hey it's Amory with speak confident
English and this week we're going to
focus on a topic that I love teaching my
students because like them maybe you
listen to native speakers and think oh
my gosh they talk so fast I can't
understand what they're saying and
sometimes you might also think why can't
I talk like native speakers I want to
sound like them and today I'm going to
teach you one little thing that will
help you do that when you know this one
thing you'll begin to recognize it when
you listen to native speakers and you'll
start to understand them more easily and
you can use it so that you sound faster
when you communicate in English and
sound more natural as well
so what is this one thing related to
pronunciation that will make
understanding native speakers easier and
help you to speak faster in English it's
connected speech today in this video I'm
going to talk about what connected
speech is and give you some examples so
that you can practice this and begin to
use it in your English and you'll start
to recognize it when you listen to
native speakers as well connected speech
is the blending of sounds between words
and as a result we join many words
instead of saying them separately and
clearly if you listen to native speakers
they don't talk like this with every
word pronounced clearly we don't do that
in English some languages do and it's
perfectly normal but in English we don't
pronounce every word equally and clearly
it sounds robotic in English and we
definitely don't want to do that instead
we blend sounds between words here's an
example if you listen to native speakers
talking about what they are going to do
in the future
they don't say I'm going to go to the
store they say I'm gonna go I'm gonna go
to the store in that example we're
blending the sounds between going to I'm
going to go becomes I'm gonna next time
you're talking to a native speaker
listen for that example we use it all
the time and you can use it as well to
sound like you're communicating faster
in English and more naturally here's
another super common example instead of
saying I want to for example I want to
go to a restaurant for dinner we blend
the sounds between 1 & 2 and we say I
wanna I want to go to
Strunk for dinner the truth is saying
that t sound close together is really
hard want to it's so much work so
instead of doing that hard work with the
pronunciation we blend it and say Juana
I want to go to the store I want to go
to a restaurant for dinner I want to
watch a movie this weekend go ahead and
try it for yourself
pause this video if you want practice
saying that out loud and then create a
sentence where you blend those sounds
together now in those examples were
blending those sounds and as a result
there are sounds we don't use for
example want to we're removing that
sound and we're using another sound in
English that is really common and
important to know the schwa sound the
schwa is a really lazy and easy sound to
make this is what it sounds like
uh-uh-uh do you notice I don't have to
work really hard to make that sound so
it's easy for us to use when we're
blending all these words and you hear it
and gonna uh gonna wanna as you'll
notice with connected speech we often
use that schwa sound
when we're blending sounds together so
let's look at a few more really common
examples of connected speech that native
speakers use all the time so that you
can practice them and begin to use them
as well the third example is I don't
know what do you think do you know how
you might blend those words with don't
and know together have you ever heard a
native speaker do it don't know becomes
dunno I don't know dunno
do you notice which sounds we've dropped
and can you find the schwa in that sound
duh
no duh duh no we've dropped the aunt in
don't and replaced it with the schwa and
blended it with no dunno
example number four is what do
for example what do you think or what do
you want
how would you blend those words together
what do you instead of saying those
three words separately with what do you
we connect them and say what a yeah what
do you what do you think what do you
want what yeah what yeah now once again
can you find that lazy sound the schwa
what yeah what what a yeah
instead of clearly pronouncing the T and
what and the D in do we combine them
into one sound would and then we add the
schwa what what do you what do you I
want you to pause this video for a
moment and try saying that so that you
can get some practice try it two or
three times it might sound a little
funny or strange it might even feel
weird the first few times you do it and
that's okay you're learning something
new and it takes a little bit of
practice alright now that you've done
that let's look at what it sounds like
when we put some of these together for
example what do you want to do so we've
got two examples there what do you and
want to what do you want to do sounds
like what do you want to do what do ya
wanna do what do you want to do now to
finish this lesson on connected speech
let's look at one more combination
that's really common often native
speakers will avoid that sound when it's
combined with you
for example meat you won't you shouldn't
you wouldn't you in all of those
examples we have a word that finishes
with it sound and it's combined with you
so instead of saying those words
separately and clearly we connect them
and the combat
nation sounds like for example meet you
sounds like meet you
it's nice to meet you don't you sounds
like don't you don't you don't you want
to see a movie this weekend can't you is
can't you can't you ask your boss for a
day off
won't you be comes won't you and how
about showed into you what do you think
shouldn't you shouldn't you shouldn't
you take a break and with that you've
got several examples of connected speech
that native speakers use every day again
we never say each word separately we
combine sounds and connect words that is
what native speakers do that make them
sound like they're talking quickly and
it's exactly what you can do to sound
faster in English as well now if you
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with me you can do that in the comment
section at the end of the lesson now for
today's challenge question I want to
know what other examples of connected
speech have you heard before are there
words that you already know to combine
and you use them in your everyday speech
if you've got other examples please be
sure to share those with me and everyone
else in the confident English community
you can share your additional examples
in the comment section just below the
video thank you so much for joining me
this week and I look forward to seeing
you next time for your confident
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