5 Pronounciation Shortcuts You Can Use to Sound Like a Native Speaker
English speakers are lazy. It's true! We’re always looking for shortcuts in our pronunciation. So here are 5 key native speaker pronunciation shortcuts you need to know to understand fast spoken English and improve your accent. Keep in mind that these are for spoken English ONLY. They are improper grammar when used in writing. 1. Been You may want to pronounce this one "been" with the long EEs like in seen and feel. But because this word is much more common than those ones, it often gets shortened to sound like “bin”. Example: I have been to 12 different countries -> I have bin to 12 different countries 2. Have Speaking of the verb “have” there are lots of shortcuts for this verb too. We see this shortcut mostly when talking about past tense modals. The have is replaced by just an a. should have -> should a could have -> could a would have -> would a 3. Going to Another shortcut you’ll hear using the “a” ending is for the future ten...