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hey everyone it's me hadar and it's my Friday live second week on Friday that I go live and that's very exciting today first I want to invite you and tell you if you don't know that yet that I'm running a five-day fluency challenge and it's going to be super exciting super effective hi everyone I get to see you so yes let me know in the comments below that you can hear me and see me and tell me where you're from yeah a new video yes a new video and it's an exciting one today because I put some thought into it and I wanted to discuss something discuss something that a lot of people have been asking me about how to understand native speakers and look at me I jump from one topic to another I started talking about my challenge okay let's go back to talking about the challenge the fluency challenge that starts on Monday this Monday it's a five-day fluency challenge where we're going to tackle some not tackle but you're gonna get from me specific exercises and learn hacks and important tips that will help you communicate your message and share your ideas with others without getting stuck now look over 780 750 people have signed up to this challenge you know up until now and more people are joining every minute and half of them are already participating in an active Facebook group so people are uploading videos and supporting each other and connecting and communicating and I have to say it's pretty amazing it's more than I've expected so it's going to be super exciting and very effective and if you want to join the challenge you can click on the link below or go to the accents wacom forward slash fluency - challenge okay or just click on the link below and join the challenge I promise it'll be exciting all you need to invest this 20 minutes a day during those five days and you will see your results okay so we're going to talk about how to overcome your pronunciation obstacle you're gonna get very cool hacks on how to improve your intonation and how to sound effortless when you speak knowing what to focus on and what to stress and you will have to it's just it's it's it's a great opportunity to practice with other people I narrow that a lot of you don't live in an english-speaking country and that's a good opportunity to practice your English to speak a lot so I definitely want you to check it out okay good so this answer is actually in response to a question of one of the participant and participants in the challenge who said that he you know he speaks English rather fluently and he's pretty confident when he speaks but when it comes to listening to people or speaking with other native speakers he feels frustrated because he doesn't always understand what they're saying and that puts him in a very bad position because he has to ask them to repeat themselves and then they just think that he doesn't understand English so sometimes we don't understand native speakers now because we don't understand English like if we were to read the text we would understand every single word but something about the way they speak that sounds a little overwhelming unclear and sometimes just frustrating so today I will talk about the objective reasons why that happens and the subjective reasons why that happens so that is related to so the objective reasons are actually how English language is structured and things that happen in England spoke in English that we are not always aware of as non-native speakers because we never learn it in school and the subjective reasons are patterns of speech of not of native speakers or dialects okay so we'll discuss that after and at the end of course I'm gonna give you practice tools to help you deal with those issues and learn how to and actually practice your listening skills okay good so right now I'm gonna ask you and in the meantime I'm gonna look at your comments I'm gonna ask you what is so first of all I'm gonna ask you do you struggle with understanding native speakers is there a specific situation or speaker that you struggle with the most specific TV series that are more difficult for you to understand what do you do about it okay what what do you do when you come across somewhere that you don't understand whether it's on television or in real life okay so let us know in the comments below so we can all all learn from each other and yeah so in the meantime I'm gonna look at your comments just really quickly say hi hello everyone I'm Cuba and India and Israel and Brazil and Madrid amazing how to understand I don't understand this word how to understand Nega English okay okay Monday the challenge Monday on which time zone well it's going to start in my morning uh so for you I don't know where you from worry from so it's going to start let's say really early morning New York time about actually 4:00 a.m. New York time so it's going to be right there like midday for Asia in Asia and the Far East 9:00 a.m. in Israel my time how to correct your pronunciation Mike is asking I have just joined in can you tell us how to correct your pronunciation I don't like using the word correct okay it's not to correct there's nothing wrong with your pronunciation how to modify it or how to make it a little clearer yes maybe how to learn a new accent that's something important as well that's a great you're not doing anything wrong okay okay so I don't understand Sarah or Cairo says that I don't understand people when they speak greatly fast and mumbled okay so we'll talk about that definitely when they speak fast I don't understand every word okay I wish we had subtitles in real life right you'd have like we'd speak to people and then we'd see the subtitles below and see what they say that's not gonna happen okay maybe maybe someone will invent