You missed me. (laughter)
I just came back from a beautiful holiday …
Beautiful in that sense that it was nice to go somewhere,
I was with my family in Cornwall
and it was pretty rainy, cloudy …
it was very English weather. (laughter)
Now I’m back with another more advanced video
o pronunciation.
This video will show you how to talk faster
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So, let’s go to today’s video.
Today we will talk about word-binding.
Connected speech (bind words, tied speech)
We will deal with four phenomena
catenation, intrusion, elision and assimilation
It sounds pretty complicated
and I do not like to make English a theoretical,
but I think it’s important to know these terms.
Now I will briefly summarize each of them
and then I will give you some examples where you can train them
and then put them all in their daily routine.
Here we go!
The first of these, “catenation,” or also merging,
is the phenomenon of the consonant at the end of one word
it transfers and connects with the vowel
at the beginning of the next word.
Simply, “an apple -> anapple”
Combining is really important,
if you do not sound like a robot.
Many – my – students – sound – like that.
when they should sound like this.
That’s because they do not connect properly.
What’s better, “an apple,” or “anapple?”
As I have already said, the consonant at the end
the first word is transferred
and connects with the vowel
at the beginning of the next word.
N is transmitted
and the two words squeak over on each other.
Another example: “it is not”
I do not say “it – is not nice,” I say “itisn’t nice”
At the beginning,
that it takes a lot of effort,
but once your brain gets used to it,
you will do it naturally.
Another topic I want to talk about is “intrusion.”
Intrusion is when between two vowels
an extra sound is created to help streamline speech.
The three most common sounds,
which appear between vowels
are “yuh,” “wuh” and “er”
First look at “yuh”
Take a look at this sentence:
Vowel “Ee” (s)
is often accompanied by the sound of “yuh”
So, after the words ending on “ee”
followed by a word beginning with a vowel
creates the sound “yuh.”
Words ending in “oo” have W sound
So you can think about it this way:
if your mouth is wide, “ee,” the sound “yuh”
If it’s round, “oo,” it’s the sound “wuh”
Then we have the last regular sound,
“Er” sound,
Look at these words:
British English is nonsensical
which means we do not pronounce R
at the ends of the words.
I have a video about the sound “shwa” at the end of the words,
which you can see,
when you click here above.
Intrusion is a very important thing,
you have to think about if you want to talk faster
and continuously.
I’ll be glad to comment
write any sentences in which intrusion occurs.
Topic number three: “elision.”
Elision is a loss of phoneme, sound.
Mostly, the sound of “tuh” or “rainbow”
and it is the last phonem of the word.
For example, “next door”
I would never say “I’m going nexT Door”
I always say “I’m going nex door”
I lost the sound of “stiff”.
No “nexT door,” “neX door”
Or maybe “mosT common” -> “moS common”
Finally, the number four, which is “assimilation”
It is similar to elision,
here the phonemes do not lose,
but the two phonemes will come together
and changes to a new phoneme, a new sound.
For example, “tuh” and “yuh” together create the sound “ch” (no)
When I speak fast,
I will not say “I’ll meet – you there,”
I’ll say “I’ll meechu there”
It does not have to be just between two words
it can happen within a single word, for example in “picture”
We do not say “pict-ure” (if we are not very gentle)
we call “pikchure”
Or perhaps in the word Tuesday -> “Chuesday”
Another example is “duh” and “yuh”
The “spirit” and “yuh” together form “south” (jj)
“Did-you” instead of “dijew”
So, that would be all for this more advanced lesson.
If any of these terms are very interesting to you
and would like to have a more in-depth lesson about it
do not hesitate to write in the comments which theme is most interesting
and I will try to make a video about it, where I will take it more deeply.
In this video, I’m here
she wanted to get acquainted with these terms,
so that you can think about it when you speak.
It’s quite possible that a connected speech
there is also in your language
and that there are similar pronouns of pronunciation.
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