In Season 1 and Season 2 we worked through the individual sounds in the sound labs. Season 3 is about what happens when those sounds join together into words: the weight, the beat, the shape of a whole word. The first and most important topic is word stress. What you will learn: • What stress is, and how it is signalled • Why the rules are debated • Common shifts in three- and four-syllable words • Two-syllable words with the weight moved • Even weight: when neither syllable wins • The "almost" vowel: why you hear extra full sounds • Using pitch to find the weight • Practice: decode the sentence • Listening strategies • Self-check questions to test your ear Level: B1–B2. Self-study: listen, then take the quizzes. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.