A short YouTube tutorial by Hadar Shemesh teaching two pronunciations of the words "eventually" and "actually": a fuller, careful form and a reduced, casual form. The instructor breaks each word into sounds (schwa, consonant clusters, stress placement) and gives articulatory tips (jaw/tongue relaxation, lip/teeth positioning, pitch for stress).
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Hi, it's Hadar. And this is the accent's way, your way to finding clarity, confidence and freedom in English. I got a question from Rim Halil asking me how to pronounce the word eventually. There are actually two ways to pronounce this word. One is eventually and the other one is eventually. You can see that the second pronunciation is a bit more casual, more reduced. And this is what we're going to focus on today. We begin with a schwa sound, very deuce. Relax your jaw, relax your tongue and release a really quick sound. Then we move on to ven. Then it's a V sound. So bring your bottom lip and teeth together and open it to an E as in red. Then don't drop your jaw too much. Then it's going to sound like van. Alright, Ve, then ven. And then it's a sh sound and a schwa. Sh, sh, sh, ven, sh. Then you end it with li. Eventually, eventually the ven is the primary stress, so you also go a little higher in pitch. Eventually, eventually. Notice that the word actually sounds. Sounds pretty much the same. I can say actually. Right, that's the longer pronunciation. And you can reduce it to actually the ending is the same. Sh, Ly, Sh ly. Eventually, actually. Good. That's it for today. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please share it with your friends. And that's it. Thank you for watching. I will see you next week in the next video. Bye.
