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English Audio Request

Laurasouza
English / Sentence: He's just standing up for himself.
by Laurasouza on June 7, 2020
6 Words / 3 Recordings / 4 Comments
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American accent, please.

He's just standing up for himself.

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english phrases sentences

Comments

limell
limell
June 19, 2020

:-)

JabberVox
JabberVox
July 4, 2020

Laura, Americans usually pronounce "just" without a vowel when it's unstressed, like [jsss]. Also "for himself" is pronounced [fǝrɪmsɛlf] in faster, natural speech.

Laurasouza
Laurasouza
July 4, 2020

Wow, thank you. This is really useful.
I've noticed that some people put call + her or him together and it sounds like caller or callim. About him turns into aboutim sometimes. I don't if I'm wrong but I can't hear some people pronouncing the letter h in those situations I mentioned earlier.

JabberVox
JabberVox
July 4, 2020

You are absolutely correct! HER becomes -er and HIM/THEM become -im. The sound [h] is often left off of the pronouns HER and HIM. Also, HE is often reduced to [i]: For example, we would pronounce "Is he here" as [izee heer]. -or- "Can he stay" as [k'nee stay].

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