
A Chat with My Daughter π¨βπ§ #305
Rock n' Roll English
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The Sound of a Banana
The first syllable of banana again is so soft it's actually called a schwa, the most important and common sound in the English language. The same thing that she was doing with the word computer because the beginning of that word it's not computa it's computer so it just has that really soft sound again. So let's listen to how she said this one as well six months ago. What is this? What is it? A Oh yeah. That was Peter upstairs upstairs. Okay. And then we go on to say nana which means snowman or something like that. But there are actually lots of things going on there.
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