A brief pronunciation tutorial by Hadar Shemesh distinguishing the words 'corporate' (two syllables: cor-prate) and 'cooperate' (four syllables: co-oper-ate). The speaker breaks each word into syllables, explains vowel and consonant sounds (e.g., schwa, intrusive W, stop T), gives examples and compares related forms 'corporation' vs 'cooperation', then closes with a call-to-action to visit her website.
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Hi guys. It's hadar. And this is the accent's way, your way to finding clarity, confidence and freedom in English. Today. I want to talk about the two words corporate and cooperate. Corporate. Cooperate. The first word has two syllables. The first one is cor. Cor. Just like the word core or for core. The second syllable is pr. Pr. So basically it's a P sound and then an R and a t at the end. Since it's a stop T or a held T, you barely hear the T sound. It's just an abrupt stop of the R sound. Listen. Prit. Prit. And that's enough. Cor. Prit. Corporate. The second word cooperate has four syllables. Cooperate. Alright. And basically it's two words that come together. Co and operate. Ko. A K sound. Then O as in go. Co. Then you open it to the ah as in father sound. Now since you connect both vowels together, it feels like there is an intrusive W sound. As a W sound right in the middle. Listen. Kawa. Kawa. Then you have P, a P sound and a schwa. Co. Opa. And the ending is rate. Just like the word rate. Co. Opa. Rate. All right, so at the end of the word corporate there is a schwa sound there. Corporate. And here it ends with rate. There is the A vowel rate. And the T again is a healthy. So you barely hear it. You don't hear rate. Cooperate. Corporate, cooperate. Same goes for corporation and cooperation. The ending is the same here. Corp. Schwa. Re. Primary stress. Shn. A schwa again. Corporation and co Opa. And the ending is the same ration. Corporation. Cooperation. Simple and quick. All right, 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. Thank you for watching and I will see you next week in the next video. Bye.
