Hello everybody.
This is Teacher Levi.
Today we'll be filming another slow English video.
This time I will speak quicker in some parts of the video, because today we'll be talking about reductions.
So i want to have you listen to both slow and regular regular speed, because sometimes, if we are speaking too slowly, we change the way we pronounce words or sentences, phrases.
So this is Day seven of the English bootcamp.
Thank you for coming back.
And tomorrow on day eight, we will have the live stream and we will have a members video as well.
So let's get started.
We will cover four words today as part of our reductions video.
There are many, but I think these four ones are very common and they're useful for you to hear, especially because now the past few days, I have been filming some fast English videos and perhaps you have noticed the difference in pronunciation of some words or, in general, the difference in speaking while you watch, the fast English versus the slow English.
So, and by the way, I am in a hammock, so this is a hammock.
And the four words are and or to and for.
So let's start with and and would pronounce and.
But when we speak quickly, it sometimes gets reduced to an, almost an, for example.
Let's look at a couple sentences you and me.
When we put the emphasis, we say and When we speak quickly, sometimes you can hear you and me, you and me.
It's almost as an N sound, you and me.
You and could be you and me, you, you and me.
Bread and butter, bread and butter, bread and butter.
So it gets reduced to almost the n sound bread and butter, bread and butter, nice and easy.
When we speak quickly could sound like nice and easy, nice and easy.
Nice and easy, nice and easy, it's nice and easy.
Practice these sounds as well.
You can pause the video and say nice and easy, it's nice and easy.
Okay, let's move on to or.
Or is the same as the noun or o-r-e.
Or when we speak quickly, we can say er.
Tea or coffee?
Tea or coffee?
Tea or coffee?
It almost gets connected to the first word tea.
Tea or coffee?
Tea or coffee?
Tea or coffee?
Would you like tea or coffee?
Tea or coffee?
So pay attention to that.
Of course, if you want to articulate something or emphasize the difference between two things, you can say or tea or coffee.
If you speak quickly or you're at a cafe, you might hear tea or coffee.
Which one would you prefer, tea or coffee?
Now or never.
Now or never.
We might say now or never.
Now or never.
Now or never.
It is now or never.
I need to do this.
Now or never.
Now or never.
Now or never.
Practice these.
Let's move on to two.
Two if we speak quickly, of course we can have the common want to sounds like wanna, want to wanna.
I want to go, i wanna go.
This is common.
Now, in some formal situations you might say I want to do this.
And with friends, while speaking quickly, you might say, I want to go there.
I want to do this.
So that is common.
And perhaps you have heard that one before.
It's time to eat.
It's time to eat.
It's time to eat.
Almost time to eat.
It's time to eat.
It's time to eat.
If we speak quickly, the words flow together.
It's time to eat.
Ta.
It's time to eat.
Almost instead of to, we say ta. like a T sound.
It's time to eat.
Hey, it's time to eat.
I need to work.
I need to work.
I need to work.
I need to work.
Almost again.
The T sound is isolated.
I need to work.
I need to work.
I need to work.
The last one is for.
Now, when we listen to, for while speaking fast or when someone is speaking quickly, they might sound like they're saying fur.
This is for you.
This is for you.
This is for you.
This is for you, for you.
This is for you.
This is for you.
It's good for me.
If we add the emphasis, we can say, it's good for me.
If we speak quickly, we might say, it's good for me.
It's good for me.
It's good for me.
We change the sound slightly from for to fur.
It's good for me.
It's good for me.
I got it for free.
I got it for free.
Similar.
Instead of for, we're saying fur.
I got it for free.
I got it for free similar.
There's many other reductions you could practice, for example, the or could, or would.
These are all words.
You can try to notice the difference between people who are speaking quickly or slowly.
But these four I think will be helpful right now and in the future as we switch between slow and fast or normal English.
So you can pay attention and also try to utilize or to use this information to your advantage.
So thank you for checking this video out on day seven of the english boot camp.
If you would like to speak with me and have an english lesson one on one, you could find the link in the description.
I am also reading the comments, though sometimes I don't respond immediately.
So thank you for the suggestions, the recommendations.
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And I will see you tomorrow on the live stream at the usual time, same as last week.
Thank you and bye-bye.