How I Understand 100% of What Natives Say

You know, you said that paying attention to certain details.

So I thought we could actually test how well you pay.

Oh, man. How? Well.

I'm scared.

You know, I'm done.

I have to get back to studying English because, you know...

So I'm joined here

in the Global Studio by the one and only Axl Pose, a.k.a. Thiago.

How's it going? Thiago?

Hey Ethan, I'm doing well, thank you.

How's it going?

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Thiago, so, I've had a lot of students

who, you know, pretty much all of them get frustrated

at one point or another because they feel lost when they listen

to native speakers at normal speed if they don't have subtitles, you know.

And actually, if this is the case for you, if you're listening and that's the case

for you, then if you're not already, you might want to try

listening to the podcast on the RealLife app because you have an interactive transcript

so you can follow along, and that's really going to help you to not get lost.

But anyways, I know that I've observed

that you have really no issues or very, very rarely have issues

understanding natives at full speed.

So I was wondering if you could let our audience know what's your secret.

The secret, well...

First of all, thanks for the compliment. I appreciate that.

Yeah, I mean, I would say that for me, Ethan, understanding

native English, right, it comes down to two things, right?

Listening to a lot of English over the years and I've always had

that habit of listening to movies and series back in the day.

Nowadays, I listen to podcasts as well, listening to a lot of music.

So I've been doing that for many, many years now, so it kind of compounds.

Yeah, if you do that a lot every day over the course of many years, it compounds.

So you get better and better.

So listening to a lot of English was definitely a part of it.

But a second point, and most importantly is

whenever I listen to something in English, a native speaker

speaking, for example, I always pay attention to specific things.

You know, there are certain specific things

that I always pay attention to as I'm listening.

So I would say these two points have helped me to,

you know, have good listening skills.

So before we move on, I did want to ask you,

you used an interesting word there, compound. If something compounds,

what does that mean?

It gets

bigger and bigger or larger and larger, especially as time passes.

This is a very common word in investing, for example,

when talking about investing our money.

Let's say you invest in some stocks.

They pay dividends.

And then, you know, if you keep investing over the course of ten, 15,

20 years, your money compounds that either compound interest or, you know.

So, yeah, something that grows as time passes.

Yeah. It stacks up right one on one the top of the other. Yeah.

It's like an exponential curve even, you know, of, of how it, how it grows.

So that's really great.

And you know, you said that paying attention to certain details.

So I thought we could actually test how well you pay attention.

Oh, man.

How well?

And so we're going to have a producer who's in the studio

with us, the one and only Ice-T.

We like to call him T around the office.

Share. Share the clip with us.

So let's roll that.

I'm scared.

The pressure is killing me.

So, Thiago.

What did you understand. You know what?

I'm done.

I have to get back to studying English because, you know

my listening skills are not as good

as I thought.

So it's okay. I didn't understand that either.

I have no idea what he's saying.

It is English, apparently, but it's like a very.

Like a dialect from rural Ireland.

So obviously that was just a joke

even for most natives.

I think if you're not from Ireland, it's probably near impossible to understand.

I think I heard the word sheep somewhere in there, but we actually.

Looking at the title of the video helped to also I saw there that.

Missing sheep.

Okay, he's talking about sheep. That's it.

It's a good a good lesson, right.

Is is use the context that you have available.

Absolutely.

Yeah, so you look for verbal clues or.

Yeah, you make some predictions. Yeah.

Because I know sometimes I don't understand 100% per say.

Right.

But you can use certain devices to help you make sense of what's being said.

Yeah. Exactly.

So now we have an actual real test.

And I got this from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,

which I'm sure that, you know, you and I would have no trouble understanding him.

It's an American accent, although it is, you know, like,

could be considered a difficult American accent,

especially, you know, for someone who has more intermediate

or even advanced English could have some trouble understanding it.

So let's watch that.

And then Thiago is going to let us know how he understood it.

Okay.

All right.

That that was much better.

Thank you. All right.

So do you want to just to prove that you actually understood this,

do you want to just, like, kind of paraphrase?

What, that it was pretty short clip, but what it was about.

Yeah. Yeah.

Just paraphrasing quickly here, Will's character.

Yeah, he's

expressing his frustration with the fact that apparently his dad is absent.

Yeah, he...

He lives with his uncle, Uncle Phil.

And he's expressing this frustration that apparently the father doesn't

really care about him or doesn't try to get in touch with him.

