A2 · 4 minutes · Pronunciation

The weak “and”

In common phrases, the word “and” is often very short.

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What you’ll practise

Hear the weak form of “and” in fixed phrases.

Words to know

pepper: A spice that makes food taste hot.
phrase: A small group of words.
weak form: A short, quiet way of saying a small word.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 96% of the words in this lesson.

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These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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