it it's easier to be for me to listen I have more difficulties with speaking okay yes so that happens as well I can understand you're very well good I'm not a good example because I'm a speech coach so I am clearer probably than most native speakers just because I know to emphasize some words more and my intonation is very varied which helps you understand me better okay and actually that's how he speak in real life because I've been teaching and coaching most of my life my life so it's a little easier for me to do it like that but of course when I'm more tired or you know when I don't teach my pronunciation is not as clear probably okay so let's get started let's talk about why it is so difficult to understand native speakers here's the thing English I've said that before and you've heard me say that many many times in my videos but English is not a phonetic language so first of all it it is not spoken as it's written okay you are not supposed to hear what you see the representation of the language the written representation of the language is very confusing to us because we expect to see certain letters so we see certain letters we expect to see certain sounds moreover we see certain phrases and we expect to hear every single word but in reality a lot of words are reduced connected emitted okay so we drop a lot of words a lot of sounds and the problem begins when we try to kind of like hear hear the language and a Hach a written word to every word or every sound we hear okay so basically we're always trying to hear the language or we listen to the language through the filter of the written word so we what we immediately visualize the words now that's the worst thing you could do why because there is no correspondence between what you see and what you hear and I'll give you a few examples let's begin with intonation if you've seen my latest video about intonation I discuss the fact that there is a difference between content words and function words content words or words that stick out these words are pronounced slowly they're stretched the intimation is they're higher in pitch they're very clear at the same time function words all the small Auden add could what should Emma's are all these words are usually reduced reduced to a place that they're not really clear anymore okay so let me give you an example I have to think about it I have to think about it what did I say if you try to connect every sound to a word a written word what would you say that I'm saying what would you write I have to think about it so some of you know that I'm saying okay tell me what I said I'll say it again there's a delay here as I think about it good yes I said I have to think about it right a simple sentence but look what I did this is a short example but just to show you I didn't say okay I don't think about it someone said I someone thought I said I don't think about it and you're right like how would you know what did I do I took the word I have to and I turn it into I have to have to and then I said think that was clear so you both got think I have to think about it yeah I have to think about it good most of you got it right so think was clear about it was also clear so just that part of I have to was not 100% clear so um what am I saying now I gotta get out of here I gotta get out of here that's also an easy one but look what happens I have got to get out I have got to get out good guys nice all of you got it right but again when you're thinking of the words okay also when you think about saying the words I have got to get out turns into I got to get at it I got to get at it I got to get out of here right so we're reducing the beginning and add and there is usually one word or two words that stick out another example what are you trying to do what are you trying to do okay so what what you're doing right now because I'm giving you short sentences is that you detect the main words trying to trying to what are you trying to do is that what I said first I think so what are you trying to do right and you fill in the gaps right you know that what are you trying what are you trying what yeah okay if I just say what yeah it is very good guys you all got it right what are you trying to do what are you trying to so trying is the word that sticks out and what are you is reduced what do you what do you what do you and let me tell you this Whataya is also what do you what do you want to do what do you want to drink what do you want to see what do you so woody a-- can be what do you and what are you right two different sentences two different tenses they sound exactly the same why because i reduce them what do you turns into what yeah what are you turns into what technically it's what our yeah but the are is reduced the flap T and the D connect what do you they sound the same exactly so someone wrote here what are you drink right I said what do you what do you want to drink or what do you drink no what do you that's not a word what are you drinking right maybe that's what you meant what are you drinking so someone hears that and they may think that ice I'm saying what are you drinking what do you drinking then it can be also confusing in terms of learning grammar okay cuz different sentences sound the same because of the reductions this is just a small example of something that happens all the time because we are used to analyzing every single word so what am I trying to say here don't try to understand every single word think about the way you're reading in your native tongue when you read a book or any text in your native tongue do you actually read every single word do you actually read every single word and focus and concentrate on each word now you usually skim the text and you detect the words that kind of like