"It's up to you." - Learn A Spoken English Phrase Like A Native English Speaker
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Next, another fantastic phrase, it's up to
you.
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It's up to you.
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When something is up to you or up to him or
up to them or to someone else, it just means
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it's their choice or their responsibility.
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They can decide what something is they want
to do.
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As an example, I'm talking with a group of
my friends or even if it's just my wife and
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I, we are thinking, “Okay, let's go out
to dinner tonight.
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Where should we go?”
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And I, maybe I don't have a good idea.
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So, I say, “Well, it's up to you.”
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It's up to you.
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It's up to you.
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Now, you will often hear this as up ta you,
up ta you.
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Up ta you, up ta you, up ta you.
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And again, I'm pronouncing it quickly because
when native speakers say this, they say it
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as one thing.
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Upta you, upta you.
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It's almost like a, like a ‘d’ sound.
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Upda you, upda you.
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But the ‘d’ is very quiet.
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Now, people understand this phrase when they
hear it and they know in this situation people
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will be using that.
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So, this is why you don't have to pronounce
things so clearly.
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But if you sound more like a native, when
you do pronounce things like this, uh, again,
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trying to say the whole phrase like it's one
word.
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Up to you, up to you.
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So, where should we go for dinner tonight?
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I don't know.
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It's up to you.
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It's up to you.
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