Name: How to speak English fast and understand natives (Part I)
Uploaded: 2023-09-10T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 6 min 38 s
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To-infinitive

I know the video is called how to speak English fast, but do you really need to speak English fast?

The imperative

Sometimes we think that native speakers speak fast and this is why they sound so natural.

They just connect all the words together.

And instead of splitting them up, which sounds a little kind of slower, they just put them all together as if one sentence is one big word.

They omit some syllables, they add some new sounds and this is why they sound the way they sound.

And sometimes it's hard for us to understand them just because they don't split up words.

And we think that they're just speaking too fast, in reality, they're not.

Today I'm gonna teach you this technique.

I'm gonna teach you how native speakers do it.

So you can do it to sound more native and so that you understand the mechanics behind kind of faster speaking so you can understand native speakers.

For example, you see a phrase - What do you...

For example in a sentence - What do you do?

But Americans would never say like this - what do you do?

So the speed the pace is kind of the same it's just connecting everything. Whudduhyuh do?

And if you don't know the way they do it, you're like, "What was that?"

Another phrase- - I am going to do some shopping.

What Americans would say, they would say, "I'm gonna do some shopping."

Again, they've connected something they actually paraphrase a little.

I'm gonna get some water, you want some...

And some Americans would even say,  "Ahmma do shopping."

This is like the very very contracted version of it.

So what Americans do, they take those smaller words and they pronounce them in a way that is easier for them in daily speec

For example article"the" is pronounced like "duh".

So they don't say what's the weather today?

Again, do you want to go for a walk sounds as if you just started learning English.

Do yuh want to go for walk sounds closer to being a native speaker.

And another thing that you might have noticed when we say what do.

So we have T at the end of the word what and we have D at the beginning of the word do.

Instead of saying what do you do, we say whutchuhyuh do?

So there is a sound chip which appears in the middle.

Again, this is a way to make your speech smoother and this is what all native speakers do.

For example, whutchuhyuh do for a living?

To make this even clearer for you, I'm gonna read a sentence out loud.

The first time I read it, I'm gonna read it as a student.

The second time I read it, I would try to read it as a native speaker.

I am going to go out to Walmart. Do you need anything?

Ahmma gonna go ou'tuh Walmartchuuh nee danything?

Again, I replaced I'm going to with ahmma gonna, go to Walmart.

And I've connected Walmart with do. We have a word that ends with T and we have a word with that begins with D.

So I'm gonna go to Walmart, chuh needanthing?

And there's this chuh that appeared in the middle.

The next word a little confusing, I know, especially when you hear this first in a native speaker speech.

I don't know why this appears, it's just the way the language evolves, so people speak it.

This is sometimes when native speakers say, which is correct don't be confused, it's just the same as something.

The next phrase, let me give you something.

The Americans would say lemmee givyun sumpthin.

So they just omit the letter T and you get lemmee, lemmee get you sumpthin.

In American English, if you have a letter T in the middle of a word, sometimes you pronounce it as D

Because it's faster, beacause it's smoother.

Bitter, and it sounds a little British, so in Great Britain, they would still say bitter.

In American English, they would say bidder.

Computer, I can't even say it with the T.

As you notice, it's even unnatural for me to say little, thirty, just because I'm so used to, you know, in certain D instead of T.

This would come automatically, not automatically to you guys when you practice.

This is first the way to speak faster; second this is the way to speak more naturally.

And third this is an easier way to understand native speakers because you now know how the mechanics work.

Let me know if this was useful for you guys.

The homework for you, the task, is write down in comments below what other words have T in the middle and you pronounce them with a D.

Just what I told you. Thirty, thurddy; little, lidduhl, that kind of stuff.

You can Google that but make sure you write something in comments so that you can practice.

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