Hi ChatterFoxes. during this video
you're going to learn two easy ways to
sound even better than a native when you
speak American English by reducing the
words YOU and AND. so before we get
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this series. all right so what is a
reduction??? a reduction is something that
fluent English speakers use to make it
easier to speak English so there are a
lot of words that reduce and some of the
common words that reduce in English are
the words YOU and the word AND. so first
we're going to practice some reductions
with you. so in some cases you reduces to
/ju/ like /would you = wouldju/ would you
mind if I left a little early today?
would you mind if I left work a little
early today? would you mind if I left
work a little early today? would you (wouldju)
would you so that has a /j/ sound instead of
a /y/. the reason for this is because
/d/ and /j/ blends together more
easily than a /y/ sound. would you (wouldju) would
you (wouldju). another reduction with ju is did
you (didju), did you (didju), did you, did you see the
Bachelorette last night? did you see the
Bachelorette last night? and of course
YOU can also reduce to CHU, CHU
this happens at the end of the word
won't, won't you (wounchu), won't you, won't you, it's
easier to say CH sound than the J
sound because of the stop T at the end
of won't, won't you (wounchu), won't you (wounchu), won't you be
cold without a jacket? won't you be cold
without a jacket? great job.
so now let's practice reducing the word
AND, the word AND often reduced to a
simple /N/ sound. for example in the phrase
spic and span, spic and span means
super-clean so something a lot of
parents like to say to their kids is I
want this place to be spic and span. spic
n span, spic and span.
so that /N/ in that phrase is actually
representing the word AND that is the
reduction of the word AND, spic and span.
another example of this is if you're
just using and in a normal sentence like
we're gonna get a dog first and ('n) then see
if we want kids. we're gonna get a dog
first and ('n) then see if we want kids. do
you hear that /N/ in that sentence? it's a
lot easier to say /N/ then than it is to
say AND then and it sounds a lot more
natural. another common thing that people
say is that they want cream and sugar
with their coffee cream and ('n) sugar.
what do you like with your coffee? cream
and sugar, cream 'n sugar. great job. so
speaking of cream and sugar in your
coffee some people love to put cream and
sugar in their coffee. other people like
some people in my family including my
sister believe that cream and sugar
totally ruins the taste of the coffee. so
she likes to drink her coffee black. what
do you think about this?
do you like your coffee with cream and
sugar? or do you prefer to drink your
coffee black? tell us what you think in
the comments section below.
can't wait to hear from you. great job
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