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English stress isn’t decoration — it carries meaning. Some words are a noun or a verb depending only on which syllable you hit.
Nouns stress the first syllable
REcord (a disc) · PREsent (a gift) · OBject (a thing)
Verbs stress the second
reCORD (to capture) · preSENT (to give) · obJECT (to disagree)
So “I want to record a record” is wrong twice. Stress the verb on syllable two.
Full breakdown in the Word & sentence stress guide.