What are Reductions?

✅Reductions-Linguistic reductions are lost sounds in words. This is common when Anglo-Saxons speak. It happens in spoken English.

For instance, "going to" changes to "gonna". The most common reductions are contractions. Most contractions are reductions of 'not'. Tricia will teach you to understand some common reductions.

✅vowel sounds-some of the sounds I will teach:

London, money, one, fun ʌ

Arm, father, car, far, farm, hard ɑ:

Cat, black, hand, nap, flat, have æ

Away, cinema, mother, alive, again ə

Met, bed, went, send, letter e

Turn, learn, third ɜ:

Hit, sit, fit, fitness ɪ

AND MORE

✅the correct pronunciation of the past simple-regular verbs

/t/, /d/, /ɪd/

✅the difference between the singular and plurals, 😃 Yes! There is a difference.

Hear the difference between noise and noises when speaking and listening.

Take notes in your booklet.

START TALKING TO YOURSELF IN ENGLISH BECOME FAMILIAR WITH YOUR VOICE IN ENGLISH.