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  • So 90% of my students will tell me, Elliot, if there's one or two things that I wish I had studied when I was in school when I was learning English.

  • It's always the same two things Fraser verbs on more pronunciation.

  • These two things are so important, and today we're going to focus on both of them together.

  • Thes two Things are really important.

  • And here e.

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  • Fraser verbs there, almost like another foreign language pronunciation, pays a really big part in making people understand you and having Morva fluent conversation with someone.

  • I'm a pronunciation teacher.

  • It's my specialty, so that's what we're focusing on also.

  • So what we're going to do today is we're actually going to learn how we can combine learning Fraser verbs with learning connected speech on that's going to be linking and intrusive sounds.

  • If you don't know what these are linking is when you join two words together, it will be a continent at the end of one word, joining a vowel at the beginning off.

  • Another word, intrusive sounds or intrusion is when a continent.

  • Sound appears between two words one which finishes with a vowel sound on one, which begins with a vowel sound.

  • So we're gonna learn how to learn Fraser verbs and connect our speech at the same time.

  • And this is a technique I want you to do at home in your free time number one.

  • Throw out.

  • Now, if you look at the word throw phonetically, it actually finishes with a diff thong.

  • Oh, a dip thong is a combination of two vowel sounds now because that dip thong finishes with a round shape around vowel shape.

  • Oh, with the mouth, that means we're always when we do the round shape.

  • That means we're always going to create Ah, what sound to join to the next vow.

  • So instead of being throw out, we will do throw out, throw out, and you might also see Chuck out.

  • Now this is a continent vow, which is linking so the K will move to the beginning of the next word before the vow and chuck out will become chuck out.

  • Chuck Kouts.

  • When we say it faster, it's always better chuck out on this means to remove something.

  • Dispose off something or even to give something to someone else.

  • For example, if I'm moving house, I need to check out some old clothes or I need to throw out some old clothes.

  • Number two, pass out Once again, we're linking continent vowel Pass out sout pass out and make sure you're getting that are sound correct.

  • Pass out Now some people in the UK will say pass out.

  • They do do it in the south of England.

  • In places like Bristol where I live on especially in the north of England, The R sound can quite often be an app.

  • So it is up to you what you want to do.

  • But if you want the traditional RP English, it will be passed out.

  • Pass out now to pass out actually means to faint or collapse when we become unconscious.

  • So, for example, I didn't drink enough water today, so I passed out.

  • Okay, so we're linking Constant Vow Link Vow, vow Intrusive Number three Go ahead, go ahead.

  • So here, once again, g o finishes with oh around shape.

  • Remember, if we're doing a round shape, we then need to create a what?

  • To join to the next word.

  • Ah, what continent?

  • So go ahead, becomes Go ahead.

  • Go ahead.

  • Now, we usually say this when we're in a conversation with someone when we're on the phone with someone, Um maybe someone might say to me, Elliot, I would like to explain some important information to you on.

  • I could say Sure.

  • Go ahead on that.

  • Just means begin.

  • Start telling me what you need to tell me.

  • Number four.

  • Pack it in.

  • So now we have a three word phrase a verb on.

  • So this is a great way to practice linking because we have to situations in this three word phrase, a verb that actually will be doing linking so Pa kick 10.

  • Pack it in, pack it in.

  • The sound from pack is actually moving to the beginning off it.

  • So pack kit.

  • However, the word, it also has a vow after it in the next word so that t will move to the beginning off in pack it in.

  • This just means to stop doing something.

  • This is informal.

  • It's very British.

  • I find it's a very, very British Fraser verb.

  • So imagine I had a child.

  • Thank God I don't have a child yet, but if I did have a child, imagine the child was misbehaving.

  • He or she was being very naughty.

  • I could say I pack it in and that means stop.

  • Basically stopped being naughty.

  • Okay, so it doesn't just have to be for negative things If we tell someone to pack it in.

  • We're just telling them to stop number five run into again.

  • We're linking N and I continent Vow link run into run into past tense Could be ran into this phrase a verb Kamina range of things.

  • If I'm running on the street, I could run into a lamppost which means to collide.

  • Run on, hit the lamp post That happens to me a lot, But you could also run into an experience, usually a negative experience.

  • So, for example, if someone has made a very bad business deal, they could run into some debt.

  • If you don't know what debt means, it means to basically have your bank balance in minus less than zero.

  • Number six do up.

  • Once again, we're finishing with a round vowel shape.

  • Do when we have the round vow shape we create.

  • Ah, what do up?

  • This one is generally informal, so For example, if I had to do up my house or do up my car, this would be an informal way of saying that I'm going to make it better.

  • Make it look cooler.

  • For example, add a new engine to my car and put a body kit on it and make it look really fancy.

  • That would mean I'm doing up my car, but in a less informal way I could do up my shirt, which means to do up the buttons, but that would be very uncomfortable, so I'm gonna keep it undone, which is the opposite, not do down that doesn't exist.

  • Undo is the opposite of do up a shirt.

  • Finally, number seven give out gear vowed out.

  • So what we're doing is we're using the continent at the end of give once again to link to the oh at the beginning of the next word give out Now, a teacher might say to a class of students are going to give out a worksheet now, which essentially means I'm going to give all of you in the group a copy off this worksheet.

  • So generally, this lesson has Bean about intruding when we're doing it with a round shape ooh and creating a war on.

  • Also with linking.

  • However, there are other situations where we connect our speech.

  • The sound isn't the only way we do intrusive sounds.

  • We can also do it with the continent, or even the your continent are.

  • So now is your opportunity to try and find some phrase of verbs, which either have the first word ending with the continent on the next begins with a vowel or vow vow, and it's really going to help you with number one learning the meanings on understanding some new phrase of herbs and number two practicing your connected speech.

  • Don't forget to also practice those vowel and consonant sounds in the words themselves.

  • So I hope you found this useful when I hope you now have a new idea for practicing your pronunciation.

  • Don't forget if you need mawr of this more techniques to improve your pronunciation, take it to a really native level.

  • Head over to e.

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  • You'll also learn some Fraser verbs and idioms over there, too.

  • So I guess I'll see you next Thursday I hope you have a lovely week.

  • Take care.

  • Cheers, guys.

  • By!

  • And if you really don't like someone and you want them to leave the room, Ortio, Go away!

  • You could practice your linking and you're connected Speech by telling them to fuck off.

So 90% of my students will tell me, Elliot, if there's one or two things that I wish I had studied when I was in school when I was learning English.

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