American English Reductions And Contractions | How to talk faster in English.

Hello students welcome back to the English Danny Channel. I'm teacher John

and I'm here to help you become great at learning English today's lesson is going

to be about how to talk faster in English a lot of students really

struggle with speaking quickly in English and I'm speaking pretty

naturally right now so even if this could improve your listening skills as

well once you learn how exactly native speakers speak so quickly today we'll

discuss three things that will help you improve your speaking speed and you will

be able to talk faster the first thing that we're going to talk about today is

using contractions I know that this seems like a very simple hint or tip but

a lot of my students in particular know that they should contract the word or

shorten the word but they still say the two separate words so for example a lot

of my students will always say cannot instead of can't or did not instead of

did it and I know that it's very simple tip but if you can really practice on

memorizing all of the English trick contractions some of the longer ones

like haven't or mustn't or shouldn't wouldn't couldn't will really help you

save time when you are speaking rather than saying would not especially because

sometimes the pronunciation of would or could might be a little bit difficult

for you in your native language so for example just to show you how a sentence

can be shortened by the use of a few contractions I'm sorry but I cannot go

to school today because my mother would not drive me you can shorten this

sentence a little bit by saying I'm sorry but I can't go to school today

because my mother wouldn't drive me the difference between these two sentences

is subtle so it's a very small difference but if you can use

contractions more and more often your speaking will be faster because of it

the second hint or tip that we're going to talk about today is reducing verbs

there are actually many verbs that you can reduce in English and by reduce I

mean make smaller and faster but we're just going to talk about four verbs that

are very common and spoken English the first one is going to you can reduce it

to gonna want to which you can reduce to one other have got two can be reduced to

gutta and have two can be reduced to have two you can see that the ending

vowel in the word two has been reduced to an O sound which provides for a very

smooth and fast transition to the next word for example I'm going to go to

school today if we reduce the verb we would say I'm

gonna go to school today I think it's easy to hear the difference between I'm

going to go and I'm gonna go you can see that it's faster the third and

or tip that we're going to talk about today is reducing the word you there are

a lot of question words in English especially who what where when and why

but also would and could are also question words in English so if we take

a sentence for example like what are you doing and reduce what are you we can say

what you're doing this is very fast it's very smooth as well and this is the way

that native speakers talk to each other the word where can also have a the

subsequent where you reduced so where are you going can be reduced to where

you're going a third example is the word would if you asked would you please help

me can be reduced to would you please help me here are some more examples of

when the word you can be reduced with question words what do you or what did

you reduce to watch other how did you or how do you how a when do you when did

you when you don't you don't you let me let me I've got to I've gotta do you

want to one us TV you did you okay students that's our lesson for today if

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