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Hi. I'm Tim and this is my Pronunciation workshop.
Here I'm gonna show you how English is
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really spoken. Come on. Let's go inside.
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How do you ask for help? And what is the connection
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between this... and this? Well, this is a
piece of what? And what is the female version
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of this animal called? Put them together and
what do you get? Well, here's how some people
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in London ask for help.
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Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?
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Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?
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Would you do me a favour?
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Wood. Ewe. Would you - get it? Now, the words
'ewe' and 'you' have the same pronunciation,
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don't they? But what happens to the word 'you'
when it comes after the sound /d/? Watch again.
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Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?
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Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?
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Would you do me a favour?
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In fluent speech when one word ends in a /d/
sound and the next word begins in a /j/ sound,
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the two sounds come together and change to
a /ʤ/ sound. You also might have noticed
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that the /uː/ in 'you' can change to schwa.
So 'would you' becomes 'would you', or even
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'would ya'. This is an example of assimilation.
Here are some more examples.
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I'm sad you decided to quit.
Could you get here by midnight?
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Should you see him, can you give him a message?
I don't think the gold you bought was real.
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Right, so you've heard the examples. What
do we do? Listen and repeat.
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I'm sad you decided to quit.
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Could you get here by midnight?
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Should you see him, can you give him a message?
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I don't think the gold you bought was real.
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Well done. And remember, if you want to learn
more about pronunciation, then please visit
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our website, bbclearningenglish.com. And that
is about it from the pronunciation workshop
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for this week. I'll see you soon. Bye bye!
Right, now, what am I gonna do with you?
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Ha ha - what am I gonna do with 'ewe', get
it? Oh come on, would you give a guy a break?!
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She gets it.
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