And he even bought a present, I guess, because I think he was hoping to

to see the father in person.

But, you know, he never bothered to show up.

So yeah, he's angry. Yeah.

And he speaks in a very peculiar way, I would say, which is kind of,

I think in the series.

He's from Philadelphia.

So, you know, he's a street kid from Philadelphia.

So there's a lot of slang there.

But the idea is pretty much that, yeah, I mean, he is expressing his frustration

about his absent father.

Yeah. Perfect.

So, you know, you and I don't have too many issues understanding

that even though there's some old slang in that clip, like, for example,

he said the word slimmies, which I...

Yeah, I, I can't say.

I didn't quite get a call.

Anyone saying that, but yeah, I just, I mean, really from the context,

I assume from the context that he's talking about like girls, you know,

he's talking about like Slimmies

down at the beach or something like that.

So. Right.

Yeah.

But why is it that a lot of learners might have felt a bit lost there?

You know, if they didn't have subtitles?

Yeah, it might be worth maybe uh... Playing it again.

So certain parts.

But what I can say now is

he uses a lot of ain't the word ain't which is a slang word.

Yeah.

And he does some things, for example he reduces the preposition "to" to a "duh".

Yeah.

I forget exactly what he was saying but I think it was something like

trying to do something, trying to do something.

He goes like that, trynna, trynna. Even a nuh or a duh.

Depending on the word that that precedes.

He also reduces the H for him.

So there's a part that I remember that instead of saying him

he says -im. I don't know if it was about him or to him.

Yeah. Instead of about him or to him. "Who needs him?"

And but yeah, there are certain connected speech patterns there that he uses, which

if you're not familiar with as a learner, you will struggle

to understand that segment because he also speaks quite fast

because remember, he's frustrated. He's emotional.

He's emotional, yeah.

So he's speaking fast using slang and this connected speech patterns there.

So. Yeah,

that's why I can be tricky.

Yeah. Yeah.

You mentioned like ain't for example.

And the thing with ain't if it's followed by what we call the function word.

So like you said, like to is a function word or of is a function word,

the t can even drop in at the end, can connect to the next word.

So if you said like...

I don't know, for example, ain't nothing, nothing's actually I think

is a content word, but like the, the first syllable could be reduced.

It would be like, ain't nothing, ain't nothing.

And those, the t's gone, the ends link together and everything.

So, you know,

a lot of things like that are happening that if you become more familiar

with some of these different connected speech patterns,

your brain would be able to process that because you kind of have like

the puzzle pieces you need.

But if you're not familiar with those, then you're going to feel lost.

It might even sound almost like another language, right?

Absolutely.

And I think the speech is such a huge deal here.

Yeah.

Because if you combine listening to English every day.

Yeah. And that idea of compounding, right.

The more you listen to it, the better your listening skills

get, with deliberately learning about and studying connected speech.

And that's exactly what we do, right?

I mean, in our learning English TV channel, I mean,

most of what we teach there is related to connected speech.

So learning these patterns

is going to definitely help you better understand native speakers.

And I think this clip that we just listen together.

Yeah. Is also a good example of:

you don't have to speak

exactly as you hear someone, a native speaker in this case, speaking.

Right.

Because in my case, for example,

I wouldn't ever speak like Will Smith in this clip.

I would never speak like this. Nor I?

Yeah.

That's not how I view myself speaking English.

Right.

But, you know, I have my own way of speaking English, my my influences.

Right.

But I'm still able to understand pretty much all of it.

Right?

So being able to understand doesn't mean that you have to necessarily speak

like that person you're listening to unless you want to.

Yeah, unless you want to sound like that.

Yeah. Yeah.

So as Thiago mentioned, we help you to do exactly this on our Learning

a TV series channel.

And that's one of the most fun ways that you can do it.

And in fact,

the reason that I thought about this clip is because we did a lesson with it.

It was a long time ago, but, you know, if you're a fan of Will Smith,

The Fresh Prince, if you want to better understand that clip

we just watched, then, you know, you can check that out.

We'll link it down description below in the show notes as well.

And one thing that Thiago mentioned before, too, that's

really important is like creating this own immersion experience for yourself.

There's an expression we say in English that if you don't use it, you lose it.

And this is very true for languages.

You know, if you're not constantly using it,

if you're not constantly immersing yourself,

even if you can't go live in the country, just like Thiago has never lived in

the States, never lived in the UK, but you can create your own immersion

experience by Thiago was explaining to me

the other day, for example, that he had to do some

some spring cleaning and he listened to an entire audio book

because he, you know, he was cleaning for for several hours.

