A short pronunciation tutorial by Hadar Shemesh explaining how to say the word "unfortunately." The speaker segments the word into syllables (un-for-tu-nate-ly), identifies the primary stress on the 'for' syllable, and gives articulatory tips (e.g., a small 'un' cup sound, delay the r, relaxed schwa in the 'tu' cluster, final 'lee' as an /i/).
How to pronounce. Unfortunately, unfortunately. First of all, the primary stress of this word is for, like the number 4. 4. Right before that we have un, un, un. It's a cup sound. It's very small. The mouth is not really open. Un, unfor, unfor. When you pronounce the four, make sure that the tongue doesn't go up for the r too soon so it doesn't come out as unfortunately, unfortunately. Here we have a ch sound. It's like a t and a sh and a schwa. Very relaxed vowel. Unfortunately. An n sound. Schwa and a t Nut and then lee, An l and a high E. Unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately.
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