Name: How To Pronounce All 50 US States and Capitals | How To Say Every State and Capital Correctly
Uploaded: 2020-10-08T19:20:40.000Z
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What's up YouTube? Thank you for studying with me.

You need to know this, this video request came through from Bertha, a student in my online school.

Her native language is Spanish and she lives in Alabama.

She asked me to make a video that goes over the pronunciation of all of the 50 states in the US

and we'll be talking about anything interesting that happens with pronunciation, like a flap T or a silent letter.

I'll be going over the standard pronunciation.

Keep in mind, pronunciations can vary by region.

We'll start with Alabama. The capital of Alabama is Montgomery.

Two of them are the AH vowel and two are the schwa.

But it's more common to pronounce it: Mont-gom-ery, just three syllables.

Montgomery. Mont–  Mont– Mont– Montgomery.

Alaska, three A's, two are a schwa, and one is the AH as in Bat vowel.

That's the middle syllable. The stressed syllable, the beginning syllable, the schwa, the ending syllable,

Ju— Juneau, and second syllable, unstressed with the OH as in No diphthong.

Say that with me. Alaska. Alaska. Juneau. Juneau.

Arizona, four syllable word with stress on the third syllable that has the OH as in No diphthong,

and make sure you have jaw drop and then lip rounding to get both parts of that diphthong: Ohh.

Arizona. And we do end in the schwa. Arizona.

The capital is Phoenix, two-syllable word, first-syllable stress.

Arkansas and Little Rock. Arkansas, this one is crazy because it looks like R, Kansas.

Kansas is also a state name, but it's not pronounced that way at all. It's Arkansas, first syllable stress: Ar-kan-sas.

And then the last syllable has no S sound at the end.

I think of this as the AW as in Law vowel.

Though I have seen it written in IPA with the AH as in Father vowel, that doesn't matter so much.

Little has a flap T, and then the schwa L, that can be tricky. Little, little, little. Little Rock.

Rock also stressed along with the first syllable, lih— Little Rock. Little Rock. Say these with me.

California, a four syllable word with stress on the third syllable, secondary stress on the first syllable.

You can think of this second syllable as being either the schwa, or the IH vowel.

Just make sure it has a very unstressed feel.

Now, the stressed syllable would be written with the AW as in law vowel.

When that is followed by R in the same syllable, it is definitely more closed, it's not ah but it's aw, aw, aw,

The L in California comes at the end of a syllable, not the beginning, so we don't want: Cal, cal,

right from AH into a light L, but we want: Cal, Cal, uhl, uhl, that uhl sound is the dark sound of a Dark L.

An L is a dark L when it comes after the vowel or diphthong in a syllable, like it does here.

The capital, Sacramento, also has four syllables, also has third syllable stress.

Now, the T here can be a true T like I've just done it, to- to- or it can be dropped, Sacramento, Sacramento.

Sometimes, we drop the T when it comes after an N, when it doesn't start a stressed

syllable. Sacramento, or Sacramento. Say these with me. California. California. Sacramento. Sacramento.

Colorado, just like California, and Sacramento.

It has four syllables with the third syllable stressed.

Here, the L is a light L, it comes at the beginning of the syllable, so you don't have to worry about the dark sound.

The capital is Denver, two-syllable word with first syllable stress

Say these with me. Colorado. Colorado.  Denver. Denver.

Connecticut, four syllable word, this time, stress is on the second syllable.

that's because the T comes between two vowel sounds, you're thinking: wait a second, it comes after the letter C.

Well, that letter C is actually silent in this state name.

So when we look at the sounds, the T comes between two vowel sounds, that's a flap T.

It might be a flap T if it's linking into a word that begins with a vowel or diphthong.

This is tricky, it has two R's, Hart— with a stop T, Hart— ford, ford.

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How To Pronounce All 50 US States and Capitals | How To Say Every State and Capital Correctly

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