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in today's video we're going to go over

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how to speak english fast and we're also

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going to go over one mistake you want to

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make sure you avoid when you're trying

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to pick up your pace speaking english

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first let's listen to a native speaker

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speaking quickly this is my friend tom

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who you might recognize because he's

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been on this channel before he is an

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outstanding accent coach in my online

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school rachel's english academy

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks that

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sounds pretty natural doesn't it pretty

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american to me it sounds completely

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conversational and completely natural

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but it is really fast what is he doing

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks he's

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speaking with reductions he takes i am

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going to

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and pronounces it

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i'm going to

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we actually have three reductions there

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and they each show a very good example

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of how to speak fast in american english

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so let's break it down and study

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actually first let's compare this

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sentence what if he said the sentence

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with no reductions at all then what

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would it sound like hi rachel i am going

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to starbucks hey rach i'm going to

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starbucks

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wow there's a big difference there one's

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natural sounds fast very american the

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other one sounds completely unnatural

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all of the sounds are american and the

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melody is american but somehow it just

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doesn't work out to sound like natural

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conversational english hi rachel i am

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going to starbucks hey rach i'm going to

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starbucks let's look at the very

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beginning he takes i am and says i'm a

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contraction tip number one use

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contractions americans use contractions

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when speaking english all the time if

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you never used a contraction it would

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start to sound a little unnatural

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a contraction is a kind of reduction and

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i guess i should define reductions here

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a reduction is when we change or drop a

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sound so in the combination i am we have

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the i diphthong the a vowel the m

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consonant i am but when we make a

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contraction we drop the a vowel and it

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becomes i'm i'm so that dropped sound

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means this is a reduction

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks notice

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he's not saying i'm he's saying i'm

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i'm i'm he's saying it really quickly

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you can too practice that with me i'm

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i'm i'm

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks there

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are so many contractions in american

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english take for example you are that

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becomes your

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but actually even that reduces it's very

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common to pronounce that you're here

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we change the vowel to the schwa and we

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make it super fast

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you're gonna love this

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you're you're

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you're doing so well

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you're here

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i think you're right

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you're here

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so fast

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because there are so many contractions

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and tricks to their pronunciation i'm

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going to put together a playlist on how

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to speak english fast and i'm going to

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put lots of videos in there that

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supplement what we're learning here

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today so i'm going to put in videos on

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contractions including a really fun one

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that includes some real life english

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that's because she's a good teacher

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that's because did you hear that another

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contraction that is

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that's

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okay let's go back to tom's sentence

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks i'm

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glenda

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an ing verb he changed the ng ending

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sound at the end and made it an n

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instead going

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so when we make this change it changes

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the vowel too

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the if owl when it's followed by ng

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tends to sound more like e but when it's

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followed just by n then it does sound

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like a pure it so going

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sounds like e plus ng and goin

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in in sounds like the a vowel and the n

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consonant and i do feel like i'm able to

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make that ending faster going

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks

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we've changed a sound an example of a

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reduction so tip one was use

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contractions tip two expands that use

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reductions we have so many of them in

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american english and americans use them

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all the time when they speak

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it is common to change the ing ending to

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an in ending you'll hear other people do

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it so we're doing more to help you find

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jobs worthy of your incredible talents

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good to know somebody's doing worse than

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you right

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did you hear that doing instead of doing

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so we do it especially with really

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common words in casual conversations if

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you do this all the time always change

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the ing ending to an i n consonant it

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will probably start to sound like a

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southern dialect nothing wrong with that

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us and you want that dialect but if you

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want a more standard american accent use

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this reduction a little sparingly

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let's go back to tom's sentence wow it

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is a tiny sentence and he is showing us

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so many things that make us speak faster

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when we speak american english we're

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going to learn one more tip on how to

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speak english fast before we get into

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our mistake that i want to make sure

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that you avoid

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks the word

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how did he pronounce it

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks i didn't

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hear

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and i didn't hear who

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what did you hear

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks

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let's listen to the sentence when he's

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fully pronouncing everything

