Joins us with some solutions and whether he thinks products like blue-like glasses can help. Good morning to you doctor, good to see you. What a nice greeting she gave him. Good morning to you doctor, good to see you. Let’s talk about that phrase “Good to see you”. This is a phrase I use quite a lot when I spend times with friends or family. It’s so good to see you. Do you see we have one letter T here in the word “to”? To is a word that reduces and that means we change a sound. We almost always change the vowel to the schwa and sometimes, we change the true T to a flap T. The flap T sounds like the D in American English. The D between vowels. So here it comes after a D and guess what? She just attaches the schwa to good. Goodto, goodto, good to see you. Take a listen. good to see you. Now since this is a common phrase, let’s practice it. You’ll hear it in slow motion twice, say it out loud the second time. Sing that song. Good to see you. Then you’ll hear it at regular pace twice, say it with her the second time. Let’s keep going. Hi Gayle, how are you? I’m alright with my dry eyes sitting up here but a lot of people are looking at their screens more than ever. A lot of. This three-word phrase is very common. The T comes between two vowels and pretty much all the time, a native speaker will make this a flap T. You won’t hear a true T. A lot of, a lot of. It’s a flap T linking, smoothing things out. A lot of. A lot of. You can say that V sound or not. A lot of or a lot of. She drops the V, that’s a reduction and of is a word that we usually reduce. A lot of. A lot of. That phrase begins and ends with a schwa. You want it to be as fast and simple as possible. A, a. A lot of. A lot of. Let’s listen to just that in slow motion a few times. And now let’s hear it at regular pace. Changing that T, smoothing out English. Let’s keep going. Can you explain why it’s such a bad, why it’s bad for your eyesight to begin with? Yeah, it’s multifactorial. We call it the “Computer Vision Syndrome”. And it uh, it combines– It combines. We’ve studied a drop T, a flap T and now Dr. Starr is giving us an example of another way we change the T, the true T sound. It’s a stop T. For this we stop the air. It. But we skipped that T release. Instead, we’re going to the next word. So there’s really a quick stop of air and that’s the stop T. That’s not actually a sound rather it’s an abrupt stop of sound. It combines. It combines. Let’s look back at that stop. Here, I slowed down the clip to just twenty five percent and you can see the volume of the voice below. Let’s just listen to this clip once. This gap here is the stop T. Let’s take just this part here and listen to it by itself so we can see is it really silent, is there really a stop of air of sound. So I’ve isolated just that spot let’s listen to it. Sort of strange isn’t it? It’s just the room noise really. He hasn’t really engaged his voice here. Let’s go back to the original clip. There’s another spot over here where we see something similar and guess what that is. It’s the B on combines, combines, bb, B is also a stop consonant. Let’s listen to this phrase again. So it becomes ihh, ihh. And then a little stop of air, and then the next word. So, true True T, tt, Flap T, [flap] drop T and now stop T. These are our four T sounds. Let’s listen again to this stop. It combines– Actually there’s one more kind of T. Let’s see if we can find it. Both eyes strain from just staring at the computers which are right in front of you. Okay there we had it. Eye strain. When we have a T followed by R like in train, try or in this case, strain. It’s pretty common for that T to become a CH. S-CH-rain. Strain. It’s not very strong but it’s not a T, a T either. T,t, train. It’s more common to hear ch, ch train.. It’s light. C h,ch, strain. We’re going to listen to just strain in slow motion. You won’t hear T but you will hear CH. strain– So when do you do a true T? T. Let’s keep listening and I’ll tell you.