English; Help me with pronounciation?

Question

I am not a native speaker. Find it hard to use correct stress and intonation in speech. I really appreciate if you can help me determine the stress syllable on each of the following words. Below, is what I came up with, please tell me if they are wrong. Thanks very much for your help.

1. February - stress syllable 'F' - is that correct?

2. pronounciation - stress syllable 'a'

3. preference - stress syllable 'p'

4. Australia - stress syllable 't'

5. university - stress syllable 'v'

6. shampoo - stress syllable 'p'

7. information - stress syllable 'm'

8. understand - stress syllable 'a'

9. record (noun) - stress syllable 'r'

10. record (verb) - stress syllable 'o'

Answer 1

1. February - stress "feb"

2. pronounciation - stress syllable 'a' - that's right.

3. preference - stress "pref"

4. Australia - stress "stral"

5. university - stress syllable 'v' - that's right

6. shampoo - stress syllable 'p' - that's right

7. information - stress syllable 'm' - that's right

8. understand - stress syllable 'a' - that's right

9. record (noun) - stressing "re" with a short e is correct.

10. record (verb) - stress "ord" - that's right

Answer 2

FEB-ru-ar-y
pro-nun-ci-A-tion
PREF-er-ance
aus-TRA-lya
u-ni-VER-si-ty
sham-POO
in-for-MA-tion
un-der-STAND
REC-ord
ree-CORD

In other words, your list is exactly correct.

^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^

Answer 3

Yes, they're all right.

Answer 4

What ?