Hello thanks for stopping by. I have a question for you. Do you have trouble enjoying your
English or Hollywood movies because you don't really understand the dialogues well or are
you quite shy to speak to a native English speaker because you don't understand what
he's trying to say? If so this is a lesson you should watch, this lesson is for everybody
whether you're beginner or you are at the advanced level, alright? so let's get started.
My name is a Emmelda and I will be telling you few tips to understand native speakers
the first thing that you must understand is, just like you are comfortable with your language,
native speakers are comfortable with their language. What do they do when they're too
comfortable? They try to squash words, they don't want to say every word out loud and
pronounce it clearly. Did you hear something they don't wanna say? Okay yes I'm gonna go
in those line, so when I say they don't want to say every word out loud what they do is
they combine two words and then make it into one word and we will be starting to look at
those examples here what do you call the process you call this process as Ellison, that means
they're combining all the squashing two words to make it into one word and it will help
them use less of their muscles. Okay, so let's get started with the first word 'of'. English
users or native speakers they don't really pronounce this word out loud or very clearly
'of'. When do you see this preposition 'of?' You'll see it with lots of like, I have lots
of love for you, instead of saying lost of love they're gonna say lotsa are lotsa I've
got lotsa money. I need lotsa money, lotsa okay, you would hear the word cuppa, what
do they mean? They actually mean cup of they don't want to say give me a cup of tea No
they'll try to be very lazy because they know it all the other person knows it all so they're
going to say cuppa tea yeah, cup of tea becomes cuppa tea okay, moving on to the next one
is a sorda, what's sorda? don't get confused it's actually sort of sort of like - This
is a sort of the costume that I want to wear and they don't really want to say that they
will say - This is sorda dress I want to wear. I wanna wear this is a sorda dress I wanna
wear, yes let's start of becomes sodra, notice something here I'm not saying sotta, I'm not
saying sotta money or sotta house, I'm saying sorda. Why? because Americans especially Americans
every time they use 't' between two vowels they pronounce this as 'd', so sort of which
is AW sound and again AW sound here the sort of becomes 'd' sorda. That sorda thing I wanna
do, so sorda okay, lotsa, cuppa, sorda. Now that you've got a clear understanding of what
I'm going to do or what I'm gonna do, I'm going to move on to the next most common word
which is squashed, have. Have I could have done this better, I'm not gonna say, If you
native speaker they usually won't say that. They say I coulda have done this better, I
coulda done this better, so It's could have, coulda, coulda. You coulda go, you could have
done this lot better, coulda, could have, coulda. Similarly would have, becomes woulda.
You don't wanna do that, woulda, woulda, would have. I would have done that, I would have
done that, woulda. Similarly must have becomes musta. I musta done that, I musta screwed
it up, sorry my words, musta, must have becomes musta. So coulda, woulda, musta. Moving on
to the forth or the third word is to, have ta. That means it's have to, I have ta go,
have ta, have to. I got to go, so got to again T between two vowel sound becomes D. I gotta
go, I gotta go, I gotta go, wanna, when I say wanna, it means, I want to, I wanna date
you, not really. I wanna, wanna. Finally gonna, I'm going to or she is going to, Where are
you going? I don't know, but your'e gonna say, You are gonna say or you are going to
say gonna. Your'e gonna say, speak like this next time, when you speak to a native speaker,
gonna. So two becomes, if you mix two with other words have ta, gotta, wanna, gonna,
I'm gonna go, I gotta go.
Moving on to the last one is you. You not really. It actually means, if you mixing you
with another word like, could you. They don't say could you do this for me, no they say
couldju do this for me, couldju the D actually gets squashed as J, couldju. Similarly would
you, would you like to have a cup of tea? Is very posh, if your'e being very informal,
you'll say wouldju wanna tea, wouldju wanna tea, yes. Wouldju, couldju, wouldju, so this
the first tip. The first tip is the elision, when they try to squash two words. The second
tip is relaxed muscles, if you notice English speakers, they tend to be very relaxed, they
are very lazy people, they are not lazy especially when they are trying to use their facial muscles,
they don't really stretch and emphasize the way we do. So what do they do? They are very
relaxed. What muscles are they relaxed with? Lip. English learners make the mistake, when
they say B, look bbbbbbbb. No B don't have that B. They will say B, imagine look at this
bbbb, pay,B, pay, B , pay. So relaxed B. Similarly I have P. English learners, what do they do?
P, p no it's not p, be relaxed p, p. You should feel that air, P, P, P. M, English learners
M, some people even better Yemm or mmmm. No M , don't use so much strength, M, M. B, P,
M. So that's the lip movement. Look at the tongue movement. This letter is most important
if your'e learning English for the first time or your'e trying to learn English. Why? Because
this letter will help you actually differentiate between you and the native speakers. As a
lot of people mispronounce this letter, T. Your'e actually a tongue is right, where,
I'm no artist, but let's say this is your teeth, so your tongue will be somewhere here,
T, T. You know what people do, if this is your teeth, people use their tongue here,
P. No it's not, this is your palate by the way, I'm sorry. I suck at art. This is your
palate, this is your teeth. People use it P, it's not T, T. Place your tongue here,
don't roll so much, T. Similarly D, it's not D , but T, so T, T, D. The next alphabet is
L. Arabic's have this pronouncing very harsh L, La, La. It's not La, L. Larry, let's look
at this word or this name, Larry. Lot of non native speakers or English learners use this,
pronounce this as larry, larry. No it's not larry. Relax your tongue, don't go all the
way up, don't go all the way up. Just start from here, Larry, larry and larry, there's
a difference, larry. Last is R. Again another vowel or another consonant, lot of people
make mistake, R. British do not pronounce this consonant as much as Americans do. Why?
Because this consonant actually becomes solid in most of the words, so a British would pronounce
this word as Larry. You hardly would hear the R, Larry. Americans, larry, larry larry.
So British verses American. The R is pronounced differently, but native speakers, larry. It's
not larry, larry, It's larry.
So that's about it. The two tips that I have given you. First elision, try to squash words.
Specially if you are using of, have, to and you. Finally when you are speaking to someone
or when you are reading someone, like when you are reading his facial expression. Look
at the muscles, how relaxed their muscles are, so these are the two tips very useful.
Especially if you are trying to learn English or watch an Hollywood movie. These two tips
will help enjoy your movies even better. I hope you found this lesson extremely interesting
as I did. I will be back with another lesson. Until then have fun, keep learning English
and always love me. See you.