stick out usually these are the strong content words the words that convey the message the words that hold that carry the content that's the way I I want you to think about listening in English okay when you listen to someone in English don't try to analyze every single word first of all because it's going to be whatever you hear is going to be a little faster than what your brain is is like detecting so instead of trying to analyze everything that you hear try to get the strong words how do you know the strong the stressed words how do you know that these are the stressed words those are the words that you detect those are the words that are usually pronounced a little slower little higher in pitch and the louder so instead of listening to everything try to look for those stressed words those peak words and trust your intuition and trust your knowledge of English or of languages in general that you'll be able to fill in the gaps and fill in all the small words because you have heard you know you did detect some some of the sounds there so you will be able to fill in those gaps even if you were just even if you just understand the main and key words in the sentence okay so instead of listening and trying to analyze everything that you hear again because you won't be able to associate what you hear with the representation of the word in your brain so just go for the stressed words the words that could jump at you the words that you have no problem understanding and use your intuition and of course it's a skill that you need to practice and I'll talk about how you practice it later on and use your trust your knowledge of English that it will help you to fill in the gaps and understand what you hear okay also there is the that you know there is this thing called context right that you you know the situation you know what it's about usually so you can understand sort of the meaning it's like when you read a book and you come across a new word and you don't have really the patience or the time to go into the dictionary and look it up but you get what it means because you understand the context okay it's the same thing you don't have to understand every single word so basically what I'm saying is let go because usually we freak out and then we get all stressed out and then we're like IIIi don't understand what's what is being said here and then you turn on the subtitles if it's television or you know you just ask someone to repeat or you just nod hoping that they're not asking a question right now and and then and then that a that's your confidence and it affects your ability to communicate in that moment because when you stress out of course the words are not going to be a be available and of course you're not going to be of open to listening and to kind like you know communicating okay so let go of the need to understand everything and try to detect the key words the second reason why English is not 100 percent clear is one there are some sounds okay forget the one there are some sounds that are there that vary there in the there in the spelling and I'm not talking about the K in knives draw or the P in psychology that these are not even sounds they don't even exist it's just a symbol on the page I'm talking about words that end with legit sounds for example a word that ends with a T okay let's take the word wait wait okay so you hear the word wait and you're expecting to hear however the T is not always pronounced especially in positions at the end of the word or before a consonant it's called a held T so while you are expecting to hear a sound what you actually hear is which is nothing it's an abrupt stop of air it's not a T the way you perceive it okay so again for example if I'm just saying wait out of context then some people may think I'm saying way way wo why when in fact I said wait I stopped the a sound abruptly and that's the team okay so a T at the end of the word is not pronounced so no I did not say way I said wait wait okay gay gay okay so there is the word gay GA why gay and gate right where I stop the air abruptly invests the tea so you know that when you hear the words separately but what happens when it happens within you know when someone speaks really fast and then that happens as well right that can be very very confusing so again expecting to hear a certain sound and not hearing it it can throw us off another example I had a student complaining about it they someone said strange and the speaker said strange strange okay cuz sometimes Str can be pronounced as a shift sound by non-native speakers that happens so immediately what that person did was he heard the shoe sound and he was automatically looking for a word with Shh that sounded something like strange and he couldn't come up with it so it was very unclear for him he couldn't tell what this word meant of course had he seen the word written he would understand that perfectly he he knows what Strange's but in this case he heard a sound so he tried to look for a word with a shoe sound and nothing fit nothing was fitting okay what he expected to hear so okay so again don't take what you hear for granted always challenge what you hear and assume that you may have not heard a certain sound that was there okay so again you always that you also need to be familiar with those sounds that are held or not pronounced so those stop sounds like a team or a P stop you won't hear the P at the end okay help not a lot of times people will release the speed it's not help okay so when you associate the P with purr when you hear just this stop right you don't recognize it as a P again I'm generalizing here maybe that's not the case for you if it is let me know if it's not tell me as well I'm just giving you examples of situations where