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hello lovely students and welcome back

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to English with Lucy in this video I'm

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going to give you pretty much everything

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you need to mimic my accent modern

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received pronunciation these are some

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quick switches you can make if you want

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to speak with this kind of British

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English pronunciation fast but firstly

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what is this modern RP modern received

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pronunciation that I speak of well it's

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often referred to as standard British

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English or standard Southern British

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English it's generally what is taught in

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textbooks and you'd find it in most

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English dictionaries especially when

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they write

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transcriptions like these okay so in

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today's lesson we're going to start with

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vowel sounds then we're going to move to

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consonants and then finally we'll take a

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look at Connected speech these are some

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quick wins that you can do to achieve a

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British accent fast however if you are

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the lesson okay first let's look at all

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of the vowels how all of the vowels are

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pronounced in modern received

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pronunciation then I will pick out some

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of those problem vowel sounds that often

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prevent students from sounding

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authentically British when they speak

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let's start with the monothongs over

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there these are vowel sounds with a

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single auditory quality in articulation

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some are short some are long the colon

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Mark indicates that they are long we

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have have e as in meat

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e in lip

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in better the last syllable of better

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ER in Word

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or in more

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ah in map

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ah in love

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are in bar and O in hot naturally in the

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beautiful British English pronunciation

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program we go into far more detail

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that's a really quick overview let's

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move on to the diphthongs these are

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vowel sounds which include a change in

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auditory quality and articulation these

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are the vowel sounds that my students

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really seem to struggle with as many of

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them are very different to The Sounds in

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their own language we have

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in here

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a in face

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oi in toy

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oh oh as in no not no

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and ow in now okay so that's all of the

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vowels we'll look at the consonants

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later I want to start with the schwa

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sound this sound once mastered will

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really make you sound like a Brit look

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at these words we have behind

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Amaze control

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Financial

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suppose they all feature that schwa

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sound and any of the vow letters can

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spell it out a e i o u and sometimes

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even y so how do we make this sound

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the lips are relaxed the tongue is

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relaxed in the middle of the mouth uh

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uh it's the most relaxed sound you'll

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ever make attend

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fluent

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dialect now here's a really important

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part of British English pronunciation

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some words that have the schwa sound at

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the end end with the letter R this R is

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not pronounced

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better

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pleasure

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factor I know it's tempting to say

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better

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pleasure fact or no better pleasure

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factor in modern RP in American English

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and other dialects yes the art is

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pronounced a huge mistake that students

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make is pronouncing the letters that

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they see in a written word in my

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pronunciation program I train you to

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think in sounds not spellings

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It's Tricky but with my support you can

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do it as I said more information in the

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description box okay next I want to look

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at two diphthongs do you remember those

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are vowel sounds with a change in

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auditory quality

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or two vowel sounds squished together

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the two I want to focus on are ear as in

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here and er as in hair here hair let's

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start with the air sound the sound is a

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diphthong but nowadays it's usually

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pronounced as a monophthong originally

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and then the uh sound

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one movement air

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nowadays we have a trick we usually

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pronounce it as a long e sound e you

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won't see it written like that but that

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could help you to understand how to form

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the sound try practicing it in this

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sentence

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the millionaire had an affair with the

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air over there you try

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now let's try ear

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we start with the e sound and move to

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the schwa again uh

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ear

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it's almost almost not quite like we

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insert a little yeah sound

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but very very soft

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the important thing is that your tongue

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moves down here here near try this

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sentence I fear the disappears you have

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some beer on your beard

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now you might hear some native speakers

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saying fear appear bear

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beard this is very normal and if you

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find it easier to pronounce it that way

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ER then please do but for me it's fear

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appear beer beard now

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a super difficult sound for so many

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students

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uh

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the uh sound it's like an extended long

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schwa sound the lips tongue and jaw are

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relaxed uh

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uh this sound is found in words like

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word world

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notice that the r is not pronounced

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there world word

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try it in this sentence it's certainly a

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Learning Journey

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it's certainly a Learning Journey

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okay let's move on to consonants let's

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bring this chart up again and go through

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all of them we have

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as in pen

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and as in bit

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f as in fig and as in vars

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as in tip and d as in done

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as in thought and as in those

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as in chip

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as in save Z as in Zoo

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as in sure

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as in vision

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as in cat G as in Goat did you notice in

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those two lines there the top line is

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unvoiced and the second line is the

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voiced version of the one above it's

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exactly the same movement but when you

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pronounce the top one

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there is no vibration

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and when you pronounce the second line

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same mouth movement vibration here Isn't

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that cool let's go across the bottom

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line now

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as in him

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um as in May as in no

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um right back there as in sing as in

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reach

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as in lie as in will and yeah as in yet

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okay

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two sounds that I always hear students

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mispronounce

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the F sound and the sound now look at

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their placement in that chart again

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is the unvoiced version of

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let's start with making the F sound

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lift your tongue so that the tip makes

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gentle contact with underneath your

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Upper Front Teeth relax your tongue so

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that the sides touch the sides of your

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upper teeth

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and breathe out

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the sound is formed in exactly the same

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way but with voice

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[Music]

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try saying both and feel the difference

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um

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let's try some sentences we'll start

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with

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try this one

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I think Bertha is going to turn 33 on

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Thursday okay what about this with the V

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sound

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their mother was from the Netherlands

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where the weather is rather rainy

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excellent job you're sounding British

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already one last point we're going to

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move on to Connected speech and in

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particular we're going to talk about

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when two sounds come together and mix to

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make a new sound and this is called

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assimilation and for me it's magical I

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love teaching it in the pronunciation

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program we go into a lot of detail on

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connected speech it is so important at

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least to understand why it happens and

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then if you're really going to go for it

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you can try to use it too so

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assimilation

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when a word ending in

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is followed by a word beginning with

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yeah we usually combine the two

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consonant sounds to make can you guess

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cha cha

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don't you becomes don't you

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won't yet becomes won't yet so that's

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what about voiced what about a voiced

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consonant like duh when a word ending in

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meet you I could go on and on about

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connected speech it's such a fascinating

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pronunciation course students the true

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pronunciation fans we would love to have

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you in the pronunciation program we

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start on the 27th of March that's a

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will expire all of the information is

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down there in the description box I will

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see you soon for another lesson

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