how to pronounce attention

/əˈtɛnʃən/

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attention is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of attention in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… get people to pay attention but when I …”

meaning of attention

Attention means the act of focusing one's thoughts and awareness on something.

attention frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word attention occurs in english on average 138.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics attention can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that attention can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;