Hello! Hello! Hello everybody!
My name is Steve Ford and welcome to another pronunciation lesson
this lesson is for everybody out there
you may have noticed that I have done a lot of videos for people
specifically, from certain countries
all around the world
I had a lot of request from people on youtube and on facebook
to do a video about how native speakers link words together
that's a really popular topic, a really popular theme, it's a very hot theme
in fact
so you asked for it, you're gonna get it
we're going to be talking about the top phrases that native speakers say fast
so let's go
so out first sentence
now I said that quickly
if you said that in it's complete form, it would be forget about it
forget about it
nobody here in North America would say it that way
what you wanna do is you want to change those t's
those first two t's at the end of forget
and at the end of about
and you want to change them to d's
when you do that
the whole sentence starts to flow
forget about it
and we can link to the next word
forget about it
now there's two variations there
forget about it, for
forget about it
or if you wanna be really cool, kind of street talk
you say forget about it
forget about it
forget about it, even in the streets of New York, yo...don't worry forget about it
OK, here's another one
once again
we would never say it like that
and what are you, I'll give you two variations
you can say what are you
and you'll notice that I relaxed the t and changed it to a d on what
what are, what are
and I can say what are you
or if you want to be less formal
you can say what are ya
that really rolls off the tongue, what are you gonna do about it?
you talking to me?
what are you gonna do...
what am I gonna do about it? what are you gonna do about it?
you can have fun with that
what am I gonna do about it? what are you gonna do about it?
slow it down
what am I gonna do about it? what are you gonna do about it?
you can play with the speeds
you get faster and faster
more linking
now when we say that fast
we link the come and the on
and it becomes
and give me becomes gimme
and that way we can say it really fast and cool
and you'll notice I...I don't pronounce the k at the end that's quite common too
when we say that quickly
you can say
or you can take
do off and just say
so that's the first thing, the d + y often in English
when it's linked together becomes a "j"
that's why we're saying
and the t once again is relaxed so what I, what I
that links together, what I
and mean, so the keys there...
here's another one
very, very common: I have got to go
so you could take that down a little bit
in terms of formality and say
a little bit more
or really fast
because when you gotta go, you gotta go
let's say that you want a cup of coffee
or I wanna cuppa coffee
so "cup of", we link that together
listen to the rhythm there
now, before I was saying that when we have d + y
often it's j like a "j" sound
remember, ju, ju, ju know what I mean
well also, when we have the t + y it often becomes ch
so when we have the question, "can I get you a cup of coffee?"
that get you becomes getchu
it sounds like you're sneezing
you know
Gesundheit, God bless you
I don't pronounce the "f" in of
OK, so we're going to listen to a dialogue
with a lot of these liasons
as they call them, that's French for the linking of the words
in terms of pronunciation
so let's go
OK everybody, I hope that you enjoyed that lesson
talking about how we link words together
and talk like a native speaker, talk really cool
and I look forward to your next lesson
if you have any requests for our next pronunciation lesson,
you can leave them in the comment section below
or you can contact me directly
and we'll see you next time
bye for now!