well hey there I'm Emma from English in
this lesson we'll focus on the natural
pronunciation of some very common
English expressions we'll study how a
native speaker would really use these
expressions and practice saying them
together exactly as a native speaker
would common expressions ones that are
used all the time I'm not often
pronounced as you would expect as native
speakers we say them quickly the sounds
reduce they even disappear and even
simple expressions become difficult to
recognize if you're not used to hearing
them in my lessons you hear me speak
really clearly and a little slower than
I normally would and while that makes
you feel good like yes I can understand
everything she say you do need to listen
to different English different accents
people who mumble when you study English
try to experience the diversity by
listening to a variety of different
English speakers
another way to do this is to join online
communities and no I'm not talking about
online English language communities I'm
talking about communities around your
hobbies and special interests but where
all the members are speaking in English
now this strategy is awesome for
advanced and ambitious English students
and what I love about it is you can
personalize your English practice and
make it about something that you're
really interested in
you'll learn vocabulary and expressions
that are really relevant to the
conversations you're going to have so a
few weeks ago I received an email from
Skillshare Skillshare is an online
learning community and I thought this is
the perfect tool to share with you they
have thousands of classes not only
language classes but classes on all
kinds of stuff like design video
production illustration crafts
leadership cooking
and all of these glasses can be taken
online wherever you are
so Skillshare asked me if I thought you
could benefit from taking these online
classes and of course I said yes
this is one of the strategies that I
teach my students so firstly you'll
learn new skills from whatever course
you take right win but by taking a
course in English
you'll hear common English expressions
and new vocabulary in an area of life
that interests you like your work or
your hobbies right the other awesome
thing is that many of the courses
offered at Skillshare actually have a
community that forms around the classes
which would give you even more
opportunities to practice your English
skills right
now I want you to know that Skillshare
are sponsoring this lesson which is
great for me they're helping to support
me a little while I make free lessons
for you but they have also agreed to
give the first 500mm English students
who sign up using the link in the
description below free access to their
premium level membership for two whole
months so that's two months of whatever
courses you choose in English for free
like I said I'm a huge fan of this
strategy learning and using your English
in different contexts so if you want to
try it then please be quick to take me
up on that offer
I was only able to get it for 500
students so click the link that you can
see below to make sure you're one of
them alright let's get back to the
lesson since we're focusing on common
natural expressions in this lesson I
want to show you a short video clip of a
conversation I had with my friend sim
sim yeah I live here now what do you
mean I thought you were living in
Melbourne oh we just got a job and I've
just moved in really yeah do you need a
hat well most of our stuffs already been
moved in but would you have a car that I
could borrow yeah I definitely do we
we've got two actually I live
number 23 so just come grab the case
anytime I'll come down and see you
you've heard a few different expressions
there now I want to take you a little
deeper into some of them so that you
know when to use them and how to say
them let's go back to the very first
thing that I said when I saw sim fancy
seeing you here
yeah this expression is a common one but
it has two different meanings depending
on the tone used when it's spoken so the
first meaning is a genuine expression of
surprise when you meet someone that you
know in an unexpected place it's like
what are you doing here I'm so surprised
to see you I wasn't expecting it at all
now the second meaning is a sarcastic
one so it's a sarcastic greeting when
you see someone somewhere where it's
really not surprising at all
okay it's not surprising to see them
there so here's an example every Friday
no joke every Friday I go to this
delicious bakery near my house to get a
phenomenally good pastry and a coffee
now I only allow myself to go there on
Fridays because it's so good and it's so
close that if I don't have rules I would
go there every day so Friday is the day
and allowed to go and most people know
that about me all of my neighbors know
all my friends know so if they ever run
into me on a Friday morning at the
bakery it really won't be a surprise
they might say well fancy seeing you
here
like it's not a surprise at all I'm
there every Friday but my expression was
different during my conversation with
Cyn I was genuinely surprised to see him
right in a positive way
I didn't expect to see her there and you
can tell by the tone as women we tend to
raise the tone of our voice when we get
excited right very excited to see each
other
do you notice that all of the words were
stressed when I said them we don't
really hear any of those sounds reduce
down we hear everything quite clearly in
the multi-syllable words you hear one
stressed syllable that's louder and
clearer than the other one the other one
reduces down fancy see in fancy seeing
fancy seeing you seeing you now you
might hear that sound reduced tongue to
become the MM sound when it's spoken
right see and
seeing you seeing you it's a little
easier to say right so it happens quite
