Intensive English Listening David's Phone sentence Two

Here's today's sentence.

Tell me what you hear.

He told himself he would get it tomorrow.

If you heard something strange like told himself or You would, you're catching something quite important actually.

Three H's disappeared in that sentence.

That's the pattern we're practicing with this story.

Let's listen to this sentence again 3 times.

He told himself he would get it tomorrow.

He told himself he would get it tomorrow.

He told himself he would get it tomorrow.

English has a heartbeat.

Listen for the beat in this sentence.

He told himself he would get it tomorrow.

He told himself he would get it tomorrow.

So there's 2 strong beats for 2 strong words.

Told get.

Everything else is not quite as important, so it gets squeezed.

He himself, wood, it tomorrow, they all become smaller.

Three H's disappear in this sentence.

Let's find them.

The first is he at the beginning of the sentence.

He often becomes he.

Not always, but often.

The second is himself.

Himself drops the h to become himself.

Himself, themselves, themselves, all himself.

Now the third one is again he in the middle of the sentence.

And he becomes he dropping the h he would he would himself he would himself he would old himself he would told himself he would he told himself he would he told himself he would.

Let's take a look at the linking words, the words that link together when we speak them.

First is told and himself.

We already know himself loses the age.

Then we have told with a d hooking up with Im told himself told himself.

Next one wood and get.

The wood and the get just sort of squished together, would get, would get.

And then again using get get is followed by it and the t in get becomes softer like a d get it get it would get it would get it told himself he would get it told himself he would get it.

There's one set of consonants that clusters together that's in the word himself.

Him mm and self mm.

Some people like to put in a sound mussel m mmel, but it's not him himself, it's himself, just two beats himself, himself, himself.

Now it's your turn, shadow me, your voice on top of mine.

He told himself he would get it tomorrow.

He told himself he would get it tomorrow.

He told himself he would get it tomorrow.

That's 3 times here right now.

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