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Word Stress in English Word stress is your?magic key?to understanding spoken English. Native speakers of English use word stress naturally. Word stress is so natural for them that they dont even know they use it. Non-native speakers who speak English to native speakers without using word stress, encounter two problems: They find it difficult to understand native speakers, especially those speaking fast. The native speakers may find it difficult to understand them. In this lesson we look at the most important aspects of word stress, followed by a short quiz to check your understanding: I. Understanding Syllables for Word Stress II. What is Word Stress? III. Why is Word Stress Important? VI. Where do I Put Word Stress? V. Word Stress Rules VI. Word Stress Quiz I. Understanding Syllables To understand word stress, it helps to understand syllables.Every word is made from syllables.Each word has one, two, three or more syllables. word number of syllables dog dog 1 green green 1 quite quite 1 quiet qui-et 2 orange or-ange 2 table ta-ble 2 expensive ex-pen-sive 3 interesting in-ter-est-ing 4 realistic re-al-is-tic 4 unexceptional un-ex-cep-tion-al 5 Notice that (with a few rare exceptions) every syllable contains at least one vowel (a, e, i, o or u) or vowel sound. II. What is Word Stress? In English, we do not say each syllable with the same force or strength. In one word, we accentuate ONE syllable. We say?one?syllable very?loudly?(big, strong, important) and?all the other syllables?very quietly. Lets take 3 words:?photograph,?photographer?and?photographic. Do they sound the same when spoken? No. Because we accentuate (stress) ONE syllable in each word. And it is not always the same syllable. So the?shape?of each word is different. click word to hear shape totalsyllables stressedsyllable PHO?TO GRAPH 3 #1 PHO?TO?GRAPH ER 4 #2 PHO TO?GRAPH?IC 4 #3 This happens in ALL words with 2 or more syllables: TEACHer, JaPAN, CHINa, aBOVE, converSAtio