Speak FAST English in 30 Minutes: Advanced Pronunciation Lesson

hi i'm vanessa from speak english with vanessa.com let's speak fast english let's talk about it [Music] let's imagine the scene you have had a long hard day at work so you come home sit down on the couch you're ready to relax and watch the new english tv show or movie that you've been waiting to watch you turn on the tv and oh my goodness they're talking so fast can other people actually understand this is there some kind of secret do they know something that you don't know well today you are going to learn what makes american english fast so that you can understand fast english and speak like an american yourself to help you never forget what you've learned i've created a free pdf worksheet that you can download for today's lesson you will find all of the pronunciation points sample sentences and you can answer vanessa's challenge question at the end of the worksheet make sure you click on the link in the description to download it now in today's lesson you will see my most popular videos about how to speak fast english so that you can speak fast too let's watch after you watch this lesson what are your plans for me i could say after this lesson i am going to take a walk when we talk about the future in english we have two options we can use will i will take a walk or i am going to take a walk but is that the fastest way to say this sentence i am going to take a walk no first let's make a contraction out of the first two words i am becomes i'm i'm and then the next two words is our first reduction we can say i'm gonna take a walk what happened to the word two here i'm gonna take a walk the word to simply changed into uh i'm gonna take a walk make sure that when you use this reduction you do not say i'm gonna to take a walk because we've already used the two when we change it into uh i'm gonna take a walk now i have a couple sentences that i'd like you to say out loud with me can you repeat these out loud with me i'm gonna take a walk he's gonna make a presentation they're gonna bake a cake let's make those sentences negative i'm not gonna take a walk he's not gonna give a presentation they're not gonna bake a cake for reduction number two i have a question where is your dream location to visit there are a lot of wonderful places in the world but for me i'm gonna say that i want to visit norway is this the fastest way to say this sentence i want to visit norway no let's make a lovely reduction and say i wanna visit norway what happened to the word two here does this look familiar the word to changed to uh i wanna visit norway the same as before make sure that you do not say i wanna to visit norway no we've already changed the two into uh so you can simply say i wanna visit norway you probably know that in english we need the subject and the verb to agree so that means we can say i want she wants there needs to be an s at the end so can we use this reduction when we change the subject can we say she wanna visit norway no because of that s we need to include it she wants to visit norway we need to add that s now i have a few sentences that i want you to say out loud with me are you ready i wanna visit norway they wanna come over today if you'd like to know some other ways to use the word come check out my video up here so that you can use that naturally let's make these sentences negative i don't want to visit norway i don't know who would say that because that's kind of crazy who doesn't want to visit norway but let's say that negatively i don't want to visit norway they don't want to come over to my house for reduction number three i have a question what do you need to do to improve your english skills what do you need to do there's a lot of things you could do but if you wanna improve your english skills you might say i have to study every day is this the fastest way to say the sentence i have to study every day no let's make a reduction with the words have into i have to study every day you might notice that when i wrote this out the v changes to an f but this is just because that's what it sounds like when we use these reductions they're always in spoken english or in really informal writing like a text message so the way that you write it isn't so important this isn't for formal papers or formal exams so i wrote that f just to remind you that it does sound like an f i have to study english every day what happened to that little word too can you guess i bet you can you are an expert in this now the word to becomes uh i have to study english every day what about if we change the subject i have to study she has to study the word she needs to agree with the verb has she has he has can we make this reduction she has to study yeah that's great that's no problem you can say i have to study she has to study we have to study now i have a few sentences that i'd like you to say with me i have to study english every day you have to take the test she has to call her mom let's make them negative i don't have to study every day you don't have to take the test she doesn't have to call her mom what's happening here with the verb conjugation do you see that the word have is conjugated the same way for each of these that's because we have the word do the verb do has been added to these sentences and that means that we conjugate the first verb i don't you don't she doesn't this makes it beautifully grammatically correct for reduction number four i have a