what you hear is not what you know or what you expect to hear and that's when it becomes a little harder to understand native speakers these are the objective reasons the way English is structured and again that's intonation the reduction of function words okay and a certain pronunciation of some sounds that are not the way you expect to hear them or sounds that change according to their position in the word like the peas the tea's in the case now another reason okay these are the subjective reasons are certain circumstances sometimes when people use humor there would go really really low and kind of like speak really with a slow pitch and the Golic glottal fry and what you want to do and right are you familiar with this when so for example I could say let's let's try to give you an example I'm terrible at at coming up with funny funny sentences but let's say something yeah I'd like to join her I'd like to join hadera's challenge yeah I will join her dars challenge like that's ever gonna happen right I will join her doors challenge tomorrow yeah like that's never gonna happen right I kind of like spoke really low I was making a joke I was being sarcastic like that's ever gonna happen but I deliberately said it and clearly like that's are gonna happen right I mumble death because that was a way for me to take in Vedic humor and the thing right I was sarcastic so that's that happens a lot right when Americans speak they go also when they're you know some speakers speak really really low or you know some speakers are more monotonous some have a different dialect than what you are familiar with okay it can be a BA Estonian accent it can be a southern accent it can be I don't know in New York accent we're all of a sudden you hear sounds that are not the way you're used to hearing them certain rhythm different intonation patterns and then which takes us straight to part three of this short training how to practice it how to improve your listening skills so when you have a specific speaker that you like and you don't understand them then look for interviews with them look for you know if it's it's if it's a if it's an actor look for TV series or film films with with this specific actor movie monologues and try to listen to it closely and let me tell you one thing about practice look we're we listen to English all the time and still we struggle with understanding native speakers why because we never looked for the things that make it unclear for us so a lot of you tell me that you have specific speakers that you understand perfectly a lot of you understand me if I don't speak too fast I know that I do speak fast sometimes but a lot of you under say I understand you I understand other teachers but when I watch this actor I cannot understand a thing you need to understand what are the things about this specific person or this type of conversation that is unclear to you when you practice you need to know what to look for you need to be very specific about what you're working on so just listening over and over to the same thing is not enough so what I would do is I would play a video and play it and half the speed okay half the speed you can go to youtube and click on the small cog wheel on the bottom right corner and play it and half the speed and listen to it closely listen detect the reductions that they do or a specific word okay that is not clear to you maybe you can even the subtitles right and see if you can if you can see is see what word was not clear and tried to understand what was not clear there did it have a specific sound like the t's and the peas of M vacays that are not released and that was the reason was it a certain reduction right so be very attentive and and and and think close like think you have to be very conscious about what you're hearing and what you're practicing and that's the only way to get results okay so you play it in half the speed you listen to the parts that are not clear and you try to understand on your own why that was not clear taking into consideration everything we discussed today okay and then you can play at a normal speed and see if you understand it better maybe you can take a TED talk and read the script first and then listen to it again okay or not again for the first time after you've been reading the TED talk that gives you a stronger understanding of what you're hearing maybe you can just play a game and take a speaker that you really don't understand and then just try to and listen to it don't look at the at the television or the computer and just write down the words that you detect that you do detect and then maybe try to fill in the gaps and create sentences out of this out of the words that you detected knowing the circumstances knowing the context okay so there are plenty of ways to practice it the only thing is to understand that to keep on listening to speakers and expect to improve just by doing that it's not enough it's not going to cut it you have to listen closely to a certain speaker and detect it closely detect the places that are unclear to you and try to work just on that imitation exercises really help because it gets you to speak the way that person speaks and then again it helps you understand a bit more their patterns and the way of their way of speech okay so to summarize and then I'm going to go into Q&A so I can answer your questions to summarize when you listen to when you struggle when you when you have difficulties understanding native speakers the reasons for it could be reductions so a lot of words that are reduced to one word okay and there month it feels like they mumble and speak really fast but they actually reduce parts that are less important and because they are less important it's less important for you to understand