The Schwa Sound in English

Almost every word has got the schwa sound in it, teacher. It's used with unstressed words like articles or auxiliary verbs and prepositions. The little grammar words that don't carry all the big meaning but helped to hold a sentence together are often not fully stressed. They can be hard for you to hear because they're being pronounced with weak forms. I'd like to teach you what kind of teacher I am is one pronunciation joke.