hello hello hello everybody my name is steve ford welcome to your pronunciation lesson today
we're going to be doing the pronunciation of t's in english so are you ready let's go
ah the pronunciation of t in american english never an easy thing but never impossible
and it can be a lot of fun when we learn how to use it because we can start to speak like a
native speaker so if i showed you this phrase here how do you think we would read that if you won the
lottery would you spend it right away right away so that's actually the way that we're pronouncing
things behind the scenes as we know english is written one way but we pronounce it another way
hello everybody and welcome to your pronunciation workout betty
bought a bit of better butter oh yeah betty bought a bit of better butter all right
daddy bought a bit of better butter
betty bought a bit of better butter oh yeah okay let's go back to the lesson
betty bought a bit of butter betty bought a bit of butter this is a classic phrase that they often
use in pronunciation classes to learn how the americans pronounce their flap tea this relaxed
tea in english and this t is like a r sound to get your tongue position we like to think of it as a
d sound so betty bought a bit of butter betty bought a bit of butter lottery later exciting
yes i'm serious exciting so that ding is like ding ding ding of a bell exciting let's go to the next
example now also words that end in t and are followed by a word that begins with a vowel
will also flap they will also have a d or sound so you could say for example right away would
be right away and i know that sounds like ride away like ride your car away ride your truck
away but in this case right away right away so that's another case where we flap our t's
right away the next one is a little tricky when we say t on the end of words because really we
don't they're silent they're what we call a stop t so are you coming to the party tonight i can't
well you can or you can't i can't so the difference here is very subtle can't is a
little shorter a little more nasal you really have to read the person's facial expressions
if it's on the phone then maybe you're going to have to ask them another way i can't yes i can
if you hear yes then you know it's i can or no i can't can you hear the difference
i can i can so that's the rule is that when you have n followed by t at the end of words
or sometimes in the middle of words that t is a stop t it's silent other examples internet
classic example because in the middle of the word we don't pronounce the t
inner and then also on the end net we don't pronounce that t either internet internet
another example i don't know nobody says i don't know they would say i don't know
i don't know are you coming i don't know help out we would say help out
help out check it out check it out check it out check it out check it out check it out
in both those examples out is pronounced more like ow i hit my elbow ow i want to remind people that
this kind of pronunciation could be used with your friends it could be also used at work it's not
considered to be street talk one more that i wanted to add to this list was would
you and could you i know it's not a t but it's something that i wanted to mention because you're
going to hear it in the dialogue so quite often when we have a word that ends with d
and begins with y d plus y becomes a j sound so you wouldn't go would you would you so any
word like would could did that end in d plus y is going to sound like a j sound would you could you
hey josh if you won the lottery would you spend it right away
i'm not so sure with everything going on in the world spending it all right away i don't know
well you wouldn't save it for a rainy day would you maybe that's not such a bad idea
i could invest it by buying some houses and apartments and saw them later on and make a profit
that sounds exciting i mean you never know what's going to happen tomorrow
if i won the lottery i'd buy an island somewhere sunny help out my family and friends
and donate it to charities live it up well to each their own here's the winning the lottery bro
and i'm going to post the text for this full dialogue in the video and under the video
to see which of you first in the comment section can write it in its complete form
so for example you'll see a sentence like this if you won the lottery would you spend it right away
and then you want to write it in its full form like that and if you are the first person to
write it completely you will get first prize so i look for your comments to see who can do it
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