How to speak English fast and understand natives (Part IV)

hey guys welcome to lingo marina a lot of you dm me on instagram and if you don't follow me on instagram it's lingo marina or a lot of you write comments here on youtube saying marina i've been learning english for several years when i read things i understand the text i understand the meaning but sometimes i listen to native speakers and i don't understand them at all i don't understand and i try to speak like them but i can't if this is something that you experience this video is for you today we're going to talk about a thing called connected speech and this is what native speakers do all the time when they talk because some words are pronounced one way when they pronounce separately but when they are in a context when they're surrounded by other words their pronunciation changes and today we're gonna dig into those rules we're gonna explore behind the scenes of american accent and we're gonna explore what native speakers do to sound the way they sound and how you can do the same to sound more like an american if that's your goal so if you're interested smash the like button and let's continue discussing this topic in american english people tend to avoid non-essential words by making them weak and by that i mean that there is no stress on those words when people talk let me give you some examples so for example fish and chips right three words but when we talk we say fish and chips in this way the word and is in a weak form and basically we only say in fish and chips that's it fish and chips please and this way maybe you know what fish and chips is but once people say fish and chips you're like oh what was that just because americans and native speakers in general speak faster they do things that are convenient for them and a convenient thing is to make prepositions auxiliary verbs different helping words make them weaker so that you don't spend your energy you don't waste your energy in emphasizing them they're still there they still affect the meaning but the way they're pronounced is different because they are made weak let me give you another example have you finished work so the emphasis is on work here and have is weak have you finished work compare this to the answer yes i have here have a strong vivid it is not weak at all you have a stress on it yes i have so compare this have you finished work yes i have this is a very clear example of weak word she can speak spanish better than i can so we have two cans in this sentence the first can is not even pronounced as can we say she can speak spanish it's that's it we even emit a and this is what native speakers do in weak forms she can speak spanish but the next can is strong she can speak spanish better than i can i can make him happier than she can so if you learn this and if you start using this you will sound more like a native speaker more like an american native speaker because in great britain what i notice is that people try to avoid weak forms they try to emphasize every single word the next thing that native speakers do is called linking this is when you kind of sing when i was learning my accent where i was trying to copy native speakers my teacher would say you know marina you're good at singing try to sing in english because when you sing a song you try to connect words and this is what native speakers do they are linking everything together because if i speak like this this doesn't sound natural but if i speak like this it sounds natural and one word evolves from the other word a very clear example cats or dogs a native speaker would say cats or dogs like sounds just like one word but it's actually three words oh cats or dogs uh dogs another great example is busy which means is he busy but we actually emitted sound h and we have easy busy you see what's going on is he busy the next thing is called illusion and this is when one sound is substituted by another sound or completely disappears from a word again widely used in america in great britain you would say interview in america interview so t here just disappears interview that's it i would actually say it's substituted by another n because this n becomes a little longer interview no t at all great interview same example center american for center so t is substituted with this longer n and you get center not center and centa is very british learning center wanted instead of wanted butter instead of butter and this is another thing americans do when you have double tea it is substituted by d and it's again called illusion butter not butter but again if you want to sound more british butter is the pronunciation you would go for next door this is where we have both linking and illusion because next door is the way we would pronounce it if we were at school and the teacher told us pronounce everything but if we want to sound more american we'll say next door where the t disappears and two words get linked together oh next door and another great example most common just listen to what's happening here most common t disappears the words are linked together most common that's it again the way you practice it is that you just listen to people and you kind of have this in mind what you just learned when you have this in mind and you start noticing it it will become a lot easier for you to understand native speakers and once you start noticing those things the way native speakers use them you will start using them yourself and your speech would become even better assimilation i'm pretty sure a lot of you guys love american songs and you hear people saying don'tcha want you and you're like what does that mean we didn't learn that at school let me explain this assimilation is when two sounds combine producing a new sound so instead of saying don't you americans say don't chat again this is not like every american would do that but this is very common and you would hear that in pop culture you would hear teenagers uh do that you won't really hear a professor at stanford do that because they try to speak a more formal language what we're learning here is more you know common thing so don't you would be replaced by doncha won't you would be replaced by wancha the same with me too it was very nice to meet you it's very kind of british slash formal was great at meecha this is an american version and very very i'd say california when you're talking to your friends you'll say it was great to meet you did you i can't even pronounce it the way i would pronounce it back when i was like at school did you people don't really say that they say did you again this new sound between the two words if you only think that people are emitting sounds they actually add new ones this is called intrusion let me give you a couple of examples do it is pronounced as do it so we kind of have this extra letter between the two words uh w and it's pronounced as you do it how did you do it do it he asked again you can say he asked but you would say he asked me to go out we're singing in a language to sound more natural so this he asked we have this extra y between these two words and this is why it sounds like he asked he asked and the last but not the least there are pairs of words that we use together very often like social life but we don't say social life we say social life because we just connect them and we make one word out of two words when we talk and this just helps us sound more natural social life what about your social life woke up let's just say you woke up pet turtle here we have two tees that are together we just connect them pet turtle that's it we got a new pet turtle yeah if you think that you need more tricks like these i highly recommend the course that a teacher who is not a native speaker but who sounds just like a native speaker and nobody can actually tell that he wasn't born in america he has put together this course for linguatrip and i would highly recommend you to take this course it is called how to speak like a native speaker and this course is full of tricks like these and in this course you would learn them you would practice them and you would hear a lot more examples that i've given you today so if you are on track to speak like a native speaker and to understand uh natives then the link will be below it's gonna wait there for you please take this course and improve your speech thank you so much for watching this video up to the very end guys hit subscribe to subscribe this channel in order to not miss my next videos and i will see you very soon on this channel and on my instagram lingo marina thank you and bye

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Length: 9min 47sec (587 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 18 2020