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hi rachel i am going to starbucks now

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there i did hear the true tea and the

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ooh vowel but both of those sounds

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks what's

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two things first the true t

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he's changing that to a flap t

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the true t is a stop consonant it has

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two parts a stop and a release the flap

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t is a quick single flap of the tongue

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against the roof of the mouth so i can

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make that more quickly

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change a t to a flat t in certain

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when the t sound comes after an r and

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before a vowel and i should say when i

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say vowel in these rules i do mean vowel

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or diphthong let's listen to how tom

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says it again hey rach i'm going to

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starbucks okay now

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there it came after an n before a vowel

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okay sometimes with the word two the

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word today the word tomorrow in those

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the beginning t can become a flap t even

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if the sound before wasn't a vowel or

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diphthong or an r it can do that when

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the sound before was voiced like in this

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks so he

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makes the tea a flap t he changes the

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vowel to the schwa very common reduction

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this word will almost never be

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with a true tea or with a flap t now he

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did the flap t as we've already

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discussed and we talked about we make a

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flap t when it comes between certain

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sounds what does that mean comes between

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it's the beginning of the word the

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letter t

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is the beginning of the word too

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but wait this brings us to tip three and

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that is linking linking will help you

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speak more quickly and it is how

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americans speak all the time let's

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listen to his sentence again

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks the n

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sound goes right into the flap t with no

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in american english the unit of the word

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doesn't matter in spoken english we

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don't do anything to signal the end of a

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word the beginning of the next word

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within a single thought group all of the

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words all of the sounds link together

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smoothly transitioning from one sound to

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forgetting my forgetting my

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for getting my sounds just like

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forgetting my because the sounds are the

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same the stress is the same and there's

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no differentiation between word units in

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that is the words that make up a single

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thought that we articulate now that

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might include breaks as we think of what

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to say and those breaks each make a new

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linking within a thought group

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everything links together smoothly with

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no breaks that means a t can become a

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flap t when it links two words together

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and follows the rules

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another example linking the word at with

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the article a atta adda adda adda that

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becomes a flap t that sound links the

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two words together

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i do have a playlist on linking i go

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over the different kinds of links and

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how to practice them to really smooth

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out your speech click here or in the

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video description and actually i'll add

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that to the playlist how to speak fast

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in american english

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so we have the flap t we talked about a

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true t t the stop and the release we

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actually have another way that we

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pronounce the t and that is as a stop t

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that means we make the stop but we don't

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release for example in the word

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thoughtful

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thought

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full you didn't hear

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but you heard fought

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full a quick break i am exaggerating it

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thoughtful thoughtful there it is at

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regular spoken pace do you hear that

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little lift between syllables thoughtful

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thoughtful it's not thoughtful

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that little lift between syllables is

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the stop is the stop t

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and just so you know there are two other

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ways you might hear the t sound

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pronounced first totally dropped we do

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this sometimes after n like in the word

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interview or internet or center

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t is we can make it actually we often

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make it a ch sound when it's followed by

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r like in the word

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train t is maybe the most complicated

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sound as far as how much it changes i

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will make sure that i link to a whole

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playlist on all of these tea

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pronunciations here and also in the

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video description

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but this video is not about tea

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pronunciations

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it's about how to speak english fast

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let's go back to tom's sentence

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks okay so

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we've talked about tips for speaking

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english fast use contractions use

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reductions use linking i said there was

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one thing i wanted to tell you to make

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sure not to do and that one thing is

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cheat you're stressed syllables let's

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listen to his sentence again what is the

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stressed syllable

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks

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starbucks it's very clear it's longer it

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has an up down shape in pitch that is

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the shape of stress starbucks now what

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would that sentence sound like if he had

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cheated that if he had also made that

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syllable really fast

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then it would sound something like i'm

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going to starbucks i'm going to

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starbucks i'm going to starbucks i'm

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going to starbucks

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listen to how he says it again

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hey rach i'm going to starbucks and i

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need that i need that longer syllable

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that stressed syllable it gives me my

