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How do I distinguish linking of two or more individual words ?
For example : "Thank you", does not make sense to me as two words by English sound.
My first language is Chinese.
My purpose is find a way to query English sound as it is transcribed to English text,because I can't understood which words is in the English sound.
For example:in English text when I read a strange word I can query it in dictionary,What is way to handle similar problem in English sound?
Elision is common in spoken languages. It is the dropping of syllables or slurring together of sounds. This makes it hard to understand speech, though one may have an excellent grasp of the written language and of formal speech.
In some cases, in English, it's acknowledged with the use of an apostrophe, e.g. "do not" becomes "don't". In other cases, it may be considered poor pronunciation, though common. Some examples, spelled phonetically:
give me -> gimme
want to -> wanna
There are online resources to help with connected speech, or to study, or to hear, but it requires practice to understand spoken English.
