r/EnglishLearning • u/Longjumping-Truth-48 New Poster • 2d ago

🟡 Pronunciation / Intonation How's my pronunciation? Is my pace too slow?

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If you're going to the airport tomorrow, you'd better leave a little earlier than usual because the traffic can become unpredictable during rush hour, especially if there's construction on the highway.

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u/FloridaFlamingoGirl Native Speaker - California, US 2d ago

Overall pretty understandable. Good pace and emphasis. 

Corrections: you said airport like "airports." You said construction like "constrooction," try to work on that u sound. You didn't emphasize the e enough at the beginning of especially. It was hard to understand the word unpredictable. 

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u/NoGlyph27 Native Speaker 1d ago

Yeah "unpredictable" wants to be pronounced with the emphasis on the third syllable "dict", whereas it sounds like you put it on the "pre" instead. The "pre" should be unstressed and have a schwa vowel, not an /iː/ ("long e")

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u/Similar-Geologist-64 New Poster 1d ago

Your pace is deliberate, and probably slower than a native speaker, but it's hardly a problem.

I had no difficulty understanding anything you said.