Improve Your English Listening Skills IN 10 MINUTES!

Welcome back to JForrest  English. I'm Jennifer and today.

We're going to.

Test your listening skills of fast  English, the English that native English.

Speakers use everywhere outside of the.

Classroom.

To help you improve your.

Listening skills and also  expand your vocabulary. Let's.

Get started here are.

Your instructions for the entire lesson.

I am.

Going to say a sentence  three times and I want you.

To.

Write down exactly.

What you hear?

In the comment section below after I'll explain.

What? I said. I'll.

Explain the pronunciation changes  that take place in fast English,  

and I'll also explain the expressions that I.

Use.

In order.

For you to.

Pass this test.

You need to do 2.

Things first.

You need to hear the individual.

Words, I say.

But also you need.

To understand the meaning of.

What I.

Say so you need to understand  the expressions that I.

Use. Are you ready for your quiz?

All right. Well, let's get.

Started with.

Number one, cut her some slack. She's a  newbie. Cut her some slack. She's a newbie.

Cut her some slack, she's a  newbie, I said. Cut her some slack.

She's a newbie.

Did you get that?

Do you know what this?

Means.

First, let's talk about the  pronunciation changes her.

Him and.

Them we.

Often shorten these.

So her.

I get rid of the age sound and it sounds like.

Ur ur.

But then I combine it to the word.

Before Cutter. Cutter. Cutter.

Cutter Some sloth.

She's.

This is.

A contraction.

Native speakers.

Use contractions all the time in spoken English.

She's.

Represents she.

Is she is a newbie she's she's.

A newbie now.

Do you know what this means?

To cut someone some slack.

This is.

An expression.

And it's when you.

Punish someone less.

Severely.

Than you normally would.

And a.

Newbie, this is a new employee.

A new employee or even a new member.

To a group, you can refer to that.

Person as a newbie, A newbie, so it makes  sense that you might cut a newbie some slack.

You might be.

Less severe with.

That person. Because they're.

New They're still learning they're.

Still training Cutter Some slack. She's  a newbie. Our second listening exercise.  

I'll say it three times. Give me 20  to whip up some Happy's for the party.  

Give me 20 to whip up some Happy's for the party.  Give me 20 to whip up some Happy's for the party.

I said give me 20.

To whip up.

Some appie's.

For.

The party Give me we.

Reduce these.

To sound like Gimme Gimme Gimme, give me 2020.

Here.

Means 20 minutes. Commonly we.

Drop the minutes.

When it's.

Obvious. Call me in 5 instead of  call me in 5 minutes, give me.

20.

Give me 20 minutes. Give me 20.

To whip up, whip up is a phrasal verb.

For the pronunciation notice.

Is whip up whip up?

Whip up because of.

Linking.

Whip up.

Whip up means.

To prepare.

Something quickly we.

Specifically, use.

This in a cooking context.

Whip.

Up some appies.

What are?

Appies well.

I just said that we use the  phrasal verb whip up in a.

Cooking culinary context.

What does appies sound like?  Anything you can think of.

Appetizers, appetizers, Native speakers we love.

Shortening words.

So we take the word.

Appetizer and we shorten it to appy appy.

Because it's plural.

In my example, appies. Appies  another common shortened word.

Is simply.

Apps.

So you could say give me 20 to whip.

Up some apps.

Or whip.

Up some appies. Both are commonly used. Are  you ready for your next listening exercise?  

She's got some nerves sauntering in  30 minutes late. She's got some nerves  

sauntering in 30 minutes late. She's got  some nerves sauntering in 30 minutes late.

I said she's got some nerve sauntering in 30  minutes late for pronunciation notice she's got.

Here the.

Contraction is she, Has she?

Has got.

I know this because  grammatically it isn't correct.

To say she is.

Got is she has got she's  got. She's got some nerve.

What does that mean?

To have some.

Nerve is an expression to say.

How dare.

She. She.

Has some.

Audacity. So.

You're.

Criticizing her.

Behavior to say.

That she has no.

Right to.

Do something. She's got some nerve. Now what?

Does she have no right to do?

Well is sauntering in 30 minutes  late. To understand this you need  

to know what saunter in means when you saunter.

It means you walk.

In a.

Very relaxed.

Casual, Unhurried.

Way.

To Saunter.

In here.

Means into.

The office, into the room, into the meeting. She.

Sauntered in 30.

Minutes late.

So basically, she.

Came to the meeting 30 minutes  late and when she came, she was.

So relaxed.

And she didn't show any sense of urgency,  even though she was 30 minutes late.

She's.

Got some?

Nerve.

Doing that.

Our next?

Listening exercise.

I got to hand it to you. I didn't think you'd pull  

it off. I got to hand it to you.  I didn't think you'd pull it off.

I gotta hand it to you. I  didn't think you'd pull it.

Off, I said. I got.

To hand.

It to you I.

Didn't think.

You'd pull it off. Did you get?

This one got to is pronounced gotta.

I gotta.

Hand it.

Notice the linking here.

Hand it did, I gotta.

Hand it.

Now.

I said to you, but native speakers  will frequently reduce both.

Of these and say.

To to to ya or ya to ya To ya.

Gotta hand it to ya.

To ya, but I believe, I said  to you, I gotta hand it.

To you.

I gotta hand it to ya.

You'd is.

A contraction.

The D.

Stands.

For would you, would you'd, you'd. It's  difficult to hear that D because it's very.

Soft, but grammatically it's important that it's.

There you'd pull it off.

Notice.

The linking.

Pull it lit. Pull it, pull it.

Off. When you hand it to someone, it means.

That you?

Recognize that someone?

Deserves praise.

Or respect.

So by saying.

I gotta hand it to you.

Means I.

Have to acknowledge.

That your.

Actions deserve.

Praise or respect?

And why am I doing this?

Because.

The person pulled something off.  When you pull something off.

It means you achieve.

Something.

Difficult you succeed on.

Doing something difficult so.

That's why.

This person.

Deserves praise.

I gotta hand it.

To you? I didn't think you'd pull it off.

But you did.

Our last listening exercise. I've got to have a  little me time. I've got to have a little me time.  

I've got to have a little me time.

I said I've got to have a little me.

Time here notice.

We have the same.

Gotta reduction. Got to gotta.

This time, I said. I've.

I have.

As a contraction, I've.

I've gotta.

I've gotta.

I've gotta, I've gotta.

Have.

A little will.

Sound like.

Little, little a little.

Little a little.

Me time now.

What is me?

Time me time is simply personal time. It's time.

When you.

Can do whatever.

You want to do it's.

Your personal time, so of.

Course.

I've gotta have a little me time.

I.

Must have some time.

For me to do whatever.

I want.

To do.

Personal time me time. Now let's  do some imitation practice to make.

Sure that you.

Practice. Practice.

Practice this natural pronunciation.  I am going to say each.

Sentence.

Three times and I want.

You to repeat it out loud.

And you can do this exercise as frequently as  you'd like. Cut her some slack. She's a newbie.  

Cut her some slack. She's a newbie.  Cut her some slack. She's a newbie.  

Give me 20 to whip up some appies for the party.  

Give me 20 to whip up some appies for the party.  Give me 20 to whip up some appies for the party.

She's got some nurse on during in 30 minutes late.  

She's got some nurse on during in 30 minutes late.  She's got some nurse on during in 30 minutes late.

I gotta hand it to you. I didn't think  you pull it off. I gotta hand it to you.  

I didn't think you pull it off. I gotta hand  it to you. I didn't think you pull it off.

I've got to have a little me time.  I've got to have a little me time.  

I've got to have a little me time.

So did you.

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