How do you connect words in English?

Of your two example sentences, I don't understand the first. The second one doesn't seem to have connected words (at least the way I pronounce it). I don't think I understand your question. Are you trying to slur more to sound more fluent? And what which are connected that you need to practice connecting? Oh wait.... "he's been acting" could be pronounced heezbinnakting. Is that what you're talking about? I don't think this is as big a deal as you're making it out to me. It just happens the faster and more confidently you speed. You dont' want to force it, since it'll sound really weird.

The same as you do in your native language. You just need to practice. Don't worry if it doesn't come easily. You are a learner. Don't try too hard. As you speak more it will become easier without you even trying.

All of your answers are here. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrqHrGoMJdTQjpAE9LLYcpGqFOVQOyT7n&si=djPt3masUBqKz842 Get back to me after you've worked through this playlist :) This creator is called Rachel's English. She specializes in the authentic American accent.

The YouTube channel Rachel’s English talks a lot about this kind of thing (in American English). Try searching for “reduction” or “linking”. Many of the videos describe tongue placement/shape and since you’re talking about sounds I think actual examples you can hear will be more helpful than a text description. [link, if links are allowed](https://youtu.be/6ziKkSig0jM?si=cT862uVbfoNGMNts)

This is not a thing we do intentionally, it's just a consequence. Don't force it, it isn't intuitive at all.

This video on Length and Linking by linguist Dr. Geoff Lindsey will help!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPi2jtU7Tl4

I'm not sure what you mean by "connecting words." can you try to rephrase your question?  I've read your question several times and I'm still confused, and the responses so far seem to be interpreting your problem differently 

If I tried to speak your language fast it would sound like gibberish too. I spent my whole life speaking English. I dont even THINK *about* speaking English unless its an uncommon word. Any native English speaker will tell you when we try to use uncommon words to sound "smart" we end up slurring our words. It happens all the time in business settings. The reason is that English is like 4+ different languages rolled into 1. Germanic, Latin, Greek, French, even Hindu, native American many others. The gramatical structure of English is well suited to absorbing foreign words in isolation because we dont have to conjugate them or when we *do* conjugate them it is straight forward. I can turn almost any noun into a verb or adjective: Shampoo (a Hindu derived word) to Shampooed and Shampooingly: The woman took her favorite bottle of shampoo and in a seductively shampooingly fashion shampooed her hair all night. So pronunciation can be hard because we are mixing all these different languages and sounds together that wouldn't normally go together. English gives you flexibility not consistency. https://www.etymonline.com/word/shampoo#23339 If you want to get better just take the hardest sentences you can find and practice saying them over and over again slowly then fast Practice saying them forward and backwards. I suspect most cultures have kids games called tounge twisters where you try to say difficult sentences very fast. Here are some HARD things to say as a native speaker when said FAST: Red Leather, Yellow Leather, Red Leather, Yellow Leather.... Rubber baby buggy bumper Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore. And my all time favorite: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

I’m confused, are you trying to make a complex sentence? Are you trying to connect to ideas? I know I hate feeling like I can only speak in short sentences in foreign languages I study.

I agree with others who are saying to slow down. Through my work, I speak with people in other countries on the phone. I am so impressed with non-native speakers who learn English - it's not an easy language. I'd prefer that people slow down - sometimes it's hard to understand someone with an accent speaking quickly.

“He’s been acting dumb throughout the whole show” would be broken in to something like (based on my own accent because that’s the easiest one for me to examine): Hee‿zbih‿nacting duhm throowouʔ‿d̪ːuh hole show 1. If one word ends in a fricative and the next begins in a stop, the fricative will usually jump onto the following word. 2. If one word ends in a consonant and the next begins in a vowel, the consonant will usually jump onto the following word. 3. “Dumb” is on its own because the velar nasal doesn’t connect with D and M doesn’t really connect with the dental fricative either. 4. The vowel /u/ is actually more accurately written as something like [ʉ͡w] with a built in glide so that glide connects the two vowels in “throughout”. 5. The T ending “throughout” would be turned into a glottal stop and would geminate to the dental fricative by turning it into a geminated voice dental stop. This still sounds distinct from T and D though as TH is often turned into a dental stop which continues to contrast with the alveolar stops T and D. 6. “Whole” and “show” are major stress points and also don’t really have any way to easily connect them so they’re on their own. The ending vowel of “the” stays where it is and L and SH don’t connect. The L in my accent is kind of mushed into the vowel. It still sounds like an L to my ears, but it’s more like a pharyngealized [o] sound. This is because of the vowel in “whole”. The way words are connected is going to vary by accent so this is only based off my speech. Other people may have different ways of connecting words. The major stressed syllables are: dumb, whole, show. “Act” carries some stress but the stress is not as strong. The unstressed syllables are: he’s, been, ing, through, out, the Just as a note, as well, your first sentence doesn’t really make sense.

Ideally you don't. I don't understand your first sentence and with the second there should be separation between those words, you don't want an 'umpth' sound.

I was having the same problem — not only connecting words myself, but also understanding English speakers when they used connected speech. [These videos](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ARI0UPusAMErhh4wTAzFNFYC7FoJrO7&si=tvtp9CzyyarkMBM2) have helped me a lot, and I also started shadowing the speaker in the rest of the videos on this channel. He speaks very clearly, and he explains everything very great. Now I find myself connecting words more effortlessly and naturally, and even my native English speaking friends have noticed. I also started understanding connected speech more and more in movies and shows. I hope it helps!

Listen to media, and then try to repeat it. Pay attention to how the words are spoken and blended. It takes time to hear it and then practice to duplicate it. I am having this experience right now in a different language (native English speaker, learning Welsh). I couldn't figure out how to say certain strings of letters - once I heard how native speakers actually did it (rather than how it is written), I heard it everywhere and could duplicate it. I expect I'll have many more moments like this, because every language has it's own flow. While you are learning, it's OK to use the 'proper' forms. It's fine to say "I'm going to go for a walk" and speak out each word. Everyone will understand you just fine. Eventually, you'll find yourself saying "I'm gonna go furra walk" like native speakers do, just from hearing it so often.