What is the quickest way to improve your pronunciation?
Change how you pronounce the ‘u’ in the word study. Most people pronounce study like stoody, or “stew dee” with a long u (like in the vowel sound in ‘you’).
Try to pronounce ’study’ with the short u sound. It sounds like the vowel in cup, up, much, love, above.
Mary Ziller from USA
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December 31st, 2007 at 1:37 am
Also remember that in English words that start with s do not have the e sound before it as they often do in Portuguese.
Some of my students have said “estudy” instead of study. There is no vowel sound preceding the s.