How To Speak English Fast? Best Tips & Tricks To Speak English Fluently!

Hey everyone, I'm Andrea your RealLife English fluency coach and today's lesson is really going to help you with those pains you have about learning English. I'm going to give you the best tips and tricks that you can start learning and using so that you can speak English faster but also understand natives better even when we speak fast. So we have six main tips and tricks for you today and it's important to note that although you think that we do speak English fast it's more about the way that we speak rather than the speed. Before we get into the lesson I want to let you know that we are here to guide you beyond the classroom to live and learn and speak your english in the real world so be sure to hit that subscribe button and the bell down below so that you don't miss any of our new lessons. Now let's get into today's lesson. So my first tip today is to learn and use contractions. Now you probably know what contractions are so instead of saying "I am" for example we would shorten that to "I'm" and instead of saying "I have" we could say "I've" and instead of saying "do not" we would say "don't" okay so those are just a few examples but what I tend to find is that learners think that contractions are an informal way of speaking which actually is not true and for this reason they're afraid to use them but I'm here to tell you that you should use them contractions are part of everyday native speaking and they really help to make your speaking more efficient and more importantly more natural so it's really important to learn them because natives use them all the time so if you're aware of them you can understand us better but also when you're speaking you can use them and this way your english speaking will be more natural and also a little bit faster. Contractions are useful and you can use them in the workplace, when you're speaking with your colleagues, you can also use them when you're giving a presentation the only time where I might say be wary of how often you're using contractions is if you are writing a formal piece of writing for university or for your work, for example. So just be cautious in that scenario. In my teaching experience I've also noticed that when reading students tend to ignore the contraction and actually say the full version of the words so for example if they're reading instead of saying "don't" they will read it as do not and i think this is just something that tends to happen because people think that you shouldn't use contractions and it is more informal. So now we're going to take a look at a couple of contractions that students tend to find difficult to pronounce. Okay so the first one is "we're." Now I find that students find this one a little bit difficult because it's very similar to "were" and "we're" here means "we are" so for example instead of saying "we are going to the supermarket" you would say "we're going to the supermarket" but because it's so similar to "were," the only difference is that apostrophe I tend to find that students find this one a little bit more difficult to pronounce. Another tricky one is "I'd" now this one isn't as difficult to pronounce but it could mean either "I would" or "I had" so sometimes that tends to give a bit of confusion for example I could say and instead instead of saying "I had better call my mom back" because she called me earlier for example I could say "I'd better call my mum back" so sometimes there's confusion there as to which contraction that really is because it could be two options. Do you find contractions difficult? If you do give us a like down below so that we know and that way we'll make a lesson for you explaining how you can master them so my next tip for you today is to use connected speech. Now this is the way that natives speak in a very natural way and in fact it's a way that natives of any accent speak we don't pronounce all the sounds in words and we actually tend to connect words together so whilst you might think that we are actually speaking fast it's more that we are shortening the words or we're connecting words together which makes it sound like we are speaking fast English. The more you study this listen to it and even speak in this way the better you will understand natives and you will start to speak English faster too. You don't have to speak in this way if you don't want to but you will have to learn it if you want to understand natives better and also if you want to understand your favorite tv shows and movies because this is the way that natives speak and is much more natural to us and so for you to understand natives better and also your favorite media I highly recommend that you learn connected speech. A great way to do this is with our other YouTube channel Learn English with TV Series where we have so many lessons where you can learn connected speech, vocabulary pronunciation, and much much more all with your favorite TV series movies and even songs so you can click the link up here or in the description box below to check it out straight after this lesson. So i'm not going to go fully into the mechanics of connected speech because this would be a lesson in itself if you do want this and you would like to see a lesson on this in particular let me know below in the comments and we will try and do that for you. So i am going to give you some examples of connected speech and one thing that Americans tend to do a lot more but Brits also do in English is to reduce verbs so instead of saying going to we'll say gonna instead of saying want to we'll say wanna so it's really important to learn these so that when you're speaking or listening to native English speakers you can understand what they are saying. Another type of connected speech is the American T or the glottal T so an American T is also called a tap T and that's like for example instead of saying "got to" they reduce the verb so they say gotta but that's with a true T they would actually say [go-da] so what that is is my tongue is just tapping the roof of my mouth that's why it's called a tap T and it's a different sound so instead of saying gotta they say [go-da] and a glottal T for example in British English is where you don't hear the T so instead of saying water I might say [wa-er] and what's happening there is the flow of air is being stopped and then released so you don't hear the T sound but there is a sound there the stopping of the releasing of the air so we hear it in words such as water, I would say [wa-er] and you can hear it in other words such as butter you might say [bu-er] and that's a glottal T. Another example of connected speech is the reduction of the h sound at the beginning of words and this is very common in British English, specifically in the north of England as well as in more cockney English in London which is more of the East side of London. So instead of saying "I have to go to the supermarket" Some people might say "I [av] to go to the supermarket." Or instead of saying "I had a great time at the party" Someone might say "I [ad] a great time at the party" So there's also the reduction of the H which is a form of connected speech and