Listening: Understanding Natural Connected Speech (Very Basic) A1 - Lesson 2: Understanding Simple Greetings and Farewells at Natural Speed.
Understanding Simple Greetings and Farewells (Connected Speech) Welcome to your auditory decoding workshop! I am Teacher Sopheak. When native speakers talk, words flow together like water in the Sangker River. They do not sound like individual book words. They squish together into single acoustic packages. Conversational Reductions covered in this module: How are you? reduces to: Howarya? (ហាវ-វ៉ា-យ៉ា) How is it going? reduces to: Howzit goin? (ហៅ-ហ្សិត-ហ្គោ-អុីន) How are you doing? reduces to: Howyadoin? (ហាវ-យ៉ា-ឌូ-អុីន) What is up? reduces to: Whassup? (វ៉ត-សាប់) What are you doing? reduces to: Whatcha doin? (វ៉ត-ឆา-ឌូ-អុីន) See you later reduces to: Seeya later (ស៊ី-យ៉ា-ឡេ-ធឺរ) Have a good one reduces to: Havagoodone (ហាវ-វ៉ា-ហ្គូត-វ័ន) Got to go reduces to: Gotta go (ហ្គោ-តា-ហ្គោ) Please enable JavaScript to access the interactive HTML audio players, linear quiz components, and smart lesson downloader tools.