How to pronounce RIDICULOUS

26 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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A short YouTube pronunciation guide by Hadar Shemesh explaining how to pronounce the word “ridiculous.” The speaker provides a phoneme-by-phoneme breakdown (r, short i, d, short i, k + y + schwa, l, s), guidance on treating the schwa and consonant clusters, and advice to lengthen the primary stressed syllable in multisyllabic words. Several example utterances are given.

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How to pronounce the word ridiculous. You start with an r sound, then the as in sit ri ri. Then we have a d sound and another as in sit. And then we have a k, a y, and a schwa. It's like the beginning of q without getting to the u sound. And then no vowels, nothing. An l sounded, an s. I mean, there is a schwa there, but I want you to think of it as if there is no vowel between the l and the s l. Now, when the primary stress is pronounced, it is going to be slightly longer, especially in a word with many syllables like ridiculous. So make sure you make the primary stress a little longer than the others. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. It's a ridiculous question. Ridiculous.