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  • In this American English pronunciation video,

  • were going to go over how to pronounce the word

  • vulnerable’.

  • You guys have noticed:

  • vulnerableis a pretty tough word.

  • It’s got two dark L’s, which can be really tricky,

  • not to mention the R.

  • Let’s get started.

  • Vulnerableis a four-syllable word

  • with stress on the first syllable.

  • Vulnerable, DA-da-da-da.

  • So the first syllable should definitely feel

  • like the most important syllable, vulnerable.

  • The way to achieve this is to take the

  • other three syllables and make them less important.

  • nerable, -nerable, -nerable.

  • Theyre quieter, less clear,

  • and they may even sound a little mumbled.

  • Vulnerable, -nerable, -nerable.

  • There’s not much air in them.

  • You would never want to talk this way all the time,

  • but in your unstressed syllables it’s great,

  • it really makes them sound unstressed,

  • so the important syllable,

  • the stressed syllable, pops out.

  • Vulnerable, vulnerable.

  • The first and stressed syllable

  • starts with the V consonant. Vv.

  • To make the V, the bottom lip comes up

  • and the inside of it, here,

  • touches the bottom of the top front teeth. Vv, vv.

  • The top lip needs to lift a little bit

  • to get out of the way. Vv.

  • Your bottom lip shouldn’t disappear,

  • because it’s the inside of the lip

  • that vibrates against the teeth. Vv, vv.

  • Then we have the UH as in BUTTER sound,

  • but it’s followed by a Dark L,

  • so it’s not really a pure sound.

  • A Dark L is an L that comes

  • after a vowel or diphthong in a syllable.

  • So rather than UH, bu-, butter,

  • the sound is uhl, uhl, vul-, vulnerable. It’s dark.

  • When people think L,

  • they think tip of the tongue to roof of the mouth, ll.

  • But that’s not actually how the dark part

  • of the Dark L is made.

  • It’s made with the back of the tongue. Vul-.

  • I’m making that sound while the tongue tip is down.

  • So to make the dark sound,

  • the back part of the tongue

  • presses down and shifts back a little bit. Vul-.

  • Don’t lift the middle part of the tongue,

  • or it will start to sound like an R.

  • Back part of the tongue back.

  • Tip can stay forward. Vul-, vul-.

  • That’s all we need for the Dark L, that dark sound.

  • Now the N.

  • The front, flat part of the tongue, nn,

  • goes to the roof of the mouth.

  • Vuln-.

  • The next three syllables are all unstressed, -nerable,

  • less important, less clear.

  • First, pull the tongue back, -ner-,

  • so the tongue tip isn’t touching anything, -ner-.

  • This is for the R sound.

  • The lips flare a little bit, -ner-.

  • Notice how the rest of the mouth

  • doesn’t need to move much, -ner-, -ner-. Good.

  • That helps us make it faster and more simply.

  • Vulnera-.

  • Now we have the schwa,

  • so we're just going to bring the tongue back down,

  • relax it, tip is forward,

  • vulnera-, vulnera-.

  • The movement of the mouth is minimal:

  • -nera- [5x].

  • Now we have the B sound,

  • the lips do need to come together for that.

  • Vulnerab-, -bb-, –ble.

  • And another Dark L, except this one is faster,

  • less energized, less clear because it’s unstressed.

  • -Ble, -ble, -ble.

  • Just a quick dark sound,

  • where the back part of the tongue pulls back a bit,

  • vulnerable, -ble.

  • It’s an L, but you don’t need to lift your tongue up.

  • That’s just an extra movement. We don’t need that.

  • The dark sound tells us it’s a Dark L, -ble, -ble.

  • Practice just those

  • three unstressed syllables together:

  • -nerable. [3x].

  • Vulnerable.

  • Vul-, -nerable.

  • Vulnerable.

  • Now let’s watch up close and in slow motion.

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  • That’s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.

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