{"id":39926,"date":"2015-03-28T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=39926"},"modified":"2020-11-04T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:25:25","slug":"connected-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=39926","title":{"rendered":"Connected Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 class=\"yt\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wIj6NEQ9GMo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45780\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/there.jpg\" alt=\"there\" width=\"251\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/there.jpg 251w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/there-150x88.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<p class=\"yt\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engvid.com\/speak-english-would-contractions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would &#8211; contractions<\/a>\u00a0\u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" class=\"yt\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title long-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"How to understand native speakers' questions in English\">\u25ca \u00a0 How to understand native speakers&#8217; questions \u00a0\u21d3<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1RPmY3Xkdc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAHUTKm_1n0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h5>\n<p><a style=\"text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tongue-twisters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3047\" title=\"tongue_twister\" src=\"http:\/\/www.englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tongue_twister.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tongue_twister.jpg 283w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tongue_twister-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tongue_twister-136x150.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u21d0 Click for <strong>TONGUE TWISTERS\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are hundreds on the Net, but you&#8217;ll have enough with these for quite a while.\u00a0Here&#8217;s some good\u00a0ones for Spaniards:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00abSix Spanish students study at a small school in snowy Scotland\u00bb<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00abWorld Wide Web &#8230; World Wide Web &#8230;\u00bb<\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00abShe said she should sit&#8230;\u00bb<\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00abSix Czech cricket critics\u00bb<\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00abI wish you were a fish in my dish&#8230;\u00bb<\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yB_1VNQazNo\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6fcdSQEon7E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39928\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Linking-up.jpg\" alt=\"Linking up\" width=\"384\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Linking-up.jpg 384w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Linking-up-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Linking-up-150x77.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CNZ2Gj2J2w0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u21d3 \u00a0Five lessons by\u00a0Rachel!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EvhZPWJSub4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent1\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">Today I simply want to introduce the concept of linking.<\/span><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent2\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">I&#8217;ve had my blog for almost two years now,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent3\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">and have yet to explicitly mention this in a video<\/span><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent4\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">as a topic. It&#8217;s high time.<\/span><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent5\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">If everything else is pronounced correctly:<\/span><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent6\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">stress, the particular sounds of a word,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent7\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">but words are not linked together, it will still sound<\/span><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent8\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">pretty strange to native speakers. It will sound very choppy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent9\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">Let&#8217;s take for example the sentence,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent10\" style=\"color: #514c47;\"><strong>He told her to go to the park today<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><em><span id=\"STtranscriptContent11\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">He told her to go to the park today.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span id=\"STtranscriptContent12\" style=\"color: #514c47;\"><em>He told her to go to the park today.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent13\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">That last time I said it,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent14\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">I tried to put a tiny pause between each word.\u00a0<\/span><em><span id=\"STtranscriptContent15\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">He told her to go to the park today.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span id=\"STtranscriptContent16\" style=\"color: #514c47;\"><em>He told her to go to the park today<strong>.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent17\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">Can you tell the difference?<\/span><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent18\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">It&#8217;s an important first step to be able to hear\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent19\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">the difference. To native speakers, this tiny gap\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent20\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">between each word sounds very choppy.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent21\" style=\"color: #514c47;\"><strong>He told her to go to the park today<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent22\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">To me that is very smooth.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent23\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">Can you hear that difference?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent24\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">My students sometimes tell me that when they pronounce words\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent25\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">and sentences that way, that it feels very sloppy.