How are you? Intrusive /w/ in English
06/27/22 • 16 min
Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re back with connected speech, this time looking at another 'intrusive' sound: /w/.
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Welcome back to season 4 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re back with connected speech, this time looking at another 'intrusive' sound: /w/.
Practise as often as you can to build muscle memory, and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the next one.
The Podcast script is available free on my Patreon.
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Interested in classes? Learn with me on italki! Contact me if there is no availability showing – I always try to make room for podcast listeners 😊
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English Sound Building - British Pronunciation - How are you? Intrusive /w/ in English
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This week, we’re back on one of my favourite pronunciation topics: connected speech. Working with advanced level learners, I find that studying connected speech is often key to really unlocking those super high-level listening skills, and learning to produce its features really gives my learners the feeling that they are moving towards truly fluent speech, and often changes the way the sounds feel in their mouths. I find it interesting that working on connected speech often really improves o
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