Sound More Natural in English with Reductions! (American Accent Training)

If you want to reduce your foreign accent, acquire a more American accent, or sound more natural speaking American English, reductions are so important! Reductions are changes in pronunciation that occur to certain words that native speakers don't stress in a sentence. These are usually grammatical words and words that don't add a lot of meaning to the sentence.

In English, we don't give every word equal stress in a sentence. We slow down on words that convey a lot of meaning and rush through words that do not convey a lot of meaning. When we rush through those grammatical words, it changes their pronunciation so that they sound one way in isolation and another way in a sentence!

If you pronounce these words the same way in isolation and in a sentence, your speech will sound unnatural to native speakers. While there's nothing wrong with that, if you want to sound more natural speaking English or reduce your foreign accent, using reductions is very important.

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