Your English Is EXCELLENT If You Can Understand These! (Learn Fast English with Jim Carrey)

Can you easily understand  your teacher in a classroom,  

but you can't understand fast speaking  natives on TV, movies or YouTube?

Well, let's fix that today.

The solution is simple and fun.

You need to practice listening to fast English.

Today, we'll listen to a clip of Jim  Carrey at the Golden Globe Awards.

And as he's speaking, the audience  is laughing the entire time.

Your English is excellent if you can  understand these clips and the jokes.

Welcome back to JForrest English.

Of course, I'm Jennifer.

Now let's get started.

Here's how this lesson will work.

You'll listen to a short clip twice, and  you need to complete the missing words.

Here's your first listening exercise.

Please welcome two time Golden  Globe winner Jim Carrey.

Please welcome two time Golden  Globe winner Jim Carrey.

How did you do?

The announcer said.

Please welcome two time Golden  Globe winner Jim Carrey.

Did you hear two time or did you  write down or say 2 times with an S?

Grammatically, you need two time because this is  

an adjective and adjectives  don't have plural forms.

Nouns have singular and plural forms.

Of course, you could say I watched this lesson  2 * 2 times with the As because it's the noun.

And I certainly hope you do watch this lesson  

2 times because you will learn  a lot the second time as well.

So put.

That's right, that's right, but  that's right in the comments.

If you're going to watch it  two Times Now, let's discuss.

Please welcome.

This is, of course, a polite  way to welcome someone.

You could also say let's welcome, let's welcome.

This is casual and natural, and you can also  use this to welcome someone, for example.

Everyone, please welcome Maria to the team.

Or everyone, let's welcome Maria to the team.

The second one sounds more casual.

Also notice that these examples  are in the imperative form.

They start with the base verb, and this is  used for orders, instructions, or requests.

So you can think of this as a request.

So I could say to you perhaps as an  instruction, download the base verb.

So it's the imperative.

Download the free lesson PDF.

The link is in the description.

So please do this.

Now let's review your next listening exercise.

You need to complete the sentence.

Thank you.

I am two time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey.

You know when I go to sleep at night.

Thank you.

I am two time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey.

You know when I go to sleep at night.

How did you do?

He said.

Thank you.

I am two time Golden Globe winner Jim  Carrey and when I go to sleep at night.

Now notice how he said and when I was that  difficult for you to hear those sounds really  

blend together and just becomes and  when just becomes an unstressed when,  

when when so you just don't open  your mouth as much when, when,  

when, when and when and then you combine  them together and when I and when I so  

that and is almost dropped and when I and  when I Now let's talk about go to sleep.

He pronounced this quite clearly, but a  native speaker might say gota gota because  

that T between two vowels becomes a soft D  Gota, go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep.

Now let's talk about the sentence structure.

Notice we have when plus  subject plus present simple.

This is used with a future action.

I see many mistakes with this.

When I improve not the future simple, the present  simple when I improve my listening skills.

So how would you complete this sentence?

What verb do you need?

You need the future simple  to complete the sentence.

For example, when I improve my listening  skills, I'll watch I will a native speaker  

will say all a very unstressed I'll I'll  watch your lessons without subtitles.

Notice the expression go to sleep.

You can also say go to bed.

Both are very commonly used,  go to sleep, go to bed.

But don't say go to my sleep  or my bed or the sleep the bed.

You don't need a possessive or an article.

And notice those different prepositions in  the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening.

But what happens with night, at night, at night?

So let's continue this clip.

And when I go to sleep at  night, what does he say next?

Let's find out.

You know when I go to sleep at night,  I'm not just a guy going to sleep,  

I'm two time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey  going to get some well needed shut eye.

You know, when I go to sleep at night,  I'm not just a guy going to sleep.

I'm two time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey  going to get some well needed shut eye.

Did you get those missing words?

Going to get some well needed shut eye.

Shut eye?

Did you get that?

What is shut eye?

Well, maybe you understand just  based on the context that it's sleep.

Now, in this case, shut eye  and sleep are both nouns.

You can say let's get some  shut eye, let's get some sleep.

So that's another way of suggesting  let's go to sleep, let's get some sleep.

But remember, sleep is of course used as a verb.

I hope you sleep well, but shut eye is  only a noun now using our imperative.

Maybe you have a newborn baby and  you say please, please sleep tonight.

I desperately need some shut eye now.

