Tim's Pronunciation Workshop
medium levelTim's Pronunciation Workshop: Can
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Tim
Hi. I'm Tim and this is my pronunciation workshop. Here, I'm going to show you how English is really spoken. Come on, let's go inside. You see this? This is my lunch - well, either that, or it's some cat food. Anyway, do you know what we call this container? It's a can, right? Now this has the same spelling as the modal 'can', and the same pronunciation, hasn't it? Or has it? Listen carefully when we ask some people in London how many languages they speak.
Voxpops
I can speak one language.
I can speak two languages.
I can speak two languages.
I can speak two languages, English and Hindi.
Tim
all used the word 'can'. But they didn't pronounce it as /kæn/. Listen again. How do they pronounce it?
Voxpops
Now try this...
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Tim's talking about sounds that you can hear, even when they don't - or shouldn't - exist!
Tim's Pronunciation Workshop: Schwa
Episode 51 / 23 Sep 2014
Tim's looking at an aspect of spoken English called 'schwa'
Tim's Pronunciation Workshop: Linking /w/
Episode 52 / 23 Sep 2014
Tim shows us how to join words together in spoken English with a linking /w/
Tim's Pronunciation Workshop: Assimilation of /n/ followed by /p/
Episode 53 / 23 Sep 2014
Tim looks at an aspect of connected speech called assimilation of /n/ followed by /p/.
Tim's Pronunciation Workshop: Elision of /d/
Episode 54 / 23 Sep 2014
Tim looks at an aspect of connected speech called 'elision of /d/'.
Tim's Pronunciation Workshop: Assimilation of /nd/
Episode 55 / 23 Sep 2014
What happens when a word or syllable ending in the sound /nd/ is followed by a word or syllable starting with a consonant sound? Tim explains...