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Jun 2022
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Stress The Right Syllable!

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A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Suzanne from @EnglishSmarts!   We chatted about using Twitter for learning languages, Suzanne’s first language lessons, using phonetic symbols to help your English pronunciation, and making sure you stress the right syllable...

Pronunciation tip = Looking at how words that look similar, or exactly the same, have different syllable stresses for different meanings.

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Guest = Suzanne  @EnglishSmarts, @DazzleEnglish, @150phrasalverbs (Twitter), www.recipesforenglish.com 

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle (Twitter)    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

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