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Regrets - AIRC442

Aprender ingles with Reza and Craig

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I Should Have Been Working When the Boss Walked in the Room

In most languages you have these contractions and short forms to save time when you're speaking. And then there's the consonant vowels when they're together in connected speech. They sometimes connect and that's why it can be difficult to hear it. Instead of should have, people say, should have - an ugh sound. In reality, that's what happens sometimes, doesn't it? It does. Why do we speak like that? Well, humans are basically lazy. We regret not listening to you. You were right. The next one is maybe a tiny little bit more complicated, but not really if you think about it. Here we go.

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