What is Assimilation? | Connected Speech | English Pronunciation

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Hi again, Billie, You slowly speaking is the most important assimilation!! Millions, thanks for you wonderful lesson,

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[@Jojogamesonline]

The same like in Holy Quran change ن into م after ب

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[@BillieEnglish]

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[@diagnembaye423]

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[@shornaakter6421]

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[@longnguyenbuu]

Very good !

[@ayubmuhammad534]

Plz guide about difference in progressive and retrogressive assimilation

[@SalmaBoutemimi]

Hi Bellie i was wondering why didn't you provide the difference between progressive and Regressive assimilation

[@homeseries7486]

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[@DiOrnThaiinUSA]

Hello there. May I please use your ( th + s ) as an example of my video? Just that period of your video because there are not many Thai people who know about how native English speakers speak English in general. Thank you so much for the useful method of speaking. I have been following you for a while. Have a wonderful day.

[@aroundworldnews]

her teaching is relaxing

[@diagnembaye423]

Good way to test ourselves about assimilation. Thanks

[@easy6english-lf7rj]

Teacher Billie.I just want to ask you a question .Does the assimilation heppen only in consonant sounds?What about vowel sounds.What do we called the linking process between them?❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ddbb5283]

Thank you very much .I am from Egypt I under stand this lesson very well. But can you explain in which case we add r

[@BillieEnglish]

Hello! Have a look at this video about R: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5jQdoGMfK6qaZo

[@mahdimohammadi9612]

Hi dear Billie, I couldn't find any clip on "Chunking"! Is it coming soon? Thanks indeed.

[@maryknighttttttttttttttttt]

Hi. I have a longer question for you. Is it possible for people to say (pipbul) When they pronounce pitbul, which is a case of regressive assimilation of place? Thank you for your answear.

[@Shri_12356]

She's so sweet 😍 😂 thanks for the video

[@shyambaranwal727]

Hi Billie, I am Shyam from India. Assimilation beautifully explained.. Thanks so much for the post 👌👌👍🙏

[@BillieEnglish]

My pleasure 😊

[@maryknighttttttttttttttttt]

Hi. Is it tue that when there are two vowels next to each other - as in see again, people tend to insert a linking r here to join two vowels smootly?

[@finik2]

What’s about assimilation of s to sh before /j/?

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[@BillieEnglish]

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[@TheWriterWalker]

Fascinating and eye-opening! (Or maybe ear-opening. Lol!) Thank you for sharing this knowledge.

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Tons of respect 🙏🏻

[@sachinparihar7123]

Praise worthy effort

[@ramzy-6566]

Great video for Assimilation. Thanks.

[@r.barakat8758]

Many thanks for your fabulous lesson!!! But how about "Sandwich". Is it pronounced as "saMwich"? Am I right?

[@BillieEnglish]

Yes! Most people will pronounce it like that when speaking fast 👍

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[@MuhammadSaleem.233]

Quick revision before exams

[@professorBonna]

Nice

[@Ali51231]

Do they use assimilation in formal language.

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Thank you for helping me because I have an exame after two weeks

[@BillieEnglish]

All the best for your exam!

[@eviedawl]

Thank you for this❤

[@AbulKasimTapadar-em5oc]

Such a good teacher,u r...

[@luckyfercohello]

Great video! I loved it. Could you explain what regressive assimilation is???

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Lovely teaching from Bangladesh

[@BillieEnglish]

Thank you!

[@urluvemia7050]

We have a reporting coming up in my subject, English Phonology and the Art of Speaking. My prof. told me to report about "ELEMENTS OF SPEECH", can you tell me what are those? Pleasee

[@BillieEnglish]

Does he mean pitch, pace, pause, tone and inflections?

[@feruzaramazonova8396]

Thank you so much

[@yassirhassan6746]

such a great explanation, thanks.

[@Shwjiqoqjwnbdbsiqo123]

I have a question. for the first example is there is assimilation between the v and s to make a ʃ sound

[@MawuliAmewornu]

Must one pay attention to this when speaking or it just occurs naturally when you speak fast?

[@BillieEnglish]

It should occur naturally. However, when you learn English as a foreign language you may pronounce words without linking them in this way.

[@RadMilASMR]

Thank you for your video, such good labour! Liked and subscribed!

[@BillieEnglish]

Thanks for the sub! 😊

[@Jojogamesonline]

نفس فكره الاقلاب قلب النون ميما بعد الباء

[@Clad7288]

At 11:11, you said two /ʃ/ sounds in "nice shoes" are linked. What do you mean by that?

[@BillieEnglish]

I mean they merge into one sound and the /s/ from nice disappears.

[@sadeqjaafar9067]

Thank you

[@ossital1808]

thanks for your hard work

[@douglasmarinho3653]

I loved this lesson thank you so much! But the opposite S before TH can it happen the assimilation ass well? For example "he fights them" you can say "he fights sem*

[@BillieEnglish]

Yes, this could happen in fast speech!

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La Pronunciacion es Americana es la que nececito

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thank you! it is a very useful video

[@nouraabdi4234]

Great video! Thaaank you soo much!

[@gunnythila8871]

s h as in let's have... has assimilation?

[@abigailnyantakyiwaa1960]

Thank you for this video. It's has been really helpful. Please can you assist me with the phonological processes that take place when saying ' prayer and more income'

[@BillieEnglish]

Hi Abigail! Have a look at this video on linking & intrusive R. You'll find the answer in there: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5jQdoGMfK6qaZo I hope this helps you!

