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[svetlana14]

I don't understand how the speaker (the lady) prounces "I don't like to go out..." (the relevant text says so). I sounds for me like "I don't night to out..." Please can you help with understanding what is wrong with my listening. Can you please listen to the tape. Thank you.

 

[Mrfatso]

Not A Teacher

The lady is clearly saying to me "I don't like go go out .....", the sound quality is a little fuzzy, but that is definitely what she is saying. Her accent is the one spoken in my part of England.
How to hear that I cannot help you with.

 

[Raymott]

'The lady is clearly saying to me "I don't like go [STRIKE]go[/STRIKE] out ....."'
Just to be clear.

 

[Tdol]

It sounds like I don't like to go out to me.

 

[svetlana14]

Thank you.

Please confirm that you didn't hear "to" before "go". Thank you.

 

[Mrfatso]

Not A Teacher

No it was "I don't like to go out", my finger slipped between the T key and G key on the keyboard which I did not notice in my original post.

 

[Raymott]

'The lady is clearly saying to me "I don't like go [STRIKE]go[/STRIKE] out ....."'

Sorry, I was attempting to clarify and made a typo myself. I meant "I don't like to go out ..."'
(I've also pared back the ellipses this time.)

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

The text is correct. She says: "...I don't like to go out in it again - not for a while, in any case...."

Your hearing is fine. She has a strong regional British accent, and it might be hard for you to interpret it. it becomes easier as you gain experience listening to English speakers.

An African friend and I went to a Richard Thompson concert. Thompson is a British musician. Afterwards, my friend asked me if Thompson had been speaking English. He hadn't been able to understand a word of it.

Thompson's accent (A different one than the self-conscious woman's.)