oh yeah what is up I'm Ethan your
real-life English fluency coach and
today we have a special guest teacher
that is English pronunciation expert
Kenan from the clear English corner now
I've never seen anyone teach accent
reduction quite as simply as Kenan so
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Ethan thanks so much I'm super excited
to be here and talk a little bit about
words that reduce in English when words
reduce it means their pronunciation
changes in conversation and connected
speech from what you would expect based
on the written word so for example two
becomes tough four becomes her want to
becomes wanna these reductions happen
all the time to the smaller words that
are unstressed or not emphasized in a
sentence native speakers use reductions
constantly and it can often make them
difficult to understand knowing about
and understanding common reductions can
help immensely in your listening
comprehension and if you want to learn
more about the most common words and
word pairs that reduce definitely check
out these lessons on the clear English
corner in these lessons we go over the
most common reductions with lots of
examples and each lesson comes with a
bonus free downloadable practice guide
so you'll definitely want to check these
out we'll share links for you in the
video description in this lesson we're
talking about 7 super common word pairs
that reduce with examples from the
popular TV series friends so let's dive
right in with our first example to small
words you'll often see together our has
and to has and to like she
has to leave but instead of clearly and
distinctly hearing has and to a lot of
times what you'll hear is hasta hasta so
she has to leave becomes she has to
leave she has to leave he has to decide
becomes he has to decide he has to
decide here's a few more examples of
hasta from friends this night has to go
this night has to go is perfect you know
and it only has to happen once
has to be an injection that has to be an
injection
my brother the PhD would like to know if
there's any way to treat this orally no
under these circumstances it has to be
an injection and it has to be now
another common word pair is got to got
to becomes gotta gotta now notice that
the t's at the end of God and the
beginning of two combined together but
instead of gotta you here gotta gotta
the sound becomes more of a D gotta this
is called the flap T in American English
this flap T or quick D sound happens
when the T comes between two vowel
sounds as in the words water and better
and also the combination gotta so we've
got to go becomes we've got to go we've
got to go I've got a lot to do becomes
I've got a lot to do I've got a lot to
do here's a few more examples of gotta
come on you're going out with the guy
there's got to be something wrong with
them
there's got to be something wrong with
them I've got a smoke I've got a had the
smoke I got a smoke
Oh
I've got a smoke I've got a head the
smoke if you never smoke again I'll give
you $7,000 all right you got to do it
man you gotta do it man you got to do it
man
out of becomes outta outta notice again
those tees become a flap T or quick D
outta outta so instead of we are out of
time
you might hear we're out of time we're
at a time he's out of the office
will most likely become he's out of the
office he's out of the office here's a
few more examples of outta remember what
I said before
thank you but I don't really need your
help actually what I think you said was
don't touch that I get the hell out of
my kitchen
out of my kitchen let's get out of here
let's get out of here oh my god shut off
the TV
I get Leslie out of the car
I get Leslie out of the coma and then we
make out now this one I find
particularly funny the words front of
front of a lot of times will turn into
Rana Rana so in front of everyone may
sound like in front of everyone in front
of everyone I'll meet you in front of
the theatre can turn into I'll meet you
in front of the theatre I'll meet you in
front of the theatre here's a couple
more examples of Rana Monica I started
my day by pinging in front of 25 other
women
in front of 25 other women and you're
worried about who's gonna take you to
the Big Apple circuit this is me in the
sound of music you see the Von Trapp
kids no that's because I'm in front of
them
that's because I'm in front of them
yeah I thought that was an ALP after
dinner me her and pepper all fell asleep
in front of fire are all fell asleep in
front of fire
fire well I woke up in the middle of the
night and I saw that the fire was dying
out so I picked up a log and threw it on
or at least what I thought was a log
pepper on the fire isn't it interesting
how the pronunciation of these words
changes in connected speech I hope
you're finding the lesson interesting
and helpful remember if you want to
learn more about the most common words
and word pairs that reduce definitely
check out these two lessons on the clear
English corner and don't forget that
each lesson has a bonus free
downloadable PDF practice guide to
really help you in hearing and speaking
these super common reductions alright
let's get back to our lesson another
common word pair lot of lot of becomes
lotta Lotta again notice that flap T
sneaking in there sounds like a quick D
lotta Lotta so a lot of things becomes a
lot of things a lot of things there's a
lot of things to consider there's a lot
of things to consider a lot of people
becomes a lot of people a lot of people
that's a lot of people that's a lot of
people here's a few more examples of
lada I'm not gonna tell you what they
spent on that wedding but $40,000 is a
lot of money but $40,000
but $40,000 is a lot of money we've been
here for over an hour and a lot of
people less sick than my friend have
gone in burn a lot of people
and a lot of people less sick than my
friend have gone in wow you guys sure
have a lot of books about being a
lesbian
sure have a lesbian
sure have a lot of books about being a
lesbian okay
bye champ now I know there's gonna be a
lot of babes in San Diego now I know
this could be a lot of babes in San
Diego
now I know there's gonna be a lot of
babes in San Diego but remember there's
also a lot to learn now you might have
noticed another common reduction in a
couple of these clips along with Lada
Ross's dad Jack and Chandler also used
the reduction gonna gonna gonna is the
common reduction of the words going to
going to when you're talking about an
event that's going to happen or
something you're going to do so instead
of I'm going to do this tomorrow you
might hear I'm gonna do this tomorrow
I'm gonna do this tomorrow
check out these examples from friends
one more time I'm not going to tell you
I'm not gonna tell you I'm not gonna
tell you now I know there's gonna be a
lot of babes in San Diego now I know
this could be a lot of babes in San
Diego
now I know there's gonna be a lot of
babes in San Diego and our final example
for this lesson must have a lot of times
must have will combine to sound like
musta musta so I must have forgot
becomes I must have forgot I must have
forgot they must have been exhausted
becomes they must have been exhausted
they must have been exhausted check out
a few more examples of musta yeah this
one goes across the street I must have
given him yours I'll don't hit boom
I wasn't giving him yours I'll donate
bonehead Wow she must have hurt you
pretty bad huh must have hurt you pretty
bad huh
she must've hurt you pretty bad huh you
know I heard about what happened that
must have been just terrible for you
that must have been just
you know losing your mother that way
yeah no it was great all right thanks
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