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anchor and that's why we still

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understand each other if everything was

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reduced and linked and said extremely

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quickly i wouldn't be able to understand

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anything but it's these longer stressed

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syllables that give me my anchors and a

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sentence that help my mind organize what

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i'm hearing that help me understand

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and when you don't use reductions at all

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and everything is fully pronounced then

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i lose my anchors they're less clear so

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that's why it's actually really

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important for people to understand you

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for you to use reductions it seems like

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well that's not a very clear

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pronunciation i shouldn't use it but

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actually you should because it's that

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contrast of really fast with the longer

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stressed syllable that helps us

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understand you it gives us the context

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the structure of american english

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let's listen to the two sentences in

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contrast one more time

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hi rachel i am going to starbucks hey

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rach i'm going to starbucks

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did you notice how we were wearing

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different outfits this was from a fun

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video series that i did with tom a while

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back where we wore casual clothes when

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we were speaking natural american

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english and then we wore very formal

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clothes when we were speaking with no

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reductions and only true tea

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pronunciations and i want to say that's

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not a formal way of talking it's just an

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unnatural way of talking but we did this

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outfit change to add to the contrast

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hi rachel i am going to starbucks hey

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rach i'm going to starbucks i don't want

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to tease you with just that one sentence

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let's go ahead and watch the full lesson

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you'll be able to study how we speak

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english fast how we speak english really

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quickly by using reductions linking

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contractions and things like the flap t

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do you want to come along you want to

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come along do you

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do is reduced so much that we almost

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don't hear it

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just a light d sound

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the vowel in you isn't quite a pure ooh

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either it's a little more relaxed

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heading towards the schwa dia dia dia

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de juana

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want to reduces to wanna do you wanna

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do wanna do you want to come along you

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wanna come along do you want to come

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along you to come along

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no thank you tom no thanks thank you

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becomes thanks

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one less syllable

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no thank you tom no thanks

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no thank you tom no thanks

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i have got too much i want to get done

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here i've got too much i want to get

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done here i have becomes i've

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got two

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just one t between those two words got

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to

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got to

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want to becomes wanna

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wanna

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get

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we use a stop t sound here because the

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next sound is a consonant get done

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get

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done

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i have got too much i want to get done

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here i've got too much i want to get

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done here i have got too much i want to

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get done here i've got too much i want

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to get done here

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okay i will be back soon okay i'll be

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back soon i will becomes i'll reduced to

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all

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okay i will be back soon okay i'll be

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back soon okay i will be back soon okay

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i'll be back soon

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oh i would love a coffee though oh i'd

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love a coffee though i would becomes

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i'd oh i would love a coffee though oh

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i'd love a coffee though

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oh i would love a coffee though oh i

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love a coffee though

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medium that will be fine medium that'll

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be fine that will becomes that'll

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a two-syllable word with stress on the

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first syllable the t at the end of that

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is a flap t because it comes between two

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vowels

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that'll

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medium that will be fine medium that'll

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be fine medium that will be fine medium

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that'll be fine

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great see you in a bit

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great see you in a bit

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great with a stop t

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this is because it's the end of the

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sentence

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you is more relaxed here not an ooh

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vowel but more of a schwa sia sia and

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finally bit with a stop t

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bit bit

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again because it's coming at the end of

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the sentence

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great see you in a bit

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great see you in a bit

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great see you in a bit

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great see you in a bit

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so many options for reductions and

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contractions in such a short

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conversation

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i also have a playlist of all four

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videos that tom and i made in that video

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series i called it a contract versation

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you can check it out here or in the

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video description below

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you've got a lot to do to study how to

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speak english really fast there are so

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many habits to make your own

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one thing that helps a lot is studying

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real english conversation and i'm

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excited to tell you that this summer

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we're going to do just that we're going

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to learn english with movies we're going

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to take some of the summer's hottest

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blockbusters captain marvel avengers end

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game and we're going to take small

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scenes and study them we're going to

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study tea pronunciations reductions

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stress all of this great stuff i'm also

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going to make a free audio lesson that's

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