hi there I'm drew badger the world's number one english
fluency guide and it is a
pleasure to welcome you to
another advanced listening
practice lesson well in this
video this is another requested
thing actually maybe not
necessarily a requested video
but it's a question that I do
receive from learners all the
time
time
time almost every other video i tend
to see it as a comment and this
is why can't i understand you
but i can't understand regular
people speaking
people speaking ok well let's talk about this I
think it's been covered
elsewhere on youtube as well and
I've even spoken about it before
but since more people continue
to have the same question let's
talk about it
well right now i'm using what i
call my english teaching or
English education voice so I'm
speaking in a way that's quick
or I'm trying to speak a little
bit faster than I typically do
in english lessons but at the
same time I'm still speaking
quite clearly and well in
general I speak pretty clearly
anyway most people don't have a
problem understanding me some
people say i do mumble a little
bit like i'm talking like this
but not really
typically i am speaking quite
quickly and I'm taking care to
pronounce my words clearly so
you can understand what I'm
saying now Finn in a everyday
conversational sense the way I'm
speaking normally and you can
see this in master English
conversation videos when I'm not
really making much of an effort
to actually speak clearly i'm
just talking with you know
fellow native speakers and this
is how I train people to
understand that kind of
information but i know not
everyone can join us in master
English conversation so I
thought I would talk about this
specific problem in this video
and how you can train yourself
to understand more native
speakers so if you're listening
to English lesson videos and
this is mostly what you listen
to online and you have trouble
understanding with native
speakers are saying the reason
is because they're speaking more
quickly
quickly
quickly they're using a slightly
different vocabulary and they're
typically having accents or
pronunciation it's a little bit
different from what you're used
to
to
to so even in America I might hear
another native speaker from
Texas or from Oklahoma or some
other state where I'm from
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago I'm from Illinois but the person
from a different state might
have not only different
but they might pronounce
something a little bit
differently i have one like
clear example of a Southern
woman typically like southern
people have a different way of
pronouncing things and often
people say I have that even
though it doesn't really come
through in the way I speak in
these lessons on youtube but you
do hear that morning master
English conversation so this
woman I used to go like 10 my
met her like a friend of my
mother's or something and I we
went to her house for dinner and
after dinner was over she said
you want some path you want some
path and i said 'what like to do
I want some and I didn't I
didn't quite understand what she
was saying some path some pie
and I said what do you mean pass
and she said oh pike up i like i
like i'm pronouncing it clearly
and I say pie so yes she was
offering me some pine she didn't
have a pie in front of me so it
was difficult for me to
understand what she was saying
so even native speakers have
trouble understanding what other
native speakers are saying and
even maybe from America to a
different country like Australia
or the UK or Canada even our
vocabulary might be might be
different so the pronunciation
vocabulary we use again the
speed at which were speaking
other things like that make it a
little bit difficult to
communicate so it's even more
difficult for non-native
speakers now what I do to help
come back to this problem so to
combat something to fight
against it what I do in master
English conversation the typical
thing you should be doing is
listening to not only the same
piece of information repeatedly
but you should be listening to
that said or spoken by in a
natural way many different
people so this is one technique
for helping you train yourself
for being able to develop better
listening so you're listening to
the same information you always
have that anchor when you're
learning something so when
people are trying to learn new
information especially of
learning new languages typically
they hate learning new languages
because they're learning too
many new things at the same time
like my name is Drew and they
don't know any English at all
and that sounds easy to me as a
native speaker but if you don't
know what my or name or drew or
any of that means and you don't
know why it's in the order it's
in it's making you frustrated
from the very beginning so in
the same way what you want to do
is take this
same piece of information and
have multiple people saying that
now you could even do something
like this like let's say you
work at a place with native
English speakers you might write
something down or give them
something to read and say hey
could you just help me with my
pronunciation I want to develop
my listening ability and your
pronunciation is connected with
this as well so you can give
that to them and have multiple
people read the same thing so
when we do our time-travelling
lesson stories in master English
conversation I have multiple
people reading the same thing
and we have been reading it at
different speeds as well so can
you take that anchor of the same
story but then you connect with
that in different ways and
that's training you to listen to
multiple ways that people might
say something you can even do
this on youtube one of the ways
i recommend people doing that is
with music so if you take music
you listen to something and you
listen to a cover of that music
and this means somebody else
like a different artist or a
different band that has decided
to play the same song but they
played in slightly different
ways or maybe they sound a
little bit differently when they
play it so an example like a
common example is 99 red
balloons or maybe a song by the
beatles and if you look up right
here on youtube i'm sure if you
type in beetles like the Beatles
you know like be forgetting
spell dat le s so the beatles
and then you've got covers COV
ers so if you're typing in that
right here on searching for
something on Google are on
youtube i should say you will
find multiple versions of people
playing the same song i think
the soundtrack to i am sam the
movie i am sam these are all
beatles covers and you can
listen to the way the beatles
are saying it so maybe someone
like you know the Beatles are
from Britain's with a British
accent but then you have like a
singer like Rufus Wainwright who
is singing a different version
of the same song but he has like
kind of a more nasal sound like
this the way he speaks or the
way sings so when you're doing
this you're training yourself to
have the same native learning
experience that a native speaker
would because you're listening
to the same kinds of things that
a native speaker would listen to
but you're doing it in a
systematic way that makes it
easier for your brain to
understand so this is why in
mastering this conversation in
all the lessons I create I want
to have you learn things in
steps because what about
people typically try to do
learners will try to move from
an intermediate level to
affluent level and that's where
they find a lot of frustration
so maybe they can speak in their
english lesson but they have a
lot of trouble speaking in
conversations for different
reasons could be confidence
could be not even understanding
what they want to say you're not
understanding the other people
speaking you could be many
things like that but again if
you take steps individually
moving from one place to the
next that's what's going to help
you improve much much faster
anyway I'm losing my voice here
we are recording a bunch of
videos at the same time but I
hope you have enjoyed that is
the end of this lesson just
wanted to give you some quick
tips about number one why you
have this problem and then
number two what you can do to
solve that anyway I hope you do
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