How to pronounce Sir, please learn this. in American English

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SUR sir PLEEZ please LURN learn dhihs this

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Americans pronounce "Sir, please learn this" as "SUR PLEEZ LURN dhihs" in casual speech. One thing happen here that bend the citation pronunciation toward how it actually sounds. Keep stressed words long, unstressed words short, and link the consonants forward into the vowels.

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Saying a clean TH.

The TH in "this" can be produced with the tongue tip pressing just behind the upper teeth rather than coming all the way through — an easier, faster articulation. Tongue tip presses behind teeth instead of coming through (easier articulation).

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Saying a clean TH.

dhihs→dhihs

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Is this how the sentence is taught in textbooks?

Textbooks usually teach the citation form — every word pronounced fully, every consonant crisp, every vowel pure. Americans actually flap their Ts, drop function-word H's, link consonants forward into vowels, and reduce unstressed syllables to schwa. The respell on this page shows the casual form you'll hear in real conversations rather than the textbook version.

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