4 ways to pronounce the letter T

-Normal
with some T :air
at the beginning of the word
Ex: Time, Tea, Talk, Tell,
T At the End of the word
Ex: Airport, Cart, Kit, Light
T After the letter S, with no air
Ex: Stop, Steak, Star, Step
-When
before T voiced
a is between two vowels or
letter
(soft “D”/Flap “D”)
Ex: water,
writer, metalcomputer, letter, bottle, butter,
• Glottal T = ‘ When the
followed by N in the word T is being
Ex: Button,
Curtain, Partner, Hilton, Accountant,
important
• Unpronounced
before it T , when comes an N
Ex: Entertainment, internet, Center
Summary for all the 4 steps:
Kit, Kitten, Kitty
O sound OO sound
short O:
Hop, Stop, Top,
Long O:
Hope, Bone, Tone
*Come*Born
O=/
Connection, Computer, Control

OO => owo
look => lowok
book
facebook
Good => Guod

Tr -> chr -> tsh

try, strong -> s-chrong
Tu -> Tsho
Tuesday -> choose-day

E
come
Step -stap
Bed
Ten
Seven- savan
Revenue
inventory
E' Cafe' coffe
Enterpreuneur
En -> UN
Entree'

1. Linking
Words are connected to
sound like one long word. gather and
The last sound
the first sound in
in one wordword.
another is linked to
For example:
This school - thischool
Big elephant - bigelephant
Run away - runaway
A fine name
Good day
Good boy
I want that orange – thadorange
I want this orange – thisorange
2. Intrusion
When two vowels
sometimes hear come
an extratogether,
Y or W we
sound
between them.
He asked – Heyasked
Three apples - threeyapples
Do it – Dowit
Go out – Gowout
Example with both of the rules:
At the end of the movie, we’ll all go out
3. Elision
Elision is when a sound disappears
Next door – Nexdoor
4. Assimilation
Assimilation
together, means
forming a two sounds
new sound blend
altogether.
For example:
Don’t you — donʧu donchyou/ya
Won’t you — wonʧu wonchyou/ya
Meet you — meeʧu meechyou/ya
Did you — diʤu didjuo/didja
Would you — wuʤu wouldjuo/wouldja

5. geminates
sounds are like twins — two same
back-to-back.
For example:
Social life – socialife
Good day

How to speak
understand English
native fast and
speakers
Should’ve, could’ve, would’ve
Instead of could've="cudah",
"shudah", saying Should’ve, say
would've="wudah"
Preposition "of"
When
starts ‘of’ isa followed
with consonant bythere
a word
is that
a big ‘ah’
chance that a native speaker will say
instead of /ɑv/ Lot of stuff = Lotahstuff.
out of
outta
get outtahere -> get out of here
Reductions
If functions
(him, her, he, words
have) that
are begin with h they
unstressed,
are often pronounced without h.
For example,
teller about that.I tell her about that = I
Intonation
In English,
different you can say
intonations a sentence with
and the meaning
will be completely different.
Assimilation
"Watcha" is a contraction of
-what are you; doing
-what have you; to do
-what do you; have
-what you. like
In some regions,
“Whaddya” youofcan
instead hear as a way
Whatcha
of saying ay “What do you” or “What are
you.”
Good girl = goog girl
Good boy = goob boy
Elision
She is coming next̶ week!
nex-week
Present Perfect VS Past Simple
In
to spoken
use Past American
Simple English
whereas people
in British tend
English
Perfect. people would
ItAmerican
doesn’t mean use Present
that if you want
to speak
need to learn perfect English,
tenses.youYoudon’t
have
to.
Exaggerate
Americans
don’t really
feel shyifto like exaggerating.
usewant
superlatives in So,
your
daily
native. speech you to sound like a
The most confusing sounds in English
Can VS Can’t did VS didn't ‫ديئن‬
i can tell you
i can't tell you
Google the whole phrase = goo-gal
U VS OO
umbrella
uniforn
Ain’t
The
not, word
is not, 'ain't'
are is a has
not, contraction
not, and for
haveam
not
ain'tinisspoken
also English.
used as a In some dialects
contraction of do
not, does not, and did not.
‘ppreciate it! appreciate it
Оne
learnof the first
in English expressions
is “Thank students
you.”But
It’s in
polite
and useful
spoken in many
American situations.
say “ppreciate it!”English
insteadpeople often
of “thank you”
It might blow your mind
Answer "no, yeah!" means “yes”
"yeah, no" means “no”
yes -> yeah -> Yup -> Yep

Usage of “they” pronoun

Use they/them pronouns when
know the gender of the person we don't
Although
and refers“they”
to an pronoun here
individual, a is singular
verb is
conjugated the same as
“they” (e.g. “they are”). with the plural