STOP Speaking School English - START Speaking Real-Life English

So in school they actually teach you to speak in a way

that is different than how we natives speak in real-life

so not only can this leave you speaking a little bit like a robot

if you're just relying on what you learn in school but you're also going to find

it very difficult to understand natives for

example if you want to watch a TV series without subtitles

or if you want to travel to an English-speaking country

so in this lesson today I'm going to help you to break

some of those bad habits that you learned in school and I'll also be

getting a little bit of help to do it.

But more on that in a little while so if

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So one of the most important things for you to learn about native English is

that we do not emphasize every syllable the same

because this would make a sound like a robot

so what we do instead is we reduce words that we don't consider so important to

the meaning of what we're saying so one example of this that you will

find all the time are prepositions.

So the first two tips

that we'll look at will be two of the most common the first

one being TO.

So natives will rarely fully pronounce

the word TO instead we will reduce it to tuh

or if it comes after a word ending in a vowel or a d

we'll say duh and just a note for you we're going to look

mostly at informal things in this lesson but in the case of some of them like

these first two you'll actually find these even in

business English and formal settings so you can use these pretty much anytime

and you'll also hear them all the time.

So let's look at some instances of this

that you will find all the time so in school they probably taught you to

say these like Serious Sam

Let's see GOT TO, WANT TO

HAVE TO, GOING TO

However it's pretty uncommon that you will hear natives

speak this way most natives will actually speak like my

friend Street Stan yeah man i'd say like GOTTA, WANNA

GONNA, HAFTA

So maybe you already know about those ones

so let's look at a couple more examples that might be a bit more surprising for you.

So the next preposition that we're going

to look at is OF now natives don't usually pronounce it

in this way we would say simply UV or UH.

In school I'm sure that they probably taught you to say it this way

Well that's weird because I'd actually say KINDA.

Let's check out some more examples.

Now the next five things that they taught you to say wrong in school

have to do with vocabulary that is the words that natives actually don't

use that often so the first two that we'll look at

have to do with how you can start a conversation more like a native.

Now in school they probably taught you to start a conversation like this:

What?! Natives almost never say that

So how should you actually start a conversation?

Here are some better ways that you can do it.

So if I see a buddy of mine I'd

probably say: hi, hey, yo, what's up or I might even say

what's cracking, what's happening or if i haven't seen them in a while I'd say

long time no see.

Now saying how are you is okay if you're in a formal setting

but what if you're hanging out with friends and you don't want to sound unnatural?

Okay now maybe someone asks you one of

those questions so how should you respond if you want to

sound more like a native.

Actually sometimes I

might say "I'm fine" especially if I think the other person

doesn't really care how I'm doing, but if you don't want to just sound

boring then you might want to try one of these:

And actually you can use

any alternatives to good instead of saying "I'm fine"

So I highly recommend that after you finish this lesson

you check out this other lesson that we did over on our Learn English with TV Series channel

Finally with these last two we'll have

you sounding more polite and doing it like a native would.

Well actually sir should probably only

be used in the most formal situations so i would actually

probably say: thanks i appreciate it or precia-dit

you're the best, it means a lot to me, oh you shouldn't have

or i might even say I owe you one.

And then in school

what did they teach you to say after someone says "thank you"

Well if you want to sound a little bit

more natural you could try:

So I actually have

one more native vocabulary tip for you and that is

don't say sorry but you will find that exclusively over on our Instagram page

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alright so now moving on from vocabulary let's take a look at some native grammar

now i'm sure in school they probably taught you about contractions

how they work and why we use them but they probably did not emphasize

how important they are now natives we use these much more often than not

so if you're not using them you could sound a little bit robotic again

so i'm not going to cover the most common ones which I think you probably

already know but let's take a look at some ones that

are more special that maybe you haven't encountered before

but that natives definitely use all the time I also highly recommend that you

pay close attention to pronunciation.

So start using contractions whenever possible

in informal situations in business situations and in formal situations

and if you want to learn more about how to use contractions I highly recommend

our lesson on How to Speak English Fast now if you're following these tips so

far then you're probably already sounding much more like a native

but I still have a few more for you so in school

they taught you to always say have like this:

No, no, no that's all wrong it should be:

Now you've probably

already seen those ones so let's look at a couple more common

ones that you might not know about.

That's wrong too, I would say:

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All right so now let's finish up

with some Connected Speech and in case you don't know what that is

that is how natives cut and then connect our words together

so the first one we're going to look at is T+Y.

Now the y part of this is almost always

you or your and as a bonus tip for you we usually reduce your to YUR.

So when we have a t plus a y sound it morphs into a CH sound.

So let's take a look at how Serious Sam and Street Stan

would pronounce these.

So, very similarly to how we just saw t plus y becomes ch, when we have a D+Y

it becomes J.

Alright so I hope those 11 tips have helped you to get a lot more

confidence with your speaking and will also help you to relax and

enjoy when you're watching a TV series or

you're speaking with a native friend or another friend who speaks English with

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What is up guys I'm Ethan your RealLife English fluency coach and

in today's lesson we are going to talk about six things

that you need to do every day in order to improve your English

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