So it's like things like that.

So you can find all these different convenient ways

to create your own immersion experience

where you're just listening to hours and hours of English,

even without living in a country where it's the native language

and this whole thing about, you know, don't use it, you lose it.

It's really important because, you know, if you're not constantly

keeping it sharp, then, you know, it might be like you become a zombie.

And speaking of zombies,

I've heard people are like talking all about this new series, right?

The The Last of US.

I'm curious, Jack, have you have you caught any episodes of that?

Yeah. Yeah, sure. I have been watching it.

It's been on HBO Max

every Sunday and there are three episodes out.

And yeah, I've been watching, I've seen the three of them

and you know, I play the games.

Yeah, I'm a fan of the games.

I think the games are really well-made. So yeah.

Yeah. It's based on game?

It is. Yeah, it is.

Super popular game from PlayStation. Yeah. So

I'm really out of the loop with this.

I've never been really a big fan of like the whole zombie genre.

Can I stop you here.

Very quickly, because I know you just said I'm out of the loop, right?

First of all, the definition now, what does it mean to be out of the loop?

If you're out of the loop, it means you're not informed about something.

You haven't been following that thing you're not current with a certain

trend or certain, uh, I don't know, pop culture information.

Yeah.

So that's definitely the case for me with this series.

And the second point that I wanted to bring up

is the connected speech that you used that, right?

You said I would have the loop right.

Out of the loop.

Yeah. You see I like out of the loop.

You didn't say like that, right. Can you repeat how you sent it.

Out of the loop.

Out of the loop.

Yeah.

So in our for the listeners out there or for our viewers, it's important

for you to pay attention to this.

If you have the opportunity to talk to a native speaker

like I'm talking to Ethan right now, he's American.

Or if you're watching something, yeah, pay attention to how people say things.

Yeah, it's about recognizing this pattern.

So, oh, if he said Outta the loop out of becomes outta.

Maybe I can use outta in other sentences in other situations too.

Out of the loop, out of the place, out of the... And then you...

You work on like that, right? So

it's important for you to be attention this. Word chunk, right?

Sorry, sorry.

I digress a little bit here now.

So could you please say what you were saying about the last of us?

And being out of the loop? It is a very appropriate digression.

No, I was just saying that I'm not a huge fan of like the whole zombie genre,

although like a few years back actually now it's probably quite old.

But there was a movie I really enjoyed with Woody Harrelson called Zombieland.

And actually, you know, maybe we can watch a clip from that

and you could we could break down some more connected speech.

Right? Let's do it.

Yeah. Sounds fun. Right?

Can you roll it, too?

I had to get that out. I don't mean to gush.

This is so surreal.

I mean, you probably get this all the time.

Maybe not lately, but I'm such a huge fan of yours.

You see?

He says something interesting here. Yeah.

He says, I think to Bill Murray,

I'm such a huge fan of yours, right, at the last part there.

So first I notice that he doesn't pronounce the H for huge.

I imagine that certain areas in the US people don't pronounce it like that.

Right?

I would say huge.

But my dad's from New York

and he says he even he almost says it like there's a Y, they're like huge. You

know, it's kind of how he says it here.

Donald Trump says it as well,

like Donald Trump has a thing or two things like it's going to be huge, huge.

The same thing. I think that's like a New York thing.

And he also says I'm a huge fan of yours, so

I am a huge fan of yours, of yours, he says.

I'm a huge fan-uh yours.

Fan-uh yours, fan of yours.

I think you might even said fan of yours, right?

Like reducing that yours to a you're fan of yours maybe.

Yeah. Can I say that again?

All right. Yeah.

And he says something else at the beginning.

I think I had to get that out.

But he spoke very fast, that point. Right.

Maybe we could play that part again because I noticed that too.

Yeah. Could you play that again, T?

Every one of your movies.

So there's some other interesting things there, you know?

So he's so what we were saying at the beginning there, he says,

I had to get that out, which he said really fast.

And it's it's kind of we're saying before outta, right.

And you mentioned before also with like Will Smith with the reduction of "to."

So the had to and this is interesting because it's a D and a T,

but oftentimes when we have that happen, at T and D.

together, it's kind of like the D trumps the T, like the T goes away.

So it's like I had to I had to get that out.

