How to Pronounce BEAUTIFUL American English

In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to go over the pronunciation of the word beautiful. This week's word of the week is beautiful. It's three-cllable word with stress on the first syllable. Da da da. Beautiful. For the Bconsonant sound, the lips are together. B.B. Then for the as in fu def thong for the first sound the tip will be down here and the front part of the tongue will be touching the roof of the mouth about here. For the oo vowel the tongue will pull away from the roof of the mouth and in the back it will stretch up towards the roof of the mouth but not touch. and the lips do need to round good bit for the part of that diff thong. Bu Now we have coming between two vowels. So this is going to be flap And in this unstressed syllable, we have the as in sit vowel. Bea. And finally, we have the fconsonant sound. Schwa, dark sound. Full. Full. full. Since this is in an unstressed syllable, we do want it to be very short, low in pitch, and maybe with some of the energy of the voice taken out. Full. Full. Full. Beautiful. Beautiful. To make the fconsonant sound, the bottom lip comes up and touches the bottom of the top front teeth. Now, we don't need to worry about making separate schwa sound here. Just go straight into the dark sound of the To make that sound, the back part of the tongue will stretch back little bit to get that dark sound. Now, you don't need to finish the dark by bringing the tongue tip up here. You can, but lot of people will simply end the word with the dark sound. Beautiful. Beautiful. That's beautiful work. That's it. Your word of the week. If there's word you'd like to suggest for the word of the week, put it in the comments below. That's it. And thanks so much for using Rachel's English. If you liked this video, be sure to subscribe. either click here or in the description. But don't stop there. Keep learning with my American English in real life playlist, my Ben Franklin playlist, or my word of the week series. Click on me to check out my channel where there are hundreds of great videos. Don't forget to visit my website where you can learn about my premium membership and online courses.