Word stress and syllables are the next important things to learn about English pronunciation and accent.
A syllable is a word, or part of a word, which contains a single vowel sound. It is a single unit of speech.
Each word contains one syllable, or more.
Here are examples of words with a single syllable:
In English, a vowel sound can be made of more than one vowel letter. So the following words have a single syllable as well:
All of these words contain only one vowel sound, and therefore a single syllable.
A word can have more than one syllable. The following words are examples of words with two syllables. Here are examples of words with 2 syllables. The different syllables are shown on the right, and they are separated with a space.
That is not all, of course. There can be words with even more syllables. But you get the point, right?