How to pronounce GENUINE | American English Pronunciation

6 Jun 2019 · 1 min

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This short instructional video (Hadar Shemesh’s Accent’s Way) teaches the correct American-English pronunciation of the word “genuine.” The presenter breaks the word into three syllables (Jen - you - wun), explains articulatory details (J sound, vowel as in "red", N, schwa in final syllable, and how U+N link yields a W sound), notes primary stress on the first syllable, provides example sentences and a tongue-twister, and closes with a call-to-action to download a list of commonly mispronounced words from her website.

Questions this video answers

Three syllables.

The first syllable.

"Jen" (first), "you" (middle), and a reduced-final syllable pronounced like "wun" (last).

Chapters

Hey there. It's hadar. And this is the accent's way. Today we are going to talk about how to pronounce the word genuine. I genuinely believe it is an important word to know how to pronounce genuine. Three syllables. The first one is Jen. Jen.
It's like my best friend Jennifer's nickname.
Jen. Hey, Jen, what's up? You start with a J sound, then the e as in red. And then you bring the tip of the tongue up for the N. Jen. Then it's the word you that's the middle syllable, but it sounds like the word you. Genu. Gen. You. And then finally, in the last syllable, we have a reduced vowel, the schwa and an n. But when you connect the U and the n, you get something new. Can you guess what it is? You won. That's right. A W sound. You won, Jen. You won. The primary stress is on the first.
Syllable, so it's higher in pitch and longer.
Genu. Wun. That was a genuine gesture. A genuine gesture. That is a genuine tongue twister. Genuine. Genuine. Okay, if you like this video, I'm sure you're going to love my 50 most commonly mispronounced words. If you go to my website, you can download it and get my audio and a list of the words written out phonetically so there is no confusion because I write English phonetically, unlike everyone else writes it with these weird spelling patterns. I have no idea why, but that's just how it is. Okay, thank you so much for watching. Have a beautiful, beautiful day and I will see you next week in the next video. Bye.