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent26\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">We&#8217;ll that&#8217;s ok. If your native language is really different<\/span><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent27\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">from English, then when you pronounce English correctly,<\/span><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent28\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">it might feel very strange in your mouth.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent29\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">Don&#8217;t be shy about that. Linking is related to reduction,<\/span><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent30\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">or reducing sounds. What is reduction?\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent31\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">As you may already know from other videos,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent32\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">words in English will either be stressed or unstressed.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent33\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">Unstressed words and syllables may be reduced.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent34\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">This means that a sound is either left out or changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent35\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">For example, the word &#8216;can&#8217; has the\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent36\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">&#8216;aa&#8217; vowel [\u00e6] sound. But, it might reduce.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent37\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">I can be there. Cn, cn.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent38\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">There the word &#8216;can&#8217; is actually pronounced\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent39\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">with the schwa [\u0259] sound: cn.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent40\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">So that is what I mean by reduction.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent41\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">I say that linking and reduction are related.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent42\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">And that is because if you are reducing something,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent43\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">you&#8217;re either leaving off a sound or substituting\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent44\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">a quicker vowel in order to make that word\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent45\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">very short. If you&#8217;re making it very short,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent46\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">you don&#8217;t want to make your phrase longer\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent47\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">by adding gaps. So linking is\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent48\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">the idea that you will\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent49\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">take all the words of a sentence\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent50\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">and you won&#8217;t put any gaps between\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent51\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">for a smooth and fluid sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent52\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">For example, in the sentence <strong>I can be\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent53\" style=\"color: #514c47;\"><strong>there by three<\/strong>. I-c, I-c: you can hear\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent54\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">how the kk sound of the second word\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent55\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">is attached to the first word: I-c, I-c.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent56\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">There is no break between those words.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent57\" style=\"color: #514c47;\"><em>I can be there by three.<\/em> So keep this\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent58\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">in mind as you listen to native speakers\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent59\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">and do your best to imitate it.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent60\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">There will be videos in the future that will\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent61\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">cover specific concepts in linking and reduction\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent62\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">to help you practice this. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent62\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">That&#8217;s it,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent63\" style=\"color: #514c47;\">and thanks so much for using <strong>Rachel<\/strong>&#8216;s English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u21d3\u00a0 Linking &#8212; \u00a0Consonant + Vowel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7tsljuK4f2E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">The title of today&#8217;s video is &#8216;<strong>wuh tsup<\/strong>.&#8217; <em>What&#8217;s up? <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">This video is about linking:\u00a0 the specific case where you take a word that begins with a\u00a0vowel or a diphthong and you link it to the word before that ends in a consonant sound. <em><strong>Wuh tsup<\/strong><\/em>. I&#8217;m sure you are noticing that I&#8217;m putting the TS sound, the final consonant sounds of the first word, and I&#8217;m attaching it to the second word. <strong>Tsup, tsup<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">Let&#8217;s look at this example, which has two cases where the consonant will link to the next word that begins with a vowel or diphthong. First, <strong>hours<\/strong>. It&#8217;s spelled with an H, but the first sound is the &#8216;ow&#8217; as in &#8216;now&#8217; diphthong. So, if we&#8217;re going to take the consonant sound and put it at the beginning of that word, we&#8217;re going to be saying <strong>&#8216;nowers&#8217;:<\/strong> <em>nowers, nowers.