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Hello guys, hello boys and girls and welcome back to Robby's Accent Adventure video blog, where we learn to speak like American English speakers.

Yes! I'm trying to sound like American currently and I'm putting on my general American pronunciation and in case you're wondering how that's possible, how we can achieve the same kind of results, you definitely may want to check out the Accent Genie program.

I was following the same principles outlined in the program and you'll be repeating hundreds upon hundreds of sentences spoken out loud by a native English speaker and you'll be repeating them and you'll be focusing on the key sounds.

What I've done with those videos is I've gotten rid of all the irrelevant stuff. And you'll be only focusing on the sounds that will actually enable you of sound like an American English speaker, right?

There are so many other courses out there but what they do is they analyze the whole speech and you're focusing on too many details at the same time. So it's way too overwhelming.

Anyway, let's get down to today's business which is contractions: I'll, you'll, he'll, she'll, it'll, we'll, they'll.

Why I’m Talking About It? One Of My YouTube Commentators Asked Me To!

And the reason why I'm going to be talking about them is I was asked by one of my YouTube commentators to make a video about them and specifically how to pronounce them in fast and slow speech.

And he asks me that because there's only one – according to him – there's only one video on YouTube and that person isn't even from an English country and doesn't sound like a native English speaker. And I really appreciate your comment because by reading that you would think that you think I sound like a native English speaker which is a great thing.

Thanks for saying that and anyway, I'm not a native English speaker. My native background is Latvian. I come from Latvia and I've been living in an English speaking country for 14 years now, right? Not 40, 14. But it's not the United States, it's Ireland.

But anyway, I've always taken such a great interest in everything that's got to do with the United States that a few years ago I decided to teach myself how to sound like an American English speaker. And I'd like to think that I have approached that level where one would hear that I sound like a native American English speaker, right?

It’s the Dark ‘L’ That You’ve Gotta Be Focused On Here!

Anyway, sounds I'll, you'll, he'll, she'll, it'll, we'll, they'll is a typical dark “l” sound. And actually it happens so that a few years ago I recorded a video about the two different “l” sounds. The light “l” and the dark “l”, right? So you may want to check out the video here, in that you'll find out everything there is to know about the dark “l”.

But anyway, nonetheless I'm going to read out these following sentences that I wrote down there in order to show you how to pronounce these sounds in these specific contractions, right?

I’ll Do It

So I'll do it. I'll do it. Or slowly, I'll do it. Well, to be honest with you, I don't really see the big difference, I'll do it or I'll do it. One way or another the “l” sound is the dark “l”. L. I'll do it. I'll do it, you know. It's not I'll do it. It's “l”. It's a bit more throatier than the light “l” sound, right?

You'll See for Yourself

You'll see for yourself. You'll see. You'll see for yourself. You'll see. You'll. You'll. You'll. It's a bit throaty. So you definitely refer back to that video made a few years ago. So that's the way you pronounce these “l” sounds in these contractions. You'll. You'll see for yourself. So you'll. Then you kind of swallow the sound. You'll. Almost like that, right? You'll see for yourself.

And as a matter of fact, this “l” sound is very characteristic to American English speakers,