question before you cook a meal what do you need to do before you cook a meal what do you need to do well before i cook a meal i have got to go to the grocery store i have got to buy some groceries groceries are food that you get at the store but is this the fastest way to say this sentence i have got to buy some groceries no let's say i gotta buy some groceries i gotta buy some groceries the full verb phrase i have got to is extremely strong in english we rarely use this because it's so strong you might use this for life or death situations you have got to wear a seat belt you have got to look both ways when you cross the street but for daily life for buying groceries we don't need to use that strong expression so we can reduce this to say i gotta buy groceries and it makes it much less strong but it still shows something that you need to do what in the world is happening with these verbs i have got to buy some groceries i gotta buy some groceries well let's review some of the things that we've talked about often the word to becomes uh i gotta so we have the word to changing to that a sound but what's happening with have it's gone completely gone but here it is implied the word implied means that we know it's there we need it to be grammatically correct but we don't say it this is something that's implied or understood when something's implied for example maybe you tell your boyfriend i want you to tell me i love you more often and he says oh well i i spend time with you i helped cook meals with you of course i love you i'm doing these things with you my love is implied my love is understood i don't need to say it because you already know it maybe that's not okay with you you still want him to say it but that's the idea of implied it's understood you know it's there but you don't necessarily see it or hear it so you can naturally say i gotta buy groceries but what about if you change the subject we've talked about the subject and the verb agreeing could you say he gotta wake up early no because we have the full verb phrase he has got to wake up early we need to include that s this is similar to what we talked about with once here we need to say he's gotta wake up early so when we use gotta the have part or the has is not implied it's added he's gotta wake up early you can still use gotta but you need that s he's gotta wake up early let's say a few sentences together so that you can practice gotta i gotta buy some groceries what's happening with this pronunciation in the middle of the word there are two t's these t's are gonna change to a d sound in american english this is a typical concept in american english that when you have a t and a vowel on both sides the t's gonna sound like a d i gotta buy some groceries this is the same for the word water sweater bed if you'd like to know some other concepts about how to use an american accent you can click on this video up here we go into depth into five specific things that you can do to sound more like an american english speaker so let's say that sentence together i gotta buy some groceries you gotta chew with your mouth closed it's considered polite he's gotta wake up early he's gotta let's see if we can make these sentences negative can you say i don't gotta buy some groceries some people say this but it's not considered proper english so i don't recommend using this instead when you want to use gada in the negative form we need to use need to use the word need i don't need to buy some groceries you don't need to chew with your mouth closed maybe because there's no one else in the room so they don't care he doesn't need to wake up early let's go on to one final bonus reduction my question for you is what are you doing right now what are you doing right now as you're watching this lesson you might say i'm trying to improve my pronunciation i'm trying to improve my pronunciation is this the fastest way to say this sentence nope nope nope you can say i'm trying to improve my pronunciation i'm trying to improve my pronunciation let's review some of those concepts we talked about to figure out what is happening with this reduction the word to is gonna change to uh try but why is there an n added here you might notice that with gunna and wanna we've added an n and it just sounds and feels a little bit more natural to link those together i'm trying to improve my pronunciation you can't say i'm tria i'm trial it doesn't feel and sound is smooth so we need to say i'm trying to improve my pronunciation this is definitely for fast english so if you're speaking slowly or kind of thinking about what you're saying it's best to use the full expression i'm trying to improve my pronunciation in fact that's the same for all of these reductions if you need to speak slowly or you're not sure what you're going to say you're taking your time make sure to use the full expression you don't want to say i'm gonna it's best to say i'm going to it feels more natural if you're speaking slowly to not use the reduction because the purpose of these reductions is to speak fast so let's practice with try not can you say these sentences with me i'm trying to improve my pronunciation she's trying to take a nap do you see how all of those words are linked together trying to take trying to take a nap she's trying to take a nap they're trying to find their dog they're trying to find their dog when you use these reductions it's great to link the words together quickly let's make these sentences negative