Pronunciation: How to pronounce 'would you...?'

Tim's in the pronunciation workshop. This time he's finding out what happens when one word ends in /d/ and the next begins in /j/ - and he's asking the people of London how they ask for a helping hand...

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. How do you ask for help? And what is the connection between this… and this? Well, this is a piece of what? And what is the female version of this animal called? Put them together and what do you get? Well, here’s how some people in London ask for help.

Voxpops
Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?

Tim
Wood. Ewe. Would you – get it? Now, the words ‘ewe’ and ‘you’ have the same pronunciation, don’t they? But what happens to the word ‘you’ when it comes after the sound /d/? Watch and listen again

Voxpops
Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?
Would you do me a favour?

Tim
In fluent speech when one word ends in a /d/ sound and the next word begins in a /j/ sound, the two sounds come together and change to a /ʤ/ sound. You also might have noticed that the /uː/ in 'you' can change to schwa. So 'would you' becomes 'would you', or even ‘would ya’ This is an example of assimilation. Here are some more examples.

Examples
I’m sad you decided to quit.
Could you get here by midnight?
Should you see him, can you give him a message?
I don’t think the gold you bought was real.

Tim
Right, so you've heard the examples. What do we do? Listen and repeat.

Examples
I’m sad you decided to quit.
Could you get here by midnight?
Should you see him, can you give him a message?
I don’t think the gold you bought was real.

Tim

[professoreisenoxid]

One video teaches me more than my last two years in english class.. reading texts and answering questions again and again and again. No grammar, no speaking, nothing except reading boring texts and answering questions...

[carlosfarace]

Hi mate, your videos a great, they are helping me heaps to improve my pronunciation. They are short, very entertaining, go to the point and teaches us a lot.
please make a video on the rhythm and intonation of English.
Thanks a lot.

[faliquljf]

in the beginning, Tim's hair is little bit long, but when at 00:26, it is shorter.

[misscoffeecup]

Thank you so much Tim! 🫶🏻 You are the best!!!

[LostConviction]

Thanks!!! for teaching us so well!! 😄

[CnNhaNghe]

Very informative and easy to understand

[ginaaha]

I like the videos, really useful. And wow those blue eyes are very beautiful!

[jinounglee]

last sentence would be quite challenging for me to understand, if I haven't got subtitle on screen.
"the gold you bought"

Thank you as always!!

[हरिबोल-हख]

Hello sir...thanx for these pronunciation classes... U r great 🙏🙏

[mar]

Note for assignment (＞人＜;)
⚫︎d sound at the last of a word and y sound in the start of the following word can be mixed and pronounced like j sound
⚫︎the pronunciation of ”you” in ”would you” or “should you” can be changed to y sound ＋ schwa

[johnlomi]

This is hilarious...
Thank u so much.
Heart from Indonesia.

[musictrance]

thanks a bunch Mr Tim . your video is very fruitful it is short though.i hope you ll upload more videos because i'm really in British pronuciation.

[noel]

Hi Tim,
I wanted to ensure the pronunciation of ' would you~?' and ' could you~?'.
Because I was able to hear that: 'd + y' = ʒúː' in the sentence as in 'would you~?'
So, the explanation of this video is what I sought about. Besides, 'y' sound in ' you' is also changed to schwa sound.

[paoloel]

If we don't connect these sounds, would it be considered a mistake?

[elgasimabdo]

Brilliant!every tutorial you reveal something anonymous to us!....but i have compliant the gap between video is quiet un match my eagerness.

[aliteralgodess]

Same w EVERY teacher w my last bane, it is Šušnjevic(pronounced shoosh-nye-vich with a hard sh and ch)and i had to repeat it 15 times

[Moonlightcastle]

Thanks for your sharing, it's amazing!! May I ask you a question, so the phonemes for would you should be /wə ʤə/, is that correct?

[karencamilasadleir]

I don't understand the example with the animal.i will go to Google.

[brittniwhite]

couldja, shouldja, lol. And it doesn't matter, people understand what you mean. There is no reason to slow down lol.

[dreamofice]

Is it same for american accent or just for british?