And then again you have get and that has like two t's.

So those go together get that had to get that out

and then you have an American T there with that out.

I had to get that out.

I had to get that out and then he says, I don't mean to gush.

Do you know what that means, Thiago?

And I'm going to give it a shot here.

But I'm not sure. Okay.

I don't mean to gush.

I mean, I think when you gush, you

maybe you show how much of a fan you are

towards a person like, you know, a you're fanboy is a fanboy.

Yeah.

Is that correct?

Or if you got your gushing, it's like you're

I don't know, would you call you're being a brown noser maybe as well.

You're brown nosing. That's another way we could say this.

Like you're complimenting someone, but like a lot.

Right? Right. Oh, my God. You are...

Which, you know, people might do them.

Gush to like you can do it.

You know, if you're a big fan of someone, of course.

But you could also like maybe you're gushing too much to like your boss

or to your to your teacher or something like that.

To yeah, uh, to try to, you know, gain some favor or something.

Sucking up to them... In general it's seen as a negative thing.

Right. Okay.

So it's a sucker pour over complimenting.

Yeah.

And reminds me on a tangent that

there used to be a

candy price because that's when I was a kid called Gushers.

Okay.

And it was like these,

it was these gummies, gummies, like the kind of like chewy things

we can even maybe show a picture of this with like a liquid inside

and it's called a gusher because it's something gushes.

Another thing is this like when you bite into these gummies,

they gush like the liquid would kind of like spurt out.

So that's another use of gush.

Just like when a zombie bites you, it gushes blood, is that it? And blood gushes out.

Or brain maybe.

Yeah.

Ethan, just going back a little bit.

You use the nice word there, you said on a tangent.

On a tangent, right?

What does that mean on a tangent?

And earlier, before you said digress.

So it's the same thing. You can say that you're digressing.

You're saying

you're going off on a tangent, that's expression to go off on a tangent.

Or you can say like tangentially speaking. Wow.

It'd be another way to say that.

So that you're going off of the topic. Hmm.

That sounds beautiful.

I was kind of off the topic, but it was related, right?

Yeah. We made it about the topic.

It was a tangent.

All right, so we have our question of the day for you.

So let us know if you're watching it on YouTube, let us know down the comments.

If you aren't, you could email us

at [email protected] if you're just listening.

And we would love to hear your answer, but our question is,

do you think that you would survive alone in a zombie apocalypse?

And tell us why or why not?

You know, why would you be able to survive for a long time?

Like what resources do you have at hand

or what skills do you have that would help you to do that?

Or, you know, would you be one of the first people to go?

Why do you think that is?

So we're curious to hear your answer.

And it's a way to practice writing your English, right?

And some of the vocabulary that we're learning today.

All right.

So we want to actually bring back this.

We want to gush one of our fans

and maybe they were also gushing at us, I don't know.

But with today's shout out.

So let's check out the two. Our shout out is for today.

All right.

The shout out today goes to Yoel.

And Yoel, I believe, says

Thank you so much,

Yoel, for gushing about our app, right?

Yeah. I'm glad that you're enjoying the experience there.

And dear listener or dear viewer,

if you haven't checked it out yet, what are you waiting for?

We talked about that you get an interactive transcript,

but you're learning a lot of words today as well.

So, you know, you'll be able to get vocabulary flashcards

so that you never forget them, because that's one of the big issues here

that we hear from learners is that they get into conversation

and they know that they know a word, but they can't remember it in that moment.

They know they've learned it, but it just doesn't come to them.

And this is because you haven't you know, we have like special technology

that works the way your memory does so that it becomes long term memory.

And of course, as well, another big problem that a lot of learners say is

they don't have enough opportunities to actually use what they're learning.

And so it's the only place where by just pressing a button,

you can connect to another learner and have a conversation for 4 to 8 minutes

and it's really great because you get to meet people

from all around the world that are learning English just like you.

And we have one more fan that we want to send...

We want to gush out. We'll use that word all day.

I think I haven't used that even in a long time, but in line with Woody Harrelson,

who commented

on one of our recent lessons so I'll let you read that Thiago.

All right.

So this viewer here left us a nice comment.

So, here it goes:

Amazing. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Nazarly. And if we're butchering your name, I'm so sorry.

We should have checked before we have a teammate actually who's also from Ukraine.

So we could have asked her how to say that correctly.

But you can also let us know if we got that wrong.

But Nazarly, you obviously have a very ample vocabulary base.

