👄 Tim's pronunciation workshop: Consonant - vowel linking

Tim's back in his pronunciation workshop. This time he's finding out what happens when an English word ending in a consonant sound is followed by a word starting with a vowel sound. More episodes in this series: We like receiving and reading your comments - please use English when you comment 😊 Transcript: Tim Hi. I'm Tim and this is my Pronunciation Workshop. Here, I'm going to show you how English is really spoken. Come on, let's go inside. Today, I'm going to tell you about perhaps the most common feature of fluent English pronunciation. And to help me, I’m going to use one of these. Now, I know you know what it is, but let's ask the people of London to describe it. Voxpops He's holding an egg. He's holding an egg. He's holding an egg. He's holding an egg. He's holding an egg. Tim An egg – that's two words, right? But, when we pronounce them, there's no gap in between them. It almost sounds like one word. Listen again. Voxpops He's holding an egg. He's holding an egg. He's holding an egg. He's holding an egg. He's holding an egg. Tim In fluent English, when one word ends in a consonant sound and the next word begins in a vowel sound, we link the two sounds together without a pause in between them. So, an egg becomes anegg. This is called catenation. Here are some more examples. Examples He’s in the garden. I used to believe in Father Christmas, but not any more. I had to give up jogging. He had it in his office. Tim Right, so you've heard the examples: you...