Марина М. (User)Part4
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Or a lot of you write comments here on YouTube saying,
Marina, I've been learning English for several years
when I read things, I understand the text, I understand the meaning,
but sometimes I listen to native speakers, and I don't understand them at all.
I don't understand them.
And I try to speak like them, but I can't.
This is something that you experience, this video is for you.
Today, we're going to talk about a thing called connected speech.
And this is what native speakers do all the time when they talk.
Because some words are pronounced one way, when they pronounce separately,
but when they are in a context, when they're surrounded by other words,
their pronunciation changes.
And today, we're going to dig into those rules.
We're going to explore behind the scenes of American accent,
and we're going to explore what native speakers do to sound the way they sound
and how you can do the same to sound more like an American if that's your goal.
So if you're interested, smash the like button, and let's continue discussing this topic.
In American English, people tend to avoid non-essential words by making them weak.
And by that, I mean that there is no stress on those words when people talk.
Let me give you some examples.
So for example, fish and chips, right?
Three words.
But when we talk, we say fish and chips.
In this way, the word ends is in a weak form, and basically only say fish and chips.
That's it.
Fish and chips, please.
And this way, maybe you know what fish and chips is,
but when people say fish and chips, you're like, oh, what was that?
Just because Americans and native speakers in general speak faster,
they do things that are convenient for them.
And the convenience thing is to make prepositions, auxiliary verbs,
different helping words make them weaker so that you don't spend your energy,
you don't waste your energy in emphasizing them.
They're still there, they still affect the meaning,
but the way they're pronounced is different because they are made weak.