In American English, words are not pronounced one by one. Usually, the end of one word attaches to the beginning of the next word. This is also true for initials, numbers, and spelling. Part of the glue that connects sentences is an underlying hum or drone that only breaks when you come to a period, and sometimes not even then. You have this underlying hum in your own language and it helps a great deal toward making you sound like a native speaker.
Once you have a strong intonation, you need to connect all those stairsteps together so that each sentence sounds like one long word.
The dime.
The dime easier.
They tell me the dime easier.
They tell me the dime easier to understand.
They tell me that I'm easier to understand.
The last two sentences above should be pronounced exactly the same, no matter how they are written. It is the sound that is important, not the spelling
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To understand linking, it is important to know the difference between vowel sounds and consonant sounds. Here is a table of English vowels and consonants
vowels a e i o u
consonants b c d f g h j k l m n
p q r s t v w x
y z
The table shows the letters that are vowels and consonants. But the
important thing in linking is the sound, not the letter. Often the
letter and the sound are the same, but not always.
For example, the word "pay" ends with:
* the consonant letter "y"
* the vowel sound "a"
Here are some more examples:
though know
ends with the letter h w
ends with the sound o o
uniform honest
begins with the letter u h
begins with the sound y o