Improve English Speaking: Blending Sounds

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I hear that when speaking English very fast, they can prepare the next sound(s)(consonant or vowel) at the time of pronouncing before sound. So there can be a partly blending of sounds when speaking very fast. Is that correct?
 
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fxdung said:
I hear that when speaking English very fast, they can prepare the next sound(s)(consonant or vowel) at the time of pronouncing before sound. So there can be a partly blending of sounds when speaking very fast. Is that correct?
If you speak any language quickly you will get one word cascading into another.
Similar point to your other MIT video.

I would check out “Christopher Hitchens greatest speech” on you tube, 6 mins 53 sec.
Tony Blair is sat at the side watching him and laughing along with his jokes even though he was debating him on the opposite side.
He was having chemo therapy at the time for cancer so was probably not at his best in terms of energy.
However, this is a beautiful way to speak English, clear, eloquent, articulated, and enunciated.

It is not the most efficient way to speak English.
Not if you want to teach a class, it would simply take too long and lecturers have a lot to get through in their slot.
Like your open MIT lecturer haste is needed to cover all the points sometimes.

For me it is the most pleasant form to listen to in terms of spoken English.

I will not post the link, you can find it, the content is not for pf.
 
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