How Americans Pronounce the NT sound as an N

Awww yeah! Welcome to another episode of Real Life TV!

Today I'm going to teach you how Americans remove the T sound from words like internet

and international. So sit back and have fun!

So, last week we talked about the American T and how we change the T in words like better

to a D, "beddar", and the word later, like "lader". Today, we're gonna talk about how

we change the -int or the -nt in words like wanted, internet, international to "wanned",

"innernational".

So the rule is that when you have the stressed syllable followed by the NT sequence, like

in words like wanted or internet the NT just becomes a flat N. So like "innernet", "wanned".

So let's go through some examples here. I'm going to give you a moment to repeat after

I say it to make this an interactive exercise. So, to start out:

Internet International

Wanted Mental

Sentence Advantage

Environmental Interaction

Centimeter Center

Encounter Dentist

Romantic Plenty

Antibiotic Representative

Ok, so now that you've had the chance to practice those, I'm gonna give you a couple of really

common examples in the words "wanna" and "gonna", which actually are a product of this rule.

So "want to" becomes the NT rule, "wanna", "wanna", and "going to", the g is taken off,

when we pronounce it "goin-". "Going to" becomes "gonna", "gonna".

And now we're gonna give you some examples, sentences, to give you a chance to use this.

So, the first example: "I wanted to take advantage of the internet to find a dentist"

Now slower: "I wanted to", " I wanted to take advantage of the internet to find a dentist"

"I wanted to take advantage of the internet to find a dentist"

The second example: "There are plenty of international environmental representatives on the internet"

"There are plenty of international environmental representatives on the internet"

Together: "There are plenty of international environmental representatives on the internet"

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