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Video Transcript:
In this American English pronunciation video, we’re going to go over the pronunciation of the word ‘coffee’.
This week’s Word of the Week is ‘coffee’. It starts with the K consonant sound, where the back part of the tongue will make contact here, with the soft palate, kk, kk, kk. Then it has either the AW as in LAW or the AH as in FATHER sound, co-, co-, co-, coffee. The second syllable, unstressed, begins with the F consonant sound, ff, ff, so the bottom lip will come up and make contact with the bottom of the top front teeth, ff, ff, -ffee, -ffee. And finally, we have an unstressed EE vowel, coffee, coffee. So the first syllable, co-, has more shape in the voice, and the second syllable, unstressed, -ffee, -ffee, will be flatter and very quick. Coffee, coffee.
I don’t drink coffee.
That’s it, your Word of the Week. Try it out yourself. Make up a sentence with the word, record it, and post it as a video response to this video on YouTube. I can’t wait to watch it.
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