Now we have the schwa, because I’m reducing the OO as in BOO vowel. My jaw really doesn’t need to move much between these two sounds, rr-yy. While the tongue is at the roof of the mouth for the Y, my throat is making this sound. The tip will touch here, behind the bottom front teeth, and the front/middle part will touch here, the roof of the mouth, a little further forward than it was for the R. To transition into the Y sound, my tongue comes back down and forward. The tongue is pulled back and up, and the middle part might be touching the roof of the mouth or the inside of your teeth here, rr, rr, but the tip isn’t touching anything. ![]() rr, rr, rr-you sure, rr-you sure? The lips will probably flare out a little, but not too much because we’re not starting a stressed syllable, and it will be really quick. ![]() The word ‘are’ can reduce to just the R sound. We want the first two syllables to be really short to contrast with the last, longer syllable. It’s a three-syllable phrase with stress on the last syllable: are you sure? da-da-DA, da-da-DA. First let’s look at this phrase up close and in slow motion.įirst let’s talk about the stress. This is part of a sentence study series, where we look at a short, common phrase, and discuss its pronunciation. ![]() In this American English pronunciation video, we’re going to study the pronunciation of the phrase: Are you sure? YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video. Learn how to say this phrase comfortably in conversational English: what words or syllables to reduce, how to link everything together, and the melodic shape of the phrase. Are you sure? You’ll hear this phrase often in English conversation around making decisions.
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