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Do native speakers pronounce "found the remark" without the "the"?
*"Haley found remark disrespectful" is ungrammatical, so you'd be unlikely to hear a native speaker say it.
What you're likely hearing is the "the" being reduced, likely with almost no vowel sound. ...
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Do native speakers pronounce "found the remark" without the "the"?
I'm a native English speaker, and we do say the "The"
It's true that if you are speaking quickly it will all get blended together, but we definitely don't omit it.
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Is this a trick? Or too difficult?
"We are going on tour two weeks from now" means "it is arranged that our tour starts two weeks from now". This provides information about how far in the future the departure is. "I'll be gone the ...
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Is this a trick? Or too difficult?
It is a clear question, and there is enough information to answer it.
I'm going on tour two weeks from now
This tell you when she is leaving. The tour will start after two weeks.
I'll be ...
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What is the doctor saying in this sentence? Neither subtitles nor my ear can get it correct :(
Subtitles are wrong and have confused you. She says "wrist" not "rest".
Is it the wrist that's sore, where it's swollen?
Yes, it is.
"where it's swollen" is acting as ...
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Per American pronunciation, "a ear" or "an ear"?
Most native speakers can hear the distinction. Like Peter Shor said, saying "an ear" and "a year" can help the listener understand which one you mean. Words beginning with vowel ...
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Per American pronunciation, "a ear" or "an ear"?
The huge majority of Americans do both make and hear a difference in the sound of the words "ear" and "year." That fact that you do not hear that difference merely means that one ...
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Do native speakers pronounce "found the remark" without the "the"?
In my dialect (British, West Midlands), it actually comes out as:
"Hayley foun' the remark disrespectful."
The D in found is very, very heavily reduced in this sentence. In fact, forcing myself to ...
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Do native speakers pronounce "found the remark" without the "the"?
Native speakers don't "omit" the entire word, but many of them will strongly de-emphasize the vowel sound in the and essentially merge it with the start of the next word. It's not quite an elision of ...
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Do native speakers pronounce "found the remark" without the "the"?
Others have already given good answers, but for what it is worth, I'm an U.S. speaker and would naturally say
"Haley foun' the remark disrespectful"
just like @Psiloc mentioned. But I would guess ...
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the people who run there so just great people
I don't think you actually misheard this in this way. The captions on this video are being automatically created by YouTube's algorithm, which means that sometimes you get garbled nonsense like
and ...
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What is he saying in this video ( time frame 18-22 sec)?
What Liam Gallagher is about to say is Shall I tell you what gets on my tits?
get on someone’s tits - to annoy someone a lot (macmillandictionary)
...but because he knows he's on the radio, he ...
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"make / work / find one's way to somewhere"
The first one, dug his way seems normal to me. The other two are a bit odd.
I'm not sure of the explanation, but part of it is that idiom implies that it is difficult or arduous to get there. Hence ...
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Another brick in the wall part 2 - teacher or teachers?
Lyric sheets online say both, so until I can get home and check my original CD (assuming I can find it) I couldn't say for certain. Listening to now, the first line is sounds to me like:
"Teachers ...
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Confusing between "As" and "Is"
It's much more likely the piece of dialogue is as follows:
... if you think I am really so naive as to be fooled by another one of your tricks!
Meaning:
... If you think I am so naive that I ...
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Please help me to clarify a sentence on Ted talk
What he actually says is "There are so many great features on phones - on devices - that let us liminate - uh, eliminate - a lot of time we waste on devices."
He was speaking quickly and accidentally ...
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Listening: Though today I have to live OR leave
If you do a web search for 'lyrics sayonara means goodbye' you'll find a lot of sites giving the lyrics. They all (the 5 or so I checked) have live and not leave. However, these sites are quite often ...
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Word pronounced “fund-ries” in Australian English
It's not a good quality recording, but I think you have misheard it.
He is saying "by the so-called authorities in Rome".
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Do native speakers pronounce "found the remark" without the "the"?
To add to the dialect versions, northern English dialects will often pronounce "the remark" as "ut-remark" with a glottal stop (spelled "t'remark" if you want to write it down). This is very easy to ...
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"stray shower" mean
I agree you probably heard "stray shower".
"Stray" (adj). depending on context, means occasional, possible, isolated, and/or brief.
The sky was a perfect blue that day, with the occasional stray ...
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Is this a trick? Or too difficult?
Consider the following and their interpretations:
I'm going on tour two weeks from now. I'll be gone the whole week.
and
I'm going on tour two years from now. I'll be gone one week.
In both ...
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What he said in this video (2:30-3:00)
And another thing that does my nut in, is people who turn around and go "You coming out for a beer?" and you go, "no, no, no, I'm trying to be good." And they go "just come for one." {shakes head} ...
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Per American pronunciation, "a ear" or "an ear"?
OP here, I got a perfect answer from a friend of mine who masters multiple languages, including Mandarin and English.
Here's my translated version of the explanation which he originally said in ...
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What does "Rx accounts" mean?
I also hear "Also could you bring the file on the Rx accounts?" and the information you have provided is accurate.
The speaker is making a request. She is asking the secretary for the file "on Rx ...
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Usage of "hack into"
1) Is the "hack" a verb here?
Answer: No, it's not being used as a verb in that sentence. The word hack could be used as a verb, but then the sentence would need to read something like this:
Do we ...
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"Your position" or "their position"
You can use either their or your.
Their refers directly to the headlights' position.
Your position means the position that your headlights are in. It is your position because they are your car's ...
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How to say 0.01% in a formal way?
one-hundredth
the second decimal digit in a percentage
In our case, one (1) is the second decimal digit. So it should be
one one-hundredth of a percent
This is exactly what he says.
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Does she say "nodding off" or "nodding no"?
No, I don't think you can nod "no", at least in places where "nodding" is used for agreement. In the US, nodding is used for agreement.
nod
To lower and raise (the head) quickly in ...
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How can speaking and listening in English work?
Being able to distinguish homonyms in speech is something you need to practice. Once you get familiar with English, you'll be able to understand which word people mean based on the context.
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