<\/em> It&#8217;s like we&#8217;re making a new word. <em><strong>Teh &#8211; noters<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span>The next case, a, is going to be the schwa sound. And we&#8217;re actually going to take the Z sound from the word before: <strong>zuh,<\/strong> <em>zuh, zuh.<\/em> <strong>Teh &#8211; nower &#8211; zuh &#8211; day<\/strong>. <em>Ten hours a day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #514c47;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FVEBpS5XHO8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-45115 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/consonant-vowel.jpg\" alt=\"consonant+vowel\" width=\"186\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/consonant-vowel.jpg 228w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/consonant-vowel-114x150.jpg 114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a>So taking the consonant from the end of one word and putting on the next word that begins with a vowel or diphthong, will make your speech sound much more connected, and much better linked. The T here in &#8216;what&#8217; comes between two vowel sounds, so we&#8217;re going to pronounce it like a D. That&#8217;s <strong>wuh &#8211; dai &#8211; thought.<\/strong> Dai &#8212; connecting it to the word &#8216;I&#8217;. <strong>Wuh &#8211; dai.<\/strong> Now let&#8217;s reconnect those: <strong>what I<\/strong>, <em>what I, what I<\/em>, but still think of the D as beginning <em>dai, dai.<\/em> <strong>That&#8217;s what I thought<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">This sentence has two words that begin with vowels, and the words before end in consonants, so we&#8217;ll be linking. Again, the T is going to be pronounced as a D because it is between two vowel sounds. <strong>Wuh &#8211; dih &#8211; zit<\/strong>. <em>Wuh &#8211; dih &#8211; zit.<\/em> <strong>What is it<\/strong>, <em>what is it? <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">In this sentence, we&#8217;re going to take the Z sound and put it at the beginning of the word anniversary. <em>Zanniversary<\/em>. <strong>It&#8217;s hih &#8211; zanniversary<\/strong>. <em>It&#8217;s his anniversary.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #514c47;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WctUiZ9ij0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-45114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/thinkaboutit.jpg\" alt=\"thinkaboutit\" width=\"131\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/thinkaboutit.jpg 198w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/thinkaboutit-131x150.jpg 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a>And here, <em>I &#8211; mon &#8211; the train.<\/em> <strong>I &#8211; mon, I&#8217;m on<\/strong>, <em>I&#8217;m on. I&#8217;m on the train. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">Here, we&#8217;ll take the S sound and put it at the beginning of the word &#8216;is&#8217;. <em>Thih &#8211; siz &#8211; too much<\/em>. <strong>Thih &#8211; siz,<\/strong> <em>thih &#8211; siz,<\/em> this is. <em>This is too much. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">Here, again remember, those T&#8217;s between vowel sounds will be pronounced as D&#8217;s. <strong>Forgeh &#8211; dabou &#8211; dit<\/strong>. <em>Forget about it. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #514c47;\">That&#8217;s it, and thanks so much for using <strong>Rachel<\/strong>&#8216;s English.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u21d0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u21d3\u00a0 Ordering &amp; Asking\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8n0DYlGE7yY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">ORDERING &#8230;\u00a0<em><strong>\u00abI&#8217;d like &#8230; \u00bb \u00a0\/ \u00a0\u00abI&#8217;ll have &#8230; \u00bb \u00a0\/ \u00a0\u00abCould\/May I please have &#8230;?\u00bb<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">ASKING \u00a0. . . \u00a0<em><strong>\u00abCould I borrow&#8230;?\u00bb \u00a0\/ \u00a0\u00abCan I have that when you&#8217;re done?\u00bb<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h5><strong>\u221e \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ziKkSig0jM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linking: consonant + consonant <\/a>\u21d0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u221e \u00a0Weak forms\u00a0in connected speech \u00a0\u21d3 \u00a0[Beta College of English]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lwOxoPtHvxQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Look at the examples below. The first lines in each pair contain <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>\u00abweak forms\u00bb<\/em><\/span> whereas the same words in the second lines are <em>\u00ab<strong>strong<\/strong>\u00ab<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;What&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>his<\/em><\/span> name?&#8217; \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0&#8216;Is it <em><strong>his<\/strong><\/em>?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;I&#8217;ll see you <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>at<\/em><\/span> lunchtime.&#8217; \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0&#8216;What are you looking <strong><em>at<\/em><\/strong>?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Thanks <em>for<\/em> asking.&#8217; \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0 &#8216;What&#8217;s that<strong> for<\/strong>?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;She comes <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>from <\/em><\/span>Ireland.&#8217; \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0&#8216;Where does she come <em><strong>from<\/strong><\/em>?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Have <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>some<\/em><\/span> more tea.&#8217; \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0&#8216;I&#8217;ve got<strong> some<\/strong>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Does<\/em><\/span> she smoke?&#8217; \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0 &#8216;I think she <strong><em>does<\/em><\/strong>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nbnRm_3_QKU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to combine words for smoother sentences when speaking English<\/a> \u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yt\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192 would &#8211; contractions \u21d0<\/p>\n<p> \u25ca How to understand native speakers&#8217; questions \u21d3 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> \u21d0 Click for TONGUE TWISTERS <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are hundreds on the Net, but you&#8217;ll have enough with these for quite a while. 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