Today you're going to learn how to speak fast and how to sound just like a native speaker.
Welcome back to JForrest English.
Of course.
I'm Jennifer.
Now let's get started.
Here's how this lesson will work.
I'm going to say a sentence at a fast pace three times, and you need to write down exactly
what you hear in the comments.
Are you ready?
Here's the first sentence.
We need to nip this in the bud.
Did you get this one?
I said we need to nip this in the bud.
Now let's talk about need.
Notice that I didn't pronounce the D need because if I do that, it forces me to take
a pause, which slows me down.
So if you don't pronounce that D at the end, you'll be able to speak faster.
We need to notice how two becomes more of an unstressed tub.
We need to nip to nip to nip this sin.
So notice here we have this in and again I can connect those together and I can take
that S sound and I can add it to the beginning of in because it begins in a vowel, this sin,
and it sounds like one word, this sin, this sin, the bud.
You need to nip this in the bud.
Now what does this mean when you nip something in the bud?
It means you stop something before it becomes serious or permanent, and that something that
you want to stop is a negative behavior or a problem or some sort of issue.
I use this expression with my little Kitty Sasha.
When she was just a kitten, she used to scratch at the furniture.
Now obviously this is a negative behavior that I want to stop and if I let her keep
scratching, then it will become a permanent habit, a permanent behavior.
So I needed to nip her scratching in the bud.
I needed to nip it in the bud.
So maybe there is an issue or a problem that you want to nip in the bud.
For my students, I would say you need to nip your fear of public speaking in the bud, which
means you need to stop it when it's just a small fear.
Because if you let it grow and grow and grow and grow, it's going to be a lot more difficult
to overcome.
So you need to nip your fear of public speaking in the bud.
So if you're with me, put that in the comments.
Nip fear in the bud, nip fear in the bud.
Put that in the comments and I certainly hope that my channel and these lessons help you
do that.
I just want to nip any problems in the bud and I nip this thing in the bud.
Going to nip this thing in the bud.
You need to nip this in the bud.
Let's try this again with another listening exercise.
I'll say it three times.
Don't blow as common out of proportion.
Did you hear what I said?
I said don't blow his comment out of proportion.
Don't is a contraction of do not, don't.
It'll help you speak faster And again drop that T so you don't take a pause.
Don't blow.
Blow is blow is so notice on his I dropped that H and I combine those two together.
Don't blow is comment out of You can reduce those into one.
Sound out of don't blow his comment out of proportion.
You're blowing this way out of proportion.
Now let's talk about the meaning here.
When you blow something out of proportion, you make an event or a problem seem more serious
than it is in reality.
So let's say you have a job interview and it's going to be in English.
But remember, you nipped fear in the bud.
So you're not afraid to speak in public, right?
But imagine that you didn't nip fear in the bud, and you're stressing and you're anxious
and you're nervous.
But the event is going to a job interview in English, and you make it seem like this
big, terrible, scary event.
So you could say don't blow it out of proportion.
Or if you're telling a friend how nervous you are about this job interview, your friend
could say to you, you're blowing this way out of proportion.
Now notice here I added way out of proportion.
It's very common to add way to make it sound stronger.
So to emphasize it, you're blowing this way out of proportion.
Blow it way out of proportion.
You're blowing this way out of proportion.
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Now let's continue with our lesson.
Let's try this again.
I'll say it three times.
My client really chewed me out.
How'd you do with this one?
I said my client really chewed me out.
Now let's talk about chewed.
Notice this is an Ed verb, a past simple verb, but the pronunciation is a soft D chewed the
the.
Now again, we can drop that sound when we're connecting it to other words so you don't
really hear it.
My client really chewed me out and notice how I Take Me Out and I combine them together.
Now I use a soft yeah sound to combine 2 vowels, me, yot, yot.
So I add a yeah in front of out yot, but I combine it with me so it sounds like one word
meow meow.
So you don't hear it when you're speaking at a fast pace.
But if you slowed it down, you would hear the very slight.
Yeah, in front of out.
My client really chewed me out.
Your boss just chewed me out.
The expression is to chew someone out.
And this is when you tell someone angrily that they've done something wrong.
So this is not a positive thing.
Now notice the difference between these sentences.
I chewed my assistant out.
The client chewed me out.
So notice the difference in the first one.
I chewed my assistant out.
I'm giving the angry comments.
The second one, my client chewed me out.
I'm receiving the angry comments now.
Sometimes my students, maybe even you.
Sometimes my students chew me out in the comments section.
They tell me angrily that I've done something wrong in the video.
So please don't chew me out.
Put that in the comments.
I won't chew you out.
Please don't chew me out.
It's not very pleasant to read negative comments, so don't do it.
Chew me out about something more like chewed out.
I've been chewed out before.
Wanted me to chew you out?
Let's try this one more time.
I'll say it three times.
We're not laying anyone off.
Did you get this one?
I said we're not laying anyone off.
Now notice where this is a contraction we are.
And notice how unstressed it is where we're, where we're not, we're not.
Now, as a contraction, you could also say we aren't.
So both of those contractions are common.
I just chose to use we're we're not, we're not laying anyone off.
Now notice how I can combine anyone off.
Off starts with a vowel and anyone.
It ends on AN sound so I can take that N and just add it in front of the vowel.
Anyone knowf knowf anyone off and it sounds more like 1 sound to lay someone off.
This is when a company stops employing someone because the company doesn't have the money
or the work to employ that person any.
So your manager or your boss could say to you, sorry, our sales are down, so we have
to lay you off, which means that they don't have the money to keep paying you so they
can't employ you anymore.
Talking about laying people off, I had to lay them off.
I had to lay off 27 robots.
To lay someone off is the active form, it's the subject doing the action.
But it's also very common to use the sentence structure to *** **** off or to be laid off.
And this is when you are receiving the action.
So this is when and you lose your job because your company doesn't have the money or the
work.
And remember, we use get for the transition from not laid off.
So employed, too laid off.
So the transition from employed to unemployed, that's to *** **** off now.
To be laid off, that's simply talking about your current state.
So now you are unemployed.
I wasn't fired for my job.
I was laid off.
I got laid off.
Wait, we're going to *** **** off?
Now let's do an imitation exercise so you can practice these pronunciation changes.
And you can practice speaking fast, just like a native speaker.
So I'll say each sentence again three times, and I want you to repeat the sentence out
loud and imitate my pronunciation.
Here we go.
We need to nip this in the bud.
Don't blow his comment out of proportion.
My client really chewed me out.
Client really chewed me out.
We're not laying anyone off.
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