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Linking “woke up”

consonant sound woke up woke up so to help us link we can almost think of it as beginning the next word whoa Cup woke up today I woke up today today today I woke up and I went f...

Course: Smoother American pronunciationSection: Talking about your daySubtitles: en

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ends in the K

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consonant sound woke up woke up so to

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help us link we can almost think of it

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as beginning the next word whoa Cup woke

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up today I woke up today today today I

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woke up and I went for a run and I went

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for a run

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Tom dropped the D here connected this

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word and to I and I and I and I

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this was the schwa sound so he's reduced

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and in I and I and I went for a run

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forever ah Tom reduced the vowel in the

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word for to the schwa and we've

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connected these two function words

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together for a furro furro this is also

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a schwa for a furrow for a run for a run

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and I went for a run

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can you pick out the two stressed words

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here when run those are the two words

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that have the most shape in the voice

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the most length and I went for a run and

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I went for a run again he's got the

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intonation going up here at the end

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because comma he's giving us a list here

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and there's more information about to

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come today

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