Words Beginning with ACC | Learn English Pronunciation

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My name is Fanny.

And in this video, I'm going to teach you how to

pronounce words beginning with the letters ACC.

Now let's take two very common words in English.

Now as you can hear,

the sounds are very different.

The letters have different pronunciations.

And in this video, I'm going to tell you

everything you need to know on how to pronounce them.

Now this is a pronunciation video.

I will not have time to give you the meaning of each word, but

I do promise you these words are very common in English.

You should look them up in a dictionary and know them.

Let's get started.

So the first thing you need to know is how to pronounce the letter ‘a’,right?

Different pronunciation.

Well it is very simple, guys.

If the letter ‘a’ is part of the stressed syllable in the word –

so the syllable that you emphasize –

it is pronounced “a”.

An open sound like, “accident”.

If it isn't part of the stressed syllable,

it's a closed “e” sound like “accuse”.

Now of course you will ask me, “Well, yes, but I mean how do I know where

the stress is?”.

Well that's the tricky part, guys.

I'm sorry there's no rule in English.

That is just something that you need to memorize.

But the good news is, we're going to practice today.

Now let's move on to how to pronounce this double ‘c’.

So next how do we know how to pronounce this double ‘c’?

Well this is even easier.

You just have to know what letter follows the double ‘c’.

If it's ‘i’ or ‘e’, like “accident”,

the pronunciation is like KS.

If it's any other letter, like ‘accuse’, it's a simple K. like accuse.

And that's as simple as that.

So remember guys, if the ‘a’ is part of the stressed syllable,

the pronunciation is ‘a’.

If it's not, it's ‘e’.

For the double ‘c’, if it… if it's followed by ‘i’ or ‘e’, it's KS.

If it's not, then it's a simple K.

Let’s now take three words and I want you to guess how to pronounce them.

Okay, the first word is this.

How do you think this word is pronounced in English?

Let's analyze it for a second.

Is ‘a’ part of the stressed syllable?

Well I can tell you that it isn't.

It is not part of the stressed syllable.

And for the double ‘c’, as you can see, it's followed by an ‘e’.

So how do we pronounce this word?

The correct pronunciation is ‘accede’.

The second word now.

How do you think it's pronounced?

Again let's analyze it together.

I can tell you that the letter ‘a’ is part of the stressed syllable.

And for the double ‘c’, as you can see, it's followed by a letter ‘e’.

So what's it going to be?

The correct pronunciation is “accent”.

And finally, we have this word.

What do you think?

I can tell you that the letter ‘a’ is not part of the stressed syllable.

And as you can see, the double ’c’ is followed by the letter ‘o’.

So…

I'm sure you did a great job guys.

The correct pronunciation is ‘accord’.

Okay, I really hope you understand these rules.

Let's now move onto other examples.

Okay guys, so I have other examples for you.

And it's really crucial that you repeat after me.

If you want to learn, you need to repeat after me.

You need to watch my mouth.

And to listen very carefully to the sounds that I make.

Let's get started.

acclaim acclaim

account account

accident accident

accolade accolade

accredit accredit

accurate accurate

accustom accustom

accessory accessory

accession accession

accompany accompany

according according

accordion accordion

accelerate accelerate

accomplice accomplice

accomplish accomplish

accordance accordance

accumulate accumulate

Moving on to sentences now.

Repeat after me.

I accidentally accepted the accolade.

I accidentally accepted the accolade.

I'm an accomplished accountant.

I'm an accomplished accountant.

We accumulated many accessories.

We accumulated many accessories.

The accused had an accomplice.

The accused had an accomplice.

His access code was accurate.

His access code was accurate.

Very good guys.

Thank you very much for watching this video.

I hope you now understand how to pronounce words beginning with the letters ACC.

Now, you can watch this video as many times as you'd like.

Please keep practicing.

Keep repeating the words as many times as you need to because practice makes perfect.

Thank you very much and see you in the next video.

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