To make the Z, the tongue tip is forward and down, zz, teeth are together, and buzz the vocal cords. It’s just a quick, quick vowel before the Z sound. To make the schwa sound, the jaw doesn’t really need to drop, uhz, uhz. Reducing the vowel to the schwa makes it easier to say it quickly. ![]() short that’s important in American English, so make your short really short. In fact, we want it to be really fast so that the stressed syllables, the longer syllables, pop out of the sentence even more, are even more clear. Even if it’s really fast, a native speaker will pick up on it. In American English we have established this as a reduction. Why do we do that? It doesn’t sound clear. Most of the time, in a sentence, we reduce the vowel to the schwa: uhz. By itself, the word is pronounced with the AA as in BAT vowel and the Z sound. When a word reduces, that means a sound is changed or dropped.Īs. Many words in English reduce in sentences. ![]() In this American English pronunciation video, we’re going to go over the reduction of the words WAS and AS. ![]() YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video. Learn how they are reduced and how they should sound in conversational English. This makes it easier to say them quickly and provide important rhythmic contrast in sentences. ‘As’ and ‘was’ are often reduced in American English.
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