One of the best ways to sound like a foreigner to an Amercian is to fully pronounce everything the way it's written(the formal,textbook pronunciations) 让美国人听起来觉得你是外国人的最佳途径之一就是将所有单词的发音就如同它的书画语（正式、课本发音），一样完整地说出口。 However ,learning this list of contractions used in daily speech is an extremely good way to sound like an veteran(person with experience) in English,and is helpful when trying to understand people,when trying to blend in ,it is absolutely indispensable. 然而，学习下列日常用语中常用到的缩略音，则尤其不失为一种使你讲起话来更像英语高手的好方法，并且在你试图要听明白别人说的话时大有裨益。 The "glottal stop" represented here with a "1' ,is like a rapid stop in the throat,like rapidly turning your voice off and back on again It is similar to the hamza sound in Arabic represented with a " '" as in mi'a(one hundred) It's also the sound you hear if you've ever heard an American say" uh-oh" or"uh-u" Example later better smarter at a time a tomato mandatory the way to go I am walk in all the way back tonigh mountain forgotten can't paint sweet late lights output forget it recited break strike works break it awaken lab red bag wipe I heard them yesterd I gave him the message. I have her books. I have his books. Maybe he forgot . Her book A bunch of stuff. bunch stuf fish and chips . I came and I lef How are you? I saw you the other day. You'd haft be craz I'm going to leave. He's going to stay . I'm going to the movies. I want to leave. They want sta Want to see a movie?I hope you do well. Hope you do wel There are also a lot of monosyllabic words whose vowels simply become" schwas" when they are not emphasized and used in more casual speech.They includ when as it well then let's at to in if ..