Just me and my thoughts

It’s also not necessarily about how native speakers pronounce things, his advice is pretty specific to someone going from Chinese (Mandarin I assume?) to English. Listen to how they speak in Chinese, there’s very clear stops between words probably because it’s a tonal language but when you do that in English it sounds unnatural. Dropping the Ts is a good way to make it flow from one word to the next if you are struggling to make them sound natural

Not to derail but… Am I the only native English speaker who pronounces my “t”? Unless I’m speaking in a more American accent (sometimes when I say certain things/or am trying to emphasise the American in my accent, it comes out), then it sounds less pronounced, but otherwise I pronounce it pretty strongly.

No you’re not! It’s a regional thing, even in america. In my accent for example sometimes I pronounce the Ts and sometimes I don’t

I was watching a WIRED documentary on US accents on youtube, and according to that doc the replacement of “t” with a glottal stop when it’s the last letter in a word/syllable is in several US accents, but especially prevalent in Southern California, and this particular dialect quirk seems to have originated in the Indigenous American communities in California.

IT’S BACK

ITS BACK 

This is one of those posts that you need to save and tag or you’ll never see it again for 84 years.

it’s from 2013 with 2.4mil tags how the fuck have i not seen it before?!?!?