exactly what they were saying trust that the words that stick out are enough your brain will fill in the gaps trust it and practice it practice listening to it differently okay so that's one step recognize the sounds that are not pronounced the way they're written or the way they're pronounced in your native tongue and then you although you hear a certain sound or maybe you don't hear a certain sound maybe the sound is actually there okay and I gave you an example with the t's peas and K's and then we talked about subjective reasons people using humor or certain patterns of speak where speech where people speak really low or mumble or speak fast or speak with a glottal fry or they have a certain dialect and then you need to like develop your listening skills specifically for those speakers okay so it's not just for all general speakers is specifically for those speakers and when you improve your understanding of these certain speakers then of course it affects your understanding in general and of course of course if you hear it you can do it so it improves your speaking skills as well because you first need to recognize what's going on and to hear the differences and only then you're able to actually make it okay so it's not just about understanding them it's also about improving your own abilities to speak clearly and effectively okay so that's about understanding native speakers I'm just gonna go back to for those of you who joined later to telling you that I have a five-day fluency challenge that starts on Monday starting this Monday April 23rd and it's going to last for five days and every day we will tackle a different aspect of speech and by the end of those five days the idea is for you to be able to communicate your to introduce yourself and to talk about something you are passionate about without getting stuck and with being a little more clear in terms of pronunciation and intonation and you will get tips and tricks on how to practice and how to sound effortless and how to improve your pronunciation and confidence okay and also how to prepare for any speaking opportunity and it's free it's totally free and there is an amazing community forming up as we speak so as we speak a lot of people already upload are uploading videos and commenting on each other's videos and communicating so I think that's the most important thing and that's the biggest gift that I've got from starting this challenge and that's probably going to last even after the challenge is over because I think what we're looking for is a supportive community and also a lot of opportunities to practice and there we have it we have people that want to speak with people in English what else can you ask for okay so I'm gonna go into your questions okay so okay let's see what do I have how pronounced here you're just answering my questions guy gate yes why do we know what do we make English complicated it's not we that make English complicated it's English that is complicated I was bound to post because of my frequent posts mmm I didn't I didn't know that I'll check it grow to global I I didn't van you probably probably went to spam I don't always check not check my spam folder your face isn't hideous it is pretty well thank you I'm happy that my face is not hideous it's all about context yes okay when do you ask me questions guys okay so we're we're done where the conversation asks me questions and you speak fast you can throw away some sounds I don't know what that mean how to pronounce the word thing how to pronounce the word thing okay so people from California usually talk using the vocal fry' that's true okay I'm going does the word federal has and you would have any reduction okay federal actually hear the word federal that's a good question you can say federal and federal so the reduction here it's a function word so it doesn't reduce so much but what does reduce here is the middle syllable okay so when you have words with three syllables and the middle syllable is a swab like the word federal in many cases people just drop the middle syllable and say something like federal can you think of other words that where that happens so federal turns into federal memory turns into memory great restaurant turns into restaurant you know several turns into several absolutely very good family turns into family now both are okay that I always give us an example okay I forgot but okay so when you have a word with three syllables and the middle syllable is a schwa in many cases people will reduce that middle syllable so you can do that too and it is easier because it's easier to pronounce two syllables rather than for some people natural and natural that's very natural it's true we have family okay in the words walk and talk is the L pronounced no in walk and talk and I think in all words that end with LK walk talk folk folk music that's a different vowel but when you have LK the ellas is not pronounced now I'm sure there is an exception that I can't think of right now but take that as a thumb rule okay LK it's not free and whenever there is L and K it's not pronounced it's not even a dark L that you say oh I barely hear it like in the word girl that you don't really hear and out no hear it's just not pronounced okay interest and pre interests interests and interest yeah this is more a it's a little different it's not different cuz interest can be pronounced as interest no one says it like that if someone adds a schwa in the middle they'll probably drop the T as well interests or interesting right because when the T appears after an ad it is often dropped so I usually say interest two syllables interest uh okay so let's see what other talk about clearly I think I talked about nearly and clearly last time and how to pronounce cappuccino