ive been taking syllables for years now, probably since first or second grade, but i don’t understand what a syllable is. i know it’s like a word split into parts or something like that (cant word it properly), but why? am i going to use this in the future, how do i split the word into sound parts? how do i count syllables? i cant figure out, and i haven’t understood it for a long time.
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So our language is composed of vowels and consonants.
Vowels, we can make without touching our lips together or our tongue to our teeth, etc. Ae, Ee, Eye, Oh, Yu, and others that come along with those letters.
Consonants are, as you may have guessed, all the other ones.
The words we use are made of this combination, one way or another.
Ccv cvccc cv vcv vcv cvcv vc ccvc cvccvcvcvvc, vcv cv(c) vc vcvccvc.
Syllables are a phonetic (sound) way to identify beats in a word, usually created by any vowel being followed by any consonant, or voice versa. It represents that combination of sounds used to make that word. If a word takes one “smooth” sound to make, it’s one syllable. If a word like “harden” takes two separate sounds to make, it has to syllables.
Ex.
Kick = C _vc_ c
Hiccup = C _vc_ c _vc_
Gallery = C _vc_ _cv_ _cv_
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