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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going to see in this video let’s get
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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