Part1
I know the video is called How to Speak English Fast, but do you really need to speak English fast?
Let me tell you something.
Sometimes we think that native speakers speak fast and this is why they sound so natural.
In reality, they don't speak fast.
They just connect all the words together.
And instead of splitting them up, which sounds a little kind of slower,
they just put them all together as if one sentence is one big word.
They emit some syllables, they add some new sounds, and this is why they sound the way they sound.
And sometimes it's hard for us to understand them just because they don't split up words.
And we think that they're just speaking too fast.
In reality, they're not.
Today, I'm going to teach you this technique.
I'm going to teach you how native speakers do it so you can do it to sound more native
and so that you understand the mechanics behind kind of faster speaking so you can understand native speakers.
For example, you see a phrase, what do you, for example, in a sentence, what do you do?
But Americans would never say like this, what do you do?
They'd say, what do you do? What do you do?
What do you do?
So the speed, the pace is kind of the same.
It's just connecting everything. What do you do?
And if you don't know the way they do it, you're like, what was that?
Another phrase, I am going to do some shopping.
What Americans would say, they would say, I'm going to do some shopping.
Again, not I'm going to, I'm going to do.
Again, they've connected something.
They actually paraphrased it a little.
I'm going to get some water.
Do you want some?
And some Americans would even say, I'm going to do shopping.
This is like the very, very contracted version of it.
So what Americans do, they take those smaller words and they pronounce them in a way that
is easier for them in daily speech.
For example, article the is pronounced like the.
What's the weather today?
So they don't say what's the weather today.
They say what's, what they say, what's the weather today?
So it's not because it's easier.
Oh, what about the weather report?