I'm here at my local grocery store to go grocery shopping for some vegetables for this
These might be heirloom tomatoes.
They are, mmm, those looks so nice.
There you heard the terms garlic and tomatoes.
Both are two-syllable words with stress on the first syllable.
Depending on your native language, that can be tricky.
Try practicing it, holding out your R.
Garrrr— the tip is pulled slightly back enough and it's not touching anything.
Then bring your tongue tip up and forward for the light L.
Notice that the first T is a true T, unlike tomorrow or today,
which also start with an unstressed syllable, T schwa.
This really has to be a true T.
It sounds weird with a flap T.
The second T however is a flap T
because it comes between two vowels and doesn't start a stressed syllable.
Make that by just flapping your tongue once on the roof of the mouth.
You also heard the phrase: tomatoes on the vine, which is just what it sounds like.
A set of tomatoes still attached to the vine.
Also, I said heirloom tomatoes.
Those are tomatoes grown from heirloom seeds.
Notice that the H is silent in that word.
These might be heirloom tomatoes.
They are, mmm, those looks so nice.
You also heard a funny pronunciation of the word 'sandwich'.
We often don't say the D sound in this word.
So it sounds like sanwich, sanwich, with just an N sound and you'll even hear it with an M instead of an N.
A very common pronunciation of that word.
Let's look at a close-up of garlic.
This is called a head of garlic, and one piece pulled off is called a clove.
Head.
Head.
There, you saw several varieties of potatoes and onions.
The first T is a true T because it begins a stressed syllable even though it does come between two vowels.
The second T is a flap T because it comes between two vowels and doesn't start a stressed syllable.
Pot—
the second O is the OH diphthong.
The first letter O is the UH as in butter sound.
Uh—
Look how big these portabellas are.
One of my favorite vegetables.
And also one of Stoney's favorite vegetables.
Two-syllable word, stress on the first syllable.
Room is unstressed, lower in pitch, has less energy in the voice.
All sorts of mushrooms. Look how big these portabellas are.
The first syllable can have the AW vowel, caul— or the AH vowel, ca— cauli-- cauli-- cauliflower.
The first syllable is the most stressed.
Like garlic, a unit of one cauliflower is called a head.
When you cut it up into smaller pieces, those pieces are called 'florets'.
A four-syllable word with stress on the second syllable.
So the first syllable should lead up to it, and the last two syllables fall away.
Oh wow, look at this artichoke.
I've never made an artichoke. I've only ever bought them canned.
Why?
It doesn't come between two vowels.
That's the rule for flap T, but there is a second rule.
A T is also a flap T when it comes after an R, before a vowel or diphthong like here.
So you'll flap your tongue once on the roof of the mouth.
Arti-- dididididi-- Artichoke. First-syllable stress. Artichoke.
Oh wow, look at this artichoke.
Eggplant has nothing to do with a chicken but one variety was originally called this
because it looked like a goose egg.
Make the G with a back of the tongue, gggg-- then close your lips for the P,
egg-- and you don't try to pull your tongue away to fully pronounce the G.
Instead, just lift the tongue, egg-- and close the lips for the P and release.
Don't think that's on our list.
I love these put into a fruit and vegetable smoothie.
Make sure you drop your jaw for the AW vowel before the R.
I also bought a bunch of vegetables and brought them home.
Does that sound right to you? It's a pit.
We have two syllables here with the AH as in father vowel.
Don't let that first letter O fool you.
Avo, avo, uh, uh, avo. Avocado.
Third syllable is the most stressed but the first syllable has some stress too.
I went over the pronunciation of these two words in the fruit vocabulary video that I did.
I'll put a link to that one towards the end of this video.
Just like cauliflower, this is a head.
And when it's cut into smaller pieces, those are called florets.
This is one of those words that can be three syllables or two like: camera, camera, and family, family.
I recommend you go with the two-syllable pronunciation I think it's more common and it's simpler.
Brocc--li instead of broc-uh-li. Broccoli.
I have to be really careful because this knife is extremely sharp.
I actually gave it to David for Father's Day and the same day, we had to go to the ER because he got his finger.
Which can be extremely hard to cut.
Cabbage. This is also called a head.
But it doesn't cut down into florets the way that broccoli and cauliflower does.
Good thing I was so careful with that knife, right?
The first syllable is stressed so keep the second syllable really short.
Which can be extremely hard to cut.
I can't hear this word without thinking of Anne of Green Gables
where a boy teases her for having red hair by calling her carrots.
This word is written phonetically with the AH as in bat vowel but that's not how it's pronounced.
It's more like the EH as in bed vowel but not quite that either.
Car-- car-- car-- Just like CARE, care.
I have two peppers, a red pepper, and an orange pepper.
There are so many kinds of peppers.
Bell peppers, like you saw in the video, and then all kinds of hot spicy peppers.
And then of course, there's the spice pepper, which with salt is very typical on the American dinner table.
Unstressed schwa R ending, said quickly, low in pitch.
I have two peppers, a red pepper, and an orange pepper.
Kale is a really thick, hearty leaf.
Kale.
K constant, AY diphthong, and the dark L.
Kale.
Kale.
This is a bunch of kale, not a head like we have with lettuce or cabbage.
All of the leaves were already cut off and not attached to a main stem.
Kale.
Kale.
Kale is a really thick, hearty leaf.
Lettuce a two-syllable word with first-syllable stress.
What do you notice about the double T?
It's a flap T. A single sound.
The second syllable is said very quickly.
Green can be a little tricky because of the GR consonant cluster.
With clusters with R, I always recommend holding out the R as you practice to give you some time to focus in
on the right sound and position.
Grrrr-een green, green, green onion.
Scallion another word for the exact same thing.
A dark L, scal-- scal-- scallion, scallion.
Corn.
This is an 'ear of corn' and when you take off the outer leaves to reveal the kernels of the corn,
this act, this verb, which is harder than it looks, it's called shucking.
Corn.
Corn.
This word has the AW as in law vowel but when it's followed by R, just like it is here, it changes.
Now, the lips around more and the tongue pulls back more.
So it's not aw, law but it's uhl, co-- corn.
Corn.
Corn.
Corn.
Corn.
Corn.
Shucking corn is a lot of work, isn't it?
I called the green things that I was pulling down leaves but really that's the husk.
And inside the husk, those strands that look like hair, that's called corn silk.
You'll see some more corn silk coming up in a minute.
This is an ear of corn, and when you take off the outer leaves to reveal the kernels of the corn, this act, this verb,
which is harder than it looks, it's called shucking.
I didn't get video of celery, cucumber, or radishes, three other common vegetables.
Celery is another word that can be three syllables.
But I recommend pronouncing it with two: cel-ree.
Three-syllable word, stress on the first syllable, which has the JU diphthong.
The plural here, ES adds an extra syllable because the last sound of the noun was an SH.
It's like the word 'is' said very quickly as a third syllable.
I hope this vegetable vocab video has helped you.
What other vocab videos would you like to see?
That's it and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.