Rachel's English

I never use gonna and wanna but it is true Rachel is a very good teacher !

MurielB a écrit:I never use gonna and wanna but it is true Rachel is a very good teacher !

Muriel,
You're not obliged to write "gonna" and "wanna" but both words are what is pronounced in daily American.

gerardM a écrit:

Back to this video I pointed out a few posts ago...
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Yesterday I posted a comment on Pierre's blog about the rather difficult (when the French are not aware enough) pronunciation of vowels such as "a" - I wrote the French couldn't even make a difference where EMTs counted several obviously different sounds.
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In this video, Rachel spends 3 minutes on "that" drawing our attention on ways to pronounce the ending "t".
True! if there're x ways to pronounce the vowel "a", there're also mainly 2 ways to pronounce the ending "t": soft-t and flat-t depending on the syllable that follows; in her examples, she also speaks about a "that her" in which the "h" is ignored so that the pronounciation uses a flat-t (meaning approx d) followed by a vowel "er".

The above word were pointing out the ending "t" of "that" but Rachel could also have spoken about the starting "th" that also has several ways...

NB: As usual with YouTube, take a look on the right side to discover several exciting lessons by Rachel -> Rachel's YouTube Videos

Hi Gérard, everyone !
I have carefully listened to those two ladies but I don't find their accents very different, anyway i will listened to them several times because there are differences and it is very important to make them out.