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So, would you say that's a good first step?
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Say that's a,
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Faster, less clear --
Say that's a good first step.
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'Good first'
The D, we do hear
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that vibrating in the vocal cords, but it's
not D, released into schwa or any other kind
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of sound, it's just that D sound into the F.
Then we have 'first step' really common to drop
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the T in an ST cluster when the next word begins
with a consonant and that's what happens here,
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it's not 'first step' but it's
-- First step, first step.
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That's a good first step.
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