Name: FLUENT ENGLISH: アメリカ英語の発音の "H "リダクション｜レイチェルの英語 (FLUENT ENGLISH: The “H” Reduction in American English Pronunciation | Rachel’s English)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T09:16:00.000Z
Duration: 13 min 35 s
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How much do you use them when speaking English?

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Reductions are one of the best ways to  sound natural when speaking English,

and knowing them will also be one of the best ways to improve your listening comprehension.

In this video, we’re going to dive deep on  some of my favorite reductions

and you’ll get so many examples of these  reductions in real spoken English

that you will absolutely be able to start  identifying these in conversation better

and feel more confident using these reductions when speaking English.

Function words that begin with H like ‘he’, ‘him’, ‘her’, ‘have’ — they’re often pronounced WITHOUT the H sound.

I realized that I have lots of videos from real English conversations where we study these reductions,

but that in any one of these videos, you may hear a reduction just once or twice.

I thought, I’ve been making videos for 10 years now,

I have to make a compilation of all the examples from real life English that I have of these reductions.

When you hear many examples of a  reduction that you’re studying,

it almost guarantees that you’ll start to  identify it in other English —

conversation, movies, TV — to improve  your listening comprehension.

You’ll also have lots of examples to study with.

Watch the video once, then go back and watch the examples again and pause after each sentence.

Train your mind to think of this reduction.

First, let’s play the video where I go over how to make these reductions and how they’re used.

Today we’re going to talk about the  situation with the letter H beginning a word.

Let’s look at the following sentence as an example:   I’ll tell her we’re leaving.

Could you tell a difference in the two  different ways I pronounced this?

I’ll tell her … er … I didn’t pronounce the H in ‘her’.

I reduced the word ‘her’ by leaving out the H.

Now, if you drop the H, you have to be  certain that you link it to the word before.

Tell her, tell her, it’s almost like it becomes one word.

How do you think I’m going to pronounce this phrase?

I’m going to drop the H, reducing the word ‘he’.

And because I’m going to do that, I want  to make sure that I really link things.

So I’m actually going to almost think of  the Z sound as beginning a word ‘zi’.

Try saying that all very smooth and linked.

Before we go further, let’s talk quickly about punctuation.

A period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, a dash:  these things will all signify a stop, a break, a pause.

So, we don’t want to link sounds over that  kind of punctuation.

Let’s take a look at an example sentence.

At first he never came; he now comes regularly.

Notice there was that pause there where  the semicolon is.

And because of that I didn’t link, and I didn’t drop the H in ‘he’ the second time.

At first he never came:  I do drop that H,  reducing the word and linking.

At first he, at first he, at first he never  came; he now comes regularly.

So we’ve looked at ‘he’ and ‘her’, what are  some other possibilities?

If we’re going to reduce a word, it has to  be an unstressed word.

So let’s review what words will be  stressed and which ones will be unstressed.

These are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and  adverbs, in general.

These are words that don’t have a  meaning on their own, like ‘with’ or ‘if’.

These are prepositions, conjunctions,  articles, and helping verbs.

So, common function words beginning  with H:  has, have, had.

Notice that the H is dropped in ‘have’, and the vowel is actually reduced from AA to the schwa:  uv, uv, uv.

That is how we’re pronouncing the word  ‘have’ in the sentence.

What have, what have, what have you done?

And do note that it’s linked to everything around it.

What have you, what have you, what have you done?

Another example:  my friend has seen it twice.

The word ‘has’ is pronounced without the H and again, the vowel sound is reduced to the schwa.

My friend has, has, has, my friend has seen it twice.

Also, again, it is linked to everything around it.

How do you think I will pronounce 'her' here?

And here, how will I pronounce ‘his’?

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