hello everyone welcome to another lesson
with me Anna English here on English
like a native I have three super simple
ways for you to sound more fluent today
and at the end I have a special bonus
tip so make sure you stay tuned to the
very end of this lesson now of course
these tips will be no good if you don't
practice your English speaking on a
regular basis learning to speak English
is just as important as learning to read
write and listen in the language however
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so when you click on that link and take
that fifteen minutes for free I want you
to try to practice at least one of these
techniques number one thinking noises
now these are noises you make when you
think and I don't mean and noise comes
from your head you make a noise everyone
does
we like to fill the silence when we're
thinking we like to fill the silence
with something to let people know we
haven't finished speaking we're just
thinking but the thing is in every
different language we have a different
type of noise and generally in British
English our sound is this
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now this sound is placed very much in
the middle of the mouth it's not nasal
it's not set back if it was nasal Italy
more a setback would be ah it's very
forward bounces around in the mouth and
usually comes together the lips closing
at the end so I might say to you have um
have you done that thing that you said
you were going to do and you might
respond to me is there oh I am I don't
know what to say I I tried it but it
went badly wrong okay
so I want you to try that sound the next
time you're thinking of the words that
you need in order to continue your
sentence is that okay
number two contractions when we are
speaking English we tend to use
contractions because it makes life
easier it makes our sentences shorter
and it makes life easier now I have
covered a full list of contractions how
to use them and how to pronounce them
and I'll put a link to that video up
above me now and in the description box
below but I would suggest that you get
used to using at least the most common
ones and I would say that they are I am
which becomes I'm so let's try a few
sentences I'm 36 years old how old are
you my name is Anna English and I'm a
youtuber how about you when talking
about a man or a woman rather than
saying he is or she is we tend to say
he's or she's he's she's notice how
those s's have a little bit more depth
now more like Zed's but don't go too far
he's she's he's she's for example my
boyfriend isn't here at the moment he's
in town with his friends or my mother
isn't home she's at the gym she's a
fitness fanatic if you're not used to
using contractions then choose just a
handful of them to start using in your
everyday speaking practice while
speaking you can use them in formal or
in informal speech don't use them as
often in formal writing and also don't
use contractions when you're giving very
short answers for example if you ask who
is coming to the water park tomorrow and
you want to respond with I am you cannot
say I'm doesn't work you have to say
with a short answer
I am number three-week forms just to
make English really really complicated
we have some words which have two
pronunciations depending on whether
you're using the weak form or the strong
form now whether it's strong or weak
just depends on its relationship to the
sentence it's in oh that sounds
confusing I did do a video all about the
pronunciations of most of the weak forms
in the English language you can find
that by clicking the link above or in
the description box below
but generally the words that do not have
weak forms will be verbs nouns
adjectives and adverbs it's normally the
linking words that have the weaker forms
the words that hold the main meaning of
a sentence the verbs the nouns
adjectives the ones that really mean
something within a sentence are always
strong the weaker ones are the ones that
just provide context for example listen
to this sentence he went to the shop
yesterday and had a cup of tea he went
to the shop yesterday and had a cup of
tea he went to the tub shop yesterday
and had a cup of tea so your notice was
like to the and aa of became week they
made use of a schwa sound to the and oh
and this is because those words are not
vital to the meaning of that sentence
they just give it context so if you
could start using weak forms in your
everyday speech that will help you to
sound much more natural so there we go
thinking noises contractions and weak
forms start using those in your regular
speaking practice and it will help you
to sound more fluent but I did promise a
bonus tip it for those of you who stayed
to the very end well here it is if you
want to sound more like a native then
you need to listen to good examples of
native speakers on a regular basis now I
know this can be difficult it really
depends where you live who you interact
with but it's not impossible now I use a
platform called audible which is a place
where you can listen to audiobooks I use
it when I'm driving exercising or
cleaning the house now I've just
finished listening to one of my favorite
narrators Stephen Fry who read Sherlock
Holmes as well as the Harry Potter books
if you're an advanced speaker I would
definitely recommend those books Harry
Potter perhaps if you're not an advanced
speaker Sherlock Holmes
you are very advanced because the
vocabulary is very rich I'll leave some
links to those down in the description
box below if you want to check them out
then that's up to you
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please let us know in the comment
section below we always love to hear
about your experiences okay until next
time take care
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