Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
Are you ready to speak fast English? Let's talk about it.
Have you ever watched an English TV show or movie and thought, oh my goodness, they're speaking so
fast, it's just one long word? Well, today I have some good news for you. Today, I'm going
to be helping you with some common English phrases and sentences and questions, how to combine them,
how native English speakers make them quick and fast, so that you can pronounce them like
this yourself if you feel like it, but also to help you be able to understand fast English.
You're going to be pronouncing these eight fast sentences in English in no time.
Let's get started. Our first five sentences include some kind of reduction with the word
you. Let's take a look at our first sentence. What do you think? But do you think that we
really say it this slowly, what do you think? Absolutely not. I just bought this new dress.
What'd you think? What is happening in the middle of this question? Let's break it down. There are
a couple of different ways that we can reduce this question, so let's talk about the first one.
Whadaya think? Whadaya think? Here the final T on the question word what is cut off. We just
say wha. And then instead of saying do with a nice ooh sound, instead, it sounds like da,
whada. And then the next word you is going to have a similar sound.
Whadaya, daya. Whadaya think? Whadaya think? Whadaya think? Can you say that
with me? Whadaya think? Whadaya think? But would you imagine that we can reduce this
even more? Yep. You will definitely hear in English movies and TV shows people say,
"I just bought this new dress. Wha'ya think?" Wha'ya think? What is happening to the verb do?
Listen carefully. I just bought this new dress. What'ya think? What'ya think? Do is just gone.
It's completely absent from the sentence. It's off on vacation somewhere. So you can say wha'ya
think. Wha'ya think? Wha'ya think? What'ya think? Our second question is, where did you get it?
But do you think we say it like this, where did you get it? No. If English speakers spoke
like this, then you probably wouldn't be here because you'd already be able to understand fast
English because it would just be slow English. So let's see how this is actually said. I love
that dress. Where'd ya ged it? Where'd ya get it? Let's break this down. Where'd.
Where'd. This is a contraction of where and did. Where'd ya, this is a you, where'd ya. And then
our final two words we're going to link together. Ged it. Ged. Where's that D coming from? Ged,
get it. Well, in American English, when there is a T between two vowels, we often change that T to
a D sound. This is going to be extremely common in American English, and it's going to help you
to pick up on fast words like sweater, water. These are common examples of a T changing
to a D. And finally, in this question, there's one more thing we need to mention.
Listen to the final sound of the question. Where do you get it? It. It. Do you hear it?
Nope. Listen, one more time. Where do you get it? Where do you get it? That final T is not really
pronounced. Your tongue is going to be in the same place as if you're going to make a T sound.
But instead of letting that air flow out, your tongue just stops on the top of your
mouth. That's why we call this a stopped T. Can you say those final two words with me?
Ged i'. Ged i'. Ged i'. All right, let's put it all together and I want you to say this
out loud with me. Where'd ya ged i'? Where'd ya ged i'? Where'd ya ged i'? Now, sometimes
we reduce this a little bit further and the entire rest of the sentence sounds the same,
except for the word you. Sometimes we say where'd ja, where'd ja, instead of where'd ya.
This is the difference between ya and ja. Where'd ja gedi'? Where'd ja gedi'? Where'd ja gedi'?
Oh, I like that dress. Where'd ja gedi'? Where'd ja. So that's the one main difference
here between these two different reductions, and you're going to hear both of them. So now
I hope that you'll be able to understand them. Let's go to our next one. Sentence number three,
or I guess question number three is, are you doing okay? Hmm, this is a very kind
question you can ask someone who you feel like might be having a hard time in life.
It's the year 2020, so a lot of people are in this situation. And it's a kind question you can ask,
and you will also hear other people asking. But do they say, are you doing okay?
No. This is often reduced in a couple different ways within the sentence. So let's talk about it.
Hey, I haven't seen you in a while. Are ya doin' ok? Are ya doin' ok?
Here we have kept the word are, but then you, listen carefully, are ya doin' ok? Does that
sound familiar? We already talked about how sometimes you becomes ya. And this is extremely
common as we're speaking quickly and talking with people in a comfortable situation. Are ya.
And then listen to our verb, doin' ok. What's happening with the G at the end,
doin'? It's gone. It is on vacation. So make sure that we say, are ya doin' ok? Are ya doin' ok?
