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Yep! Also, if you aren't familiar with the way words are either stressed or elided in spoken english, you're probably so confused when you hear native speakers talk π
We literally don't pronounce most of the sounds in most of the words we say. If you go around pronouncing every syllable of every word you'll sound insane