Name: Understand Fast English | Practise With Me!
Uploaded: 2022-02-18T03:10:49.000Z
Duration: 33 min 10 s
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You are about to learn all of the secrets to help you understand

I want you to think back to the last time that you sat down

or maybe your favourite English TV series.

Have you been to the cinemas to watch the new Matrix movie?

Or maybe you've watched The Sex and the City reunion recently?

Or whatever else you're into. You've got your popcorn,

you've got your soft drink, you're looking forward to this show right

Today you are going to learn exactly what native English speakers

do to speak fast so that you can understand more English

and so that you can sound more natural when you speak English

as well. There's lots to go through in this lesson

so I've created you a free worksheet so that you can go through

all of the pronunciation points that I explain in this lesson today.

There are some really common phrases and expressions to help

Make sure you click on the link down in the description below,

right below this video. Go and get that worksheet right now.

We're gonna watch my complete lessons about connected speech,

the secret to understanding fast-talking native English speakers.

Make sure you're ready to practise out loud with me,

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I want you to loosen up, let your hair down and go with the flow

because you just won't hear a native English speaker say

I have got an awesome lesson for all of you today.

and sometimes sounds are dropped or just completely eliminated.

Natural pronunciation is not something that you can see,

you can't read it in a sentence and know exactly how

So speaking naturally is really only a skill that you can develop

through practice by listening to native English speakers

and that is exactly what we're going to do today.

We'll take a close look at linking, an important part of

natural pronunciation and I'll explain how it works,

where it happens and how you can use linking to reduce

your accent and sound more natural when you speak English.

Linking is an important part of connected speech in English

and there are three main categories to it.

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The most important thing when talking about linking in English

is that we're talking about sounds, not letters.

Sounds that you can hear but not the letters that you can see

and this is really important to keep in mind.

We're talking about consonant sounds linking to vowel sounds

When a word ends in a consonant sound and it's

followed by a word that starts with a vowel sound,

Consonant to vowel linking happens all the time

Now what happens all the time in English is that a word that ends

can sometimes end in a consonant sound when spoken.

If you can write some of them in the comments.

Now if we just look at the spelling, like ends in E, a vowel letter.

But the E is silent in this word so like actually ends in a /k/ sound,

don't look for the letters, listen for the sounds.

This is the first clue to help you link words together

With consonant to vowel linking the sounds blend,

they push together and this is how native English speakers

speak so quickly. We push our words together because it makes it

so much quicker and so much easier to say them.

When one word ends with a consonant sound and the next word

starts with the vowel sound, we can push them together.

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