Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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I'm back again with a little pronunciation lesson! Today I want to talk about stress in compound words. A compound word is when two words come together to form a new word (like "lighthouse").
We're focusing on compound nouns, adjectives and verbs today. Each of these generally has a different pattern for stress.

Stress is the emphasis we give parts of words or sentences. We say it a bit stronger than the rest. It's really important to get this right to sound natural.

Again, don't worry if you can catch the stress perfectly. Just try to mirror and copy the way I'm saying it and you'll be fine.

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Blog post: ewmichael.com/compoundstress
See the blog above for an overview of today's lesson.

0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Compound Nouns
4:54 - Compound Verbs
6:11 - Compound Adjectives
7:27 - Outro

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