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There’s an assumption that you can repeat the sound after i’ve done it just by you know watching the slide and that might not be the case and so if it’s not the case i want to give you a technique that if as you’re going through these medication names if you struggle with them especially the pronunciation this can help you quite a bit so let’s do acetaminophen brand
Tylenol and we’ll do it over again except what we’re going to do is we’re going to teach you about back building to get the right pronunciation so acetaminophen brand tylenol we’re going to first translate the sounds into english words so the uh is actually a schwa so it just sounds like you h as in comma the c sounds like the letter c but we want to maintain that
Spelling so it’s the c e from ceiling at the top of a room has a ceiling data or data it doesn’t matter the way you pronounce it because what we care about is the tub and it sounds like tuh but we want to maintain that spelling in our head to make ta data then the mi from mint or milk is the myth in acetaminophen and no although it looks like no opposite of yes my
Children love to say it’s actually a schwa so it’s an aa so it’s like cannon which you would have in maybe a civil war battle or a cannon as in a law and then fen is the ph en at the end of – so if we already know these sounds in english then it might be a little bit easier to get the full generic name sound so it’s a c to me no finn but the other thing students
Have trouble with is getting the rhythm right if you put the accent on the wrong place then it just doesn’t sound right so we’re going to look at a technique that’s called back building that you actually go from back to front instead of front to back to get that rhythm right and i’ll show you that in the next slide so back building is taking acetaminophen and slowly
Going backwards from the last syllable then the penultimate syllable penultimate means second last syllable and so on so for acetaminophen i would go fen nuffin min offend tum enough in situ min ofin i see 2 min ofin acetaminophen okay and this is for those students that maybe you’re coming from another country maybe first english isn’t your first language it was
My first language so this really helps you get the rhythm right and then i’ve shown you in another video how to compare my pronunciation against yours but that’s what my new book how to pronounce drug names is done i’ve taken 400 drug names and translated them to english words and those sounds within the english words so it’s just a lot easier for you to get the
Pronunciation down so again this is acetaminophen brand tylenol
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How to pronounce acetaminophen (Tylenol) How do I use backbuilding for pronunciation? By Tony PharmD
