Hey guys and welcome back to love English I'm Sabrah your British
University English teacher so I'm sure that lots of you have discovered that us
native speakers we do talk quite quickly and we don't necessarily talk in the way
that you might have heard us talk on school tapes at school and things like
that we actually speak in a much lazier way and a way which is much faster and
where we link words together now for you guys obviously it's important to be able
to understand us so it's a good idea to watch videos
about connected speech and other videos about the natural way we speak in
English but it's also important for you guys to learn how to do this so you can
start to speak more naturally and much more quickly in English so in this video
I'm going to give you five tips for how you can speak fast in English
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going with the lesson so the first tip is to use contractions so a contraction
is where we will have the subject and the verb and usually we will delete the
first two letters so we will put an apostrophe which shows that there are
some letters there which have been removed and this is called a contraction
for example I am becomes I'm she is she's he is he's and in English these
are just so common people will tell you that in formal English it's not a good
idea to use contractions which to a certain extent is true however they are
becoming so common that the main way you'll hear a subject and verb is
usually that it will be contracted let's look at some more examples I have becomes
i've she has she's I have becomes I've you have you've we have we've they have
they've to say they have been sounds quite long in English we're much lazier
so we would say they've been they've been they've been to the shops for
example now let's look at how we would do this with the future form for example
will I will becomes I'll you will you'll she will she'll he will he'll
they will they'll so we really push together and we almost swallow the will
I'll I'll pick that up for you I'll pick that up for you for example
not I will pick that up for you I'll pick that up for you you'll be there at
6:00 you'll be there at 6:00 we say that so
quickly so it's so important to learn how we say it but then try to start
mimicking it try to start imitating it so you start to sound more natural when
you speak in English as well the next tip is
actually an element of connected speech called intrusion and the reason why I
think it really helps with speaking more quickly is because it helps you to get
to the next sound so basically in English there are three sounds which can
intrude meaning appear in the middle of two words and this will be because we
have two vowels and these two vowels can blend together and they can actually
create in the middle a third sound so there are three sounds that can appear in
English in the middle and they are 'y' 'w' and 'r' so that are that that quite
strong r sound like we would say in rat and right or like this so the first one y
appears when we have two vowel sounds which are either E or I II or I and your
mouth will be in quite a smiley shape to make these and when a word ends with one
of these sounds and then begins in another vowel we will usually get this
y sound for example the end the end she answered she asked me you can hear
in the middle there is a little y she isn't pleased she isn't she y isn't
you can hear in the middle there is that little y she isn't she isn't pleased
now how does this help you to speak more quickly well? You are connecting the two
words so instead of saying she asked she asked she asked she asked you push them
together so you more quickly find the next word now let's look at the w
sound so this is where your mouth makes a rounded shape and again the word will
end in a vowel and the next word will begin with a vowel but it will be one of
these more rounded vowels like for example w any of those rounded shapes
will create this w sound in the middle of
the two words for example do it put your shoe on put your shoe one you can hear
there is this little w in the middle how are you how are you the how is an
ow sound but the w sound actually comes in the middle how are you how are
you we don't say how are you how are you how
are you we connect the two words with that w sound right the last one is
the r the r so this appears when we have a schwa ending or beginning one of
the words so we have two words together two vowel sounds and one of them is a
schwa basically the schwa is the sound that we make when our mouth is relaxed
it's a very very common sound in English and it's where we're quite lazy and so
we have dropped the stronger uh sound into an uh a very relaxed ah and this
can cause an r sound to appear in the middle for example Law and order Law and
order media event media there's a little r in the middle I saw a film I saw a
film I saw r I saw r there you can hear it quite strongly that little r
sound it makes it so much quicker to speak in English if we have these little
connecting sounds that help us get to the next word the next way to help you
speak more quickly in English is by using those very famous words by now
where we push two words together and they make a new word this can be through
linking or elision but basically the two words pushed together have created a
new word you won't necessarily find it in the dictionary but out in the street
that is how people actually speak for example want to wanna going to gonna
have to hafta has to hasta got to gotta don't you don't you music is a great
way to hear this as often they will be quite lazy
when they push words together as they sing so this is a great way to hear lots
of examples of this Leila has a great video where she goes
into much more detail on exactly how to push these words together and to make
the sounds the next way to speak English more quickly is by using the schwa sound
the r teacher water apply so for example in did you did you will get
pushed together and will become did ja and you will become ya here that you
sound has become a schwa so we're not saying you we're saying ya did you do
you you really very often become ya in fast and natural speech think about it
guys which is quicker did you go to the shops or did you go to the shops did you
go to the shops much quicker to push together and turn that you into a ya
turning into a schwa also the word to is very often pronounced with the schwa
it's actually not very common to hear the word 2 when it is a preposition said
with the oo sound it's much more common to hear it as uh would you liked to
would you liked to I've been to I've been to the shops I've been to the
cinema I've been to see Lela okay guys to finish off I've got a
couple of sentences for you to take away with you and to practice and I want you
to practice saying these quickly and naturally are you ready I'm just popping
out I'll be back in a sec I'm just popping out I'll be back in a sec she's
been to Italy she's been to Italy I'm gonna have to stay up studying late
tonight I'm gonna have to stay up studying late tonight did you find the
lesson fun did you find the lesson fun fun, don't you wish it was sunnier don't
you wish it was sunnier okay guys well happy practicing with those sentences
and start adding these things into your daily life when you're speaking in
English try and speak just a little bit more quickly see you soon guys bye bye