A short YouTube pronunciation tutorial by Hadar Shemesh explaining how to pronounce the word "definitely." The speaker breaks the word into syllables, identifies the primary stressed syllable (the first syllable, with E as in "red"), explains that many internal vowels are reduced to schwas, and models the word several times for practice.
How to pronounce the word. Definitely. This is definitely not a hard word to pronounce, even though it has a lot of syllables, and I'm going to prove it to you. We start with a D sound and the E as in red. That's the primary stress. So it's going to be longer, louder and higher in pitch than the rest of the syllables. Then we have an F sound and a schwa. F F. Not an I, but a schwa. F but def. Then we have nut, an n sound, a schwa, and a T. The schwa is a very short reduced vowel. And then you ended up with li. Definitely. Definitely. I'm definitely going to practice this word. Definitely.
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