【PV】今日の学び_20101010

Private Lesson

Syllable Stress を勉強したあとは、Word Stress へ。

これわ、、、かなーり大事だわ。

For example:

・I’ll see you later.  × I’ll see you later.

・Have a nice day.  × Have a nice day.

● Compound Nouns

・Stress the first word and pronounce the two word as one.
  ex: Parking lot, book shelf, credit card, football, bookmark

・Stress the first word in these compound nouns withn compound nouns.
  ex: cell phone number, high school girl, website address, taxi driver, airline pilot

● Proper Stress with Adjectives

・When an adjective is followed by a noun, the noun is stressed.
  ex: nice day, small room, blue eyes, old man

・When two adjectives precede a noun, stress the first adjective and the noun, the noun gets the more stress.
  ex: big blue bus, nice old man, short black hair, big brown eyes