Advanced English Listening Practice👂 Test your Listening!

Do you want to improve your listening skills  of fast English so you can understand native  

English speakers in any context. Well, that's  what you'll do today. Welcome back to JForrest  

English. My name is Jennifer and today you're  going to test your listening skills. This is  

all fun lesson. Now let's get started. Here  are your instructions for the entire lesson?  

I'm going to say a sentence and I'm going to  say it at a fast-paced, the way I would speak.

Speak to my friends or colleagues. I'm  going to use phrasal verbs idioms and  

expressions and I'm going to use natural  pronunciation and you're going to test  

your listening skills. I will say each  sentence, three times write down exactly  

what you hear in the comments section. And  then after I'll explain exactly what I said,  

the expression I use and the natural pronunciation  changes. Okay, our first listening test,

Did you get that one? I said,  did you break it to him first?  

Let's talk about the pronunciation.  Changes. Did you? We pronounce this as

didja,

didja, didja. So I combine those sounds together  

and I take you and I change it to ya.  Did you did you did you break it to

him? Notice the last two

words, really sounded

Like one

word Tim

Tim, it almost sounded like Tim the name Tim  and that's because we frequently get rid of  

the H on him and her at a natural pace.  And we connect it to the word before. So  

it really sounds like em em and then you hear  the from to Tim, Tim, did you break it to him?  

Now, what does this mean to break something?

To someone is an expression and we use  this when you share news or information  

with someone but it's always negative.  So maybe you applied for a promotion but  

you're not going to get the promotion so  that's the negative news. Did you break it  

to them? That he's not getting the promotion.  So did you share this negative news with him?

Him, did you break it to him? Our next listening,  

test. Remember to put what you hear in the  comments. Did you get that one? I said,  

cut it out, would you first? Let's talk  about pronunciation. Did y'all the same  

thing is happening here with? Would you you  becomes yah and I combine. Those sounds whoo.

Jia Jia Jia? Would you would you, would you  cut it out? Would you now let's talk about  

cut it out. You'll notice, we have teased  in between vowels in American English,  

when a t comes between vowels, we change that  to a, a very soft deep because they get out, cut  

it out, and I pronounce all three  as one. Cut it out, cut it out.

It out, cut it out, cut it out. Would you the  expression to cut something out? Means to stop  

something that is annoying or frustrating or  irritating or unwanted. So, let's say you're  

in a meeting for work. And in the background,  your kids are going crazy. They're screaming,  

they're yelling, they're fighting. This is  behavior. That is unwanted frustrating irritating.

Annoying and you want them to stop so you  can say to your kids cut it out. Would  

y'all are next? Listening exercise?  Right? What you hear in the comments. 

Did you get that one? I said you gotta  kick it up a notch. First notice how I  

used gotta? This is a reduction. It's a  combination of the words dot to and it's  

pronounced as one. Gotta you gotta  you can also say you've gotta you

You have got to. But in American English,  

it's very common to just say you gotta you  gotta, you got to is the same as you have

to.

Now let's talk about the expression  to kick something up a notch. When  

you kick something up a notch, it's  just encouraging you to perform better  

work faster. Work harder. So let's  say you were tasked with assembling

100 boxes and two hours have passed  and your boss sees that you've only  

assembled 20 boxes and your boss wants to  tell you that you need to work harder. You  

need to work faster. You need to perform  better. She can say you've got a kick it  

up a notch. You got to work faster. You  got to work harder our next listening  

exercise. Right? What you hear in  the comments, I'll say three times.

How did you do it? That one I said don't  let him get to you first. Let's talk about  

pronunciation. Don't let them. Let them  notice again. I take that H off of him,  

I dropped the sound and then I'm left with em.  But I combine it with the word before let them,  

let them, let them don't let them.  Don't let them get to you now.

I said you at the end, many native speakers will  drop this to ya. Don't let him get to you. Get  

Tia just like we saw with. Did you wouldja? But  I said you don't let him get to you. Now, what

does

this mean? When someone gets to you,  it means that you become angry annoyed,  

irritated or frustrated, because of  that person's Behavior. But we can also,

So use this in situations. If you get really  angry, when you're stuck in traffic, I can say,  

don't let the traffic get to you. So don't  let this situation make you angry because  

what does being angry do? It doesn't  benefit the situation in any way. Don't  

let the traffic get to you. Don't let your  boss's criticism get to you. Don't let it.

It anger you frustrate you or annoy you our  next listing exercise. I'll say three times.  

Right. What you hear in the comments. Did  you get that one? What are you looking at?  

So here we have a very simple sentence but  it might be difficult for you because of  

those natural pronunciation changes how I  combine my words at a natural pace. What  

are you sounds like one word? What are you?  What are you? So the are just becomes herb.

And I attached it to what water water  water, what are you now? I think I said  

you but you can also again shorten that to  Young and native speakers commonly do that.

So

get comfortable with it. What  are you what are you? What are  

you? What are you? But remember is  sounds like one word. What are you?  

What are you looking at here? It's very  common to take a word that ends in ing.

And drop the G sound that  good sound and just ended on.  

Hmm, looking looking looking that looking at,  but notice I combined it with the word that  

comes next because it's a vowel look in that.  So instead of looking at it sounds like Nat  

not and then I combine them. Look in that. Not  looking at looking at. What are you looking at?

At so, how did you do with those listening  exercises? Share your score in the comments  

below and remember, you were being test on  your ability to understand the words I say  

but also the ability to understand what  my meaning is. So maybe you understood  

the words but you didn't know the expression  or the idiom, you didn't know what it meant,  

so you need both. But don't worry if this  was difficult because the more you practice

Is the more you study need of speakers. The more  you add these Expressions to your vocabulary,  

the easier it will become. So now what  I'm going to do is I'm going to say each  

sentence again and I want you to imitate me  and try to say it as closely to the way I  

pronounce it. And if you're in a private  space, I want you to say it out loud. If  

you're in a public space will then try  this again. When you're at home and you

You can say it out loud. Did you break it to them?  

Did you break it to them? Did you break it to  them? Cut it out. Would you cut it out? Would you  

cut it out? Would you? You gotta kick it up  a notch. You got to kick it up a notch. You  

gotta kick it up a notch. Don't let them get  to you. Don't let him get to you. Don't let  

him get to you. What are you looking at? What  are you looking at? What are you looking at?

Now practice this again and again until you feel  very confident that your pronunciation is close  

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