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1. Set a goal

You chose "Stress."

You chose "Stress within the word."

Select a topic to practice as your learning objective. The list contains possible pronunciation problems for native Spanish speakers.

Stressed sounds and syllables

Every word of more than one syllable has a syllable that is emphasized more than the others. Accented syllables receive more force and are louder than unaccented ones.

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Possible pronunciation problems

You may place de stress on the wrong syllable. For example:

  • DEsert (desierto, in Spanish) becomes DessErt (postre, in Spanish).

You may stress every vowel in a word equally and forget to reduce vowels in unaccented syllables. For example:

  • TomOrrow becomes TOmOrrOw.

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