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Longer, natural sentences

Longer sentences with /ɚ/

Now try longer, more natural sentences. Your rhythm and reductions matter as much as individual sounds.

Challenge

Read each sentence twice:

  1. First slowly, focusing on /ɚ/ accuracy
  2. Then at natural conversational speed

Notice how /ɚ/ might slightly shorten or reduce depending on stress.

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Mother's brother Peter is a wonderful actor and a remarkable painter from New Amsterdam.
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Mother's brother Peter is a wonderful actor and a remarkable painter from New Amsterdam.
The weather forecaster predicted that better weather would arrive later in November.
Remember to deliver the newspaper to the elderly neighbor's apartment door after dinner.

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Longer, natural sentences — Master the /ɚ/ vowel — letteR (unstressed)