This content was created by Hadar Shemesh. This content was uploaded by Hadar Shemesh. This is a YouTube video titled "Thirteen or Thirty? | American English Pronunciation" created on March 8, 2016. It features Hadar Shemesh and another speaker discussing the pronunciation differences between numbers like 13 and 30, focusing on stress and sound articulation in American English.
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Hello, it's Hadar. And this is the accents way. Your way to find clarity, confidence and freedom in English.
Today we're going to talk about the pair 13 and 30.
We're going to talk specifically about this pair, but also learn the general rule when it comes to the difference between.
Teens like 13, 14, 15, and tens like 30, 40, 50.
Alright, so the first pair, 13 and.
30, they begin the same th. To make this syllable, bring the tongue out for the th.
It's a soft th sound.
Release air and then pull the tongue in for the r th directly.
So it's kind of like you disregard.
The vowel that is there. There is no vowel, it's just a th pulling in for an r. Thur th.
For the R. The tongue pulls to the middle of the mouth, the lips.
Round a bit, and the sides of.
The tongue push the insides of the upper teeth.
Then listen to the difference between the two. 13, 30. 13, 30. The difference here, the biggest difference lies in the stress.
In the first word, the stress is.
On the second syllable. What is stress? Stress is the syllable. A stressed syllable is the syllable that is longer, louder and higher in pitch than the rest. 13 versus 30.
Here the stress is on the first syllable.
30. Ta da, ta ta. 13, 30. Also, the stress affects the pronunciation of the T sound because in the first word we have 13.
It's a strong aspirated T because it's.
At the beginning of a stressed syllable versus 30. Here it's a flap T, So it sounds like a D.30, D13. And of course there is the n at the end of the first word of the teens.
And that's very important to bring your.
Tongue up to get to the n sound.
All right, so it's not 13 and 30. Okay, then it sounds too similar.
13, 30. Same thing for 14, 40.
Okay, 14 stresses on the second syllable.
And 40, 15, 50, 16, 60, 17, 70.
All right, you can keep going with the rest of the numbers. And now when you ask your $30 back, you won't get only 13 because you'll say it correctly. So good. I hope I helped. And if I did, please share this video with your friends. And that's it. I will see you next week in the next video. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't yet. Thank you. See you next week.