i'm not trying to improve my pronunciation okay she's not trying to take a nap they're not trying to find their dog because he's right there all right did you get some pronunciation practice during this lesson i hope so let's do a quick review and i'd like you to say these sentences out loud to practice your pronunciation and practice these natural reductions i'm gonna study english every day i wanna improve my speaking skills i have to practice with vanessa i gotta remember these tips i'm trying to use them right now my first tip for speaking fast english is to use contractions what are contractions they're when you put two words together i'd like to go is i would like to go he's busy he is busy what are you doing what are you doing if you'd like some tips about how to pronounce 81 contractions i made a video about that up here to help your pronunciation but this first tip is the most simple we'll talk about some more difficult tips later and it's an easy way to speak quickly i'd like to go i would like to go do you see how we can speak quicker because we're cutting off all the sounds in the word would except for that final d i'd like to go great let's go on to the second tip my second tip for speaking fast english is to reduce these four common verbs gonna wanna i'm gonna study english means i'm going to study english that word to simply becomes study english or you might say i wanna study english here we're changing one two to one up again the word to changes to uh i wanna study english or maybe you would say i gotta study english here we have a longer verb i have got to study english becomes i gotta i gotta study english and then you might say i have to study english half to here again two changes to uh i have to study english can you say this with me i'm gonna study english i wanna study english i gotta study english i have to study english beautiful sentences and it's so fast my third tip for speaking fast english is to reduce the word you when you're asking a question we're going to talk about three common question words and unfortunately the word you reduces in a different way for each question so listen carefully and let's check it out the first question word is what how can we reduce the question what are you doing what are you doing we could reduce this to say what you're doing what cha what cha it sounds like a ch sound here and actually we've cut out completely the word are and the word you just becomes what you're doing you might notice too extra tip that the end of the word doing that g also gets cut out what you're doing what you're doing so i end that word with an n what you doing what you doing oh i'm teaching an english lesson oh i'm studying english i'm going to sleep what you doing what you doing watch what should do it let's talk about the second wh question where are you going where are you going do you notice the same thing happening here with that ing at the end where are you going it ends with an n what is happening with the word you where ya we just changed it to ya ya not you but y a where are you going and again we cut out r where are you going where are you going where are you going where are you going what about if you wanted to ask a polite question would you help me maybe you need some help in the office you might ask this lovely question would you help me but if you want to say it fast you could say would you help me would you help me would you help me would ya instead of a ch sound like we talked about before what cha doing here instead we are going to say ja would you help me can you say that with me would ya would you help me would you help me becomes wouldja would you help me would you help me please tips number four five and six include cutting off sounds these are a little bit more tricky so let's pay attention carefully tip number four for speaking fast english is to cut off the t at the end of words ooh what about this sentence i go out every night i go out every night do you hear i go out every night nope instead your tongue is at the top of your mouth you're about to make the t sound but no air goes through so it's just stopped at the top of your mouth i go out every night i go out every night if you would like to know some more common sentences in english that use this we use this all the time but you can check out this video i made up here about how to pronounce the most common sentences in english i go out every night can you say that with me i go out every night tip number five for fast english is to cut off the letter d at the end of words let's check out this sample sentence i found a blue and white card i found a blue and white card i found a blue and white card maybe you found a blue and white card on the street and it was a birthday card that someone just threw out their window i found a blue and white card i found the word ends in the letter n i found a blue and white hear the word and is being reduced just cut off that final d sound i found a blue and white card card this is a little bit different than the word car i drive a car because your mouth is making the shape of that d sound but it's not making the vibrations happening you're not actually making a d sound but your mouth is making that shape card card my tongue is flat against the roof of my mouth to make the d but it's not coming out cart cart can you see that sentence with me i found a blue and white card i found a blue and white card i found a blue and white card my sixth tip for speaking