Name: SMOOOOTH English! | Learn English now with Real Conversation!
Uploaded: 2025-08-31T18:05:25.000Z
Duration: 30 min 43 s
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Let's study fast English to improve our listening comprehension.

Today we're going to study a conversation I had with my friend and we're going to see lots of interesting things, like how Americans link words together when one word ends in a sound and the next word begins in the same sound.

Adverbs of degree

We're going to look at different T pronunciations like stop T's, true T's, and when a T is totally dropped.

Oh, and also, of course, the flap T, all four kinds of T's.

In this sentence here, we're going to really hear the difference between flat pitch and the pitch that changes in a stressed syllable.

We're going to study a couple different reductions of the word to and of the word should and can.

We'll look at different ways that Americans link words together in a phrase for really smooth English.

This will help you with your listening comprehension.

Why do all these words slide together in American English anyway?

First, here's the short scene that we'll study.

It's just, I think it's, I mean, it's a goopy dough.

Can I, so I should do another layer of...

Should we put it, ball it up and put it in the freezer for like...

Now let's go through the conversation with a full in-depth analysis.

Let's go ahead and write out 24 so we can talk about the pronunciation a little bit more easily.

To me, those are the two most stressed words.

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We can think of this as a true T, sorry, as a stop T in got.

But then it links right into a true T, so you might just want to think of it as a single T sound.

But give me that little lift there to separate it.

First of all, I notice, we have is grammatically correct, but there's no V sound there, it's been totally dropped.

So it's just W consonant, EE vowel linking right into the G consonant.

To me, so, wait, is that so what, so what, so what, so what we got?

We can think of this as being a stop T, I certainly don't hear a true T release.

And you know, I might even just put schwas for both of those.

So what, we got, and then we've got, that's also flat.

This is flat, lower, this is flat, higher, then we've got ten there.

A little bit more of that up-down shape of stress.

So really lean into that when you're working with this audio.

You're going to have to simplify a lot to get your syllables in that quickly, which is what we want.

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