today's question is how do I say the word innovation meaning a new method and

invasion which means an unwelcome intrusion

today's lesson is mostly about the schwa sound and also syllables or beats in a

word but we're also going to talk about the difference between voiced and

voiceless consonants we have a lot to get to so let's jump right in we're

number one innovation is going to have four beats

in uh vay shun word number two invasion is going to have three beats invasion so

the biggest difference here is you can hear four versus three beats and this

beat the uh the schwa syllable is super short and it's connected to the

syllables around it that's very important innovation invasion we don't

have the schwa sound we just have those three beats and both of these words the

vay is going to be our stressed syllable because it comes right before the Shun or

the zhun ending and that's a general rule and I'm sure if you've been here before

you've learned that so we've talked about that in the past last thing to

keep in mind is that the Shh and the zh sound look exactly the same when you're

watching me pronounce them the difference is is that the Shh the quiet

sh sound two letters one sound Shh my voice box is not on and it is not moving for

the zh sound again two letters one sound my voice box is on and vibrating and

moving zh so very quiet Sh and very noisy zh the key is do not touch your teeth for either of

these sounds that's key don't touch your teeth okay so let's look at the rest of

the syllables so we start with in this is the short ih sound where your mouth

is slightly open and your tongue is hi in your mouth and then move to that

n sound by touching the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front

teeth air moves out of your nose the short schwa sound uhand then move to

the Vay and to do this you're either going to bite the inside or the outside

of your lower lip and then you are going to make sure the air keeps moving out of

your mouth while your voice box is on for the vvv sound and then we're going to

move to that long a vowel and to do this you are going to have your mouth open

wide with the tip of your tongue low in your mouth and then close your mouth to

that smile e a a in uh vay and then we're gonna end with the tion again SH sound

it's the quiet sound no voicing don't touch your teeth and end with that

short uh and nnn by touching the tip of your tongue to the back of your top

front teeth while the air moves out of your nose in a-- VAY shun again

remember stress that vay it's louder longer and higher and pitch in a vation

innovation innovation innovation and now for invasion to take out the schwa in

in vay zhun invasion invasion invasion

innovation invasion the professor did not want any invasions of his privacy

when he was working on the innovation for the new product give it a try people

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