Improve Your English Speaking Skills | How to Speak English Fast and Understand Native Speakers

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2022-05-10 ・ English with Veronika Mark


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Improve Your English Speaking Skills | How to Speak English Fast and Understand Native Speakers

47,073 views ・ 2022-05-10

English with Veronika Mark


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there always comes a point in our lives when  we start thinking about our accent in english  
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how do i sound can native speakers understand  me how can i be moral like them these were the  
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questions i asked myself four years ago when i  decided to work on my accent and switch to the  
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american pronunciation but i guess the reason  why i chose the american accent was because of  
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me not because what other people think and not  because what is popular right now i personally  
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love the way it sounds and i hope i can make you  like the american accent as well so in this video  
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i want to share some of the secrets of the  american pronunciation i've learned so far  
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and believe me guys some of those secrets  are going to be pretty surprising to you  
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but first i want to mention here that i have  a whole playlist on my channel dedicated to  
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accent training so if you're interested you  can check it out after you watch this video  
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so let's talk about the first interesting thing  that a lot of people called dropped syllables so  
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in one of my previous videos i talked about the  reasons americans speak so fast and one of the  
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reasons was that they drop a lot of vowel sounds  and consonant sounds as well so we all know that  
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a lot of the changes happen with the t sound for  example in this sentence instead of saying that  
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cat was really cute americans would say that  cat was really cute so this is a stopped tea  
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but i think a lot of people are not familiar with  the dropping of vowel sounds and this is actually  
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something very very interesting so instead of  saying chocolate with three syllables you should  
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say chocolate instead of saying broccoli  with three syllables again you should say  
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broccoli this way you will be speaking faster and  this is exactly why americans drop all their sound  
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you know they change them the reason is that they  just want their conversation to flow you know this  
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is very important here and i guess let's practice  this rule by doing this exercise together actually  
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aspirin average basically beverage different  extraordinary evening every family generally  
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broccoli and guys i highly recommend you to use  everything i'm teaching you today in conversations  
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because this is exactly how you'll be able to  change your pronunciation and speak with a more  
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american accent and i think you can do that by  joining lingoda's language friend lingoda is an  
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online language school that connects students from  across the world with native speaking teachers  
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in live immersion classes currently on  their platform you can study english  
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business english french spanish and german  and lingoda hosts one of one or group learning  
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sessions on zoom for students for all levels  from beginner to advanced and if you're ready  
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to see real progress in your language learning  journey you should consider joining lingoda's  
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and as you guys remember i regularly take  open conversation classes on their platform  
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because they help me connect with new people and  practice the expressions that i've learned and  
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here is a little sneak peek from my previous  class yeah hello nice to meet you my name is  
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so guys i just had my open conversation class  and as usual i wanted to share my thoughts  
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after this lesson first of all i absolutely love  taking ligotis classes because i love the fact how  
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easy it is to book classes on their platform  you just go pick the course you know pick the  
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class and done it's very easy just in a matter  of minutes and another thing that i especially  
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love is that you can take a class any time so  they have the same classes at different times  
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this way you'll be able to choose the best time  for you and so guys if you're looking to reach  
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stay motivated and committed to your goal click  the link below for more information and use my  
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code veronica may for 20 euros or 25 off of your  deposit now let's talk about intonation so let  
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me tell you a little story here my friends always  laugh at me when i say interesting because i love  
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saying interesting in english all the time for  example if they're telling me a very interesting  
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story i might say wow that's interesting and  sometimes when people say interesting they don't  
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actually mean that it's interesting you know  guys so here it's very important to have the  
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correct intonation and sometimes my intonation is  a little weird so my friends think i'm joking or  
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they think that i feel like something they are  doing is weird let me give you an example here  
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so one of my friends he collects eggshells for  his plants so instead of just throwing them out  
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he collects them in a jar and then he uses them  for his plants and when i learned about that i  
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was like interesting and my friend was like what  does it mean veronica it doesn't mean that you  
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actually think it's interesting or you think it's  weird and i think americans really understand the  
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power of intonation and the power of always being  so polite and friendly and welcoming even though  
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maybe sometimes they don't really want to talk to  you they don't really think what you're saying is  
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interesting so let me give you another  example imagine you bought a new dress  
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and you're showing it to your friends and they  might say wow this dress is so cool but in reality  
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they don't really like the stress and for some  people this might be a problem because in some  
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cultures it's very common to be very direct for  example in my culture a lot of people are direct  
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if we don't like something we just say it you  know we say yeah this dress is kind of you know  
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not that cute we don't really like it but  in america people are very conscious about  
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being polite and friendly and not hurting another  person's feelings and i think what will help you  
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with your intonation in english and understanding  you know the intonation of native speakers better  
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is watching tv shows for example friends  friends is a great tv show where people are  
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interacting with each other in just day-to-day  conversations it's very interesting to watch  
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what expressions they say and how they say  that now let's move on to this word in english  
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so this article we use it all the time  and this is something that a lot of people  
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are unfamiliar with and i'm talking about the  pronunciation of this article so when the article  
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the is followed by a vowel sound we pronounce  it as e so we say v for example you might say  
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the apple right the orange but if the article the  is followed by a consonant sound we have to say  
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the and here again a lot of people make the  mistake of saying that and this is not that  
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so to illustrate the word better try to say fun so  this is the exact sound you have to make when you  
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say the so just let's get rid of this f and let's  try to say zan and then just say za and that's it  
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this is how this article is supposed to be  pronounced so for example you might want to say  
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the world or the banana but there is another  interesting situation when native speakers  
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might say thee even if the next word begins on a  consonant sound they do this to put an emphasis  
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on the word and we call it the emphatic the so  you might be talking to your friend and they  
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might tell you i saw the president yesterday  and obviously you're shocked you're like  
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wow the president of the united states and your  friend is like yeah can you imagine so first your  
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friend was just like it's a regular conversation  so that's why they said i saw the president  
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but you're so shocked you know you want to place  emphasis on this word and that's why you're saying  
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the president that's crazy and the last thing  i want to talk to you guys here is slang in  
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casual speech when americans talk to their  friends and acquaintances they will use slang  
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a lot so a very common example is instead of  saying 10 you can say 10 bucks and instead  
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of saying i don't have any money you can say i'm  broke and guys if you want me to make a dedicated  
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video about american slang let me know in the  comments because it's a very interesting topic  
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and there are so many things i could teach  you but for now i'll leave the links in the  
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description to some of the interesting books that  i like that help me learn more about the american  
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slang and like some idioms and expressions  that americans use all the time so guys i  
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think it's going to be it for this video make  sure to check out lingoda's language sprint and  
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use my code veronica may to get a discount and  as always make sure to subscribe to my channel  
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and follow me on instagram you can continue  watching more videos about accent training  
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and american accent in general by clicking right  here and i'll see you guys in my next video bye
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