跟读练习: American English Connected Reading | IELTS Topic: Describe a crowded place you have visited (part 1) - 通过视频学习英语口语

Hey, what's up?

It's Alex.

Today, I'd like to talk about the connected sounds in a sample IELTS response to the question, Describe a crowded place you have visited.

Let's take a look.

When I think of a crowded place, when I, when I, so we'll connect the nuh and the I together,

when I, when I think of a, think of a.

Now none of these sounds are changing.

can't turn of into uh because the next sound is uh

so when i think of but we link all these together

think of when i think of a when i think of a crowded place the first image that comes to mind

that comes to mind, that and to get reduced.

That comes to mind.

The first image that comes to mind is the central train station in Milan.

Is the central train station in Milan.

So here in Milan, We have an interesting choice here.

n plus m can turn into just M.

So, in Milan, that works.

But that only happens in very fast speech.

And Milan is a place that a lot of Americans might not have heard of.

It's not a place that we talk about very frequently.

So, a lot of people might make the choice to carefully separate these two words,

in Milan, in Milan, and have a clear n-m sound.

But if you're speaking with someone you know well, then this will change to in Milan, with no n- sound.

I went there in high school.

I went there.

So here the T and TH combine into just TH.

I went there.

I went there in high school.

The R in there connects to in.

There in.

There in high school.

I went there in high school with my family. With my.

The TH is a little bit of a complicated sound to make, so if you're speaking very quickly, it could just turn into with my,

with my, with my, with my.

My tongue is just barely coming out between my teeth.

With my, with my, with my.

But remember, if you're speaking slowly or even at a medium speed, you should probably say with my, with my, with my.

Because it sounds a little bit strange to use connected sounds from really fast speech if you're not speaking very fast.

I went there in high school with my family, and it was.. was, and it was.

Here, and turns into an, and it connects to was by turning the T into a glottal stop.

And it was.

And it was the first time.

Now here we'll connect first time.

Connect both T's together so it's just first time.

First time.

The first time I'd ever been to a big European train station.

Here, to wuh, we have kind of a wuh wuh wuh w sound in between the to and uh.

Been to a big European train station.

A big European train station.

I was shocked by how many people there were in such an enormous space.

So that beginning of the sentence doesn't really have any changed sounds.

I was shocked by how many people there were in such an enormous space.

And we connect enormous and space together.

Such an enormous space.

It felt crowded.

And here we have two glottal stops right next to each other.

It felt, it felt crowded.

So those T's in it felt turn into glottal stops.

It felt crowded and well organized.

An well.

That and turns into an again.

An well organized at the same time.

Here, at the is kind of reduced in the sentence rhythm, so it's spoken very quickly, and the T in at turns into a glottal stop

or just connects to the th in the well organized at the same time at the at the same time

when i think of a crowded place the first image

that comes to mind is the central train station in milan i went there in high school with my family

and it was the first time i'd ever been to a

big european train station i was shocked by how many people there were in such an enormous space

It felt crowded and well organized at the same time.

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跟读练习: American English Connected Reading | IELTS Topic: Describe a crowded place you have visited (part 1) - 通过视频学习英语口语

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