Stress is the emphasis we put on certain parts of a word:

com-PU-ter    WON-der-ful     i-ma-gi-NA-tion

or on certain words in a sentence:

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Stressed sounds are longer, higher and a little bit louder than unstressed sounds.  Learn more by visiting the pages below.

 

Word Stress

Elementary

Pre-Intermediate

Intermediate

Upper Intermediate

Advanced

 

Sentence Stress

Intermediate to Advanced level