{"id":21729,"date":"2023-08-03T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/?p=21729"},"modified":"2024-07-16T14:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T19:20:48","slug":"how-to-pronounce-con-at-the-beginning-of-english-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/how-to-pronounce-con-at-the-beginning-of-english-words\/","title":{"rendered":"How to pronounce CON at the beginning of English words?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZCNAVLGZrEk?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"elementor-button rounded large green\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.espressoenglish.net\/american-english-pronunciation-course-and-shadowing-with-shayna\/\"><strong>Improve your pronunciation FAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A student asks, \u201cHow do you pronounce CON at the beginning of English words?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It depends \u2013 there are <strong>two pronunciations<\/strong> depending on whether that syllable is stressed.<\/p>\n<p>We pronounce it CON in words like CONfident, CONcept, and CONstant \u2013 when the stress is on that syllable.<\/p>\n<p>But we pronounce it more like \u201ccun\u201d in words like con-FUSE, con-DI-tion, and con-CERN \u2013 when the stress is on a different syllable.<\/p>\n<p>Pronounce it CON when the syllable is stressed, and &#8220;cun&#8221; when that syllable is not stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching &#8211; Keep sending me your questions!<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Speak English More Naturally &amp; Confidently:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.espressoenglish.net\/american-english-pronunciation-course-and-shadowing-with-shayna\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pronunciation-1024x773.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pronunciation-1024x773.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pronunciation-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pronunciation-768x580.png 768w, https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pronunciation.png 1282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a class=\"elementor-button rounded large blue\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.espressoenglish.net\/american-english-pronunciation-course-and-shadowing-with-shayna\/\"><strong>Learn more &amp; Sign up<\/strong><\/a><\/center><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improve your pronunciation FAST A student asks, \u201cHow do you pronounce CON at the beginning of English words?\u201d It depends \u2013 there are two pronunciations depending on whether that syllable is stressed. We pronounce it CON in words like CONfident, CONcept, and CONstant \u2013 when the stress is on that syllable. But we pronounce it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pronunciation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to pronounce CON at the beginning of English words? - Espresso English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How is CON pronounced in constant, confused, condition, and confident? 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