it's really important to learn these and to understand them to understand natives better. Wouldn't it be great to learn English without getting lost and without getting bored? Well now there is, with our RealLife Native Immersion course we will take you on a 41 week RealLife adventure of the English language each week exploring a different topic related to our goals: to help you understand AND use real native English and making it a permanent part of your life in a fun, natural and convenient way. And the best part is: your can try it right now for FREE with our 3 part Power Learning series. All you have to do is click up here or in the description box below to learn more and sign up now! Now, let's get back to today's lesson! My next tip for you today is to decide which accent you want to adopt. Now some learners choose not to even think about this or they don't even realize and they just want to learn English whereas some students actually really think about it and think about the type of accent that they want to have now you don't have to do this so you have a choice you absolutely don't have to change your accent. Many students like to have their own natural accent when speaking English and it does tend to sound more exotic too which isn't a bad thing it's actually really really nice for example Sofia Vergara speaks amazing English but she does have a strong accent and also Arnold Schwarzenegger is a great example because he speaks English really really well but he does have a strong accent also. However if you do have aspirations to adopt an American or a British or even another English accent I do recommend that you make that decision quite early on and that you're consistent with it because that's really going to help you you'll be able to know where to find your resources as well, and once you start with it and you're consistent with it it's really going to help you to speak English the way that you want to. We made a great lesson on this over on our channel Learn English with TV Series where we looked at the accent of the famous bollywood actress Deepika Padukone. and she speaks amazing English but she does have a strong Indian accent so this is a great lesson to check out you can click up here or in the description box below to watch it straight after this lesson. So my next tip for you is to pay attention to stress. now this is really important and a way of looking at it is looking at content words versus function words so content words tend to be nouns, adjectives and verbs those are words that really have a meaning that are really important in a sentence and function words are auxiliary verbs or prepositions and some others that link those other words together to complete the sentence. So what natives tend to do when we speak is you really hear those content words so you will hear those words we stress them they are more prominent in the sentence and those function words tend to be lost or sometimes we say them very quickly or they're connected to other parts of the sentence so they are not stressed as much as the content words. For example in the sentence "I'm going to the shops" what do you think the content words are there So there the content words are "going" and "shops" I articulated them, I stress them a little bit more than the other words the function words which if you sometimes you can forget what they were but "I'm going to the shops" So "I'm," "to," "the" those are the function words they help to put the sentence together but they are not stressed what we can also do aside from content and function words is if we really want to emphasize a word we might just say it louder. So there's an example for you when we speak we tend to stress certain words that we really want to emphasize and that's important to note as well. So my next tip is to learn and ignore discourse markers or fillers is another way of calling them. So these are the words that natives use when they are thinking about what they're going to say next and they don't really add any meaning to the sentence or what they are saying some examples could be "anyway," "basically," "so," "in fact," and there are many many others too so by learning these what you can do is just ignore them but also you can use them when you're speaking because they're a great way of giving you some time to think about what you want to say next they're a great tool in speaking more naturally because rather than saying "um..." or just spending a lot of time thinking or not really knowing what to say it's a great way to speak more naturally, to speak a bit faster, and also a great way to understand natives. So my final tip for you today is to learn English slang expressions, idioms and phrasal verbs this is a great way to get to know the culture better but it's also important to know that sometimes these things can be different whether it's in the UK or in America or even other English-speaking countries also we do use them a lot so it's important to learn them and once you get more comfortable with them you will start to understand natives better and then you can also start to use them when you're speaking too. A tip within a tip for this one is not to overuse them however it's great if you learn them and you start to use them within your speaking but a danger is that learners tend to overuse them so if you're using them a lot your English will not sound as natural as you want it to be this can be quite a daunting one because there's so much vocabulary there are so many expressions to learn so what I would advise you to do is to start off small and start off slowly you can set yourself small targets such as learning one or two a day or a few a week and then grow from there. Once you do start to learn more of these expressions and this slang vocabulary then you're going to understand natives better and you will start to speak English faster too. If you want to learn these things in a fun natural and convenient way then i highly recommend that you check out our podcast because we have a lot of episodes where we actually talk about this and Ethan and I look at the difference between British and American English slang expressions and many other things so it's a great place to start you can find the link in the description box below so you can check that out later. So there you have it those are our six tips and tricks to speak English more fluently and understand natives better I hope you enjoyed today's lesson and if you want a more in-depth lesson on one of these tips today let us know in the comments below and we'll make that lesson for you to help you achieve your English speaking goals. What's up guys? I'm Ethan your RealLife English fluency coach and maybe like yourself I am an introvert but learning languages over the last 12 years has helped me a ton and being able to overcome the paralyzing shyness that I felt when I was younger so let me tell you that if you are shy or you believe that maybe you're an introvert that this does not need to be a barrier to being able to speak English fluently and confidently.

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Length: 16min 44sec (1004 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2020