The Intrusive /r/ and Linking /r/ - British English Pronunciation & Connected Speech

hello everybody this is Elliot from ETJ English I hope you're all doing well today I am here to talk to you about something called the intrusive R and the linking our I know we all love connected speech because so many of you have been sending me messages saying Elliot please do a video on connected speech so here I am today doing it for you I hope you're happy the first thing I need to tell you is you need to understand the rules of the are before you start to learn when we use it as an intrusive sound or linking sound some of you will know this already so I'm sorry if this waste some of your time but we need to know when we pronounce the R in words so we only pronounce the R when it comes before a vowel for example a word like air air AI R there's no vowel after the R so we don't pronounce the R it's actually a diphthong but if we have the same sound but we had a vowel or two vowels after area area we pronounce the R the reason why is because we have a vowel after now this is British English remember American English is very different today we're learning British southern English we only pronounce the R when there's a vowel after so when do we do the linking R and why do we do it and what is it and so many questions going on in your head I know let me explain the linking R is a form of connected speech it helps us get to the next word for example the question I'll say it slowly like a robot first where are you where are you that's how we pronounce all of those words individually but if we wanted to make our speech a little bit faster a little bit more native and natural sounding we would change it to where are you now listen to what I do instead of being where our it becomes where are where are you we use the R as a bridge and the reason why is because the word where has the letter R towards the end of it and the next word begins with a vowel now in British English it's very difficult to get from one vowel at the end of a word to avow at the beginning of the next word so in this situation we will use an R to help us get to the next word where are you we have many different situations when linking happens but the linking R is the most difficult so that's why I'm explaining just this in one video a few more examples instead of saying I have four eggs I would say I have four eggs I have four eggs so I'm going to be pronouncing the word harder in the next sentence twice it's going to happen twice the first time is going to be used for linking the second time it's pronounced in its natural form with a schwa at the end so listen to the real difference here I've been working harder and harder I've been working harder and harder harder and harder so that our moves us into that and it's a bridge it helps us finally the last sentence is a bit of a challenge for you it's happening twice the linking R is happening twice in this sentence where is the fire exit where is the fire exit where is the fire exit now you will find that a lot of people will just say where's where's the fire exit but if we want to pronounce all of those words just for the example of this video where is okay now let's move on to intrusive are the intrusive are this one's the difficult one so before we start talking about the intrusive are I kind of need to explain about this group of people and not a group of people just the type of person which I like to call the pronunciation police I've mentioned to you before in one of my live lessons about the grammar police the pronunciation police are the same kind of people they believe that you can only pronounce things a particular way and it's kind of this old-fashioned way but I want to tell you that you can have fun with British English there are many many accents in the UK if you want a southern accent you don't have to learn the estuary accent you don't have to learn RP accent you can learn a modified form of the RP accent for example like mine some of these pronunciation police some of these people they believe that you shouldn't do some of these intrusive sounds in particular the second point I'm going to share with you but what I want to tell you is that people do this British people do this but I do hear this a lot I do it my friends do it my family do it I live in the South of England you can use this if you want to or you don't have to it's completely up to you but I'm going to teach it anyway because lots of you want to know what it is so the intrusive R is when there is no R in the words but somehow it appears in our speech and it appears because it's being used once again as a bridge to get us to the next sound next word for example the country Australia it finishes with a schwa sound and this is a common situation with the intrusive our Australia finishes with an earth and England and begins with a vowel so to get to that vowel from the schwa instead of saying Australia and England will say Australia and England Australia and England so we're doing an R to get to the and Australia and there is no R in the writing but for some reason we're using it to get to the next word and it's because it makes things easier for us we're very lazy English speakers especially British speakers we're very lazy and there's a lot of connected speech to learn another example media event media event media event I'm going to a media event so when a word finishes with a schwa and the next word begins with a vowel that is one situation where an R will intrude it comes from nowhere it's not invited but it decides to join in the party there's one other situation where we might see an intrusive R and this is when a word finishes with the aw sound like sore claw etc so if the next word is ah or it begins with a vowel sound then we might create an R again to join the or and the together or the vowel for example I saw a great film last night I saw a great film last night sore great Sora Sora instead of Sora now you can breathe now you can relax but please do try and practice this write some sentences down try some of these techniques yourself practice it when you're reading so many different situations you can practice these intrusive sounds and linking our sounds so practice it if you like it you don't have to learn it like I said but it will help you especially with understanding natives so I hope you enjoyed the lesson just don't forget to give me a thumbs up subscribe follow me on Instagram like my Facebook page bla bla bla bla bla you know all of that stuff and I will see you in the next video Cheers by

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Length: 8min 48sec (528 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 21 2017