okay I'll talk about these two how to detect the schwa in word I have a full video about it so I would write like you know an hour long video about how to detect the schwa in a word so I recommend you to watch it and I improve audio listen continuously can I improve by listening to audio lessons continue continuously over a period of time well improve your listening or improve your pronunciation that's the question so think about it but when you listen to audio lessons it improves your listening skills yes because your ear is more trained Tillis - what you hear so yes mr. awesome cool mr. awesome cool yes so listening yes it can improve your listening skills if you feel that you are it's up to you like I think it does help it it does help but if you feel that nothing changes you know like let's say you've spent a few hours practicing or a few hours listening and it's still a struggle then maybe something about the what you're doing is not enough and then maybe you either need to slow it down maybe you need to work with the script at first until you train your ear you connect what you hear with your eyes with your you know with the your perception of the word okay good so wait before I move on to look at two more questions let's talk about the word we said clearly right and cappuccino I think I'm gonna make a video about how to order stuff on Starbucks they have all these weird words for for coffee tall and Grande and Frappuccino okay so I'll do that soon clearly before the word cappuccino clearly the difficult part about it here is the R and L rather transition from the R to the L so we have a light L at the beginning and we want to connect the sound to the L cool so I don't know what language you speak the person who asked for this question I think you're a woman so the woman who asked for this question let me know because it depends some speakers struggle with connecting the two the L and then they'll say something like a clearly or clearly right add a vowel in between if that's the case you need to connect that sound with the L so as you pronounce that for that you bring the back of the tongue up you bring the tip of the tongue resilient okay so I don't think you're hot you struggle with cool so you kind of want to pronounce the L sound but started with a little bit cool cool right tell me if it's difficult and then you move on to the ev3 and afterwards you bring the tongue up again for the are not touching anything clear you have this sound in Portuguese or clear but then I think the tricky part is to move from the R to the L so you want to make sure that your tip the tip of the tongue touches the upper palate clear here the tongue pulls that and then you make sure that the tongue touches so it's not clear orally or clearly okay okay so clearly nearly fairly okay so for the AR the tongue pulls back not touching anything and then you push the tongue forward for the L the word cappuccino let me ask you this the a sound in the word in the beginning of the word cap what does it sound like what other words have the as in cat I almost gave it it gave it away okay it as in cappuccino give me other words that have this a sound cappuccino cat clearly no we're not talking about clearly anymore clearly we're not talking about clearly anymore so the word the sound ah thank you guy he wrote a tool a tool is in Hebrew ah yes cat get back very good dad good for you man reply me no it doesn't have the a sound in reply me Apple fantastic gasp lack of beautiful guys yeah as in cat sadistic said this stick no there is no a it's spelled with a name but sadistic has a schwa the beginning hack hahaha okay fact very good so a lot of words spelled with a you're right usually it's it is represented with the letter a and the word congratulations yes it has congrat a congratulations beautiful so that's the acid had a front vowel ah cat so you've got a drop your job pull the lips to the side so it doesn't sound like cappuccino cat cat doesn't sound it shouldn't sound like cappuccino table that's the Oz and coffee so we have it in coffee but in cappuccino we have app what about the second sound listen kappa what sound is it kappa so it's not cappuccino there is no Claude schwa you're right so Kappa it's a schwa Kappa and then the primary stress is chi achoo sound like a tea and a shutdown and a high e Chi Kappa Chi and then we ended with no no oh isn't go notnot not cappuccino okay for you Italians out there or other speakers that don't have the O's and go in their language it's not cappuccino its cappuccino alright the old doesn't exist in English that's a generalization but it doesn't exist in English especially when it's at the end of the word you have to close it with oh oh as in what what other words have the Oh sound cappuccino no no class that's the advocat colleague you know that's the ahhs and father and a high e colleague blow go Bao bo w has the hours and now that's a different sound spelled the same but it's an owl sound low very good and hole very nice that's not an easy one okay whole the whole world or I have a hole in my pocket they sound the same it's an H sound and then the long o is and go though boss no boss is the ahzab father my boss okay not boss not boast okay so we need to descend where there is no all in in so usually it's either again it's I'm really like it's very general what I'm saying but a lot of speakers of languages that have five six seven vowels usually take a bunch of sounds in English and turn it into an old the odds and father is one of them so they'll say boss instead of boss and sometimes they'll say cappuccino instead of no okay so they'll turn the OS and go into all or the odds and father into all and sometimes a schwa sound is pronounced as an O okay so we add a lot of