fast english is quite advanced it is to cut off the first sounds with a few pronouns him his her and them let's look at a couple sample sentences i think he's right i think he's right i think he's right there's no h happening here i think he think he kind of sounds like you're saying thinky i think he's right do you notice too at the end of the word right there's no t sound i think he's right i think he's right i think he's right we do this all the time let's go on to another pronoun it's his turn it's her turn it's his turn it's her turn this one's a little bit weird isn't it the h at the beginning of his and her is cut off we don't do this all the time but it does happen often enough that you want to make sure you can understand what native english speakers are using it and also so that you can use it yourself it's our turn it's her turn it's his turn is turn it's his turn it's his turn we're not saying it's his turn it's his turn it's his turn it's our turn it's er turn it's our turn great what about the word them i listen to them i listen to them um the word them has the th cut out and instead you're saying um um i listen to him maybe if someone asks about some music that you like you might say oh yeah i listen to him i listen to um um i listen to him this is quite casual and we use it a lot in daily conversation i listen to him can you say that with me i listen to um um so we need to reduce some pronouns as we're speaking him his her them my seventh tip for speaking fast english is specific to american english it is to change a t sound to a d sound you might have noticed that we've done a lot with t's and d's cutting them off at the end of words and here we're changing them for each other so when we say a word like the word better water do you hear better water no in american english a t that's between two vowel sounds it doesn't always have to be a vowel but between two vowel sounds is going to change to a d better water let's look at a sample sentence the sweater is better i like water sweater notice that t it's between two vowels is better it's between two vowel sounds i like water it's also between two vowels but what if we take it up a notch these t's in the next sample sentence are also between vowel sounds but it's not so clear put it in the desk put it in the desk we have a lot of d sounds put it in put it in what's happening with that t at the end of the word put well it's a t between two vowels even though there's two separate words put it in and the word it is between two vowels even though it's two separate words so i know this can be a little bit tricky but you're gonna hear native speakers use this all the time so make sure you can do it too can you say it with me put it in put it in put it in the desk put it in the desk put it in the desk put it in the desk do you see how that makes it much faster because instead of spending the time to let the air come out of your mouth your tongue is just tapping the top of your mouth to make a d put it in put it in instead of put it in it makes it a lot faster are you ready for a final challenge sentence it's gonna combine so many of these seven tips and it's gonna challenge your mind and your pronunciation muscles our sentence is i'm gonna eat his food and it'll taste pretty fast let's break it down i'm gonna i'm gonna remember those reductions we talked about at the beginning of this lesson we have a contraction i am and then we're reducing going to to become gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna eat is here the final t is changing to a d but why is it changing to a d if the next word doesn't start with a vowel well do you remember that we need to cut off the h for the word his so instead it sounds like a vowel is it is so let's change that t to a d and make sure that you cut off the h eid is can you say that with me eat is eat is food food what happens to that final deep we just cut it off food and we're cutting off the next d it'll taste great it'll what is happening with this contraction well when we say the contraction it will we kind of add a little u sound before the l it kind of sounds like u-l-l so here we have two vowel sounds even though we don't see them similar to before it is so here we have it it'll taste here we're cutting off the tea great and we're cutting off the tea again it'll taste great can we go back and say this full challenge sentence together let's give it a try i'm gonna eat his food and it'll taste great so much going on here let's try to say it fast i'm gonna eat his food and it'll taste great i'm gonna eat his food and it'll taste great i'm gonna eat his food and it'll taste great great i hope you can say the sentence by yourself use those pronunciation muscles and challenge yourself congratulations on speaking real english with fast natural reduced pronunciation don't forget to click on the link in the description to download the free pdf worksheet for today's lesson never forget what you've learned well thank you so much for learning english with me i will see you again next friday for a new lesson here on my youtube channel bye the next step is to download the free pdf worksheet for this lesson with this free pdf you will master today's lesson and never forget what you have learned you can be a confident english speaker don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel for a free english lesson every friday bye

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Published: Fri Dec 17 2021