Improve Your Fluency in English with these 6 Simple Ways to Understand Native Speakers!

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Do you struggle to understand native speakers?
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Maybe you can understand your teacher in the classroom.
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You can understand me right now.
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But when you're watching a movie or TV or you're out in the real world, talking to your
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co-workers, you struggle to understand them.
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Does that ever happen to you?
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Well, don't worry, because I'm going to share.
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Six.
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Simpler ways to understand, native, speakers easily, and these tips work, welcome back
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to JForrest
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English, of course, I'm Jennifer.
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Now, let's get started.
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What do you mean?
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She can't make it.
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Did you hear what I just said?
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What do you mean?
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She can't make it.
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I
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said,
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what do you mean?
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She can't make it, but, of course, I didn't say it like that.
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I said, what do you mean?
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She can't make it notice how I said, what do you?
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What do you?
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What do you?
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What do you mean?
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What do you mean?
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This is called connected speech and native speakers.
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Love, connecting their speech.
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But of course, this makes it difficult for you to understand us.
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So, let me share the most common connected phrases that you need to know the first one,
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of course, whattya wadiya.
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What do you mean?
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What are you doing?
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What do you want?
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How do you know she can't make it?
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Did you catch this one?
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How do you, how do you how?
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How do
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you, how do you know what you doing this weekend?
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Did you get this one?
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What are you becomes?
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What you, what you what you, what you doing this weekend?
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So make it your goal to learn these connected phrases but for now, focus on the top three,
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you need to know.
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What do you how do you?
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And what you, how about this one?
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How are you going to get to the mall?
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How are you?
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That's a connected phrase.
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How are you?
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How are you?
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How are you gonna now?
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This is a reduction.
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We take two words going to and we reduce it into one gonna.
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These are informal, they're very casual, but they're frequently used in spoken English.
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I got to go.
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I'm sure you know, this one got to sounds like
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Gotta I gotta go give me a break.
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Gimme gimme, gimme a Break.
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Give me sounds like gimme.
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I don't know, I don't know.
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I don't know as a reduction, I don't know.
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I want to go to the movies.
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Want to becomes wanna start with these and pay attention and keep adding more reductions
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to your speech.
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Each will be there at 5:00.
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We'll be there at five.
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We will be there at 5:00, we'll be there.
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We'll we'll this is a contraction.
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We take two separate words and we form one word.
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The thing you need to know about contractions is that they are grammatically correct.
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You can use them in your spoken English and your writing.
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And although they do sound more.
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Casual.
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They are grammatically.
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Correct.
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I would never say it is.
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It is a hot day.
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I would say it's a hot day.
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It's,
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it's it's a hot day, I would not say she is my friend.
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I would say she's my friend, she's my
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friend
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now because of this students might not get the verb because it's in a contraction, you
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must learn contractions.
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If you want to understand native speakers, let's start with the
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Most common it is it's
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there
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is there's I have I've you are your should not shouldn't will not won't start with these
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and keep adding contractions to your speech.
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It will help you understand.
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Native speakers.
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Let's try that listening exercise from the beginning.
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Again.
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What do you mean?
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You can't make it?
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It.
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What do you mean?
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You can't make it?
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I'm sure you already understand this, a lot more because you now understand the connected
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speech.
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But did you also know I said, make it, make it.
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Now, if you looked at each individual sound, it
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sounds like may hit.
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So you might be thinking May
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the month of May April, May and kit like a Kit Kat.
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Bar, I don't understand.
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This is linking, linking is when we take a sound from one word, and we put that sound
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on the next word.
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We do this in English to help us connect our speech and smooth our pronunciation.
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So we can speak without pauses, make it notice, there's that on make, but it forces me to
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Take a pause, make it.
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So to get rid of that pause, I take that and I put it on the next word, make it may kit.
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Let's try another listening exercise, you shouldn't walk alone at night.
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Now I used a contraction should not be comes, shouldn't you shouldn't and then I said walk
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alone.
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But again there's that sound
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So I take that k sound, and I put it on the next word and it becomes, wha cologne, but
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cologne sounds a lot like a men's perfume which we call cologne for women is perfume.
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But for men, it's cologne.
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So this can cause confusion because you might think I just said, cologne, meaning men's
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perfume but this is part of Walk Alone.
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Walk Alone walk
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Alone with linking the best way to get comfortable with linking is to study native speakers.
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So, instead of listening to an entire 30-minute episode, just listen to one sentence on YouTube
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or on TV and pause and listen to that sentence many many times and really get comfortable
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with how those sounds are pronounced together.
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And really get comfortable with how those sounds are pronounced at a natural pace.
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Let's try a listening exercise.
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I got a lot of merch.
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I got a lot of merch.
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I got a lot of merch here.
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I used a reduction.
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A lot of is pronounced A. Lotta a lot of.
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Now, what is merge?
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Maybe you understood the sound you understood?
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I said Marie.
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Merch.
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But you have no idea what that means.
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That's because native speakers.
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We shorten words all the time for no reason.
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This is very casual and informal but it's done in both a professional and social context.
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So, merge is short for merchandise.
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If you work in a company that's buys and sells products, most likely your co-workers will
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say merge and you might not understand what they mean.
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I mean that's a Fab dress Fab is short for fabulous.
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I have to take my cat to the vet.
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That is short for veterinarian.
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Are we meeting at HQ HQ is an acronym for headquarters, which is the head office, the
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main office of a company but pretty much everyone calls it HQ.
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So when you're studying native speakers, listen for the shortened words,
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And just make a list of them and keep adding the most common ones to your speech.
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Let's try another listening, exercise.
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You got to cut it out, you gotta cut it out.
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I used a reduction, got to gotta, you gotta cut it out, cut it out, cut it, cut it out
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now, maybe you heard the what and you're thinking, hmmm, what does Jennifer have to cut out?
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Does she have to cut something out?
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But no, because this is an idiom.
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So, to understand, native speakers, you have to learn phrasal verbs, idioms and expressions
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because we use them all the time.
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Take a look at this article from Forbes Magazine.
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Now, everything I have underlined is either a phrasal verb, an idiom or an expression
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and they don't have literal meanings.
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So maybe you understood the word cut.
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But that doesn't help you understand my message because it doesn't have a literal meaning.
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Now, there are hundreds and hundreds of phrasal verbs, idioms and expressions, but don't worry
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because I have many video tutorials on my channel already, so make it your goal to add
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And by expanding your vocabulary, with these
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Phrasal verbs, idioms and expressions.
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It will really help you understand, native speakers.
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So, now you know exactly what you need to do to understand native speakers.
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