Shadowing Practice: Connected speech in English 🔗 #english #connectedspeech - Learn English Speaking with Video

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As an English learner, if you're not practicing your English or your expressions or whatever you're saying in connected speech,
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then you will never ever ever sound natural and fluent.
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I mean you will be fluent but you won't sound natural and if your goal is to sound like a native speaker,
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then if you're not practicing with connected speech, forget about it, okay?
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When we are talking like in your native language, for example,
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you are connecting certain sounds to the point where the letter almost disappears or merges into another letter or somehow changes,
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you know?
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The same thing happens in English.
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So when you're learning, you're learning the words separate one by one, but in speech, we don't use them one by one.
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We put them in constructions, in groups.
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So if you say, forget about it, forget about it, forget about it, you want to say every single T,
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forget about it, then you won't sound natural.
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But if you say forget about it, forget about it, I didn't forget about it, those T's disappear.
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That's connected speech.
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And the point is not to have an accent like a native speaker accent because it's fine.
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You can speak English the way you like it.
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As long as people understand you, you're fine.
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You don't have to have like a perfect accent.
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However, if that is your goal, the reason why you don't sound like a natural is because you're not using connected speech.

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