How to pronounce 'Spontaneous' | American English

Hey, it's hadar. And this is the accent's way, your way to finding clarity, confidence and freedom in English. And today we're going to talk about the word spontaneous. Because I'm just feeling so spontaneous today. Spontaneous. Let's break the word down. We begin with spa. Just like, oh, I'm going to the spa today. Spa. It's an s sound, then a P. So close your lips. Spa. And then open it to the a as in father. Spaan. Spaan. Then we shift to the word the tay spontay. Just like the beginning of the word take or table. It's a diphthong, so it's a ching ching vowel. Make sure you're not pronouncing it as a clean E sound. Sponte. No. Spaan. Drop your jaw, relax your lips. Spanish. Then you see the shift from e to e and then it's a high E sound. And then you relax your tongue into a schwa sound. But when you shift from the high e to the schwa, you get like a little Y sound in the middle. Spontaneous. Spontaneous. I'm feeling spontaneous now. The interesting thing about this word is the rhythm Spontaneous. In English, not every syllable receives the same beat, so it's not spontaneous but spontaneous. The te is the primary stress, so it's the longest syllable and the at the end is the shortest. So it's really reduced and short. The spine and the knee are somewhere in the middle. Spontaneous. Spontaneous. So that what creates the beauty of American rhythm, different lengths of different syllables and also different words in a phrase or a sentence. Spontaneous. Alright, that's it. Thank you for watching. Please share this video with your friends if you liked it and come on over to my website to check it out and get more great content every single week. Have a wonderful week and I'll see you next week in the next video. Bye.