Distinguishing articles in American English speech
Hi everyone!
I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish articles in American English speech. I even suspect they indeed sometimes pronounced identically. I'm not 100% sure though.
I'm listening to an audio book currently and I often hear 'a' where I understand it's 'the' even if I listen to the fragment like 50 times in a row (literally) in a kind of deep concentration trance.
I've made some clips. Could you please listen and tell me if the 'the'-s are pronounced differently from 'a' and what exactly the difference is? What are exactly the sounds?
The narrator is Scott Brick. He's from California.
There was reason to the fact that the element known as “pure science” was
the freest form of life on the Foundation.
So it also happened, that when Ebling Mis decided to allow Indbur to
honor him with an audience, he did not wait for the usual rigid line of
command to pass his request up and the favored reply down, ...
The mayor stood stiff with displeasure, and said haughtily from the peak
of his five-foot-two, ...
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When I click on the links I get an error "Whoops. " Do the links work for you?
- When I click on the links I get an error "Whoops.
- " Do the links work for you?
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