How to pronounce Error

5 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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A brief pronunciation guide (voice: Hadar Shemesh) explaining how to pronounce the word 'error'. The speaker breaks the word into sounds—an initial E/’air’ component, a schwa, and an R sequence—notes how native speakers often merge the two Rs when speaking quickly, and models the elongated R before prompting the listener to try.

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How to pronounce this word? Well, you start with an E sound and then an R E E, Just like the word air. And then it's a schwa sound in an R. So while you bring the tongue up for the R R, you drop it down really quickly, and then you lift it back up for the R again. Error. However, when people say it quickly, they kind of like eliminate the transition between the two Rs and they just make it one long R. Er, air. So it actually sounds like the word air, but the R is a little longer. Air, air, air, air. Now you try.