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IELTS Listening how to avoid distractors related to tenses

By ieltsetc on August 19, 2018

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  1. abbas mirza says

    April 18, 2022 at 11:33 am

    I can’t hear “of course they’ll need” on her voice (c8 t1)
    I hear “of course dont need”
    although, I hear you clearly.
    whats my problem?

    could you help me?

    • Fiona says

      May 4, 2022 at 12:15 pm

      Hi Abbas

      Many thanks for your question. I’ve listened to the part you mention again, and I’m guessing it’s due to the fact that connected speech makes the speaker drop some sounds. So ‘they’ll’ becomes more like ‘thull’ and ‘th’ often comes out as a ‘d’ sound, which may be why you hear something like ‘dun’ instead of ‘thull’. It’s really helpful for me to know how you hear connected speech. Have you done any work on what happens when sounds run together like this?

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