Hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's
number one English Fluency Guide and it
is a pleasure to welcome you to Lesson
four in our pronunciation mini boot camp
in this video I'll answer some more
questions that I receive from fans on
the English anyone com Facebook page so
thanks Joel and Diego our big tip for
this video is to focus on the broader
picture the intonation the larger kind
of music to the language of English
every language has its own flavor so
Japanese are Italian or English they all
sound different and when you listen to
different languages even if you don't
understand the words your brain
understands ah there's a specific kind
of music to this language so with
English as an example you can take just
one sound and even listening to the way
I'm speaking right now buh buh buh buh
buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh
buh buh buh buh buh even listening to
the way I'm speaking right now even
listening to the way I'm speaking right
now speaking right now bbbb bbbb bbbb
when you listen to something like this
you're taking just one sound and
listening to the pronunciation interest
trying to make the the speed or the tone
or the music of the language in general
so let's do this with a few of the
phrases i received from people asking on
facebook the first is i'd like to
reiterate that last point again we begin
by saying something in a more robotic
way just so you can hear what every word
is I'd like to reiterate that last point
I'd like to reiterate that last point
reiterate means to say something again
to make something really important but
when we're pronouncing it as a regular
casual conversational speaker reiterate
reiterate reiterate now you can say
reiterate with a slight t at the end or
reiterate without even the T saying that
at all reiterate reiterate reiterate so
I'll begin by saying the whole sentence
again I'd like to reiterate that last
point and then I'll blend it together
I'd like to reiterate that last point
reiterate that last point the better
that I bet that I've ever bad but ever
again I'm just taking one sound so I can
focus on
just the intonation the pitch the tone
the music of the way I'm speaking
obviously every person every speaker has
their own way of speaking but English in
general has this kind of melody to it
and if you listen for this again without
listening for individual words just take
the tone in the pitch and listen to how
people are speaking reiterate I'd like
to reiterate that last point I'd like to
reiterate that last point I'd like to
reiterate that last point and this is a
bit of a tongue twister but though I
thought that's what you were taught
though I thought that's what you were
taught again we have individual words
like though and thought and thought but
when we're pronouncing them we blend
them all together though I thought
that's what you were taught though I
thought that's what you were taught
often the tea will disappear in these
words like thought and taught when we're
just pronouncing it conversationally and
again the two reasons for this number
one because people already understand
what we're saying I don't need to say
thought because people understand what
I'm saying I can just say thought yeah I
thought you were coming yesterday I
thought you were coming yesterday
because people already understand what
I'm saying and the second reason is
because I just want to speak faster I
thought that's what you were saying I
thought that's what you were saying
though I thought that's what you were
taught though I thought that's what you
were taught again ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba you can really
hear this a lot when you listen to new
so if you're watching a TV news show
just listen to the way people speak but
blue blue blue blue the blue people will
always speak like that on the news
because they have specific training like
that and people understand if you go to
your friends and just make that blah
blah blah blah blah blah or like an
entertainment show they will do that
same kind of speaking and you can
understand that it's an American
typically an English speaker that's
speaking in that way because that's how
they've been taught so when you review
sentences if you're really trying to get
the broader intonation so that you can
make better sentences that sound more
native just focus on one sound and
practice making these sentences well
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