Are ya doin' ok? We can reduce this even further by cutting off our first verb are. Ya doin' ok?
Ya doin' ok? Say that with me. Ya doin' okay? I haven't seen you for a while. Ya doin' ok?
Ya doin' ok? Fast sentence. Number four, did you eat yet? Did you eat yet? But do you think
we say it like this? Nope. Instead, we're going to reduce this in a couple of different ways.
So you might say, when I visit my grandma's house, she always asks me, "Did you eat yet?"
But she doesn't say it like that. Instead, she says, "Did ya ea' ye'?" Did ya ea' ye'? Here the
word you is being reduced ya. Did ya ea' ye'? And also, notice what's happening with the two final
words, eat and yet. They both end in T, so think back to another rule about T that we talked about.
Ea' ye'. My tongue is stopped at the top of my mouth and I'm not letting that air pass
through. Listen to the full sentence. Did ya ea' ye'? Did ya ea' ye'? Can you say that with me?
Did ya ea' ye'? We can reduce this another time and say did ja. Did ja ea' ye'? Say it with me.
Did ja ea' ye'? Did ja ea' ye'? And then if we can reduce this one final time and this is I think one
of my favorites. Growing up, my family sometimes used to laugh about this because it's reduced so
much, it doesn't sound like any English word. But in the right context, you could totally understand
it. What if I said to you, jeet yet? It sounds so weird. Jeet yet?jeet yet? This means, did you
eat yet? But we are reducing this again and again and again. If you remember, we just talked about
did ja, making you into ju, ju, a ju sound. So that's what's happening here,
but we're dropping did and we're keeping ju, and then eat. Jeet
yet? Did you eat yet? Jeet yet? Jeet yet? Now, if you are uncomfortable using these
extremely reduced versions of English sentences yourself, that's no problem. One of the biggest
to knowing these types of reductions is being able to understand other people when they use them. So
I want to give you these tools in your figurative English toolbox so that you can understand people.
If you're watching a movie and they say, "Jeet yet,"
before this lesson, you would have thought, what in the world did they say?
But now you know that they're asking, did you eat yet? So you have that tool in your toolbox
to know how they're saying this, what they're saying, and how they're reducing it. Sentence
number five is, I'll text you later. I'll text you later. We often use this if we just want to get in
touch with a friend later. Maybe you don't have the information they're asking about. You don't
know if you're free on Saturday to get together. So you're going to go home, look at your calendar,
and then you'll text them later. So let's break down how we can say the sentence. I'll text you
later. I'll text ya later. Did you notice what we're doing here? You is becoming, listen again,
I'll text ya later. It's becoming ya again. As you can tell, this is a very common reduction of the
word you. I'll text ya later. We have another reduction that's happening here. What is that
first word? I'll. This is simply a contraction of I plus will, the future tense in English.
I'll text ya lader. Listen to our final word, lader, lader. There's a T, but it sounds like
a D? Is this happening again? Yes. Here we have a T between two vowels. And so the word
later doesn't sound like ter, later. Instead, it's going to sound like lader, lader. Can you say that
full sentence with me? I'll text ya lader. I'll text ya lader. We can even reduce this a little
bit more, especially in an informal situation, and drop the subject altogether. You might just say,
text ya lader. This is kind of like when you say goodbye to someone and you say, see you later.
You're dropping I'll see you later. We just say, see you later. Talk to you later.
This is a similar idea, but you can say, text ya lader. Okay. Text ya lader. I'll get back
in touch with you. Text ya lader. For our final three fast sentences, we're going to be
talking about reducing contractions even more and sometimes cutting out verbs completely. Let's go
to sentence number six, I don't get it. I don't get it. This verb to get means to understand,
and we often use this for jokes. So if someone tells a joke, you might say, "I don't get it."
This means you don't understand why it's funny. So they might have to explain it to you. And this is
something that's common. As you're learning another language, there's probably a lot of
twists of language or jokes and different things that people will say that you won't understand
why it's funny, or why it was interesting, or why it was sad. So you might need to say this,
"Hey, I'm sorry. I don't get it. Can you explain it to me?" That's perfectly fine,
but let's break down the pronunciation of how you can reduce I don't get it.
Our first way is to say, I don' gedi'. I don'. Don'. This is a negative contraction, do not,
and that T is just going to be stopped at the time top of your mouth. Don'.
