Take a good look at how you connect your speech. Do you do this at all, or is this something that usually goes right over your head? Face this concept head-on with everyday phrases like "you" and "your", and understand how and when we reduce and blend the sounds of these words with T endings.
Follow along with these quick, common phrases:
Didn’t you go? = Didn’chuh’go?
I think that you should. = I think tha’chuh’should.
I’ll let you take a chance = I’ll le’chuh’take a chance.
Rest your eyes = Res’cher’eyes.
It’s not your fault. = It’s nah’cher’fault.
I hope that you're alright. = I hope tha’cher’alright.
T + U Sound Idiomatic Expressions
Bet you that I'm confident about something
I'll bet you that they show up late.
Lost your touch To lose proficiency with a skill
I see you haven't lost your touch with cooking!
That's what you get That's the consequence
That's what you get when you don't sleep early!
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Take a good look at how you connect your speech. Do you do this at all, or is this something that usually goes right over your head? Face this concept head-on with everyday phrases like "you" and "your", and understand how and when we reduce and blend the sounds of these words with T endings.
Follow along with these quick, common phrases:
Didn’t you go? = Didn’chuh’go?
I think that you should. = I think tha’chuh’should.
I’ll let you take a chance = I’ll le’chuh’take a chance.
Rest your eyes = Res’cher’eyes.
It’s not your fault. = It’s nah’cher’fault.
I hope that you're alright. = I hope tha’cher’alright.
T + U Sound Idiomatic Expressions
Bet you that I'm confident about something
I'll bet you that they show up late.
Lost your touch To lose proficiency with a skill
I see you haven't lost your touch with cooking!
That's what you get That's the consequence
That's what you get when you don't sleep early!
Check out my video course on Udemy, and learn to Command the American Accent's Rhythm and Pronunciation.
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Welcome to the accent training club podcast, a podcast where I help you harness the potential of your spoken English. My name is pat I'm from Toronto, from Canada, and I'm making another great episode on love house here. However, I've just got a, a small audience with a couple of, uh, of regulars. We've got, uh, Adriana and Mr. Alexander, however, today I won't be bringing anybody up to speak. I'll just be speaking on my own just well, to get through this session here. Nice and quickly. So what we're gonna be working with to a is a very commonly used reduction and method of connected speech in spoken English. This is when words ending with the letter T link with the words you or your we'll often drop a couple of the letters from either you or your, and we'll mush it together to sound like a chew were when ending words. Here's a couple of examples here, just so you could start to open your ears to this concept. Didn't you go? Didn't you notice it's not a didn't you or didn't you, but didn't you didn't you go another here. We want you here want and you, again, blending. Those sounds together from want and you to be just a want you, we want you here. Another word that we do this with, as I mentioned just a minute ago, is the word your, your here's a quick little example. If that, uh, it's not your fault not, and your it's not your fault. Another one here, can't your friend help can't and your we're mushing'em together to sound like a cancer. Can't your friend, reducing tea endings with you, reducing tea ending with your, that is going to be the topic of today's episode. Now, just before we get into that, I've got one quick little thing that I've gotta bring up folks. And this is the fact that as I've mentioned in the past, this podcast is available on all different apps and on those apps, you know, that you want to hit subscribe. You know, that you wanna hit, like leave a nice little comment. This helps other people find these episodes and just as well, it makes sure that you are updated. As soon as new information comes out from me about the American accent. So you wanna make sure that you subscribe to this. Now, one other thing that I've gotta mention is that I have a video course available. Talk about these concepts and other ways that you can control your speech stress in the American accent by making your letter T quicker and quieter, or sometimes stronger. Sometimes it disappears or else as we're seeing today, the sound changes all together to be a ch all of this information is available in my video. Course, send a message on Instagram, or check the link in the description, and you can get nice, easy access to that on demand. All right? So let's take things from here. Let's jump into today's lesson and work on blend and connecting our speech. So words ending in a T we connect this, we blend this with the words you or your, and we make it sound like a chew or a Chi. Now this is very commonly done in spoken English. The word you is what we're taking there. Your, and we're reducing the vowel. That's in that word, the Ew, and we're making it into AOI. Something I've discussed a little bit on the podcast in the past. AOI is just an unstressed vowel sound. It sounds like, uh, you changes to ya. So let's put this to work right here and let's see how we can get the hang of this. Listen closely and repeat after me. We're gonna link words, ending with a T