Name: 什麼減少 -- 聽起來更美國！ (WHAT DID Reduction -- Sound more American!)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:53:04.000Z
Duration: 6 min 25 s
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In this American English pronunciation video,

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we’re going to talk about reducing the phrase

I got a question a while ago about reducing

‘what did they say?’, but we use this phrase a lot:

But first, let’s talk about it unreduced: What did.

I don’t think you’ll ever hear it pronounced

‘What did’, with a Stop T and a D sound.  “What did”.

still clearly two words here, but we drop

the T and flap the D (it’s between two vowels).

This helps you say the two words smoothly.

What did, that’s choppy.  What did, that’s smooth.

What did.  The lips round into a tight circle,

So rather than being a fully-pronounced IH vowel,

did, did, it’s sort of quiet, did, did.

Then the tongue goes back to the roof of the mouth

You’ll often hear people drop the word ‘did’

and instead make a D sound at the end of what:

The reason Americans reduce syllables like this

is to get the unimportant things out of the way.

changing the T in ‘what’ to a D signifies ‘did’.

Let’s talk about other words that you’ll hear

You’ll almost always hear this with no H.

Link it to the D sound.  Wu-dee.  What did he say?

but not the SH in ‘she’?  I don’t know!

I’m not sure why that evolved, but I know it’s a very

consistent reduction in American English.

I have another video about dropping the H to check out,

Now here I’m reducing the OO vowel to the schwa:

Let’s practice several ‘what did phrases’.

I’m going to do them all in the most reduced form.

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什麼減少 -- 聽起來更美國！ (WHAT DID Reduction -- Sound more American!)

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