Podcast episode (How to Pronounce Friday) by Hadar Shemesh explaining two pronunciations of the word "eventually" (full and reduced), giving step-by-step phonetic cues (schwa, V sound, stress on the "then" syllable) and comparing the reduction pattern to the word "actually." Episode includes brief usage tips and a closing call-to-action to subscribe and follow on Instagram.
Welcome to the Influency podcast. I'm Hadar, and this is how to Pronounce Friday, where we take a confusing word or word pair, we learn how to pronounce it and how to use it with confidence. Let's get started.
I got a question from Rim Halil asking me how to pronounce the word eventually. There are actually two ways to pronounce this word. One is eventually, and the other one is eventually. You can see that the second pronunciation is a bit more casual, more reduced. And this is what we're going to focus on today. We begin with a schwa sound, very deuce. Relax your jaw, relax your tongue and release a really quick sound. Then we move on to then. Then it's a V sound. So bring your bottom lip and teeth together and open it to an E, as in red. Then don't drop your jaw too much. Then it's going to sound like van. All right? They. Then, then. And then it's a sh sound and a schwa. Sh, sh, sh. Then you end it with li. Eventually. Eventually. The then is the primary stress, so you also go a little higher in pitch. Eventually, eventually. Notice that the word actually sounds pretty much the same. I can say actually, right? That's the longer pronunciation. And you can reduce it to actually, the ending is the same. Shly shally. Eventually. Actually. Actually. Good. That's it for today. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please share it with your friends. And that's it. Okay.
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