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along with adjectives adverbs nouns and verbs sometimes I'll ride along the Hudson River sometimes I'll ride along the Hudson River sometimes I'll ride along the Hudson River wh...

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

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usually it will go

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along with adjectives adverbs nouns and

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verbs sometimes I'll ride along the

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Hudson River sometimes I'll ride along

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the Hudson River sometimes I'll ride

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along the Hudson River what else do you

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notice I noticed the ending s here is

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pronounced as a z sometimes I'll ride

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also did you notice how I pronounced

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that contraction I didn't say is ale I

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said all

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all so it sounded a lot like this word

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in fact it sounded just like this word

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all

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all I used the a as an law vowel

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sometimes all sometimes I'll ride so I

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reduced the contraction which is already

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a reduction of I will to all all all

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sometimes I'll ride sometimes I'll ride

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sometimes I'll ride sometimes I'll ride

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along the Hudson River the Hudson River

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the wordthe pronounced with the

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schah sometimes it's pronounced with an

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E vowel that would be when the next word

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begins with a vowel or diff thong here

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it begins with a consonant the H sound

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Hudson Hudson so it was awah the Hudson

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the Hudson River the Hudson River the

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Hudson River the Hudson river did you

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notice how the second and unstressed

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syllable of Hudson was pronounced it's

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written

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