New York is both a city and a state, and it’s featured in many Rachel’s English videos. Practice this phrase by analyzing its sounds, stress patterns, and pronunciation.
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Video Transcript:
In this American English pronunciation video, we’re going to go over the pronunciation of New York.This week’s Word of the Week is actually two words, New York. New York begins with the N consonant sound, where the front, flat part of the tongue will lift and touch the roof of the mouth here, nn, nn. Then we have the ‘oo’ as in ‘boo’ vowel, New, New. So the lips do have to round for that. New. Then we have the Y consonant sound, yy, and the AW as in LAW followed by the R consonant sound. So for the vowel, the jaw has to drop, New Yo–, and then the tongue will pull back for the R sound, New Yor–k. And the back part of the tongue will lift up and touch the soft palate here, kk, and pull away to make the K sound. Don’t forget to drop your jaw for the vowel there. New York, New York. I live in New York.
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