Voice message from Christian from Mexico City
great pronunciation – very clear
X‘When I am driving at my work‘X (on the way to work / When I’m driving to work)
X‘I want to say you’X – tell you
XI have been improveX – improving
XThree years ago I can’t do thatX – I couldn’t / wasn’t able to do that

Voice message from Mamen
British music https://inglespodcast.com/175
Traffic – psychedelic rock from Birmingham (Steve Winwood – Blind Faith with Eric Clapton)
(Reza was a big fan of “Traffic” years ago. What about this for psychedelic rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc1Hz8S2qhs)
EOI – escuela oficial de idiomas

Voice message from Hector Nieves
Hector is a new listener!
‘I came across your podcast….on my way to work’
humorous
I guess I just wanna say thank you (I guess (US), I suppose (UK) – I wanna – ‘I want to’
Have a good one!

Word Stress 

1st syllable stress
Nouns with 2 syllables: REfund, EXport, CHina, LAbel, INcrease (there are exceptions: JaPAN, hoTEL)

Adjectives with 2 syllables: HAppy, YEllow, LOVEly, STUpid, HELPful (exceptions incl: obTUSE, upSET, alRIGHT)

Compound nouns: HOUSEwork, FOOTball, SOFTware, WHITEboard, GOALkeeper, AFTERshave, VOICE recorder. CAR bomb

2nd syllable stress
Verbs with 2 syllables: beGIN, coLLECT, reCORD, comPLAIN, exPORT, rePLY, inCREASE (exceptions incl: TRAvel, STUdy, LENGTHen)

Penultimate stress
Words ending in -ic: photoGRAphic, geoGRAphic, pornoGRAphic, psychiATric
Words ending in -sion and -tion: conFUsion, compreHENsion, dePRESsion, assassiNAtion, constiTUtion, amBItion

3rd syllable from the end
Words ending in -cy, -ty, -phy and -gy: phoTOGrapher, enJOYable, specTACular, deMOcracy
Words ending in -al: imPRACtical, nuTRItional, CRItical, poLItical

Do all native speakers agree on where to put word stress? How do we pronounce:

television
oregano
adult
controversy
contrast
cigarette
magazine
decade
perfume
garage
ballet
details

Where does the stress go on this word:
anti-disestablishmenTARianism (on the 8th of a total of 12 syllables!) Is this the longest word in the dictionary?

The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (30 letters), a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis. (wikipedia)

A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is uncharacteristically (20 letters)

…and now it’s your turn to practise your English. Do you have a question for us or an idea for a future episode?
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Speaking of pronunciation…….Mansion Intermedio Audio 
14 lessons, 9 hours audio – mp3 and pdf – vocab, grammar and pronunciation 

(IPA, connected speech, stress, weak forms and problems Spanish speakers have): http://store.mansioningles.net/

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We want to thank Arminda from Madrid, Alberto from Granada and Angélica Bello from Madrid for continuing to transcribe full transcriptions.
We now have full transcriptions for episodes 131 to 142, and episodes 1,2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7 thanks to Angélica.

On next week’s episode: sex

The music in this podcast is by Pitx. The track is called ‘See You Later’