Name: How to Speak FAST English with Reductions
Uploaded: 2019-07-23T07:11:46.000Z
Duration: 15 min 32 s
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I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

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Sometimes, it seems like native English speakers are speaking ridiculously fast.

In fact, the University of Lyon in France did a study about these 10 languages.

Can you guess which one was the fastest language?

Then French, then Italian and number five was English.

Today, I'm going to help you to speak fast English.

A couple of months ago, I made a video about how to speak fast English.

One of the concepts that we talked about was reductions.

Today, we're going to dig deeper into this concept.

I hope that by the end of this lesson, you're going to be able to use these reductions and

A reduction is when you take one, two or three words, cut out some sounds and then combine

By the end of this lesson, I hope you'll be able to use the top four reductions in English

I want to introduce each reduction with a question.

For our first reduction, my question is, after you watch this lesson, what are your plans?

For me, I could say after this lesson, I am going to take a walk.

When we talk about the future in English, we have two options.

I will take a walk or I am going to take a walk.

Is that the fastest way to say this sentence?

First, let's make a contraction out of the first two words.

I'm and then the next two words is our first reduction.

The word 'to,' simply changed into A. I'm gonna take a walk.

Make sure that when you use this reduction, you do not say, I'm gonna 'to' take a

Because we've already used the 'to' when we changed it into A.

Now, I have a couple of sentences that I'd like you to say out loud with me.

For reduction number two, I have a question.

There are a lot of wonderful places in the world but for me, I'm gonna say that I want

Is this the fastest way to say this sentence?

Let's make a lovely reduction and say, I wanna visit Norway.

The same as before, make sure that you do not say, I wanna 'to' visit Norway.

We've already changed the 'to' into A. You can simply say, I wanna visit Norway.

You probably know that in English, we need the subject and the verb to agree.

That means we can say, I want, she wants.

Can we use this reduction when we change the subject?

Because of that s, we need to include it.

Now, I have a few sentences that I want you to say out loud with me.

If you'd like to know some other ways to use the word come, check out my video up here

I don't know who would say that because that's crazy.

For reduction number three, I have a question.

What do you need to do to improve your English skills?

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