with you. And it's gonna sound like chew or Chi the first one here. Didn't you, didn't you go, here's an another one for you that, and you we're gonna link together like that. You, I think that you should thatcha. I think that you should, and here's another one for you. Let, and you I'll let you take it. I'll let you, I'll let you take it. I'm mushing them together. I'm not pronouncing. Let you I'll let you take it. That's how a robot would say that really. That's how Siri speaks or Alexa. And it's too clear. It's too perfect. We wanna mush those together. Let you I'll let you take it. Now, the other concept that we're seeing here beyond just the word you is the word, your same thing happens. We reduce the OU in the middle to be just a schwa sound an uh, and we make it like this. Sure, sure. Here's quick example for you. Rest your eyes rest. Your we're taking that O and U we're reducing it, and we're taking the word rest and blending it with the Y rest, your rest, your eyes. Now rest, your eyes is just a nice way of saying, take a nap, know, get some rest to rest your eyes. Just closing your eyes for a little bit. Here's another one for you. Not, and your not your, not your, it's not your fault. Now I discussed this one a couple minutes ago. Practice that again with me right here. It's not your fault. Not your, it's not your fault. Here's one more for you folks that and your, that your, I hope that you're all right. I hope that you're all right. That you're. So the key to getting the hang of this is repetition. It's recognizing when you want to reduce you or your, and it's all about blending it with the word that comes before it provided that that word ends in it to T. Now we've got one last thing that we're gonna see here today. Folks, one last thing. And then we're gonna wrap this one up, as I mentioned. Nice, quick, easy lesson. Something you can take on the go few idiomatic expressions. Let's see what we've got here. Repeat back to me, lost your, lost, your lost, your touch. I see you. Haven't lost your touch with cooking, or I see you. Haven't lost your touch, playing the piano, lost your, what does that mean? If somebody has lost their touch, lost your touch. Well, that is to fall behind in a particular skill. It means that you haven't practiced a skill for quite some time. And, uh, you're not up to par with it. Lost your touch. Here's another one for you here. Betcha. I'll betcha that they'll show up late. Betcha bet. And you are the two words there, and we're bringing them together to betcha. This is saying, I am very confident about something. I'm confident about whatever it is that I'm saying. It's not a literal way. Wager you know, a bet is a wager putting money down and saying, I believe that I'm right. And if I'm wrong, you can take my money. That's a bet, but we aren't making a literal wager here. We aren't putting down money. This is just a figure of speech. It's to say, I'm very confident. I bet you everybody's gonna love this episode. Betcha. Now I've got one more idiomatic expression for you folks. And then we're gonna wrap this one up for today. That's what you get. What ya, what and you, what ya, that's what you get. That's what you get when you don't sleep early. That's what you get. That's like saying, that's the consequence for your actions. That's what you get these idioms. That's what you get lost. Your touch. Bet you that easy enough to work into your daily life. I'm sure you could find some point in your day that you could tell people one of these things in saying this repeating it. That's the key to remembering it within the next 24 hours. Try and tell somebody one of those. Just repeat it, repeat exactly what I said in a context that suits you. And I can assure you that you will see a huge boost in your ability to recall these. Now, how else can you boost your ability to recall these? Well, you've gotta check out the video course. Folks. You've gotta check out the video course. And if you want to check out that video course, well, there's two ways to go about it. One is you can send me a message on Instagram and I will set you up. I'll set you up with a nice discount link so that you can access that video course have lifetime access, four hours of on demand, video, tons of practice materials, tons of quizzes, things to test your knowledge. And I can assure you that this video course is going to play a major role in developing your use of syllable stress. So check it out, check the link in the description, send me a message on Instagram and I will set you up. Well, thank you very much for tuning in today and also for my audience here on clubhouse. Thank you very much for tuning on in. I've just got a, another gentleman here who's joined in. And, uh, if this person is curious, I'd be happy to bring them on up in a minute and, and give them a couple, uh, tips one on one. I've gotta get to wrapping up this episode for today. So have a wonderful day, enjoy your breakfast, your lunch, your dinner, enjoy whatever's coming out ahead of you and take it on with confidence in your English potential. You know that you can develop these things, you know, that you can boost the way that you link your words, connect your speech, lend your sounds. It's all about practicing. So take notes of the things that we've mentioned today, check the, and you'll find all the words and idioms listed and work these into your daily life. Have a good one.