So you mentioned

that. Let me read that line again.

All the succulent nutrients that will kick start your day in a better way.

It's even sounds like poetry.

So what does succulent mean?

I think about it or something juicy, like when talking about food,

like a succulent fruit, for example.

It's something.

It gushes when you bite into it.

You know, it seems like gushing is the word of the day today, right?

It's all about gushing.

Our listeners are not going to forget that word.

Absolutely not.

Yeah.

And nutrients, if something's full of nutrients.

It's full of vitamins and

minerals, you know, all the good things you need to remain healthy.

Yeah. Mm hmm.

And if something kickstarts your day, what does that mean to kickstart?

I think it starts.

You know, to start your day.

It may a productive, energetic way, like, you know, your kick start.

Yeah. Like it's kind of a quick, exciting or.

Like that comes from like a motorcycle, right?

There's like a, like a kick start.

Like the ones that you, you,

you start them with, like an action with your foot, maybe

kind of like that.

But yeah, but that can.

You can hold a car too.

Or not or just the bike.

I don't think so.

Just the bike if you have like really strong legs.

I don't know. I think it's like a special like

something that I want to say motos because that's what we call them here.

Motorcycles have have like some have a Kickstarter.

Maybe I'm wrong there though.

Okay. Yeah. Um,

but yeah.

And it's really great to hear that, you know,

we're one of your pair channels alongside Rachel English.

We really admire Rachel.

I've used to her a lot to my teaching.

I know that like all of her content is super valuable for learners,

so it is really an honor to be considered in the same league

as such an extraordinary teacher and YouTuber

and the podcast.

In case people were curious, in case

you're this is maybe the first one you're watching

or you missed that we did one, I believe, episode 322.

Thiago and I talked about this idea of why fluency might not be the best goal for you

and why proficiency is actually,

could be a more powerful goal for you to have a more effective goal.

So if you haven't yet, you might want to check out that episode.

We'll link it in the description and in the show notes.

And now we have some special wisdom, as promised from a very famous pirate.

So we have our RealLife Way moment.

And today we're going to talk about the last component

of the RealLife Way, which is activate it.

And if you are unfamiliar with what the RealLife Way is, it is our method

to guide learners to learn English outside of the classroom.

So we talked all about this in our last up to the podcast.

If you missed that, it is episode 324 and maybe you want to give that a listen

because it can definitely transform the way that you are learning English.

But I'm digressing a little bit here.

So what exactly is activating it all about?

Thiago.

It's about

practicing your English in a more deliberate

way, in a more intentional way, maybe more structured way

while living our English

is a core part of it,

and also connecting it to your goals, to your vision of yourself for the future.

You also need that moment where you are a little bit more active, a little bit

more proactive or curious, and in order to pick up

stuff or learn stuff, for example, in this episode

we are talking about how to understand most of what you hear from native speakers

and part of that is about identifying patterns,

paying attention to the patterns of connected speech, of sounds.

In order for you to do that, you have to be paying attention in an active way.

For example, you can't just listen to something

for the sake of listening.

Yeah, in a passive way.

Yeah.

You have to be a little bit more interested in it, like, oh, you said that.

I mean, can you say that again? What does that mean?

Or what sounded you make there?

Well, if you are alone with a movie or a TV show, for example,

pausing, checking it out or maybe taking notes so that you can ask

your English speaking friend later at another opportunity.

But I think that this topic today, you know, about understanding

native English is very connected to this component of the RealLife Way.

Yeah, deliberately activating or listening in this case.

Yeah.

So exactly what we've been doing today, you know, breaking apart

these different scenes

and stuff, being curious, going back, watching again, again, mimicking, too.

We didn't really do that right.

But I mean, it's maybe easier for us to do that.

But when you're learning, obviously it's

something that you can challenge yourself to do, is even listening to this podcast,

you know, if maybe there's a certain part that something that Thiago or I said

that's interesting, you like the way that we said it.

Go back and like listen a couple of times, repeat it yourself, try to say it

in the same way, like really work out those muscles of articulation.

And that's basically what activating is about.

It's not just passively sitting on the couch

and watching something in English,

but actually turning everything that you do

into an opportunity to get a little bit better,

even if it's just with something really small,

like rewatching a certain part or taking note like Thiago said.

So where did pirates come into this, Thiago?

Yeah, actually,

I found this really cool quote from Captain Jack

Sparrow, and I don't know in which Pirates of the Caribbean movie

that was spoken, but the quote goes, The problem is not the problem.