Don'. So you're making a slight N sound, but you want to make sure that that T is stopped.
Don'. I don'. And then we're going to link together gedi', gedi'. Do you notice here at T
is between two vowels. Even though they're different words, it's okay. It's still
between two vowels. We're going to link them together. Not get it, but ged, ged, gedi'. It
what's happening with the word it? Here that word it has a stopped T at the end.
So it's just i', i'. My tongue is stopped at the top of my mouth. Do you think we can put it on all
of this together? I know it's a short sentence, but isn't it amazing how so many pronunciation
tips can be packed into one short sentence? All right. Let's say it altogether. I don' gedi'.
I don' gedi'. I don' gedi'. I don' gedi'. But you might've imagined, we can reduce the contraction
don't even further. Listen to this, I 'on' gedi'. I 'on' gedi'. I 'on' gedi'. I 'on', 'on'.
What's happening to the D here, I 'on'? It's just gone. Sometimes we just cut it out when
we're speaking really fast, so you might hear I 'on', I 'on', I 'on'. And that is I don't.
I 'on' gedi'. I 'on'. I 'on' gedi'. The final part is the same as before. We're changing the T
to a D, ged, and then it is a stopped T, gedi'. But that first part with the vowel,
listen again, I 'on' gedi'. I 'on'. I 'on'. I 'on' gedi'. I 'on' gedi'. I 'on'. I 'on' gedi'.
You're going to hear people say this in movies and TV shows really fast. If someone says something
funny and the other person doesn't laugh, they might say, "Sorry, I 'on' gedi'." I 'on'. I 'on'.
I 'on' gedi'. Sentence. Number seven is, I have got to go to someplace, the store,
my friend's house, work. But do we say it like that? Oh, I bet you wish that we did.
But unfortunately, we reduce this many times, so let's talk about it from the beginning. First,
we're going to make a contraction with I have, I've, I've, and then we have got to.
Got to implies a necessity. I have to do something, but got to mean something very similar.
But we can reduce these words together. Instead of saying I've got to, we can say
gada, gada. We often write this in a text message or in a quick email as G-O-T-T-A. Gada, gada,
gada. What's happening with the pronunciation? That T is changing to a D. Say it with me,
I've gada. I've gada study English every day. I've gada. The same thing is going to happen with the
next two verbs, go to the store. Instead of go to, we're going to say, I've gada goda, goda.
I've gada goda the store. I've gada goda. That T is changing to a D. Say it with me. I've gada goda
the store. I've gada goda the store. Now, just to let you know, sometimes in American English,
when there is a present perfect verb tense, like I have got to do something, with the word have
sometimes we drop have completely, especially with got to. We might just say I' gada. I' gada
goda the store. I' gada goda the store. Where are you going? Oh, I'
gada goda work. I'm sorry. I'm late. I' gada goda. Our final sentence, number eight, is, I'm about to
plus some kind of verb. Like I'm about to pass out, I'm so hungry! Or I'm about to go to work.
I'm about to do something. Let's reduce the beginning of this sentence. Our first word is
a contraction, I'm, which is I am. I'm. Our next word about, sometimes we cut off the first letter
A and just say 'bout, 'bout. And then for the word to, sometimes instead of saying to, we say ta, ta.
You saw this previously with gada goda the store. Here it's the same thing, I'm 'bout ta.
I'm 'bout ta. I'm 'bout ta pass out, I'm so hungry! I'm 'bout ta go to the store. I'm 'bout ta
go to work. I'm 'bout ta do something. But we have one more reduction that we can have. Think about
those two T's at the end of the word about and at the beginning of the word to. Those are two teas
together. And on either side of that, what do you see? Oh, is that a vowel? That's right. There are
T's surrounded by vowels. So what happens? We can change them to a D sound. And this is all going
to link together in one fast word, I'm bouda. I'm bouda. I'm bouda. Here D, D, this D sound,
is the T that's been changed into a D. Actually the two T's that have been changed into D's.
Let's try to say this all together. I'm bouda to pass out, I'm so hungry! I'm bouda. I'm bouda to
pass out. I'm bouda. I'm bouda to pass out, I'm so hungry! Great work in practicing all eight of
these shortened, quick, reduced fast sentences. I hope that this helped you to be able to understand
some principles of English pronunciation and to level up your listening skills.
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