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English Listening - The Sounds of English

Listening Time: English Practice

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The Importance of Reduced Speech in English

In English, we have a lot of reduced speech. So for example, instead of saying I bought her, I say I bought her. And so this is very tricky for non-native speakers because they probably wonder, where is the H? Where is the F? Well, in English, we can change the pronunciation of many words or many letters,. We can just skip letters or skip syllables, depending on the stress in the sentence.

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