hello hello everybody my name is steve ford we have a wonderful lesson today
it's a lesson that i have taught before but i wanted to review it with you this
is something that is so important so many people ask me tips on how they can
speak english better and how they can listen in english better - it's a
two-way street and we need to learn how to do both so
we're going to do that and i'm going to give you some tricks some tips on how
you can improve your english so that you can speak from slow to medium and then
medium to fast so are you ready let's go before we go into the video in case you
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like the video and also to share it if you liked it the first thing that i want
to talk about is your pronunciation in English particularly American
pronunciation now one of the big tips that I want to give you is that you
really need to start using contractions what are contractions well contractions
has a few meanings contractions means to get smaller what I googled it the first
thing I found for contractions was when you're having a baby yeah but it's it's
not that contraction it's when you make words smaller and that's going to help
you to speak English faster now I want to share my own experience here that
we're going to help you learn how to speak American English faster and the
trick number one is to use contractions such as can't didn't cheese
she'll he'd were wheel I'd and there are many of these contractions that caused a
lot of confusion for non-native speakers I know it I see it every day I hear it
and I don't want you to be afraid of using contractions um are that many are
afraid to use contractions because one they're afraid they will get that face
now what is that face that face is when you as a non-native speaker say
something in English you think okay I'm going to try and use a contraction and
you get that face from the native speaker like that face is the face of a
native speaker who did not understand what you were trying to say and all of
my one-to-one students who live in the United States who don't live in the
United States they all say I hate getting that face maybe you hate getting
that face but I don't want that to discourage you because these tips are
going to help you not get that face and the second reason is they are afraid
they will get that face from a native speaker that there's it's one reason
after the other and it's always the same reason you're afraid you'll get that
face number two is relax your teas in the middle of words this is so
fundamental in American English when you're speaking fast now I've talked
about this in previous videos that when you're relaxing a tea like in the word
better for some people like Americans Canadians we understand that as a D
sound now for a lot of people that role they're ours are we don't English but I
think it's damn sexy when people do it in another language
utter it's that other what we call the flap out of that you want better better
better better so that's very important for you to remember to pronounce your
T's like that you will see in a very popular video
that I did on YouTube about American accents that you have variations
you have some people that will say better common day-to-day English better
in North America and then you will have a rural accent where the tea is cannot
pronounced and people will say bearer bearer is a very shall I say lazy way of
speaking by Bearer better yeah go with the one in the middle
better trick number three pay attention to reductions in linking well what is
that all this technical language reductions and linking it sounds so
technical well when you see it in action you understand it so do you want to
dance do you wanna dance let me in let me in did you do it did you do it not
yet not yet I'll catch you later I'll catch you later I'll catch you later
I'll catch you later so as you can see these are simple visual representations
of how native speakers link words together how they can use them through
reductions and linking to say them much much quicker if you can start to use
these and be understood not get that face huh then you're going to boost your
confidence and you're going to speak faster and faster
oh this next one I've never talked about before a way for you to make some visual
representation and Association of a word in English that you're having difficulty
pronouncing you could use it for learning new vocabulary to is you could
imagine two leaves with eyes Levi's Levi's we have lis
and then they these leaves have eyes the these are Levi's Levi's okay so now
we're going to be going into a dialogue and before we do that I want to show you
step by step how you can take sentence in American English and you can take it
slow you can take it medium speed and you can take it super fast which is your
objective your final goal now I'm gonna give you a situation now there's this
guy and he likes to go to this cafe to try to find a girlfriend that's his
biggest goal his biggest objective in life he would like to find a girlfriend
now let's try to work as we hear a dialogue this is John and he will do
anything to try and find a girl friends I'm looking at you I'm looking at you
and you can imagine somebody sneezing at you are you talking to me you talking to
me you're talking to me I want you to call me I want you to call me could you
give me your number could you give me your number could you give me your
number
give me a break give me a break I told you to call me I told you to call me I
told you to call me what do you mean
what are you mean what do you mean you know what I mean you know what I mean
you know what I mean do you want a cup of coffee you want a cup of coffee you
want a cup of coffee I have got to go I've got to go I gotta go
okay so that's the dialog there and you could see the phrases in there there's
separate forms in slow medium and fast and now I'm going to read the whole
dialogue through at normal speed at fast beats so let's try and do it fast and
then you can try and try and do it yourself when you practice this in your
free time so here we go are you ready
I'm looking at you are you talking to me I want you to call me could you give me
your number give me a break I told you to call me
well what do you mean you know what I mean do you want a cup
of coffee I gotta go okay so this is a very simple dialogue when
you look at it written out in its full form and said very quickly and probably
you understand it but if you try and apply some of those tricks and tips that
I was explaining to you at the beginning of this video it's going to make it a
lot easier for you to pronounce these sentences and questions with more
confidence and to speak like an American fast so I hope that you enjoyed this
lesson this is something that I will be doing more of it's something that I love
doing when I'm talking about speaking fast and really really hope that you
will be able to watch this lesson again and again so that you can practice the
dialogue maybe you can practice the dialogue with your friend
I can leave the complete dialogue under this video I invite you to join me on
whatsapp and I will be on YouTube live next week at 2:30 p.m. and I hope to see
you soon bye for now