This is an all ears English secrets to real listening bonus 19,

the missing piece to understanding cool native pronunciation.

Welcome to the All ears Englishars-English podcast Bonus Series, where every week,

Lindsay and Jessica will show you just how easy English listening can be

when you have the right secrets and strategies. Plus you'll hear stories

from Lindsay's 12,000 mile summer adventure across the United States. Now let's get

to the show.

Today we have Jessica on the show for our bonus episode where we'll give you a quick hint on the way that native speakers

drop the final consonant of many of their words and we'll show you how you can

train your brain to understand and be ready for this. Hey Jessica, I don't know if I want to ask you how it's going today,

but um, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

That was a monumental way to begin this recording.

Monumental.

Listeners. Oh, listeners. Morning listeners,

Oh, listeners, real life, real, right?

No, just, we have a lot of stuff going up,

but I do have one super cool thing happening this weekend my son is

turning six oh and yeah we're having this like enormous party and I hired a clown like it's gonna be so cool.

Wow, that is gonna be so fun that so that's something to look forward to so

totally yeah, I mean you know we've been having some tech issues here recently you know the two of

us a few things with the website a few things here and there but we're getting through it we're

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