The 4 Secrets to Speaking Quickly Fluently CONNECTED SPEECH

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started with today’s video so today

we’re going to be talking about

connected speech connected speech there

are four topics which we are going to

cover catenation intrusion elision and

assimilation now that probably sounds

really complicated I don’t like making

English too theoretical but I think it’s

important that you recognize these terms

I’m going to do a brief summary of each

pick and then some examples for you to

practice with and then you can apply

them to your daily speaking practice

let’s go the first one catenation also

referred to as linking this is when a

consonant sounds at the end of one word

is carried over to connect with the

vowel sound at the beginning of the next

word in simple terms and Apple and Apple

catenation is really really important if

you don’t want to sound like a robot

quite a lot of my students sound like

this when they should be sounding like

this and this is because they’re not

using catenation correctly which sounds

better an apple or an apple so I said

before but consonant at the end of the

first word is carried over to connect

with the vowel sound at the beginning of

the next word and Apple mmm that is

carried over and the two words are

squashed together some other examples it

isn’t I don’t say it isn’t nice I say it

isn’t nice now in my thing like this

takes a lot of effort to do at first but

once your brain gets used to it

you will find it it will come to you

naturally now the next topic I want to

talk about is intrusion intrusion now

intrusion is when an extra sound

intrudes to make it easier to slow

between two vowel sounds now the three

most common sounds that tend to intrude

between vowel sounds are yeah what and a

let’s talk about yeah first look at this

sentence we all play out we all play out

e vowel sounds are often followed by the

yes sound so words the end in E are then

followed by another word beginning with

a vowel sound

have the yes intrusion we all play out

words and in you have the w so you can

think about it like this if your mouth

is wide a it’s a yes sound if your mouth

is round oh then it’s a what sound I go

out to open the window go o go out ooh

to two obstacles then we have the last

common intrusion which is the earth

sound look at these words there is there

is better alone better alone so British

English is non-rhotic which means that

we don’t pronounce the arse at the end

of words I do have a video all about the

schwa sound at the end of words which

you can see by clicking up here so

intrusion is a really really important

thing to think about if you want to

speak more quickly and in a more

connected way I’d like to invite you to

write in the comments any sentences that

have intrusion in them okay topic number

three elision elision is the loss of a

phoneme I found normally it’s the sound

that is lost and normally it’s the last

phoneme of a word for example next door

I would never say I’m going next door I

would always say I’m going next door so

I’ve missed out that sound next door not

next door next door or most common most

common most common finally we have

number four which is assimilation

assimilation this is similar to a lesion

but instead of a phoneme being dropped

to phonemes come together and change

into a new phoneme a new sound so for

example and yes

together make a chest sound when I’m

speaking quickly in conversation I

wouldn’t say I’ll meet you there I’d say

I’ll meet you there meet you so and yeah

meet you becomes meet you meet you it’s

not just two words coming together

either it can happen in one word like

picture

we don’t say picture and that’s we’re

very posh we say picture picture or

instead of Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday

another example is duh and yeah and yeah

together make just yeah

instead of saying did you did you I say

did you did you write that’s it for the

advance pronunciation lesson if any of

these topics have really interested you

and you’d like a more in-depth lesson

please do comment below on which topic

is the most interesting and I’ll try and

make a more in-depth video about it but

in this video I kind of just wanted you

to be aware of this so you can think

about it whilst you speak it’s highly

likely that connected speech exists in

your language as well and there are

similar pronunciation features don’t

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you soon for another lesson

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