Well needed notice, he added.

Well needed shut eye.

This is an adjective.

It means very much needed.

You could also say well deserved,  which means very much deserved.

For example, after working for 10  hours, I took a well deserved break.

I deserved this break very much.

So.

It's an adjective that modifies the noun.

Now let me ask you, have you noticed  that the audience is laughing a lot?

But Jim Carrey isn't telling jokes.

So why is the audience laughing?

Do you know the audience is laughing because Jim  Carrey is mocking his importance and success?

Do you know what the verb to mock means?

Other synonyms are to tease,  to make fun of, to poke fun at.

But this can be done in a light  hearted way, like Jim Carrey is doing.

Jim Carrey is mocking his importance  and success in a light hearted way.

But what if you say my coworkers  mock my accent non-stop?

So mock is your verb.

You need to conjugate it.

Now this can also be in a mean spirited way.

So lighthearted is positive and then the  opposite is mean spirited which is negative.

Now remember the audience  is filled with celebrities  

so he's also mocking their importance and success.

So he's saying he goes to sleep just like  everyone else despite having 2 Golden Globes.

That's why everyone is laughing.

Now let's continue on.

Here's your next listening exercise.

And when I dream, I don't  just dream any old dream.

And when I dream, I don't  just dream any old dream.

Did you get those missing words?

I don't just dream any old dream.

Did you hear how old dream sounded?

You definitely don't want to say  old, you want to say old old.

So drop that D old, but then attach  it to the noun old dream, old dream.

Now you combine this with any,  because that's the expression any old.

So you can use that.

Why to transition to the next word,  

which is a vowel old any old, any  old, any old dream, any old dream.

Now this is an expression any old plus noun  pronounced as any old means random or unimportant.

So we commonly use this in the negative.

You can't just buy any old dress.

You can't just buy some random  dress, some unimportant dress.

You can't just buy any old dress.

This is your wedding.

You need a spectacular dress.

Let's keep going.

Here's your next listening exercise.

I dream about being three time Golden  Globe winning actor Jim Carrey.

I dream about being three time Golden  Globe winning actor Jim Carrey.

Did you get all the missing words?

I dream about being three time Golden  Globe winning actor Jim Carrey.

And of course, notice that three  time you already heard that.

So let's talk about to dream about.

Notice that you can have a gerund or a noun.

So it's very common to ask what  did you dream about last night?

What did you dream about last night?

Now to answer this, you can use  a clause which is subject, verb,  

object and you can add that before the clause  which is optional, so it's not required.

You could say I dreamed because  dream is a verb, so you conjugate it.

I dreamed that optional now our clause.

I dreamed that I was Jim Carrey.

It was so weird.

Now notice that to dream of a different  preposition of plus jaron or noun.

This is used differently.

It's used to talk about your  desires, your aspirations or goals.

For example, I dream of jaron.

I dream of speaking English fluently and  confidently, but if you say I dream about  

speaking in English with natives, this  means you have this vision while asleep.

Now again, did you notice that  the audience was laughing a lot?

Well, the audience is laughing  because still Jim Carrey is mocking  

his desire, but then therefore the audience's  desire for even more success and importance.

Everyone in the audience wants  to win that Golden Globe.

They desperately hope their name will be called.

And he's downplaying the importance of it.

Do you know what to downplay means?

This means to make something seem less  important or significant than it actually is.

But often we use this as advice to not do  this because people downplay their success.

For example, your friend might say,  

or a family member might say, I got  a promotion, but it's no big deal.

It's no big deal.

They're downplaying their promotion.

So you can say don't downplay your success,  which is the imperative and the negative.

Don't downplay your success.

You earned that promotion.

Let's keep going.

Here's your listening exercise.

Because then I would be enough.

It would finally be true, and I could  stop this, this terrible search.

And I could stop this this terrible search.

Did you get all the missing words and  I could stop this terrible search?

Oh, Jim Carrey, he's the best.

So again, he's clearly mocking the  importance of winning a Golden Globe.

And also remember that everyone in the audience  wants to win, maybe desperately wants to win.

So they're laughing at themselves because  they identify with what he's saying.

Now he's saying I would be enough  if I won 3 Golden Globes because  

remember he dreams about becoming  three time Golden Globe winner.

This is your second conditional which is  used for hypothetical or unreal situations.

So we have if plus pass simple  and then would plus base verb.

If I improved my English I would travel more  but at this point is hypothetical and unreal.

