USING WORD REDUCTIONS AND ASSIMILATION IN SPEAKING ENGLISH

Abstract

When you're learning English as a second language, you tend to pay more
attention to how you say each word. This is why you talk slower than people who speak
English as their first language. Americans, on the other hand, don't have to pay extra
attention to how they say words because they speak English naturally, which includes
useful speech techniques like reduction. Some ways that spoken English is different
from written English make Americans sound different when they talk. Since
pronunciation is part of speaking, there are ways to improve your pronunciation that
every American knows and uses to speak more easily and quickly. Reduction is one of
these ways.