Short spoken tutorial (YouTube) by Hadar Shemesh explaining how to pronounce the American English words "apartment" and "rent." The speaker contrasts a strong, rounded R in "rent" with a softer/mellow R in "apartment," describes tongue and lip positions, notes schwa and subtle T realizations, and offers example sentences and a call-to-action for viewer questions.
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Hey, what's up? So I got a request on how to pronounce the words apartment and rent. Apartment and rent. These words usually go together for most of us, at least for me. This is my parents house, not my apartment. But okay, so first of all, in both of them we have are the. The R sound. Although the R in the word rent is a strong R. Rent. You see my lips rounding for this sound. Rent. An apartment. In the word apartment, the R in the word apartment is a little more mellow. Apartment. Now the word rent. Rent. To produce the R, a tongue pulls back. The sound is created with the tongue. The tongue pulls back. It kind of like stands in the middle of the mouth and. And the lips round quite a lot like a W. R. There's a lot of tension in this sound. After that we open it to the sound and we have the nt very subtle T. We don't hear a strong T here. Rent. Rent. Okay, the word apartment. Apartment. If we divide it into two, we have the word apart. Apart. Okay. We begin with a very small. If you've seen the schwa video, it's a schwa sound. Part. Like the word part. Part. Strong P part. The R is there. The tongue pulls up just a bit, but then you go to the T right away again. It's a very subtle T. Apart. It's so subtle that you don't hear the pop. The T sound. It's just apart. The tip of the tongue goes up and closes the air. Apart. And then right away I go to the sound. Apartment. Apartment. Rent. Strong R. Apartment. Mellow R, soft R. Apartment, rent. I have to pay my rent. That's my apartment. I pay rent for this apartment. Apartment, rent. If you have any other words that you are not sure on how to pronounce or you need help, then just write a message or a comment here below this video or any other video and I'll try. I'll do my best to answer. In the meantime, keep practicing, have fun and I'll see you next time. Bye. This is my headphone. You're going to learn how to pronounce different things and I need to know what I have to say in order to say it.
