Why Can't I Understand Native English Speakers? *English Listening Tips*

Hi.

I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

I get this question a lot, "Vanessa, why can I understand you but I can't understand other

English speakers?"

Today I wanna give you three reasons why.

Let's talk about it.

The first reason why you can understand me but not other english speakers in TV shows

and movies, is because the topic that we're talking about is a pretty comfortable topic

for you.

We're not talking about economics, politics or sociology.

We're talking about learning English.

So this is something that you feel pretty comfortable with already, you've probably

been studying English for a while.

So the kind of vocabulary that you need to use in these videos is pretty basic.

So I think this is a great reason why you probably understand me in these videos more

than TV shows, but let's talk about the second reason why.

To be honest, when I first started making YouTube videos, I was kinda surprised that

so many people could understand me, because when my husband Dan watched my videos, he

told me, "Vanessa, you're talking too fast.

People aren't gonna be able to understand.

You're teaching English, you need to speak slower and in a better way so that people

can understand you."

But I kept getting comments from people who said, "Vanessa, I can understand you.

This is great!"

So I've continued in that way and forgot his advice.

So this was a little surprising to me, but after thinking about it, I realized that even

though I speak pretty quickly, this is pretty natural speed.

I do speak clearly and I think this is just something about my style of speech, where

I speak clearly but I do speak fast.

So I think that's something that hopefully will test your ears and help you start to

get ready.

I don't wanna speak like this, "Welcome to this English channel.

I'm so glad that you are here."

That's boring and it's not your level.

This is for intermediate learners.

So I wanna speak quickly and at a difficult pace, but clearly.

So I hope that that's useful for you.

I wanna test your ears, but also speak clearly.

The third reason why you can understand me but you can't understand other English speakers

as much is because simply, it's just me.

It's not a conversation.

You're just listening to me talk and you're focusing on my voice.

So because these videos are one person.

You're not needing to focus on multiple people at the same time and in TV shows and in movies,

you're often gonna hear two or three or five people talking together, and that's real life.

So I wanna be able to present that to you to share real conversations with you, and

that's what a lot of my premium course, 'The Fearless Fluency Club' is about.

I present two conversations per month to you with me and another English speaker and with

me and Dan, my husband talking about vocabulary, talking about a natural topic because I wanna

test your ears.

I wanna help train you to be able to understand everyone and anyone, and that's really important,

to hear multiple people talking at the same time.

I hope that today's video and these three ideas were useful for you.

I wanna help you start to understand other native speakers now.

So I wanna give you a special sample lesson set that you can start watching and testing

your ears.

If you click on the 'I' at the top up here or in the description below, you can watch

a full sample lesson set for 'The Fearless Fluency Club'.

You're gonna see a conversation between my sister and I, you're gonna see a conversation

between Dan, my husband and I, and you're gonna be able to really learn what is going

on.

And this is gonna test your ears and train you to understand other speakers.

So go ahead, click on the link.

When you go to that link, you can download the course ... the sample course for free.

This is something that you can watch whenever you want and I really wanna help you completely

understand it and use it yourself of course.

So I hope that you'll join me and watch this sample lesson set and I hope it's useful for

you.

So far, hundreds of English learners have really enjoyed it.

So you can be there too.

Thanks so much every one.

Have a beautiful day.

See you the next time, bye.