Mystery words: can you guess what they're saying?
The way that people pronounce words in English sentences can be very different from how they pronounce the same words by themselves.
The 10 audio clips below are short groups of words taken from the middle of a sentence. See if you can guess what the speakers are saying. Then hit the "Show answer" button to see if you were right!
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#1
"'s up to"
The next word after "to" is "you". You can hear the vowel sound start to turn into "y" at the end.
#2
"Let me"
"Let me" is a common set of words that go together. In natural speech, they combine to sound like "lemme"
#3
"used to"
The "d" at the end of "used to" isn't pronounced.
#4
"is to"
You can hear the same sound for the word "to" as in the last example. This is how "to" sounds when it's unstressed.'
#5
"He's going to"
Notice that the "s" in "he's" sounds like a "z". That's normal when "s" comes at the end of a word.
"Going to" often sounds like "gonna". It's written that way sometimes when someone wants to write in a way that represents how people speak.