Fast connected speech and unfamiliar accents
Fast speech links words, shrinks small ones and drops sounds, and the test uses speakers with a range of accents. Learn the features, then hear them in short extracts.
9 min
Module 32 · Lesson 2 of 5
In this lesson
- Recognise linking, weak forms, elision and contractions in fast speech.
- Tell can from can’t, and thirteen from thirty, by stress.
- Understand words and numbers that differ between accents.
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