Word stress
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC
4.5 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
How to pronounce the words 'photographer' and 'photograph'? Learn about word stress.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's Beth and Georgie. We want to tell you about our new series, The Pronunciation |
| 0:11.7 | Lounge. Want to improve your pronunciation and speaking skills? Learn how to hear, recognise and |
| 0:18.2 | produce sounds in English with this video series. |
| 0:21.5 | What's the difference between British and American accents? |
| 0:24.7 | What's the most common sound in English? |
| 0:26.7 | And what have you got to practice to sound more natural in English? |
| 0:30.4 | All episodes are available now on our website, BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:36.6 | Six minutes vocabulary. From BBC LearningEnglish.com. Six minutes vocabulary. |
| 0:39.1 | From BBC Learning English. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello and welcome to six minute vocabulary. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm Catherine. |
| 0:46.7 | And I'm Finn. |
| 0:49.3 | Catherine, look at this photo. |
| 0:51.9 | Do you like it? |
| 0:53.0 | I took it this morning. |
| 0:55.0 | Wow, Finn. That's not bad. |
| 0:57.3 | Okay. |
| 0:58.1 | I didn't know you were into photography. |
| 1:00.2 | Well, I love taking photographs. |
| 1:02.0 | Really? Well, funnily enough, the words photography and photograph are good examples of today's topic, which is word stress. We're going to look at the |
| 1:13.6 | way word stress can change in words that come from the same root word. We'll show you how to work |
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