207: Why is ’quarter’ so hard to say?

American English Pronunciation Podcast

Seattle Learning Academy

Language Learning, Self-improvement, Education

4.6 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Rhyming with 'shorter' and 'border,' this is a quirky word. Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi again and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.
0:10.7	My name is Mandy, and this is our 207th episode.
0:16.1	Today's show is a special request from listener Nick.
0:20.4	Nick wants to know how to pronounce the word quarter.
0:25.6	Actually, I enjoyed Nick's email so much, I want to read it aloud here.
0:31.2	Here it is.
0:33.3	I struggle with the word quarter, and I know many other ESL learners see this word in their nightmare dreams, too.
0:41.0	I have had the same awful dialogue in the store or bank.
0:46.4	Me, could you please change my dollar bill into quarters?
0:51.3	Person at the counter.
0:53.3	Sorry, what do you want? Me. I want some quarters for my laundry machine. Pause. Deep thinking. Revelation. Person at the counter. Ah, you need quarters.
1:11.6	Here you are, sir.
1:13.3	Me.
1:13.8	Thank you.
1:15.4	The problem is I do not see the difference between me and Americans pronouncing this word.
1:20.6	However, they do not understand me.
1:23.3	Please help me with this word.
1:26.2	Thanks, Nick.
1:27.7	I especially liked the pause, deep thinking revelation part.
1:33.2	So what's going on with this word?
1:36.1	Kind of a lot, actually.
1:38.2	We have to deal with the letters QU, then we have two different R-controlled vowels,
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