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Lesson 12 - More ways of linking words together
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Do it again! | At the end |
I will talk about it often! | She is an angel! |
Give me a break! | Go over there! |
No other girl is good enough! | I'm going to go. |
We learned about the different quality of final
/-p, -t, -k/
in English and Cantonese. In English they are
aspirated, e.g.,
/-p/.
If the preceding vowel is long, Cantonese speakers tend to shorten it (as would happen in Cantonese) and then they might not be understood as so many English words are distinguished by similar short and long vowels,
e.g., hurt/hut; cart/cat; caught/cot.
Say these examples aloud. They are words containing long vowels followed by a voiceless consonant:
sort | hurt | bought | talk |
caught | half | cart | work |
Lets review linking such 'long vowel' words to words beginning with a vowel:
sort_it_out | half_of_it | work_at_it |
park_it_outside | talk_about_astronomy | bought_it_up |
caught_it_again |
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