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Paper Title: They Say/ I hear

Md. Abdullah Al Mamun

ID:1231028

MA in ELT, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University.

Course: CC 001: ESL/EFL- Listening and Speaking Skills

Instructor: Dr. Raihan M. Sharif

Date: March 30, 2023


Assignment: They Say/ I hear
Type A: Words/Expressions I do not hear
They Say I hear
1. I’ll get my purse and I couldn’t hear the
dinner is on me, okay? sounds for ‘I’ll get’. I
[13.47] hear ‘my purse and
dinner is on me, okay?’
2. So, uh, what are you I am confused. I couldn’t
going to do next? [12.10] recognize sound for
‘are’. I hear ‘So, uh,
what you going to do
next?
3. I would love to talk to I couldn’t recognize
you. Do you have a sound for ‘to you’. I hear
minute? [1.21] “I would love to talk. Do
you have a minute?”
4. All right, you tell me I hear “All right, you tell
what’s wrong. I’ll tell me what’s wrong. I’ll tell
you how to fix it. [12.56] how to fix it.” I missed
the sound for ‘you’.
5. Don’t do it, Wendell. It’s I am confused. I couldn’t
not worth it, man. [5.32] recognize sounds for ‘it’.
I hear “Don’t do,
Wendell. It’s not worth,
man.”
6. Okay. That’s exactly I couldn’t recognize
what we’re gonna do. sound for ‘what’. I hear
[2.18] “Okay. That’s exactly
we’re gonna do.”
7. What do you think their I couldn’t recognize
IQ is? Just grab the door. sound for ‘just’. I hear
[15.39] “What do you think their
IQ is? Grab the door”.
8. Is it really too much to I am confused. I couldn’t
ask that he stays a sweet recognize sound for
innocent kid? ‘that’. I hear “Is it really
[12.14] too much to ask he stays
a sweet innocent kid?”
9. I mean it could’ve been I couldn’t recognize
worse, given my history. sound for ‘it’. I hear “I
[13.14] mean could’ve been
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Possible reasons why I couldn’t
recognize sounds (provide
various reasons)
The part ‘I’ll get’ was less
stressed and low voicing while
pronouncing.
I’m accustomed with hearing/
saying ‘what are’ more precisely.
The transition to the next
sentence was too quick and the
speaker tried to keep ‘to you’ part
silent.
The speaker was focusing on
‘how to fix it’. So, he lowed his
voice for the ‘you; sound.
The sound for ‘it’ was not clearly
uttered in this sentence.
The ‘what’ sound was
pronounced too silently to
understand for me.
Using ‘just’ sound at the
beginning of a sentence made it
too implicit sound and the
speaker’s intention was to
highlight the action.
Too fast for me. I don’t know
how they
articulate “that” in a sentence.
The ‘it’ sound was pronounced
too low with the intention of
skipping it.
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worse, given my
history.”
10. It took me a long time to I couldn’t recognize The speaker pronounced it too
figure out. sound for ‘it’. I hear fast and tried to skip the sound
[6.32] “Took me a long time to for ‘it’.
figure out.”

Links: Type A

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcUBnWUT-CU
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTyT3FuFpSg
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muZyMd-hNSU
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRyZX1RCL3U
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNOlpMIru2M
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBNuXjvUHZE
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrvWnn5SP0M
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQzKATq6D48
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQzKATq6D48
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMX4ZsUzgEM

Type B: Words I hear differently

They Say I hear Possible reasons why I heard

differently.

1. Is this a bad time? [3:17]
2. Come on, you cannot live
off your parents your
whole life. [16.20]
Is this about time? The word “a bad” was
pronounced too fast and together.
Come on, you cannot live I am not familiar with this way of
off your pants your pronouncing ‘parents’ sound.
whole life.

3. So, this my kingdom as So, this my kingdom as The phrase ‘the eye can see’ was
far as the eye can see. far as I can say. pronounced too fast and the word
[21.19] ‘see’ sounded like ‘say’.

4. Same old, same old. Same all, same all. The sound of ‘D’ was too silent
[11.14] and I could only hear ‘ol’ which
sounded like ‘all’.
5. I think I was mean to I think I was mumbling. I expected to pronounce ‘mean to
him. [5.06] him’ separated word by word
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6. Okay, words are
essential.
[11.47]
7. When I was a little girl, I
used to pretend that that
was an ice castle. [0.04]
Okay, words are central.
When I was a little girl, I
used to pretend that that
was a nice castle.
more clearly.
If the ‘tial’ part of the word
‘essential’ was given more stress,
then it could be easier to
understand.
The phrase ‘an ice castle’ was
uttered quickly which sounded
like ‘a nice castle’.

8. For me? You should not Funny? You should not Together the sound ‘for me’ was
have. [3.42] have. too quick to understand.

9. I cannot believe today’s
over. [5.38]
10. I did not mean it, all
right? I am upset. [0.12]
I cannot believe the day
is over.
I did not mean it, all
right? I am obsessed.
In regular, the sound for
‘today’s’ is pronounced with
more stress.
The speaker was angry and his
high tone faded the sound of
‘upset’ and it was more like
‘obsessed’.

Links: Type B: Words I hear differently

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcUBnWUT-CU
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcUBnWUT-CU
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qgLv0qdNCc
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NkXFQT6Ebw
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTyT3FuFpSg
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRyZX1RCL3U
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNOlpMIru2M
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJoxEKXSJ5g
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZSvbTANRFg
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baSrWuql4a8

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