Intensive English Listening David's Phone sentence Three

December 30, 2025 Episode 470

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Here's today's sentence.

Tell me what you hear.

But tomorrow came and he still couldn't face her.

If you couldn't hear the tea in couldn't.

That's because it's barely there, and two more H's disappear.

They pretty much vanish.

Let's listen to it again.

3 times slower and then faster.

But tomorrow came and he still couldn't face her.

English has a heartbeat.

Try and feel the rhythm as I say the sentence with clapping.

But tomorrow came and he still couldn't face her.

So tomorrow came still her.

Tomorrow came still face.

Those are the strong ones, her butt.

He, those are all a little bit smaller and they get squished in between.

OK, with reductions we have 3 basic reductions.

The H's are gone, that's 2, and the T basically disappears.

So couldn't, couldn't, couldn't face, couldn't face, couldn't face, and then.

He He still, he still, he still couldn't face her, he's still, and he.

Then we also have her face, her face her facer.

I suppose you could also say and and gets reduced to um cayman caymany caymany.

Liaisons, that's the connecting words.

The first major one is came, came plus and Cayman, Cayman.

The next one we've got and plus he, and he and he and he keman.

Then we have face plus her.

Face her face her face her face her.

Consonant clusters.

There's a big cluster of consonants.

At the end of couldn't.

Oh, da.

And when we get that many consonants together, something has to give.

What we give is the t.

The tu gets dropped.

Couldn't, couldn't, couldn't, couldn't, couldn't face.

One consonant cluster.

Now it's your turn.

Let's do the shadowing.

3 times here.

Remember your voice on top of mine.

But tomorrow came and he still couldn't face her.

That's 3 times here, but I strongly recommend go to the site and practice 20 times shadowing.

Your listening and your speaking will get so much better.

And next week, he's going to be faced with a problem because his boss needs to get a hold of me.