This video will teach you how to speak more fluently by linking your sounds. In natural speech words often flow together and then sound like one. This happens when one word ends in a consonant sound and the next word starts with the same consonant sound. For example, in the phrase ‘hot teat’ the word ‘hot’ ends in the consonant sound /t/ and the word ‘tea’ starts with exactly the same consonant sound /t/. When we use this phrase in a sentence (e.g. I’d like a hot tea please’) the two /t/ sounds join together and become one. This is a natural feature of connected speech and allows us to speak faster and more fluently.

The video will also show you where linking occurs between consonants and near consonants – sounds that are almost the same – and from one vowel to another over the word boundary.

This video is Part 2 in which we focus on linking sounds. To find more about linking from consonant to vowel sounds please have a look at my other video on Linking Sounds Part 1 which you can find here.