Connected Speech: Consonants + Consonants | English Pronunciation Lesson

Use connected speech to link consonants together (C+C) and speak with more efficiency and clarity. Original text of lesson: …

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hey guys it’s Lissa from Elemental english.com I’m here with my Valentine’s Day roses thanks honey and today’s lesson is on connected speech connecting consonants plus consonants in two different words a lesson like this is meant to help you speak with the music and rhythm of English instead of the music of your first language and hopefully make you more clear when you speak enjoy new native English speakers always seek to be efficient meaning they say the most they can in the shortest amount of time therefore they combine and Link words together with connected speech this allows the speaker to speak with more flow and music and to say the same or similar consonant sounds only once and not twice with a breath in between for example native English speakers would not pause between words and say big green monster but they would combine the consonant sounds from the different words and just say them once as in Big Green Monster did you hear how I only said the G sound once in big green I also did not stop between the n and M sounds in Green Monster therefore when there are similar or the same consonant sounds from different words touching one another you can combine the words with connected speech and just pronounce the consonant sound once will refer to it as C+ C listen and repeat he drives a black car he drives a black car bad dog bad dog let’s go west for vacation let’s go west for vacation he took the Night Train to Georgia he took the Night Train to Georgia I love fries I love fries what a beautiful still lake that is what a beautiful still lake that is I’ll have some plum pie please I’ll have some plum pie please don’t forget to subscribe to the elemental English podcast on iTunes and if this lesson was helpful to you feel free to share it with friends and family on Facebook and Twitter

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