oil sounds when we're we don't need to because again there is no all in English okay so coming back to cappuccino talk about all these things when I talk about cappuccino so cat as in cat push wai chee high e and no as in no cappuccino other words let's see bus versus boss okay bus versus boss that's a good one so we said that there is no oh it's not boss it's boss so how do we distinguish it from bus I took the bus or my boss takes the bus he's a really cool boss he takes the bus every day to work so what's the difference here get me another word that has the sound as in bus bus I took the bus us very good Claude you're on top of it today hush bass that's the atom cat let me tell you this the cup sound luck very good submarine versus now you got it wrong this time Claude you you hit it off really well but now I have to take out one point touch very good I'll tell you why vs. is not because versus four versus has the stirrer sound at the beginning in Venice a schwa however maybe I will give you back this point the sister the end the schwa sound is like a stress Cup as in cup as in couple as in bus as in struggle good job guys you guys are awesome fuss you know what I love about you is that you have saw this knowledge most of you who have been watching YouTube videos you know so much so that's pretty amazing suck that sucks bug rug yeah I usually spelled with a u but also with Oh like love and oh you like country and sometimes double O as in flood and blood okay produce you know produce doesn't have a cup sound rustic does have produces the sound and at the beginning is we have a swap prep produce unless we're talking about produce that's the noun produce and that's the OS and go okay anyway cup bus for this one the tongue is in the middle the jaw doesn't open much the lips are relaxed cup bus okay cap as and cat like the cat vowel like the cappuccino that's an open a sound cap we have cooked as in bus as in husband and we also have AA as in cop oz and father cop coffee boss for this one we dropped the jaw the tongue pulls back and the lips are relaxed boss let's do it together bus boss but boss cup cop let's try all three tap as in cat cup central us sound like a stress Schwab and cop okay and I actually have a video about cap cup and cop with more examples so look it up stuff okay blood very good this sound is an upside down v isn't it yeah it is it's that upside down V sound but if you look it up Google if you just search you know if you click define on Google right and you see that one box with the transcript it's the APA the American phonetic out but it's not exactly the IPA it's not the international phonetic alphabet that's when you will see it as a schwa but you'll see it as a stressed syllable so it has a small apostrophe to the left of the syllable which indicates that's the primary stress and when you see a schwa upside down schwa again when you see a word transcribed using the APA the American phonetic alphabet it's those funky elements like you know double O with a little curved line right above it that indicates that's an cook look book vowel okay it's different from the IPA and then again it's marked as a schwa with in a stressed syllable the way the word paper the second P is the second P aspirated okay great question and I think you asked it in one of the comments guys I read all your comments I don't always answer all the comments especially pronunciation commas that kinda like take into consideration that I will answer it in one of my videos so the word paper so first of all I see your comments and thanks for a for for being very active and engaged so yes paper has to piece the first one is aspirated so it has a little H after pay but then the second syllable is not the primary stress paper burr right I'm not saying paper that's too much I'm not saying paper none of the peas were aspirated the first one is aspirated pay / / / so the rule is when the P is at the beginning of a stress syllable or the beginning of the word and it has to stand alone it cannot be after another consonant like spray for example or spit right here it's not gonna be aspirated so when it's at the beginning of the word when it stands alone at the beginning of the word or the beginning of a stressed syllable then it's aspirated same thing for the T's and the K's and so on I'm having so much fun so we will continue answering your questions but feel free to check out if you're bored so payment what's the question aspirated yes payment connected speech and blending okay not in this not in this video but I will I am working on a video about connecting connected speech that will be very helpful still steel and steel I like this one I was actually discussing this triplet this week a few times with my groups Danny hey what's up you just joined in hello ok culture I don't know I'm just really reading random words you were mirror ordered murderer how can I say these words without mumbling strongly uh well you know sometimes you need to mumble strongly when you say some words I'll talk about these before but what was the question before still steel and steel ok so we have the pair sheep ship the tense eavers is the relaxed ear here we have steel ok ste ii l steel the substance or steel the verb I'm going to steal your thoughts steel those are pronounced the same with a high esau n-- speed the tongue is high the lips lips pull to the sides as in seat gas seat complete we steal feet reason feet with a tea right I did not say fee I said feet my feet I wanted to show you my feet but I'm not that flexible ok so feet and steel so these two words are pronounced the same their home phones ok different words that are that sound the same spelled differently and still has a relaxed ear it still they're like a bunch of cats