Short instructional video/transcript in which Hadar Shemesh explains how to pronounce the English word "iron." The speaker breaks the word into syllables, demonstrates the sounds (I + earn → I-yearn → iron), and gives example phrases showing natural usage.
How to pronounce the word iron. This is one of those words that is going to make you go like what? Because the first syllable is the I, as in my. So far, pretty easy. And then even though there is an R, the next syllable actually sounds like earn. I know. Bear with me. Just follow the pronunciation. Earn, as in I. Earn. Earned it. It's a stir sound, basically just like making an R lift the tongue up round your lips and then an N. Earn. I Earn. When you connect the two vowels together, you hear a Y sound. I Yearn. I yearn. Iron. Iron. Man. Iron. I need to iron my clothes. Iron.
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