People Speaking: 22

The Capital of Europe

A: Isn't London full of tourists these days?
ˈɪznt| lᴧndən fʊl əv `tʊərɪst  ðiːz deɪz. [1]
B: Mm. You're telling me. There's more of them than English  people.
mː. jɔː `telɪŋ `miː. `ðɛəz mɔːr əv `ˏðem | ðən `ɪŋglɪʃ piːpl. [2]
A: In the summer it seems so.
ɪn ðə `sᴧmər ɪt ˏsiːm səʊ. [3]
B: Yes. In August I was looking for some street in South
jes. ɪn `ɔːgəst |aɪ wz `lʊkɪŋ fə sᴧm striːt | ɪn saʊθ
Kensington and I asked four people in succession.
`ˏkenzɪŋtən | ən aɪ ɑːsk ˈfɔː ˈpiːpl ɪn səkˎseʃn
Three of them didnt speak English.
`θriː əv ˏðm | ˈdɪdn spiːk `ɪŋglɪʃ. [4]
A: Ye gods!
ˈjiː ˏˎgɒdz.[5]
B:  And the fourth did, | but he was from Germany.
ən ðə `fɔːθ ˏdɪd, |ˈbət ˏhiː wz frm `ʤɜːməni.[6]
A: Did he tell you where to go?
ˈdɪd i tel ju weə tə `ˏgəʊ.[7]
B: Oh, yes! Knew London better than I did.
 ́`əʊ, `jes. ˎnjuː `ˏlᴧndᴧn |ˈbetə ðən  ́`aɪ dɪd.[8]
A: Tell you one really good thing about all these tourists.
ˈtel ju ˈwᴧn | ˈrɪəli ˎgʊd θɪŋ əbaʊt ɔːl ðiːz ˏtʊərɪsts  [9]
B: What?
`wɒt [10]
A: There's no off-season in the theatre any more.
ˈðez nəʊ `ɒf ˏsiːzn | ɪn ðə `θɪətər eni mɔː. [11]
B: No. They laugh in some funny places though, don't they.
ˎˏnəʊ. | ðeɪ `lɑːf ɪn sm fᴧni ˏpleɪsɪz ðəʊ, `dəʊnt ðeɪ [12]
A: Yes.
`jes. [13]  [More laughter]
Notes:
In turn 1 it's completely normal for a speaker to omit the final plural /s/ of a word ending -st.
In turn 3 there's only one /s/ which can't necessarily be said to belong more to the end of seems than the beginning of so.
In turn 4 the final consonant of ask seems to be unclear. If we think it's /k/ there's been an elision of final /t/; if it's /t/ then it's quite normal for the past of ask to be /ɑːst/ with elision of /k/.
In turn 10 the omission of the first personal pronoun 'I' before  a verb (here  'tell') is common in very colloquial speech.
In turn 11 the weakform of there's produced by shortening of the vowel to /e/ isn't very unusual despite the fact that none of the dictionaries etc include it. Very usually heard in the sentence "They're off", exclaimed when a horse race starts, is another such unlisted weakform.