just downstairs do you hear them let me know in the comments if you do like they're making all these funny noises and it's it's not my baby crying out there its first of all because I'm not at home and second of all she doesn't sound like that ok yes you hear it ok sorry about it steel and still relax if still right it's a relaxed a sound drop your jaw relax your lips it's a shorter sound still steal a hyena the word error mirror ordered so I talked in the last live video I talked about words with a flap T or T and then an R like order and border so I'm not gonna repeat that I'm not gonna repeat my explanation just go and check it I think I discuss it right at the beginning of the video but here's the tip when you have words with a lot of ours at the end murderer mirror let's talk about mirror and error and horror so here although there is an O here so it's ro R the way we perceive it right that o is not an O it's a schwa so basically it's our schwa our like in mirror so technically it's mirror mirror but no one says it like that first of all it's hard and second of all becomes unclear so you want to connect the two R's together mirror mirror right mirror it's not air or it's air error okay just say a little longer horror movie horror or just want not hor roar that's too difficult to pronounce so sometime and murderer right everyone mumbles when they say this word just make sure that your R is not too strong that you don't invest too much energy when you are saying this R sound okay so I think that's the secret especially when it's at the end ours at the end are really really light should be light don't over pronounce them don't invest too much energy a lot of the work by the way if you want to understand how to be more effortless when you speak English join my challenge that will begin on Monday ok the fluency challenge because on day three we will talk about how to speak effortlessly okay or how to invest less energy when speaking um okay someone set the shield is asking I'm shy about taking videos of mine look you don't have up if you can still join the challenge yes of course you don't have to have a Facebook account to join the challenge you don't have to share your videos but you you need to do some stuff on your own okay so you need to make videos keep it to yourself erase it a minute after but you really learn from it one of the reasons why we use videos or recordings in the session is in the challenge is for you to be able to notice things that you don't usually notice when you speak it's for you to be able to listen to yourself and know what you need to focus on to improve and to do it again and better the next time and it's opportunity to take this one week that will pass anyway and to make a change to really make a difference and all you need to invest is twenty minutes a day that's not a lot of course you can invest an hour that would be great of course of course not more than that I'm not I'm a fan of small baby steps and really getting results and I truly believe that once you make a change a small change in one aspect of your speech of your English it has an effect on many other elements in your life and your confidence and of course your English so this is a really good opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a difference make a change okay what have you got to lose so click on the link below and sign up you can also come to my facebook page and you'll see the link there the accents way or my latest video about how I lost my accent I have plenty of links there to the challenge okay it's been an hour I think we're done I I had so much fun speaking to you guys what is a comfort zone again comfort zone comfort zone is where we feel comfortable is where we feel safe is when we need to do something outside of our comfort zone oh we get scared we are afraid to try something new Mechanism want like the we wants to keep us safe in a certain area right we don't try new things we don't do crazy stuff because we don't want to get hurt okay it happens in many areas in our lives so for us not to get hurt not to fail not to be frustrated we stay within our comfort zone what we are familiar with so when it comes to English so we use the same words we use the same patterns we maybe don't speak as much as we want to because that means to leave our comfort zone and to be vulnerable to be exposed to I don't know judgment self judgment first and foremost sometimes we are afraid of what people are gonna think about us sometimes we were afraid to of making mistakes and then to be criticized for that so you know we want to be perfect so we don't leave our comfort zone and the thing is what if we don't leave our comfort zone we don't grow okay the only way to change and to grow is to leave our comfort zone is to get uncomfortable so you get uncomfortable you do things that scare you but then that becomes your comfort zone and then there's something else to strive for and then you need to do other things right so so every time you get into a new comfort zone there is always some some other place that you want to get to that is less comfortable but that's the only way to grow and that's the only way to learn and the only way to achieve your goals especially your English goals when it comes to what we talked about here okay that's it enjoy your weekend I really hope to see you there on Monday so sign up to the fluency challenge and if not then I'll probably see you here on YouTube in the next video bye everyone thank you thank you for participating and being so freaking awesome classes dismissed indeed you

Channel: Accent's Way English with Hadar

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Length: 59min 51sec (3591 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 20 2018