How to Speak FAST American English! | Advanced Listening Lesson

Hello my amazing students!

Today,you're going to learn how to understand fast English

and how to speak just like a native speaker.

Welcome back to JForrest English, of course I'm Jennifer

now let's get started!

Here's how this lesson will work I'm going to say a sentence 3 times at a natural

fast pace and you need to write down exactly what you

hear in the comments

and the examples are going to go from beginner A1 to more advanced C2

so let's see if you can complete this whole lesson

our first listening exercise I'll say it three times thanks for your help

you rock thanks for your help you rock thanks for your help

you rock did you get this one I said thanks for your

help you rock very easy right

at a natural pace native speakers we reduce sound so for becomes fur thanks

fur your becomes your thanks for your thanks for your help your help

thanks for your help now let's review

a common mistake that I hear beginner students make

and sometimes even advanced students you can say thank you or thanks

you cannot say thanks you or thank and notice in our example we have thanks for

your help thanks for your help what is your help

this is a noun so we have thanks 4+ noun you can also use thanks 4+ gerrand

because 4 is a preposition so what would thanks for your help be

in the gerrand form do you know thanks for helping me thanks for your help

thanks for helping me and you rock this is a very natural way to say you're great

you're awesome I use this in the comment section to reply to your lovely comments

all the time but don't say you are rock it is not to be rock it is too rock

you rock you rock you're awesome you're really great

you rock put that in the comments you rock you rock

thanks for your help thanks for helping me thanks Billy

you rock you rock thanks honey

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let's try this again a little more difficult I'll say it three times

she's starting to rub off on you she's starting to rub off on you

she's starting to rub off on you did you get this one

I said she's starting to rub off on you she's is our contraction she is

she's she's starting tough so instead of two you can use an unstressed

top she's starting to rub off

because rub off is a phrasal verb they go together

I can take that b sound and connect it to the next word

but I have to combine them together I have to say them as one word

rub off off rub off rub off

I can also take that on and add it together so I'm saying those three words as one

rub off on so here I'm taking the f from off and I'm

adding it on on rub off on

rub off on rub off on you what does this mean

to rub off on someone is when someone's behavior

or personality affects someone else let's take Janice

and let's say Janice loves helping other people now

let's say Fernando spends a week working with Janice

and now Fernando starts helping other people you could say Janice rubbed off on Fernando

here we have it in the past simple rubbed rubbed

rubbed off on Janice rubbed off on Fernando now you could also take the specific personality

trait or characteristic in this case

Janice's helpfulness which is unknown Janice's helpfulness

because the helpfulness belongs to Janice so it's possessive

Janice's helpfulness rubbed off on Fernando so that specific character trait of Janice

transferred to Fernando because they spend time together

Marcus is really rubbing off on you finally I'm rubbing off on you

my deviousness is finally rubbed off on you let's try this again I'll say it three times

he rubs me the wrong way he rubs me the wrong way he rubs me the wrong

way did you get this one I said he rubs me the

wrong way notice this expression uses the verb to rub

and our last expression use the verb to rub but they have completely different meanings

and that's why this is a more advanced listening exercise

because maybe you understood the words but you don't know what this means

to rub someone the wrong way this is to annoy someone but without intending

to remember Janice from our last example

and she was very helpful but maybe for some reason

she just rubs you the wrong way she annoys you

but there's nothing that she does to annoy you

just maybe your personalities clash they don't go together

so if you're planning a social gathering you might say is it okay if we don't invite

Janice she rubs me the wrong way

now an entire person like poor Janice can rub you the wrong way

but it also could be something specific that someone said or did and overall you like

Janice but just that one thing she said or did

rubbed you the wrong way for example your comment just rubbed me the wrong way

so maybe she said something in a meeting

that really annoyed you but you know she did not intend to annoy you

so here your comment this is a noun your comment rubbed the past symbol of the

verb to rub and notice that soft d rubbed

rubbed me rubbed me the wrong way wait wait

is it me like do I rub you the wrong way

not Jay guy rubs me the wrong way she rubs everyone the wrong way

but pop our final listening exercise and the most

advanced I'll say it three times

I had a hunch he'd quit I had a hunch he'd quit I had a hunch he'd

quit did you get this one I said I had a hunch

he'd quit notice for pronunciation I had a

I had a had a so I combine had a together as one word

I had a hunch he'd quit now did you hear that the he'd he'd quit

well that d represents what word would he would quit

he'd quit he'd quit very difficult for students to hear

native speakers understand it based on context and based on grammatical structure

it would sound awkward without it so we know it's there

even though we can't really hear it either when you have a hunch a hunch is the noun

and then the verb that goes with it is have so to have a hunch this is when you think

or predict that something is going to happen but it isn't based on facts

it's based on your intuition your feeling so you could say I have a hunch

she'll accept our invitation now if someone replies back and says why

all you would say is because I have a hunch I have a feeling I have a gut feeling

and notice the grammar here I have a hunch this is the present simple

and then she'll accept she will accept that's the future simple I have a hunch

she'll accept our invitation because you're making a prediction about the

future but you could use this in the past

like our listening exercise I had a hunch last week in the past

so that's the past simple last week I had a hunch that he would quit

so would is the past simple of the verb will I had a hunch that he'd quit

and using that is optional you don't need it you could simply say

I had a hunch he'd quit I had a hunch just a hunch

I had a hunch but I wasn't certain now let's do an imitation exercise

so you can practice speaking fast just like a native

I'll say each sentence again three times and this time

I want you to repeat each sentence out loud here we go thanks for your help

you rock thanks for your help you rock

thanks for your help you rock she's starting to rub off on you

she's starting to rub off on you she's starting to rub off on you

he rubs me the wrong way he rubs me the wrong way

he rubs me the wrong way I had a hunch he'd quit

I had a hunch he'd quit I had a hunch he'd quit

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