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How to pronounce words like "thin/fin," "mouth/mouse," and "both/boat." Perfect your English fricative sounds by never stopping the air from passing through your mouth. Transcripts at pronuncian.com 

At the end of the word, the /ŋ/ doesn't need an additional /g/. The /g/ is potentially included mid-word. Transcripts available at pronuncian.com 

Here are some examples of speech reductions in English. A speech reduction is two words blended together to become one. 

Some English words have what we can call "disappearing or dropped syllables" – reductions or eliminations of sounds in the middle of the w ...

You know when you read a word over and over it starts to lose its meaning? There’s a term for that and why it happens is fascinating.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In this English episode, you will learn about different types of reduced speech in the English language and what they sound like. You will also hear it used with different parts of speech such as articles, pronouns, prepositions and more. 

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