How to speak fast and understand native speakers | LINKING

When babies are learning a new language,  

they often repeat the last word  that they hear in a sentence.

When I used to clean up my kid after dinner  I would say, "Let's get you cleaned up."

And guess what word he used to say back to me?

It wasn't "up."

It was "dup."

The ending D linked onto the beginning vowel.

Linking is so common in American English  that he heard that unit as a word.  

And we love linking in American English.  So make sure you take ending consonants and  

link them onto beginning vowels. So rather  than "cleaned up" , think "cleannnnnndup!"

Cleaned up.