Thanks for the info.

I came to the US when I was about 13 (been here 20) and I've been surprised when people tell me I have an accent. I thought I didn't ! What a lot of people don't understand is that one is generally aware how he/she sounds.

Do you have any idea as to what age people will develop an accent when learning a new language? For instance, if somebody starts at age 5, it's reasonable to assume they won't have an accent, etc..

[mat6268]

This video is helpful, but the final comparison about car driving is a bit fallacious : there is no simple rule to know how to put the correct word stress on a word in english. You have to look in a dictionary or to be in immersion with native speakers.

[AccentMasterLynn]

Thanks for your comment. There actually is a way to predict word stress. It is based on the word ending. It is a bit much to go into here...but take my class and find out for yourself!

[carsanya]

She is a real teacher.

[thone2008]

I cant stand the Vowel Pronouncations of the American Accent.

[aljosa13]

Accent Master opened a new door for me. My ex teachers never told me the difference between a noun and a verb while pronouncing them. Well I can see now there is a difference. Its like I have been given a new information. VERY IMPORTANT ONE. Well done Lynn

[ndla010585]

thank you!! and God blees, its really help!!!

[Jaypeterson123]

Hey Lynn

I was wondering if you can look at my video, and judge my accent. Please give me some recommendations and advice. Thank you.

[AccentMasterLynn]

Louieionoz,

I'm sorry British and Australian accents are not what I have studied.

[Louieinoz]

Can you make an addendum with british accent and australian accent.

[jnevaeh]

Good video! Another trick to emulate American accent is to practice the Long Vowel Sounds like the "a" sound in ape; "e"=eel; "i"= iphone :-) o=over; u=user. Gotta soften pronunciation and don't open the mouth too wide. If you notice, most fluent English speakers move their bottom lips more.Helps control sounds I think ;)

[spypickshadow]

You're so right on that. That's true for French too. Too often, speech therapists insist on the importance of articulating and opening the mouth wide, but this is not good advice. On the contrary, native speakers don't do that and speak effortlessly, with a minimum of mouth movements. That's the way I learnt American English, by speaking as naturally and effortlessly as possible and the rest is good!

[tomgeorge1313]

GOOD ONE

[luxuarylifestyle]

thanks a lot. you are the best!

[violetstyle]

that "Record" exaple was really great!!

Could you plz give us some homework thing?

I wanna post some video presoponeses to be checked my pronunciation~

[Yika1000]

Your videos are very useful. I look forward to seeing more. Thanks.

[2007renovatio]

whoa, I didn't know there were so many words which would change their meaning just based on changing the stress points.

[caroolms]

really helpful. thank you :)

[BrainiacN5]

hahaha I don't hear the difference between the two pronounciations of many words she says

but it's really great, she's fantastik

[ledo111]

AWESOME

[reddybangalore]

This is the most helpful video I have seen on the subject. I have the Accent Master software too and it has helped me so much. Thank you!

[medoelsaid]

wonderfull Lynn

[decoralias]

Please post many videos like these as possible. All the videos help lots f peolple.

[decoralias]

Thank you very much and continue posting please.

[carlos24usa]

Your videos are the best I have seen. I even spent over $200 on other pronunciation videos but your videos are much much better. Please make more. Thank you so much.

[Astoria000]

Great video,I've been looking for this stuff!

[gabrielarebeca]

Thanks Lynn, very helpful video...

[chuva080]

oh thank you..that video..actually..

i was luking for..since den..

the differences of both words with diffrnt pronounciations.. thnakz alot...

G0dspeed!

[FranklenWylder]

i thought insult only had one meaning? what other meaning does "insult" have?

Oh, and desert has 3 meanings.

you can be in the desert. you can desert your crew or you can eat desert.

she is totally right - on in this video. The English language should have indicators to show you when a letter is pronounced differently? The German language has plenty of those. Makes sense to me.

[AccentMasterLynn]

When you eat dessert it has two s's.

Insult can be an action as in "don't insult me!" or be a noun as in "that is an insult!" Thank you for your comments!

[FranklenWylder]

i'm sorry, I did not mean to offend you or come off as challenging your knowledge that was not my intent. I simply misunderstood you somewhere in there. I never knew that word had two s's. How I missed that? Nice show, keep it up.

[AccentMasterLynn]

No worries. I was not offended at all!

[tigerbeach111]

the dessert u can eat is spelled as dessert. with two 's's. so its a different word

[rockzhang]

Lyn is amiable, and nice to her students all over the world. I love teacher who can teach in her way..

Great Great work..

[kybernes23]

wow, i like the video and the girl XD

[1234reddy1234]

great video!!!

[cdghb]

pretty good voice , which really gived the usefull things of learning english. jus hope there could be more examples for each point talked about

[misscupcake1]

i like this video. i study accents and i do impersonations, and someone showed me this video so i could copy your accent ahah. very good video, i didnt realise so many words were pronounced differently when used as verbs or nouns. i will subscribe to you and watch everytime you upload xx