Podcast episode (Influency / Accent's Way) — a short pronunciation coaching segment by Hadar Shemesh explaining how to pronounce the word “genre.” The host contrasts the French single-syllable pronunciation with the common American English two-syllable form (Jean + r + schwa), demonstrates the sounds, gives practice prompts, and includes calls-to-action to visit the website and subscribe.
Welcome to the Influency podcast and this is your how to Pronounce Friday where I share with you the pronunciation secrets of tricky and confusing words. Hi guys.
It's hadar.
And this is the accent's way, your way to finding clarity, confidence and freedom in English. Judy asked me to explain how to pronounce the word genre. Genre. Now, this word is derived from French. Now, in French you pronounce this word as one syllable, something like this. Sorry, French speakers. I'm not a French speaker, so I guess it's somewhat close, but it's not like how do you pronounce it in American English? Although it's the same spelling. All right, so a lot of non native speakers still try to make it like the French pronunciation genre. Okay. And no, you have to remember that it's two syllables. So the first syllable is Jean. Jean. It's a J sound, then the ah as in father and then an N sound. Jean. The second syllable is an R sound. R and a schwa. So basically it's just like you're making an R sound and you forget to stop speaking. Okay, so it's genre, genre, genre. What's your favorite genre? Genre. Alright, good. I know it's not the most common word, but I know that a lot of speakers get stuck when they say this word because they just don't know how to use it. So they don't use it and then they don't talk about sophisticated things like different literary genres. All right, so there you go. I hope this solves your problems. Okay, so practice this word and try to use this word this week. So somehow, somewhere. That's it. Thank you for watching. Come on over to my website to check it out. Sign up to my newsletter and get more great content every single week. Have a wonderful week and I will see you next week. Bye.
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