The problem is your attitude about the problem.

You know, so why did I choose that?

Because, you know...

I hear many learners sometimes complaining about it like, oh, it's so difficult.

It's so hard to understand movies or series or the news

or native speakers in general. They speak so fast.

Okay, that's a problem that you have. I get that.

Yeah, it is a real challenge. Right.

But remember the problem is not that, it's not the problem.

Jack Sparrow says the problem is their attitude about the problem.

So try to have a more positive attitude towards it.

Like, okay, this is not easy for me understanding that, but

I know I can do it with practice, you know?

And if I dedicate myself, you know, to understanding, I will understand.

Yeah, eventually. Right.

So having this more let's say positive outlook on your learning.

Yeah.

And not be so, so negative about it, I think that's the wisdom

that Captain Jack Sparrow is trying to instill in all of us here.

Yeah. And I'll just add on that, that

you know,

a lot of times we're so focused on, because we're learning a language

we're really hard on ourselves.

So if you really pay attention, even when you're watching something

or listening to something in your native language,

you don't always understand 100%, especially if you start.

If you got in the habit

of watching in your native language with subtitles, in your native language,

you'll start to realize that even in your native language,

there's you're not hearing every one of those words, but you're so used to it.

You're able to always put together things through the context.

And we gave you a couple examples today

that like that Irish farmer, like, I can understand what he's saying.

And that's like a very extreme example.

But I've talked before about the show Peaky Blinders, for example.

Like I had to watch that show with subtitles.

This is very common, you know, that even when it's your native language,

you're not always getting 100% or even, you know, when you're with a friend,

sometimes you might ask them like, Oh, I didn't catch what you said.

Can you say that again?

So but when we're learning another language, a foreign language,

the language that's not our mother tongue,

we tend to set very high expectations for ourselves.

And we're much harder on ourselves when we don't understand something.

And it's all a process.

And sometimes when you're at the start,

you don't have all that experience that you have with your mother tongue

and everything, and you're going to feel sometimes, you know, a bit infantile.

You're going to feel like a, you know, a baby and everything.

You're going to feel it can feel frustrating,

you know, that you're not understanding because it throws you back to

like when you were a kid and, you know, you didn't always understand everything.

But if you keep at it

and you're deliberate to your you do this kind of like act of learning.

And, you know, I think what we were doing today,

you can even, like, have fun with it, like going back.

Oh, what an interesting word.

Gush, this guy was using or, you know, so interesting how he said the word huge.

He didn't say that h there.

And you know, just having this kind of curious mindset,

you'll have a lot more fun actually improving.

And little by little, you know, the greatness is built not in the

the moments, not in the days, but, you know, over time, over much, much time,

just like Thiago was saying, the beginning.

They have been doing this for a long time

and that's helped him to get to where he is today.

So if you start building these good habits, then you'll get there too.

But you have to take into consideration that it's step by step

and we have a challenge for you.

So let's move on to today's Daily Challenge.

All right, Thiago.

So I'll let you do the honors.

What is today's Daily Challenge?

All right, everybody.

So the daily challenge we have for you is try to practice this

by yourself at home, too, and also maybe play

a little clip of something in English, maybe a movie or TV show.

Yeah.

And try to identify some connected speech patterns.

Yeah. Just like the examples we listed here today.

And I'll maybe this outta or to or the,

you know, how the, the functional words are reduced or how some sounds are cut.

So do that. That's the challenge for you today. Okay.

Deliberately try to identify some patterns

of connection or reduction when you listen to something in English.

All right.

And then, you know, maybe let us know in the comments,

come back here later and say, hey, I did that.

And it was amazing.

I noticed this.

There isn't this connected speech aspect.

Yeah.

So, yeah, we are curious to, to see how it goes for you guys.

Yeah.

Or if you're just listening, feel free to pop over the video.

There's a comment or write us at [email protected].

All right and also, we're going to ask you for one more comment.

So if you're watching this, if there's something you know,

if you have some frustration, we did this one

because a lot of learners have told us that they have trouble understanding

fast native speech.

So if you have some big frustrations and big problem that you'd like us

to create a lesson on it, then let us know by commenting down below.

Maybe we'll make our next lesson on that.

And as always, thanks so much for joining us.

Go out there, challenge yourself, activate your learning and be curious about it.

Have fun and we'll see you next time.

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