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Ask an American to say water , button and internet slowly, then at normal speed, and you will hear three completely different T sounds, none of which match the crisp T in a dictionary recording…
You studied "I am going to call you" for years. Then you watch a sitcom and hear "I'm gonna call ya", and the textbook sentence is nowhere to be found. Gonna, wanna, gotta are the three most common…
You know the grammar: one cat, two cats; I work, she works. Yet in speech the ending often disappears, comes out as the wrong sound, or turns into a heavy extra syllable that nobody expects. -S and…
You learned the past tense years ago, yet when you say I walked to work it still comes out as I walk-ed to work , or the ending disappears completely. You are not alone. ED pronunciation is one of…
If you have ever tried to learn phrasal verbs from a list of 200 items, you know how it ends: you can tell a test that "put off" means "postpone", but in a real conversation you still say "postpone"…
Have you ever listened to a native speaker and felt that half the words simply vanished? You know every word in the sentence when you read it, yet at normal speed it sounds like one long blur. The…
You finish a dictation, compare it with the transcript, and see a page full of red. The natural reaction is to count the errors and feel bad. The better reaction is to read them. Dictation mistakes…
You know every word in the sentence, yet when a native speaker says it at normal speed, it sounds like one long blur. The missing piece is almost never vocabulary. It is English connected speech…
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