Hi and welcome to Karin's reduced pronunciation practice for ESL students. Episode 9, Tellin novellas are the best. Episode 9, Tellin novellas are the best. When I was little, if you wanted to learn another language, you got a book and tapes. Well, tapes are records, actually. Then you played the tapes and listened as hard as you could. You played the same tapes again and again. Each tape had about two hours of listening practice. If you were lucky, you could find six or seven tapes for one language, but that was all. So really, you are trying to learn to speak and understand the language with only 12 or 14 hours of practice. All that changed with the advent of the internet and YouTube in particular. Nowadays you can find hundreds and hundreds of hours of almost any language. This is how I finally learned to understand Spanish. I got onto YouTube and found news shows. My daughter found out Disney translates songs and movie clips. I even watched parts of Frozen and the Little Mermaid in Spanish. Then I got on Netflix and watched Jane the Virgin in Spanish. After that I found out you could watch Tellin novellas on Tellin Mundo. So I watched a la otro la oda de muro. All 78 hours of it. In my opinion, Tellin novellas are the best and most fun way to learn any language. The tip of the day and or and or are two of the most common words in the English language. And we almost never use their full pronunciation. And can be pronounced in two ways. And silent D or N silent A and D. Here are some examples. Again and again. Again and again. Here the N sounds like N. Again and again. Books and tapes. Oh, sorry. Book and tapes. So here it sounds like just the N, right? Book and book and tapes. Or is usually pronounced Ur. Like tapes or records. Taps or records. On the worksheet each blank stands for three words. The middle word will be either and or or. So give it a try. Episode nine. Tellin novellas are the best. When I was little, if you wanted to learn another language, you got a book and tapes. Well, tapes or records, actually. Then you played the tapes and listened as hard as you could. You played the same tapes again and again. Each tape had about two hours of listening practice. If you were lucky, you could find six or seven tapes for one language. But that was all. So really you were trying to learn to speak and understand a language with only 12 or 14 hours of practice. All that changed with the advent of the internet and YouTube in particular. Nowadays you can find hundreds and hundreds of hours of almost any language. This is how I finally learned to understand Spanish. I got onto YouTube and found news shows. My daughter found out Disney translates songs and movie clips. I even watched parts of Frozen and the Little Mermaid in Spanish. Then I got on Netflix and watched Jane the Virgin in Spanish. After that I found out you can watch Tellin novellas on Tellin Mundo. So I watched Allotro Lado del Muro, all 78 hours of it. In my opinion, Tellin novellas are the best and most fun way to learn any language.