If I won a third Golden Globe, I  would stop this terrible search.

Now this is almost an incomplete sentence because  it doesn't tell you what he's searching for,  

but it's implied everyone in the audience  knows I know what he's searching for.

Do you know, do you know what  Jim Carrey is searching for?

Well, he's searching for meaning, for importance,  

and he'll finally get that sense of  importance if he wins 1/3 Golden Globe.

So this is again, why it's funny.

He's mocking this desire for  more, for more, for more.

Now notice you can use could in  conditionals to express possibility.

He could also say I could stop  searching, stop searching because  

after stop you want your gerund verb to  mean that you no longer do the action.

So for you maybe you say I stopped using  subtitles because I now understand fast English.

That's amazing.

Let's keep going.

The next listening exercise.

For what I know ultimately won't fulfill me.

For what I know ultimately won't fulfill me.

Did you hear everything he said?

For what I know ultimately won't fulfill me.

Now notice how a native could  pronounce for what I know.

Combining those sounds together  for what I know for what I know.

So for becomes an unstressed Fer.

We don't pronounce that D on what?

So it sounds like a soft D, but then you add that  D to the next sound, which is I, the subject I.

But it's the same pronunciation as I.

So you add that D before I for what I die, die.

And then no is the same pronunciation as the  word no, the opposite of yes for what I know.

For what I know now, full Phil,  we'll talk about the meaning of this.

Native speakers often drop that  first Li do and say fulfill fuh.

So instead of saying full O with that  dark L, we commonly say fulfill, fulfill.

It's a lot easier to say, isn't it?

And that's what I personally say.

So to fulfill, this means to  satisfy or to make someone happy.

Now, there are many different sentence structures.

You can say my job fulfills me.

So this is the active form of the verb.

The verb is fulfilled.

So you conjugate it.

In this case, my job, my job fulfills me.

You could change the subject.

Her job fulfills her or you can say  I am, I feel fulfilled with that Ed.

It's the adjective form by my job.

I'm fulfilled by my job.

Or you can say I find being  a teacher very fulfilling.

So you can find something or  find doing something fulfilling.

So basically, Jim Carrey is saying at the Golden  

Globe Awards in front of all these  people who desperately want to win,  

I know winning another Golden Globe, his  third Golden Globe, won't fulfill me.

It won't satisfy me.

It won't make me happy.

Now, let's hear Jim Carrey's  final words of wisdom.

You need to complete the missing words.

Let's listen now.

But these are important, these awards.

But these are important, these awards.

Did you get his final words of wisdom?

But these are important.

These awards for pronunciation,  but just has that flat T.

But but so you just don't  push out that sound for the T.

And then you need to connect  it with the other words.

But these are so you can take  R and make it an unstressed R.

That's what native speakers commonly do.

But these are but these are important.

But again, it connects to the next word as well.

But these are important.

These awards.

Now grammatically, why would he say,  but these are important, these awards?

He's doing this to remind you what the  subject is, the subject being these awards.

Of course, grammatically the standard is  to say, but these awards are important.

But notice he said these are important, but  then he's just reminding you what these are.

So this is often done as an afterthought.

For example, I could say this is due today,  the final report, and then I might realize,  

oh, well, maybe you don't know what  this is, or I just want to clarify.

I want to be very direct and clear.

So this is due today, the final report, so  I'm just adding the subject on at the end.

Remember that but or however  they have the same meaning.

However is slightly more formal, but is everyday.

But however introduces a contrast, meaning  there has to be some opposite idea.

Maybe something is positive and  negative, good or bad, right or wrong.

There has to be some sort of contrast.

So the contrast here is he's  mocking winning an award.

His entire beginning part of the  speech is mocking winning an award.

So we can consider that to be a negative.

So now to successfully use, but you  have to have a contrasting idea.

So you have to have something positive.

So to form that contrast and use but  successfully, he says these awards are important.

Please welcome two time Golden  Globe winner Jim Carrey.

Thank you.

I am two time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey.

You know when I go to sleep at night,  I'm not just a guy going to sleep.

I'm two time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey  going to get some well needed shut eye.

And when I dream, I don't  just dream any old dream.

I dream about being three time Golden  Globe winning actor Jim Carrey.

Because then I would be enough.

It would finally be true and I could stop this,  

this terrible search for what I  know ultimately won't fulfill me.

But these are important, these awards.

Amazing job today, think of everything you learn.

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