The stress marks
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photograph photographer photographic
JA写真／写真家／写真の
The two little marks. They are the loudest thing on the line and the thing readers skip.
One word, three stresses, three different vowel patterns. Move the ˈ and the vowels rearrange themselves.
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record a record
JA記録する／記録を一つ
The two little marks. They are the loudest thing on the line and the thing readers skip.
Same spelling. Stress the second syllable and it is the verb; stress the first and it is the noun, and the vowels change with it.
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an object to object
JA物一つ／反対すること
The two little marks. They are the loudest thing on the line and the thing readers skip.
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information understand
JA情報／理解する
The two little marks. They are the loudest thing on the line and the thing readers skip.
ˌ is the second-loudest syllable. Both marks in one word: the ˌ opens it, the ˈ carries it.
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police banana
JA警察／バナナ
The two little marks. They are the loudest thing on the line and the thing readers skip.
Every syllable without a mark has a schwa in it. That is why English sounds faster than it is written.
The stress marks in English - 5 phrases you can play on a loop until they stick. Each one shows the characters, the reading and the meaning in six languages.