Name: Sound like a native speaker: Delete the 'H'!
Uploaded: 2017-07-07T05:48:40.000Z
Duration: 12 min 2 s
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Past simple

I've 'ad a long time to work on this lesson, and I bet what I just said went right by you.

To-infinitive

Today I want to talk about letter deletion.

In English we do this a lot, and I don't want you...

So I want you to understand: I don't want you to use it, but I'm going to teach you

how to hear it, how to understand it, where it is commonly used so you can quickly identify

Like when I said to you: "I ave", I said: "I have", but I dropped the "h" and that's

We'll do other ones where I'll drop a "t", but for right now I want you to concentrate

on the dropping of the "h", and we call it the "H deletion" or "H deletion" if you're American.

You'll notice over here, my man, Mr. E, he has: "A, B, C, D, E, F, G, ?, I",

When we want to be clear on what we are saying we say each word exactly and precisely.

However, when we say something regularly-okay?

This is the examples of why we delete it-or we speak quickly or fast, we drop sounds.

One letter we do this with is the letter "h".

So as you can see, that's going to be my quick explanation on that, but I'm doing this sort

of like a warning for you, this little part because you are not allowed to do this because

you have an accent and you haven't mastered the English sounds.

First you have to master the sounds, so it's better to say: "I have" instead of "ave",

The second thing is this lesson's more about helping you to comprehend or listen to English,

Time for me to do that magic board thing.

So let's talk about where the letter "h" is commonly deleted.

We know it's deleted, but I'm going to give you about five examples or six where you can

see the letter "h" is deleted often or quite commonly.

Remember I said we do it when we speak quickly or it's something we say regularly?

So it won't be a surprise when I show you the examples on the board, why this would happen.

The letter "h" is commonly dropped when we use the verb "to have" or when we use pronouns.

"Has" becomes "azz", and I'm putting the "z" sound because pronunciation, it's not "a-s".

I know you "ass" for some of you, I know people who speak Spanish or have a Latin background

will "ass", because they see the "s", but we say the "z" sound: "azz".

"E 'ad about five minutes before e 'ad to leave."

Well, you have to go over here to hear what I actually said, but I used two of them at

the same time and it commonly happens, so much so that we as English speakers don't

realize we're not actually speaking the language, but just sounds.

Let's go over to the pronoun side of the board.

Well, the pronouns you'll see we have "he" becomes "e".

"E's a really good guy", and I'm not talking about Mr. E. "E's a really good guy", instead

"I don't know her very well.", "I don't know err very well."

Right? I know it's "iss", it looks like this, "his", but this makes this sound, the "iz" sound. Right?

Notice how I'm speaking quickly, and for some of you I always speak quickly.

But generally speaking: "I don't know iz schedule.

Now, once again, I need to repeat this: You do not use this when you're speaking.

I'm giving you this, I'm giving you these examples by saying them so as you hear me

say them you're like: "That sounds familiar", and that's why sometimes you think you know

what we're saying, but you're not too sure.

Now, if you saw what I did here I actually at the beginning played with you by I said:

And I said: "E ad", so instead of: "He had five minutes to talk",

"E ad five minutes to talk to us, then E had to go.

I don't know if err brother's coming, err brother's coming." Right?

"Ave you finished that project I gave you?

"Ave you finished the work I gave you? Have".

Sometimes the words with the deleted "h" are added to other words to create a new compound word.

You might say: "Waddave you done this evening?", "Waddave you done with David?"

So that's an example of combining this deleted sound with another kind of slang sound.

You'll go check that one out where we talk about things where words are brought together

Now what I want to do is go for a short quiz.

I keep saying it again and again, "reiterating" means to say again and again: This is not

for you to use, it's for you to understand.

And to understand that this kind of thing: "E", "err", and "iz" occurs with things we

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Sound like a native speaker: Delete the 'H'!

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