Name: English Conversation: Are YOU Using Contractions and Reductions Correctly?
Uploaded: 2022-09-03T18:20:58.000Z
Duration: 35 min 25 s
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Today we're breaking down everything you need  to know to sound natural speaking English. This  

is conversational English, but Americans use  an English that's pretty conversational even  

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in business settings and more formal  settings, with reductions and idioms.

To help you hear what to do,  we're going to show you what  

NOT to do. Click here or in the video  description to get a free cheat sheet,  

the sounds of American English, it's a great  reference tool and even I use it quite a bit.

We're going to jump in with conversation  one of four today, going line by line. The  

basic thing you're going to learn is, you do  not want to pronounce everything slowly and  

clearly. That is not natural American  English. It sounds a little robotic  

and overly formal. And when we do that, we'll  dress up for you. We want you to hear how  

different that is from the natural, conversational  English you'll hear when we're not dressed up.

Ok, here's the first conversation, then we'll  talk more about this exercise. Line by line,  

we'll compare fully and clearly  pronounced with a more natural English.

Hi becomes hey. Not a reduction but maybe a more  casual greeting. Tom uses Rach instead of Rachel,  

a reduction of my name, a common nickname.  I am becomes I'm. The word two is reduced.  

We have the flap T and the schwa,  going to, going to. Going to Starbucks.

Do you. Do is reduced so much that we almost don't  hear it. Just a light D sound. The vowel in you  

isn't quite a pure ooh either, it's a little more  relaxed heading towards the schwa, djə, djə, djə.  

Do you wanna. 'Want to' reduces to  'wanna'. Do you wanna, do wanna.

Thank you becomes thanks. One less syllable.

I have got too much I want to get done here.

Got to, just one t between  those two words. Got to, got to.

Wanna. Get. We use a stop T sound here because  the next sound is a consonant. Get done. Get done.

That will becomes That'll. A two-syllable  word with stress on the first syllable. The  

t at the end of that is a flap t because it  comes between two vowels. That'll, that'll.

Great. With a stop T. This is  because it's the end of the sentence.  

You is more relaxed here. Not an ooh vowel but  more of a schwa. Seeya, seeya and finally bit  

with a stop T. Bit, bit, again because  it's coming at the end of the sentence.

These four conversations focus on three major  

points that make American  English sound more natural.

1 - Using contractions. In general,  using contractions in spoken English  

is more natural than not doing a contraction.  If you find in conversation you're saying I AM,  

I WILL, I WOULD, and so on,  try to shift that to I'm, I'll,  

Notice that one sounds like the word ALL. All,  I'll be there soon. I'd, I'd, I'd like that.

2 - Using Reductions. Many of the most  common words in American English are not  

fully pronounced. The word THE is usually not  pronounced. “the”, it's pronounced the. It's the  

best, the. The word FOR is usually pronounced  fr. This is for work. This is probably THE  

most important thing for sounding natural and  having easy-to-understand rhythm when speaking.  

If the concept is totally new to you, don't worry,  you'll see us break down lots of examples here.

And finally,3 - T pronunciations. It's usually  not ttt, a True T. We drop it, flap it,  

and make it a stop of air a lot, and  you'll see examples of that here.

15-second shout-out to my  channel members here on YouTube,  

to my subscribers on Facebook, your support means  a lot, funds these videos, and gets you perks like  

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Let's look now at the second conversation.  

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English Conversation: Are YOU Using Contractions and Reductions Correctly?

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