What's up everybody? Hello and welcome to the speaking English podcast. My name is Sebastian and this is episode 189. The most important feedback I got in the months and years that I was away was that I should put the most important information in the beginning. So here it goes. How do you pronounce maintenance? You pronounce it maintenance with a stress on the first syllable. Thanks for tuning in and keep on watching. Now maintenance with a stress on the first syllable might be confusing because there's also the verb to maintain with a stress on the second syllable. There are lots of pronunciation and stressing rules in English and there will be many more videos on this because you have two syllable words that are pronounced differently when they are now and they are a verb. For example, you have import as a business and you have import as a verb or present something you give somebody or you have to present the action of giving somebody something. So you see there's much more to be done. But maintenance is also one of the words that is pronounced differently when it's now then when it's used as a verb. So maintenance has a stress on the first syllable. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for re-subscribing. Maybe there will be Instagram. Maybe there will be Facebook Stories. Who knows? Until next time. Thank you. .