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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