[@unrealrox]

Thank you . Just a quick question, this must be something natural , right? How can I get it without studying it by hard?. Love your way of teaching. Regards from Argentina.

[@BillieEnglish]

Yes, it is. It is a process that happens naturally if the speaker follows the rhythm and patterns of English as a stress-timed language. All features of connected speech (e.g. assimilation, elision, weak forms etc) exist because English is a stress-timed language and sometimes we need to speed up pronouncing words to keep the timing from one stress to the next the same. You can find out more about this in my video on 'sentence stress'.

[@nicknigel7168]

Thanks

[@MG-qh2ld]

Hi, Is assimilation in British English the Sam in American English. Thanks

[@MG-qh2ld]

We need more lessons about assimilation

[@BillieEnglish]

Yes, it is!

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Top notch 📸 video

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can you share your pdf?

[@ameyamey504]

Thanks a lot ⭐🌟this was helpful

[@အရှင်သောဘဏ]

Hello tr, Could I combine these /s/+/j/ and /z/+/j/

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[@enjyraafat4477]

That was great 👌❤❤❤ thank u❤❤❤ What about regressive and progressive Assimilation And place and manner of it I have an exam after tomorrow 🙃

[@BillieEnglish]

Im glad to hear it was helpful 💛🙏 In this video I give you only examples of regressive assimilation (also called anticipatory assimilation OR right-to-left assimilation). I discuss place & manner of articulation when, e.g. we look at the example 'in Barcelona' = /b/ is a voiced consonant formed with both lips closed, so /n/ in 'in' changes to /m/ because /m/ is also formed with both lips closed - unlike the sound /n/ where our lips are open. All the best for your exam!! 💝

[@enjyraafat4477]

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[@ahmedfathy9099]

@@BillieEnglish progressive called anticipatory not regressive

[@uchechukwudivine9767]

Thanks so much Billie Please can you tell me what d before an unvoiced th changes to. E. G: That was a very bad thing you did

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[@matheusmelo5769]

Does the assimilation from voiced /TH/ to /d/ sound exist? I'm a Portuguese native speaker and it's very hard for me to pronounce the /TH/ or make the transition to it in the middle of senteces when I'm speaking fast, so I end just pronouncing the beginning of words like ''this'', ''those'' and ''the'' as a /D/, like ''desire''. Is it correct?

[@BillieEnglish]

Hi Matheus! A good question - there isn't really assimilation in the way that the 'th' does not become a /d/ sound. Remember that your tongue is a muscle and as with all muscles, we need to train them to become stronger and faster. New movements are hard to learn at first but if you keep practising putting your tongue forward towards the teeth to say a voiced 'th' and then retract it to say /d/, you will eventually become faster and those transitions will be much smoother. Why don't you practise it for 5 minutes each day for 2 weeks? I am sure after that you'll find it much much easier!

[@matheusmelo5769]

@@BillieEnglish Thank you so much.

[@ter2710]

I wrote a paper on elision and assimilation. Th does dissapear...

[@LuceTheStrange]

Useful 🙂

[@Emptyskynoway]

İs there assimilation between these words: "in this", "in the"? If it is, why?

[@BillieEnglish]

Hello! I don't think there is assimilation between these two words. The /n/ in 'in' does not chnage the become more similar to the following sound (= the voiced TH sound).

[@HosnaEl-el3ld]

Can u plz answer me about . I bet you .. Does t changés to tch .?😢

[@BillieEnglish]

Yes, this is possible! There could be a /tʃ/ sound instead of the /t/ and /j/!

[@surayamanova-bc5vt]

assimilation it was very diffıcult until ı watched this vidıo

[@aroundworldnews]

What meaning of firth sunday please?

[@BillieEnglish]

First Sunday?

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Here I am, with a make-up phonetics exam in 3 days and desperation through the roof lol, wish me luck

[@BillieEnglish]

How did your exam go?

[@Kinda_SUS]

@@BillieEnglish passed!

[@sarco64]

It's impossible to memorize all these pronunciation rules. Because such rules are descriptive rather than proscriptive, native speakers follow them without even knowing that such rules exist. If you want to learn to speak another language, the best way to do it is to spend a lot of time listening to native speakers and just trying to sound like them, rather than trying to memorize dozens of descriptive rules.

[@BillieEnglish]

Yes, of course. However, my videos are also for people studying phonology and linguistics with the aim to develop AI speech systems like (my personal background) and for that you need to know about those things to recognise natural speech. It also helps the average learner understand why spelling and pronunciation differ so much in English 😊

[@radjaradja487]

Yes I am student and i need this lesson

[@Isagutto]

The purpose of the video is not necessarily to make you memorize every single pronunciation pattern in English, it is to allow you to understand why and how these phonological processes happen, which is wonderful for non-native English speakers, English students, English teachers and linguists and as for me, a Venezuelan English teacher and linguist. Latinos struggle with pronunciation since English is not a phonetic language like Spanish, so it can be very difficult to learn pronunciation because the spelling may not tell you much about how to pronounce a word. This video has the purpose of making learners familiar with the phenomena we find in connected speech, as patterns that have been identified in real language, which is more than helpful for those who notice things in speech that aren't explained by spelling rules and also to understand why sometimes some words change in their pronunciation.

[@easy6english-lf7rj]

​@@BillieEnglishYes teacher.❤Thank you so much for your efforts .Your videos are very helpful for us.❤

[@douniasaada9615]

well i study English in college and i need this for my phonology class