Hello everybody and welcome to Learn English Live 26
I promised a Youtube subscriber I would answer their question
and here it is: Phong from Vietnam
well Phong, you and so many other English learners around the world can find it tough to understand what people are saying in movies
there are a few reasons for it
one reason is that possibly Hollywood movies are exported to other countries, around the world, and dubbed into so many different languages
so to make an actor look convincing in another language, he has to or she has to mumble the words
"hey John, what did you think of the party last night?"
so trying to understand such pronunciation can be tricky
but don't worry because I am going to teach you some tricks to understand how native speakers talk in movies
now you will notice that many English teachers talk slowly
and it's a language called "teacherese"
teachers just get used to pronouncing all the words slowly in a sentence
then, when the go watch a movie, the students, they can't understand what the hell is going on
so all of these examples use the "j" sound
you can make a game out of it by saying it with me
now faster
now really fast
great job!
our next sound is "s + y" whihc is a "zh" sound
now this sound reminds me of a name in Russian: Nadezda
so I hope that you can hear that sound "zh"
we often make this sound when we combine the last letter of a word "s" and the beginning letter of the next word "y"
so let's take a look at some examples
so once again try to practice these sounds with me
there's a good tip for people who need to pronounce telephone numbers quickly
let's read this one
so we can see it like
you see how, when they link together, the sound totally changes
the form totally changes
now this last combination...I've used in other videos
and it's a fun one to pronounce and it's used in music all of the time
why? because it really flows
in fact i made a song for it in Learn English Live 20
so we can try it at different speeds
teacherese would be
then you can relax your "t's"
then we can use the "ch" sound
well everybody, I hope you enjoyed my lesson for today
I know that many times when you're listening to native speakers talking fast
it all sounds like "bla! bla! bla!" or maybe "ba! ba! ba!"
but hopefully my lesson today will help you crack the code of how native English speakers talk fast
See you in our next lesson!
Bye for now!