Pronunciation: from

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Tim's back in his pronunciation workshop. This time he's out and about in London asking where people come from - and he's discovering that the pronunication of the word from can be very interesting! To find out more, look at our website http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/towards-advanced/unit-22/session-5 TRANSCRIPT Tim Hi. I'm Tim and this is my Pronunciation workshop. Here I'm going to show you how English is really spoken. Come on, let's go inside. Where were you born? Where do you come from? Here's what we heard when we asked some people in London their names, and where they come from. Voxpops My name's Charlotte, and I'm from Darwin in Lancashire. My name's Ollie, and I'm from Norfolk. I'm Amy from London. Allie, I'm from Northern Ireland. My name's Victoria. I'm from Cambridge. Tim Now they all used the word from, didn't they - but they didn't pronounce it /frɒm/. Listen again: how is it pronounced? Voxpops My name's Charlotte, and I'm from Darwin in Lancashire. My name's Ollie, and I'm from Norfolk. I'm Amy from London. Allie, I'm from Northern Ireland. My name's Victoria - I'm from Cambridge. Tim The word from is a preposition; it's usually not that important in a sentence, so it's often unstressed. Now, at the end of the question, "Where do you come from?" It's unstressed, but it is still pronounced /frɒm/. However, when it's unstressed, and it comes in the middle of a sentence, the /ɒ/ changes to schwa, so /frɒm/ becomes /frəm/. This is an e

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