Name: Speak English Fast - Learn English Live 20 with Steve Ford
Uploaded: 2014-05-23T16:34:59.000Z
Duration: 7 min 8 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

and I have a brand new question from Kevin from China

Kevin, I can see you're really "gung ho" about boosting your English

through understanding how native speakers of English really talk

You and so many others want to know how native speakers link words together

Obviously, as in any language, we change our pronunciation

according to how formal or informal the situation is

So let’s take a look at our first example

Now straight out of an English course book

you probably learned to say that question in its complete form

OK, no problem! Then you start to see people using contractions

then you hear people talk fast in a Hollywood movie

and suddenly you find yourself listening to an entirely DIFFERENT kind of English

Yes it’s that informal and fast spoken English you can hear in American movies and TV series

To help you understand how this fast English is spoken

I am going to use my new Ragdoll kitten Sapphire to illustrate my examples

Nooo, not unless you wanna teach people  how to meow!

no Sapphire, they don't allow cats in the supermarket

I gotta go now, can you get outta the way?

when we say this quickly, the question becomes almost unrecognizable

and that loses the “t” and become tha(t)

(it) really rolls off your tongue and that's why we use it

Now, Ken from China, you had requested I answer your question

about how to say “keep an eye on him” really fast and naturally

I’m going to do that, but since Sapphire is a female

Sapphire always manages to run out, she darts right out into the hallway

So split the words in blocks to get the fast pronunciation here

Well Kevin and everybody out there watching my lesson

I hope I’ve helped you today with how native speakers talk fast

and I want to thank my little kitty for helping me out