Well, It's the difference between sounding like a robot or sounding like a native speaker.

Why should you learn it? Connected speech is very important if you want to understand spoken English better.

Especially if you're going to do an English exam like Ielts, Toefl, Toeic, the Cambridge Exams, yeah, whatever

Connected speech will really help you with the listening in the speaking sections.

In our first series, we've showed you that English is a non-rhotic accent.

What does it mean? So a word like art, we don't pronounce the "r". It's quite soft, "Art".

In American English, it's rhotic. American English "Art", or car, "Car".

And you also learned what a schwa was.

At the end of a word for example, If it ends with an "er", "ar", "or", like teacher.

We don't say Teacher, we say Teacher. Doctor, Lawyer.

So knowing that you know that the "r" sound we don't pronounce it much. Or, do we?

So let's take a word which finishes with an "r" sound.

British accent non-rhotic "here". American Accent rhotic "here".

They pronounce the R.

So in a British accent, yet we don't pronounce that "r", but if that next word begins with a vowel sound, for example in a sentence.

Here and There.

"And" begins with an "a", that's a vowel sound. We then have to pronounce that "r" to make it sound natural.

So Here and There that sounds like a robot.

But if we pronounce that "r" and link it to the next vowel sound, we get here ren [their].

Here ren [their]. Say with me Here and There.

Do you want more examples or do you want more examples?

What would you prefer to be a doctor or a lawyer?

Your eyes are in my heart. We are never ever getting back together.

Ben Affleck

A better actor is Matt Damon.

This is where it gets strange.

Not only if the last sound isn't our sound it can be [if] it finishes in an app or a schwa sound.

For example, Pasta.

Pasta finishes in a schwa sound but there's no are when you spell it.

It's just a schwa sound.

But in a sentence "Pasta and chicken", we've got a vowel sound with "a" and pasta finishes with a schwa.

When we go from a schwa, so an "a" we do the same we connect it with an R.

What are you cooking? I'm cooking Pasta Rim Chicken.

This process is called "R Linking", so if you've ever heard the phrase "R Linking" that's what it is.

An R sound isn't the only sound which invades two words together.

Go away. Said together, Gow away.

You see there's a [w] sound that goes in the middle of the words.

So when you go from o to a, you join it with a "w". gow away.

Another example could be in this sentence.

No, I won't. "O", "I", link them together.

Again put that [w], "NowI won't".

Another example in this sentence, we've got she, finishes with an "e" sound.

"isn't" that starts with an "i".

"e", "i", how would we join that?

We have to put a /j/ sound. Sheyisn't happy.

Weird, right? How about this one?

"ea", "a", from "ea" to "a". Again, /j/.

finishes without e. We go to a vowel sound tea and crumpets tea and crumpets tea and crumpets

So that's if a vowel sound ends a word and the next word begins with a vowel sound we link them with another sound

but if a word finishes with a consonant sound and the next word begins with a vowel sound

That consonant sound joins the next word let me give you an example

Not at all if I say not at all

It doesn't sound right the tea is a continent that a is a vowel the same here

So the tea joins that next word in both cases

So not at all becomes

Not tap tall that's how it sounds not at all say with me not at all not

[at] all thank you, not at all. How about this one pick it up

Again, that's a consonant sound if that's a vowel sound the same rule applies

Pick it up pick [it] up pick it up pick it up

Try this sentence can I speak to Mr.. Bunga Bunga?

Mr.. Bunga, Bunga

He's in italy

He's in Italy Zhu zin

Mmm, nick. He's in italy. He's in Italy and

[doughnut]

Put it on a plate

For all you nerdy types this process called catenation

How about if one word finishes in one consonant sound which is the same consonant sound as the next word starts with?

Hmm for example this sentence should I say I want to go?

That would sound very emphasized in a bit strange in

natural speech if this word finishes and the same consonant sound as this one starts with

We join them together, and it doesn't sound like a double consonant [I]

Want to want to I want to go that's how words get contracted

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Mmm. You can see how it gets contracted. The same way of this one. Do I look cool

Do I look cool so keep those points in mind keep practicing and I'll see you in the next class

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Lot of people got quite angry about the glottal t episode to practice this get your sweet

Americans call it candy put at the back of your tongue imagine. It's very heavy and it weighs the back of your tongue down