a bit in spoken English fancy seeing you
here
hear how the pitch stays high now in the
sarcastic version it sounds a little
different it would sound like well fancy
seeing you here
so hear that tone changing the meaning
is different I'm saying that I'm not
actually surprised at all to see them in
that place the pitch is lower well fancy
seeing you here you probably need to add
an eye roll there just for maximum
effect right fancy seeing you here if
you're a regular viewer here at new
English and I recognise you in the
comments I might say Oh Jorge fancy
seeing you here
like I see you every week let's look
closer at another expression I used
during that conversation what do you
mean what do you mean I thought you were
living in Melbourne I'm using this
expression because I'm surprised and
confused at the time I thought that sim
lived in Melbourne so it was strange to
see era my apartment building right what
do you mean what are you doing here I'm
surprised right what do you mean is a
great expression to show that you're a
little confused it suggests that you
need a little more information to
understand what's happening what's going
on any kind of confusion can be cleared
up by asking this question what do you
mean what do you mean I thought it would
be ready to pick up this afternoon
what do you mean I'm not dressed
appropriately what do you mean you're
busy I thought you took the afternoon
off work see in all of those situations
this phrase is super helpful to clear
away any confusion right what do you
mean now if you watched this lesson hear
another lesson about common expressions
then you've already practiced the
pronunciation of these three words with
me what do you pronounced naturally it
sounds more like warrior warrior the
unstressed vowels reduced down and the
words linked together what are you what
do you mean what do you mean you might
also hear these words expressed as would
you or would you what JA what do you
mean what do you mean what do you mean
right depends on the English accent now
mean is the most important word here in
this question so it's stressed we hear
it really clearly but all of the others
reduce down what what do you mean what
do you mean also helps if you put a
confused face on as well huh what do you
mean so once I found out that Finn had
only just moved into the building I
wanted to offer my help right like a
good friend would moving house is hard
work right have you ever done it in my
life
I've done it over 25 times so of course
I know how arduous that task is and like
a good friend I offered to help out do
you need a hand do you need a hand it's
a little more formal or more polite to
say can I give you a hand but seems an
old friend of mine so
I'm speaking informally do you need a
hat so this idiom is a really common way
of offering to help someone offering to
give someone a hand is a nice way of
saying how can I help you or please let
me help you with that it's a nice thing
to say if you hear someone saying that
they've got a lot of work to do or
they're stressed out or they're
struggling to do something and you can
also use it to casually ask for help
yourself by making it a question can you
give me a hand now just like in the last
question we have the auxiliary verb do
and the pronoun you both are unstressed
so when they reduce it sounds like deer
deer do you need a hand or again you
might hear that sound
jiù jiù need a hand you need a hand when
I ask that question sim said that most
of their stuff had already been moved in
right well most of our stuffs already
been moved in but she's politely letting
me know that she doesn't need my help
but if she did want to accept my offer
she could say would you mind
would you mind can follow an offer for
help now technically we already know
that the person doesn't mind because
they offered in the first place right
but this is a nice polite way to accept
their help
you know how painfully polite we can be
in English right can I help you would
you mind not at all what can I do okay
very polite you can also use would you
mind to ask someone for their help
before they've offered right you can say
hey would you mind helping me with these
boxes or would you mind subscribing to
them in English channel that would be so
nice of you notice that the main verb
following this expression is always
using the ing form not the to infinitive
form right it's incorrect to say
would you mind to subscribe to my
channel instead make sure you're using
subscribing
would you mind subscribing to my channel
so to sound natural very cool and
relaxed when you use this expression you
need to link wood and you together so
when wood and you are linked again we
hear this sound come in Zhu Zhu ok wood
and you sounds like would you would you
can you hear that schwa sound at the end
as well because you is the unstressed
word we reduce it down to the schwa
would you would you would you mind would
you mind
so now I want you to practice a little
try using some of the expressions that
you learn during this lesson write some
sentences in the comments so that I can
check them for you and give you some
feedback now I have to admit that after
each video here at in English has been
up for about a week it starts to get a
bit tricky for me to give feedback on
every comment so if you want to practice
and you want me to review your sentences
then write them now I'll definitely have
time feel free to watch this video again
or many times the more that you listen
to these expressions spoken naturally
they're easier it will become to
recognize them and to use them naturally
yourself hey do you need a hand with any
other English expressions if you do add
them to the comments and I will try and
make a new lesson about them soon who
knows you could even see your suggestion
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