Tim's Pronunciation Workshop: Summary

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. Well, here we are in the pronunciation workshop for the final time. Today, let's look back on what we've covered in this series and I'll offer some final tips and words of advice. When we write English, each word is separate; there are spaces between the words. But, that's not how we speak English. If. We. Did. It. Might. Be. Easier. To. Understand. But. We. Would. Sound. Like. Robots. No. When we speak English, although there are some pauses, we mostly bump the words together. And when these words bump into each other certain things can happen that affect the sounds. We've learned that /t/ and /d/ sounds disappear between consonants:

Example

'Mashed potato' becomes /mæʃpəˈteɪtəʊ/.

Tim

sounds can link with vowel sounds:

Example

'An egg' becomes anegg.

Tim

vowel sounds can link with certain other vowel sounds by adding sounds: