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Pauses and repeated words

tell my students not to do this in general because sometimes they do it too much but look here we're studying real conversation and I did it I'm trying to think I'm trying to th...

Course: Smoother American pronunciationSection: Florida conversation pronunciationSubtitles: en

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sometimes I

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tell my students not to do this in

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general because sometimes they do it too

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much but look here we're studying real

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conversation and I did it I'm trying to

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think I'm trying to think I'm trying to

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think the word to that was very fast I

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made a flap te and

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awah so that it could be even faster

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trying D du du d d du du I'm trying to

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think I'm trying to think I'm trying to

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think you can make that word incredibly

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short and then you know we want to link

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it to the word before trying to trying

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to so it doesn't sound like a separate

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word it just sounds like another

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syllable at the end of trying I'm trying

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to think I'm trying to think I'm trying

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to think when was the last time we were

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out here another reduction I notice is

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was rather than having the uh as in

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butter vowel it also had the schah was

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was so then it could be really fast when

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was when was the last time when was the

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last time when was the last time when

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was the last time last and time were

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both a little bit

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longer they're content words so they're

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more important when was the last time

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when was the last time when was the last

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time we were out here I noticed a stop

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te

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