ED Pronunciation Made Easy The Fearless Fluency Club

hi i’m vanessa from speak english with

vanessa calm do you know how to

pronounce IDI in this sample video from

the course The Fearless fluency Club

you’re going to learn three different

ways to pronounce the ending sound IDI

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started welcome to the pronunciation

lesson for this month’s lesson set about

travel in the fearless fluency Club

there are three different ways to

pronounce IDI the ending IDI and that’s

what we’re going to talk about today I’m

going to explain each one and after I

explain one I’m going to show you some

clips from the conversation between my

sister and I that way you can hear this

in real life I think that’s going to be

the best way to pick it up when you

watch TV shows when you have

conversations so let’s start with the

first one the first way to pronounce IDI

is the simplest form I want to start

with the simplest and then we’ll work to

the others the first one is heed it

let’s imagine that you want to say I

want ice cream but you want to talk

about this in the past you need to use

the word want it want it

this is pronounced wamt IDI but it

sounds like it wanted there’s a

completely different syllable at the end

I wanted ice cream yesterday he wanted

sometimes we dropped that T sound he

wanted to visit me but I was busy I

wanted to go to the store they wanted to

see their family

this is a great example for this Eid

version because we use the word wanted a

lot want so the next time you say want I

want you to remember it one did a lot of

my English students use this Eid version

for other verbs as well I think because

you see IDI you want to pronounce each

sound Eid or

IDI one dead one dead but in reality

there are only two ending sounds that we

use this with that is tea like one one

dead and with a D sound at the end of

the verb let’s watch two clips from the

conversation with my sister and I where

we use this Eid version before I was

going to Argentina because I wanted to

learn Spanish yeah before I was going to

Argentina because I wanted to learn

Spanish yeah yeah wait you know it’s

going to get better you’ll feel more

connected and integrated yeah that’s

time good wait you know it’s gonna get

better you’ll feel more connected and

integrated yeah the second way to

pronounce the IDI sound is like a tea

imagine that you want to say I like her

but you want to talk about it in the

past you might say I liked her do you

hear it sounds almost exactly like a tea

it really is a tea sound

I liked her she helped me we biked to

the store there are several sounds that

we use with the T sound so when a verb

ends in F X sh t or k these kind of hard

sounds like bike help when it ends in

these sounds we make it into a tea let’s

watch several examples from the

conversation lesson so that you can hear

t sound and then back to the u.s. right

now yeah and I think he’s really helped

me acclimate better just because I have

somebody who’s been with me do I learn

back to the u.s. right now yeah and I

think it’s really helped me a who make

better just because I have somebody

who’s been with me public transportation

and Korea’s fantastic I never drove a

car I buy I took the boss I took the

subway public transportation and Korea’s

fantastic I never drove a car I buy I

took the bus so I took the subway in my

home country or like for me I liked

having little surprises around every

corner I liked having little surprises

around every corner before we go to the

third way to use the IDI sound I want to

let you know that sometimes we drop the

IDI completely when you write of course

you need to use it but especially with

the tea the one that we just talked

about if the next word starts with a tea

or the next word has a tea like it or

two sometimes we link those all together

so you might say I experienced it and

there’s a little bit of a tea

experienced it or when you’re speaking

quickly you might say I experienced it

it’s really small it’s lightly tapped

and in the conversation with my sister

we used this several time so I’m going

to show you one of those in the next

video clip I’m gonna play it a couple

times so you can hear experienced but

it’s very lightly tapped at the end

let’s listen I don’t know how to explain

it

that’s the thing about reverse culture

shock is asleep dreaming unless you’ve

experienced it it is experience that

you’ve experienced it you’ve experienced

it the final way to pronounce the IDI

sound is like Adi there’s not an extra

syllable here as in Eid the first one it

is a completely new syllable but in this

one we simply add a do at the end of the

word

and the words that you can use the sound

with are gonna be anything else that not

the seven letters that we already talked

about for Eid and two so I want to share

with you some examples from the

conversation with my sister but first

let’s talk about a simple one how about

the word lived lived can you notice that

there’s not an extra sound here I didn’t

say livid live it I simply said live

lived

there’s no vowel sound between the V and

the D even though when you write there’s

gonna be an e when you pronounce it it’s

immediately after the V lived so we

might say I lived in the south and then

I moved to the north and then I moved to

the south again I lived and I moved

let’s see this in real life in the

conversation with my sister for some

reason it really bothered me that people

mowed their lawns like when I saw people

mowing their lawns like for some reason

it really bothered me that people mowed

their lawns like when I saw people

mowing their lawns do you have met him

like Dan lived in California then

Colorado then Pennsylvania then he went

to school in Tennessee that’s all over

maybe some of you have met him like Dan

lived in California then Colorado then

Pennsylvania then you went to school in

Tennessee that’s all of before we go I

have a challenge sentence for you I want

you to say this sentence out loud this

sentence uses all three of the versions

of Edie are you ready

listen to me first and then I want you

to repeat after me you can say he wanted

to live downtown because when I lived

downtown I biked to work everyday and it

was convenient let’s say this one more

time he wanted to live downtown because

when I

lived downtown I biked every day we have

one it biked and lived you can hear all

three versions in this sentence I want

you to practice this sentence again and

again with your speaking partner with

your teacher with your friends say it

out loud and exercise those

pronunciation muscles thanks so much for

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