14. Contractions in English: Your Essential Pronunciation Guide
The InFluency Podcast
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How to Reduce Words in English
contractions are a form of reductions where we reduce a word and then we also connect it to another word. It is very prevalent in spoken English, but you can also see it in writing. You see the apostrophe that connects two words together. And you don't see, I will do it. Now, what's the most challenging part about contractions? Well, there are a few. One is that we learn English through reading and writing and we are usually used to seeing words written out separately. So we're used to seeing these three words separately and all of a sudden to switch that into two words, that's confusing. That kind of like messes up our brain. How
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