Espresso English Pronunciation Practice with Reductions
Espresso English Pronunciation Practice with Reductions gathers the everyday reductions of spoken American English, on a site of English lessons and courses. It covers to in gonna, wanna and wantsta, the article a attached to the word before it, you said as ya, and and shortened to n. Each example sentence has its own audio clip to listen to and repeat.
100% Free (unlimited): Open to anyone with no account and no payment. Every example sentence on the page has its own audio player, and the written forms sit beside them, so the listening and the repeating can both be done on the page.
How It Helps Your Business English
Four groups of reductions, each with written examples and audio. To becomes gonna, wanna and wantsta. The article a attaches to the word before it, so read a becomes reada and bought a becomes boughta. You becomes ya in informal speech. And shortens to n, in rice n beans and in pairs such as apples n bananas and friends n family.
Play each clip, then say the sentence straight after it at the same speed, rather than reading the written form on its own. The attached a is the group to start with, because it carries into almost every sentence you say. Work in short runs of five or six clips and come back the next day instead of going through the whole page at once.
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