In rapid speech, sounds blend together or are dropped. For example, in English, when speaking to a friend you might say, “Skweet” — in slower speech you would probably say,
“Let’s go eat,” or “Let us go eat.”
Get your helper and a friend to carry on a casual conversation for you to tape. When you play it back, Kino repeats more slowly and deliberately the sentences that you couldn’t figure out — or just selected sentences if the whole thing went over your head. Try to see how sounds blend together and which sounds get dropped altogether in more rapid speech.
