TRYING TO LINK WORDS/SOUNDS

Hi everyone!
     This week, I have dwelled on linking the sounds or words of English as I really have difficulty in this issue. I cannot speak English fluently as it is my L2. I cannot connect words or sounds as if they are one word. On the contrary I utter the words separately as if they are 2 different poles. And this mistake results in an unnatural pronunciation. To solve this problem I've made some research about it. I've found a website which explains how we should lik the words/sounds while we are speaking. There are 6 different ways of linking words to the website. If you're interested in this issue, here is the link. On this website, 2 examples are given for each rule. I tried to pronounce/link  the words correctly in my recording.
     Also, I've found a video on youtube which stresses on this issue.The video directs you to practice few sentences/tongue twisters in a linked way. You can listen those sentences in my recording and also you can find more information about them from the video.
    In conclusion, after practising those sentences and words, I have become more aware of those linking rules. Let me give an example, ''She watched television.'' when we utter this sentence we can recognize that the verb 'watched' ends with the /t/ sound and the word 'television' begins with the /t/ sound. When we have a case like this, 2 same sounds together, we should pronounce one of the /t/ sounds.
   I hope this awareness of the rules helps my pronunciation as well.
   See you.

Gender Roles - JAC2 Assignment

Check out my audio recording about Gender Roles

REFLECTION  
Hello! I am a blogger again. Again for my homework assignments :) This time I have recorded my sound. It was like interviewing with myself. My topic was about Gender Roles as you can see on the headline. I think it was a quite useful activity for my speaking skills. Actually, I was very disappointed to see that I could not speak so fluently and I could not use the linking words
( moreover, in addition to etc. ) appropriately. I think, one of the reasons of this is my personality. I mean I am not the type who can speak about everything and everyone. In short, I am not such a talkative person that who can speak one hour about one issue even in my mother tongue. In this term, the questions really helped me in terms of speaking. This was one good point about the assignment. To improve myself, I should practice in speaking and I should not cut my words short. I should try to find more to speak. When it comes to pronunciation, I think it was not so terrible :) At least everyone can understand what I am talking about. But I noticed some mistakes in  'stress' of the words such as 'appropriate', 'issue', 'woman-women'. I should focus on these mistakes and next time I should pronounce them correctly.

See you next week :)