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Perfect English Pronunciation – Small Talk


today I’m going to show you the perfect
British pronunciation of five
expressions that you can use when making
small talk
got much on this week or the whole
question is if you got much on this week
when you asked have you got much on this
week you’re really asking are you very
busy do you have many plans many things
to do got much on this week notice the
tea in got is usually glut alized got
got much on the chin much links to on
much on much on got much on repeat with
me got much on this week that’s fine and
the optional have you which is the whole
question if you got much on this week an
answer to this question could be so you
know that have you got much on this week
means are you busy and answer like no I
I haven’t got much on that’s fine it
could be I don’t have many plans I’m not
very busy or haven’t got anything on
this week that could mean I have no
plans I’m not busy at all but be careful
there are two meanings to that one
I’m not busy but be careful if you say I
haven’t got anything on it could mean
I’m naked wow you look tired
what’s the question
did you get much sleep last night more
often than not these two tees will be
glut alized get say it with me get night
did you get that’s fine but there are
two other ways to pronounce this deer
jaw did you get say it with me
did you get alternatively it could be
just one syllable j-just schwa sound do
you get you get much sleep last night
this will go nicely together with the L
by making it a glottal sound sleep sleep
last night sleep last night you look a
bit tired did you get much sleep last
night
it’s Monday you’re speaking to your
friend your weekend good bad what’s your
question
how was your weekend of course we don’t
really say it that slow and we don’t
really separate the words what we do is
something very interesting and it’s a
feature of connected speech let me show
you how was your weekend did you hear
how I said that the middle of that
question uses a feature of connected
speech we call assimilation that is when
one phoneme one sound changes the next
sound in this case the in was changes
the year in your listen to how I say it
was sure was I know it’s weird we change
it it’s that same sound of E as we find
in television this sound is like a schwa
yeah how was your weekend how was your
weekend repeat with me how was your
weekend
ok let’s imagine the person you’re
speaking to did something yesterday like
they saw a movie they read a book they
ate something what can you ask about
that experience
it’s a very common question did you like
it but you know we don’t pronounce it
that slow and we don’t separate the
words we have to use connected speech so
we’ve learned assimilation and we saw an
example of this in remember the question
did you get much sleep last night
these two words assimilate to sound like
didja didja or just Joe so you know the
pronunciation didja didja remember to
repeat with me didja these two words
have another feature of connected speech
listen to how I say it
did you like it okay yes we used the
glottal T on that but that’s not the
focus the feature of connected speech
I’m talking about is called catenation
what is catenation catenation is this
the end consonant sound of like the
sound will join the next word ly kit
like it say with me like it let’s
practice the whole thing did you like it
did you like it how was your weekend it
was good I went skydiving Wow skydiving
did you like it okay so your friends
does fun things at the weekend they
don’t sleep much now you want to know
about their plan for tonight what can
you ask
what are you up to tonight you’re asking
what are you doing tonight what are your
plans
however the pronunciation is not that so
what’s the pronunciation first we remove
our second thing you know how we use
glottal teas the end tea will make them
glottal what what tonight tonight
what you up to tonight maybe you noticed
we used a third feature of connected
speech in this question between you and
up we use intrusion
what’s intrusion that’s when this word
finishes in a vowel sound you the next
word begins with a vowel sound up
because this sound ooh is the same mouth
shape as a work it makes it easy to
connect those two words by intruding a
word sound you what you up say it with
me
what you up to what you up to let’s try
the whole question what you up to
tonight repeat with me practice what you
up to tonight what you up to tonight
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