Hadar Shemesh breaks down the pronunciation of equality in four syllables. The medial T sounds like D, the vowels reduce in the middle syllables, and the stress pattern differs from equal. Practice saying it with the detailed articulation cues for jaw, tongue, and vowel placement.
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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. Today we are going to talk about the important word equality.
Equality.
Equality has four syllables. We begin with as in sit, so it's not equality, but to make this sound, you want to drop your jaw a bit. The tongue rolls forward and the lips are relaxed. The second syllable is a k sound, then a W, a W sound, and the ah as in father. The next syllable is an L sound and a schwa. It's a reduced vowel. The L is a little heavy, so it's not. It's not just the tip of the tongue touching the upper palate. You also engage the muscles here, but you don't want to make it too dark. That's a dark L, and we don't want to have it before vowels. In the middle of the word L, L. And then the last syllable is T. But when the T sound appears between two vowels, it becomes a flap T, and it sounds like a D. We ended up with a high E. Equality.
Equality.
By the way, when the relaxed sound, as in sit, appears in a secondary stressed position, meaning we hear an sound, but it's not the primary stress. We often drop it to a schwa, or we can drop it to a schwa.
Equality. Equality.
That's also okay, but the proper pronunciation is ick, ick.
Equality.
When you say the word equal, the primary stress falls on the e, and that's a high E. Equal. But the word equality is a little different, where the stress shifts to qua and the tense e becomes equality. Equal.
Equality.
We need more equality in the world.
Equality.
Okay, that's it. That's the pronunciation of this word. And now let's turn it into practice and write down in the comments below one sentence with the word equality. Okay? Not only that, you practice your vocabulary that way. You also help others by creating more sentences to practice, because you always want to practice in context. Remember that. Okay? That was your how to Pronounce Friday episode. I hope you enjoyed it. And if you like the podcast, then consider subscribing to the podcast. And if you feel really crazy, you can even rate and review the podcast. And you can find me at Hadar Accentsway on Instagram, where you can DM me and ask for all the crazy, fancy, confusing words that you'd like to know and how to pronounce. Have a beautiful day and I'll see you next time.
