A short spoken explanation (YouTube video transcript) demonstrating how to pronounce the English word "nausea" and its adjective form "nauseous." The speaker gives phonetic breakdowns (including sounds: n, "ah" as in father, z, high "e", schwa, and an optional y glide), shows a two-syllable alternative, and provides example usages aloud.
How to pronounce nausea. Nausea is this feeling of wanting to throw up. Nausea. You start with an n sound, then the ah, as in father, or a more rounded version of it, nah. Then a z sound and a high e z, and then you end it with a small schwa. Nausea. You can even hear a small y sound in between Nausea. But you can turn it into two syllables and pronounce it as nausea. An n sound, the ah sound, and then a as in vision and a schwa. Nausea. And when you're feeling nausea, then you are nauseous. Nauseous. Shush. Shush. I'm so nauseous right now. Nausea. Nausea. Nauseous.
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