¶ Mastering American 'T' Pronunciation
Hi, guys, and welcome back to Robbie's Accent Adventure video blog. And in this video, we're going to look at the pronunciation of the following words. Interesting, interact, interact, interview, right? And this is typical for the American pronunciation. If you're trying to speak like a British English speaker, obviously it's not really the case. So this is specific to American pronunciation.
And for those of you guys who might not be familiar with me, I'm Ravi and I'm a foreign English speaker. My national background is Latvian. It's Eastern European country. And I've been living in an English-speaking country for 13 years now, right? And I've been constantly speaking with myself, practicing my spoken English.
And for a good few years now I've been trying to sound like an American English speaker and obviously it has helped a great deal. A few years ago I wouldn't have been able to speak like this, right?
So, what's so interesting about the words interesting, Internet interact? If you listen to the way I pronounce them, you'll definitely notice that the letter T, basically a T sound tends to all but disappear so it's not the internet it's internet and it's especially obvious when you speak quite fast when you pronounce the word slowly i would imagine even native speakers would say internet right if you just pronounce that word individually but if it's part of a larger sentence
Such as, for example, yesterday I was browsing the internet for some interview related information and I found very interesting facts in relation to job interviews, right?
So basically, when I speak quite fast, those words are pronounced with the T sounds omitted, right? And this is something you may want to take on board if you are... trying to sound like an American English speaker and especially if you live in the United States and you're trying to blend in in a local society So, yeah, in that case, it's definitely advisable that you pronounce the words internet, in view, interact and similar words without the T sound, basically.
you just emit the letter T. And I'm pretty sure that in linguistics this particular phenomenon is known as assimilation. So basically if the N sound is followed by T... The T gets assimilated and you basically don't even hear it, alright? But we don't have to burden ourselves with all these linguistic terms. All that you need to know is that the words...
internet, interesting, interact, interview are pronounced this particular way. So you definitely have to practice them. Basically don't go about the whole thing by trying to sound like that.
¶ Practice for Accent Improvement
when speaking with real people in real life, right? You have to do some spoken practice beforehand. And there's no better way of doing such practice than having it all organized. in a very well organized fashion basically using specific software and that's where Accent Genie program steps in and you definitely may want to check it out, okay? Thanks for watching this video, my friends. If you have any questions, please feel free to publish them in the comments section below. Bye-bye.