okay first we're going to talk about linking to consonants and remember consonant is
any letter that is not a vowel so a e i o u vowel all the other 21 letters consonants
okay so let's think back to that sentence uh in the sentence that said do you remember that time
so how many times would i pronounce the t sound in this phrase that time
would i say that time or listen to how i say it that time
so uh when one word ends with a consonant sound and the next one starts with the same consonant
like t and t here right end of this word beginning of this word same consonant we link the words uh
it can this can be a little tricky we kind of mute or very uh just kind of end the the t here and
pronounce the first t or the first consonant of the next word so again i would not say that time
i would say that time that right so i don't say the t at the end of that that time
let's look at a few more examples to help you understand okay here we have the words red
and dress so d is a consonant red ends in a d and our next word starts with a d
so i would not say red dress i would say red dress just like that time red dress right at the d that
hard dis sound i just do at the beginning of the second word so these sounds are linked that time
red dress let's see a few more uh next we have cheap place so again we have ends with
the consonant p and the next word starts with the consonant p so we link these sounds
linking putting them together so i would not say cheap place i would say cheap place cheap place
so notice that i don't say the p at the end of cheap in a very hard way it just blends
links to that next p consonant cheap place
and the last one we'll look at because we can do this with any consonant
feel lucky so here my consonant right end with l next word begins with l same so we link so i
would not say feel lucky i would say feel lucky so you can hear how that links right it almost
sounds like one word feel lucky i'm sure you can tell if you do not know about linked sounds
and you have not heard these words before if someone is speaking fast you might say wait
what did you say feel lucky what's for lucky so let's look at how this works in a sentence
so i'm going to say it using the linked sounds don't wear your red dress to that cheap place
so notice how that sounds different than if i did not use linked sounds and said
don't wear your red dress to that cheap place don't wear your red dress to that cheap place
okay all right uh one thing to be careful about is words don't have to end with the same letter
that is a good tip and that is always the case but it's also true when they end with the same sound
the same consonant sound so for example the word nice ends in c e but that's an s sound right
and here we have the word suit so we basically have s and s so i would not say
nice suit i would say let's link them nice suit nice suit next we see look cool so we have the k
sound even though it's a k and a c same sound same k sound so i would not say look cool i would say
look cool and last one quite tall so here ends in e but we don't hear that e right we just hear the
t sound and we have to at the end of quite and at the beginning of tall so we would say quite tall
notice how that t that sound was at the beginning of tall quite tall so let's put it together
you look cool in that nice suit so do you hear how that's different then you look cool in
that nice suit you look cool in that nice suit right blending the words linking them together
okay one thing to be careful about is we can do this for almost all consonants and almost
all consonant sounds but we do not link the ch and j sounds for example each choice so here we
have the ch sound but we cannot link this sound so i would say each choice and with the j j sound
like orange juice i would not say orange juice i still have to keep them separate orange juice
so let's see it in a sentence each choice you make
is important so notice there you do hear the ch two times each choice each choice
and uh let's see with our do you want orange juice or cranberry juice so you did hear
both of these orange juice orange juice right gotta say em both so just be careful
these are the only two that we can't link though so you can with all other consonants