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Reducing “favorite”

but it's very flat and quick one of my favorite one of my favorite one of my favorite I noticed that I'm dropping the middle unstressed syllable in favorite so it's not favorite...

Course: Smoother American pronunciationSection: Free time pronunciation practiceSubtitles: en

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of my

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but it's very flat and quick one of my

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favorite one of my favorite one of my

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favorite I noticed that I'm dropping the

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middle unstressed syllable in favorite

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so it's not

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favorite but simply

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favorite favorite favorite things and I

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notice that I am making that a stop te

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I'm not releasing it I'm going straight

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into the th one of my favorite things

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one of my favorite things to do with a

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free day one of my favorite things to do

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with a free day one of my favorite

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things to do with a free day one of my

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favorite things to do with a free day so

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I notice both the Words Free and day

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have a lot more length than the others

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things is a Content word it is a noun

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but it's more generic than free and day

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I think that's why I didn't give it as

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much time one of my favorite things to

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do with a free day one of my favorite

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things to do with a free day one of my

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favorite things to do with a free day

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one of my favorite things to do with a

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free day I notice with the word to I am

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reducing that to the schwas sound it's

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not to do it's to do to to to to do to

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do to do to do with a free day also the

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article uh of course is awah now I

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pronounced the ending th unvoiced with a

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witha

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