Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi there, I'm Drew Badger, the world's number one English Fluency Guide and it is a pleasure to welcome to the third video in this mini boot camp for pronunciation so far we focused on individual sounds as we practiced in lesson 1 we focused on the blending of two words in less than 2 and in this one we will focus on developing pronunciation through the mastery of phrases a phrase is just a group of words said together and if you listen carefully even to how I'm speaking in this video I'm speaking in phrases i'm speaking in groups of words and I pronounce them as one word for each phrase I'm speaking and phrases i'm speaking in phrases so let's look at two phrases and practice making these so you can develop a better sense for how to use phrases as well as how to practice the first phrase is could you ask her or could you ask him or could you ask them we begin by just focusing on the pronunciation of the individual words just that we can understand it clearly could you ask him now could you ask him could you ask him becomes food you asked him could you ask him could you ask him now we're doing this because again we pronounce things in a conversation away we're trying to save them as quickly and as smoothly as possible and really we do this because the other person typically a native speaker will understand what we mean so if i say could you ask him i'm speaking really quickly but they understand what I'm saying also humans in general are able to understand things much much faster so if you maybe listen to a movie or something in your native language but if you play it much much faster you'll be able to still understand everything you're hearing so when we take a phrase like could you ask him the first thing we do is really blend it together but we say it slowly just so we get the pronunciation to correctly again we always want to pronounce things in a phonetic way and this is why i write the phonetic spellings of things and again the phonetic spelling is just what you might use even if you're not using the correct spelling but you're still using regular english letters in order to pronounce something instead of using something like the international phonetic alphabet so could you ask him if we see it like a native speaker but say it slowly becomes could you ask him food you asked him could you asking could you ask him the same thing with could you ask her food you asked her could you ask her food you ask her so could you ask her to come to the party could you ask him to take out the trash could you ask him to take out the trash when you're practicing this way the first thing to do is select the phrase and then think about how you would pronounce it as a native speaker and then begin by doing it slowly could you ask him and then once you get that pronunciation you can start moving faster could you ask him could you ask him could you ask could you ask could you ask him could you ask him and it sounds just like one word like the name of a crazy town in america i live in could you ask him finally we'll cover one more phrase just so this is really clear in a minute we have one phrase in a minute we've selected our phrase we begin by pronouncing each thing like a robot would we're trying to pronounce everything in a minute in a minute but again if you think about this when you try to pronounce that the robotic way it really sounds difficult to say if you're in a conversation in up minute in a minute so we've taken it like that now lets blend it together II know minute in a minute in the man knit in the minute in a minute even if we pronounce slowly it still sounds more like conversational speech in a minute in a minute in a minute the t4 minutes basically disappears Minute Men it mean it in a minute in a minute so again you find your phrase you try to pronounce everything clearly just so you understand the difference between what a more robotic sound and what a more blended sound is like and then you build from slow to fast just practicing the phrase over and over again until you can use it automatically in a minute I'll see you in a minute I'll come to your house in a minute i'll finish in a minute you can practice this phrase and just like native speakers do they remember this phrase they learn this phrase and then they can use it in many different situations in a minute in a minute in a minute well that's it for this video if you have enjoyed it do click that like button and to become a subscriber to the YouTube channel and if you'd like to learn more about how you can improve your pronunciation and become a more confident to an English speaker click on the link in this video to take our free english fluency quiz it will tell you exactly what you need to focus on in order to start improving very quickly and i look forward to seeing you at English anyone com have a fantastic day and i'll see you in the next pronunciation video bye bye
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