Connected Speach

It's the key to gaining a natural, smooth-flowing style of speech. People do not speak in separate words, they speak in logical connected groups of words.

ASPECTS OF CONNECTED SPEACH


1. linking between words
   
    A. COSONANT + VOWEL


tell_about_it           put_it_on


   B. CONSONANT + CONSONANT


Red_door         I told_peter


   C. VOWELS LINKS WITH (J) (Y) AND (W)


Two_eggs        three_eggs

2. contracted forms


She's gone = she has gone
She's happy = she is happy


3. weak and strong forms


I am French
She loves to stay here


4. Leaving out consonant /t/ and /d/ in clusters


last month
hurt you
conected it


5. Leaving out vowels in words


chocolate
camera
every