Name: FAST ENGLISH! Here’s exactly how to speak American English…FAST! | Guide to speaking fast English
Uploaded: 2020-07-30T09:23:15.000Z
Duration: 34 min 40 s
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Today, you're studying fast English by looking at the reductions , the linking, the stress, patterns,

that native speakers do when speaking American English.

When you study American English this way, and not the way you learned it in school, or

maybe the way you learned it from a book,

your listening comprehension and your ability to sound natural speaking English

We're doing an in-depth analysis, studying the rhythmic contrast that gives American English its character.

And we're going to do an audio training section at the end

so that you can fully understand and start building that habit of speaking natural English.

We're doing this all summer. We started in June, and we're going through August.

Stick with me every Tuesday. They're all great scenes and there's going to be so much to learn

that can transform the way you understand and speak English.

And as always, if you like this video or you learned something , please like and subscribe with notifications.

You're going to watch the clip, then we're going to do a full pronunciation analysis together.

This is going to help so much with your listening comprehension

when it comes to watching English movies in TV.

But there's going to be a training section.

You're going to take what you've just learned and practice repeating it, doing a reduction, flapping a T,

Our class's official policy is to not discuss where anyone is attending next year.

Anyway, I need to go over the end of the year budget numbers we have.

What, I mean, why don't you do it with Nick? You know? Please?

So this is a very long opening thought group.

She does a little pause here before the last two words,

and so that has its own separate thought group. Feel insecure, feel insecure, with feel and cure being longer.

But in the opening phrase is just very long, it will help to know your anchors, your stressed words,

to help you figure out how to organize the rhythm.

So I would say AH, IH, and AW here are our most stressed syllables. Our class's—

the word our is not fully pronounced, it's pronounced: ar, ar, ar, our class's.

So rather than thinking our, it's more like ar, ar, said very quickly. Our class's— our class's—

Now here, we have a noun that ends in an S and the possessive: class's.

and the apostrophe S will add another syllable, IH as in Sit, Z.

and that Z will link right into the schwa of official because everything links together in a thought group.

We don't want any breaks or separation between words.

This smoothness is important in American English.

It can be really tough if you come from a language where each word needs to feel more separate.

Practice the sentence and move your arm in a circle and let the top of the circle be that peak, that peak of pitch.

Don't make this an OH sound, it's a schwa. Uh, uh.

just a relaxed jaw. Uh uh uh Official, official, it's not official, oh oh oh, uh uh uh official.

And the letter C here makes the SH sound. Official, cial, cial.

This letter I just tells us to make the C an SH, so there's no pronunciation itself of this letter.

And then the letter A is again just a schwa. Schwa L, a little quick dark sound. Official uhl uhl uhl.

So the schwa and L combined, you don't need to try to make a separate schwa sound, and then an L.

This is actually going to be a dark L. What does that mean?

That means it comes after the vowel or diphthong in the syllable,

and if the next word begins with a consonant, you do not need to lift your tongue tip.

Official uhl,  you just make that dark sound with your tongue tip down, uhl, policy, and go right into the P.

Do not lift your tongue tip. That will definitely make the sound feel more forward.

We want it to feel more in the back. Uhl. That dark sound is made by

pressing down and back a little bit the back of the tongue. Uhl, uhl, official.

Now here, for this L, you can lift your tongue tip. But for this L, do not lift your tongue tip.

Official policy. Our class's official policy. Uhhhhh. Feel that rhythm.

Our class's official policy is to not discuss where anyone is attending.

Is to not discuss where anyone is attending.

So we have that uh feeling of stress on: is to not discuss where any, a little bit there on the EH vowel.

Letter A, but the vowel is EH. Where anyone is attending.

So rather than drawing it as an up down shape, which is the normal shape of stress, I'm drawing it as a scoop up,

because her pitch is on the way up. And when we're making the intonation of the sentence go up,

then the scoop of the voice will be down up, attending.

Is to not discuss where anyone is attending—

So even though I've broken it up into two pieces here while we discuss the stress,

continues right on with no break in sound.

This is all part of the same thought group.

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