Would you like to be a smooth speaker of English? This video is all about the pronunciation of the consonant “t”, which some people, including native speakers, tend to completely avoid nowadays, leading to a rather broken-up style of speaking. The technical name for this is the “glottal stop”. In this lesson, I’ll give you a few examples of what I mean, and I’ll demonstrate how to put the “t” back into your pronunciation and achieve a smoother way of speaking. More of my pronunciation lessons: Learn English Pronunciation: TH & THR Learn British accents and dialects In this lesson: 00:00 Stop using the glottal stop! 03:07 glottal stop before words starting with a vowel 05:12 glottal stop in the middle of a word 06:29 glottal stop in words ending with -ed 07:50 Stop using the glottal stop: Practice
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