"I don't understand the accents of native English speakers..."

hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's

first and number one English Fluency

Guide and in this video I'm going to

answer a question i received from two

different people these are Jason and

Mohammed so thanks for the question and

this is how can I understand or learn to

understand different accents so

different accents from different

speakers not only in America are there

different accents depending on where you

live like the north or the south or the

East or the west or the Midwest there

are lots of different ways that people

speak even if they're using the same

words but not only that between

different countries as well I don't

sound like a British speaker I suppose I

could I could try to speak like a

British I can't I can't actually speak

british english i could probably like if

somebody practice with me there's some

british teachers out there you want to

do like a video where we could we could

practice you could try to speak and like

an American yeah I'm again i'm not doing

it i'm not doing it very well but anyway

there are different accents for

different places and it's really like

it's a pain in the ass to learn with one

thing you're a learner and you're like

okay I'm trying to learn the American

accent but wow there are many American

accents and okay I also have to

understand maybe some British speakers

or Australians or you know people from

South Africa or wherever and even beyond

that all the non-native speakers because

there are now more non-native speakers

than native speakers of the English

language and they're also difficult to

understand so really it can be quite

confusing so here's how you do it here's

how you solve this problem now all you

really need to do is take the same

information and then you need to have it

listen to or you need to listen to it

spoken or said by different people it's

actually a really simple process and

it's more about finding good information

and so this is what you can do actually

right here on YouTube when you're

practicing one of the basic things that

I always teach people is to listen to

music covers of different songs so maybe

you have the Beatles would have a very

popular song like whatever I just like

like sergeant pepper or whatever they're

just different songs that the beatles

have that are covered by a lot of

different other musicians like maybe

individual singers or whole band but to

cover something just me

that you take some music that is not

yours and maybe you arrange it slightly

say it in a different way but what

you're doing here is you get maybe like

John Lennon or Paul McCartney these are

you know singers from the Beatles that

are saying something but then you can

have an American that's also singing

that that same album or that same song

or whatever I think like the whole the

soundtrack to the movie I and Sam it's

like nothing but covers of the Beatles

so if you listen to the actual Beatles

song but then listen to some other

artists saying the same thing it expands

your range for being able to understand

different speakers so maybe like again a

British person is saying it we're

singing something in the case of the

song or you get maybe a American or an

Australian anybody like that so if i'm

thinking like even you know children's

music you can get different versions of

this in like just go on youtube and look

up like children's children's songs and

you'll hear the different versions of

that depending on if it's like british

whatever like look up look up even like

like five little monkeys jumping on the

bed so i do like a song like this for my

daughter maybe she'll watch some videos

on youtube that are singing a song but

there are many different versions of

that so people will sing you know

whatever different versions of that and

she can hear the different intonation

the different accents all these things

just by listening to the same thing in

different ways and this is exactly why

we do this in master English

conversation in the fluency course when

people can listen to the one the one

sting like the one story or maybe like a

couple of phrases and then hear a bunch

of different people from different

different parts of the world saying

those things because you're getting

listening practice and when you're

practicing with those people see you

practice shadowing with them which means

you're speaking at the exact same time

or you're just repeating with those

people but this is what again kind of

stretches your accent so I can listen to

British speakers and I can I can try to

say like a like a cockney accent or like

a British accent you know what I'm

trying to sound like posh or whatever

and I again I like I sound really bad

even when i was living in England for a

couple of a couple of months I couldn't

speak very well but any

it was like fun to try to copy what

people were saying and have them try to

do an American accent anyway if you're

listening to people doing these things

it's really easy so music covers is one

way to do it another is looking for

maybe quotes by like famous quotes oh

you look right up on YouTube for famous

quotes by somebody or a famous speech or

a famous play or a famous yet again

anything that would be spoken by a

number of people so it could be a famous

story of famous song anything like that

but again you're looking for different

versions of that thing spoken by

different people and also if you can

people from different countries so

America Britain Canada Australia any any

english-speaking country or anybody

really around the world that's saying

that particular thing so this is how you

do it this is how you develop the habit

of doing it you don't just listen to one

person like don't just listen to me say

something you got to get lots of

different people just the same way a

native speaker does and over time not

only listening but you try to repeat

what they say so it's not just listening

you have to say it back you have to

repeat it along with people or shadow

again you're saying it at the same time

people do but that's what helps you get

really excited and really able to

understand all these different things so

it's a really simple thing same content

different people you know different

however many different people you can

get but the more you can get the better

well I hope I have answered that for

both Jason and Mohamed and for anyone

else that's you know trying to figure

out how to understand native speakers

with different accents but anyway

hopefully that solves it for you and you

get out and you practice remember it's

not about just listening to people it's

about developing the habit of a native

English speaker so learn like a native

English speaker if you want to sound

like a native English speaker and be

able to listen like one well that's it

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