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AE 1216 - Expression: Up in the Air

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The Importance of Connected Speech

There's a lot going on with regards to connected speech that I noticed in this pronunciation exercise. Can you hear the d sound in there clearly? You can't because we're muting that d so we're going to make the d sound. We stop without going I'd so we don't do that. We say I'd and then go into the next consonant at the start of the word say. But it's really important that we have that muting in there otherwise it's going to sound like you're just saying I say you say he say. And when you're conjugating he and she and it with say it's incorrect right it should be he says she says it

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