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The 4 Secrets to Speaking Quickly & Fluently - CONNECTED SPEECH

Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy.

I missed you guys, I’ve just come back from a lovely holiday. Well, lovely in the sense that it was nice to get away. But, I did go to Cornwall with my family and it was very rainy. it was very cloudy it was very, very, English. I’m back now with another really, exciting, advanced pronunciation video. This video is going to show you how you can speak more quickly and it’s also going to help you sound more like a native speaker. so, it’s a really really important one.

So, today we’re going to be talking about connected speech. Connected speech. there are four topics which we are going to cover catenation, intrusion, elision and assimilation. now, that probably sounds really complicated. I don’t like making English too theoretical. But, I think it’s important that you recognize these terms I’m going to do a brief summary of each pick and then some examples for you to practice with and then you can apply them to your daily speaking practice.

Let’s go. the first one catenation also referred to as linking this is when a consonant sounds at the end of one word is carried over to connect with the vowel sound at the beginning of the next word. In simple terms and Apple and Apple catenation is really, really important if you don’t want to sound like a robot quite a lot of my students sound like this when they should be sounding like this and this is because they’re not using catenation correctly, which sounds better. An apple or an apple.

So, I said before, but, consonant at the end of the first word is carried over to connect with the vowel sound at the beginning of the next word and Apple mmm that is carried over and the two words are squashed together. Some other examples, it isn’t, I don’t say, it isn’t nice, I say it isn’t nice. Now in my thing like this takes a lot of effort to do at first. but, once your brain gets used to it you will find it it will come to you naturally.

Now, the next topic I want to talk about is intrusion, intrusion. Now, intrusion is when an extra sound intrudes to make it easier to slow between two vowel sounds. Now, the three most common sounds that tend to intrude between vowel sounds are, yeah, what and a. let’s talk about yeah. first look at this sentence, we all play out. we all play out. E vowel sounds are often followed by the yes sound so words the end in E are then followed by another word beginning with a vowel sound have the yes. Intrusion we all play out words and in you have the w. So, you can think about it like this if your mouth is wide a it’s a yes sound if your mouth is round. Oh, then it’s a what sound I go out to open the window. go, o, go, out, ooh to two obstacles.

Then we have the last common intrusion which is the earth sound. look at these words there is, there is, better alone, better alone. So, British English is non-rhotic. Which means that we don’t pronounce the arse at the end of words. I do have a video all about the schwa sound at the end of words which you can see by clicking up here. So, intrusion is a really, really important thing to think about if you want to speak more quickly and in a more connected way.

I’d like to invite you to write in the comments any sentences that have intrusion in them.

Okay, topic number three. Elision. Elision, is the loss of a phoneme I found normally it’s the sound that is lost and normally it’s the last phoneme of a word. for example, next door. I would never say I’m going next door, I would always say I’m going next door. So, I’ve missed out that sound next door. Not next door, next door or most common. Most common. most common.

Finally, we have number four, which is assimilation. Assimilation. This is similar to a lesion. But, instead of a phoneme being dropped to phonemes come together and change into a new phoneme a new sound. So, for example and yes together make a chest sound when I’m speaking quickly in conversation I wouldn’t say I’ll meet you there I’d say I’ll meet you there meet you. So, and yeah meet you becomes meet you. Meet you. it’s not just two words coming together. Either it can happen in one word like picture. We don’t say picture. and that’s we’re very posh. We say picture. picture or instead of Tuesday, Tuesday. Tuesday. another example is duh and yeah. and yeah together make just yeah instead of saying did you. Did you. I say did you did you. Write that’s it for the advance pronunciation lesson if any of these topics have really interested you and you’d like a more in-depth lesson please do comment below on which topic is the most interesting and I’ll try and make a more in-depth video about it. But, in this video I kind of just wanted you to be aware of this. So, you can think about it whilst you speak it’s highly likely that connected speech exists in your language as well and there are similar pronunciation features.