Name: How to speak English like a native speaker?
Uploaded: 2020-05-12T04:43:48.000Z
Duration: 5 min 19 s
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Hello, I'm Julian Northbrook from DoingEnglish.com

and welcome to Doing English With Julian.

How to speak English like a native speaker.

first we need to think about how native speakers

How do native speakers sound so native-like?

For quite a long time, the answer to these questions

was actually quite a mystery to linguists.

grammar rules and added items of vocabulary

in their brain, on the fly as they were speaking.

the sentences we need to compute fast enough.

Not only this, but why does a phrase like

but the equally grammatical pleasant first half of the day

Clearly, some of the things that we can say in English

the answers to these questions confused linguists

or at least not for most of the time anyway.

creative utterances, expressions and sentences

A chunk is a very common sequence of words

When we speak, what we are actually doing

is simply pulling these chunks out of memory

Rather, our sentences are either completely ready made

or only need one or two bits to create them.

Not all language is a chunk, and this explains

why some things sound more natural than others.

and you are memorizing lists of vocabulary

that is very inefficient when it comes to speaking

You're learning in a way that is actually different

and aiming to learn the language in the way

that native speakers actually use it when they speak.

How can you identify these chunks in language?

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How to speak English like a native speaker?

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