LIVE LESSON FAST ENGLISH
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i said put your questions in the
comments
and i will do my best to keep up with
them and the video that we’re going to
watch
today is a little bit longer it’s some
tips on fast english
and this is a question that i see coming
in a lot
how to speak fast english but still be
clear
because that’s what americans do and
there are some tips on how to do that
so let’s get started here with the
lesson that i’ve
prepared if you’ve already seen it then
great you can think of any of the
questions you might have had when you
watched
the first time through so i’m going to
make myself small here
and let’s let’s go let’s listen in
today’s video we’re going to go over how
to speak english
fast and we’re also going to go over one
mistake you want to make sure you avoid
when you’re trying to pick up your pace
speaking english
first let’s listen to a native speaker
speaking quickly
this is my friend tom who you might
recognize because he’s been on this
channel before he is an
outstanding accent coach in my online
school rachel’s english academy
hey rach i’m going to starbucks that
sounds pretty natural doesn’t it
pretty american to me it sounds
completely conversational and completely
natural
but it is really fast what is he doing
hey rach i’m going to starbucks he’s
speaking with reductions
he takes i am going to
and pronounces it i’m going to
we actually have three reductions there
and they each show a very good
example of how to speak fast in american
english
so let’s break it down and study
actually
first let’s compare this sentence what
if he said the sentence with no
reductions at all
then what would it sound like hi rachel
i am going to starbucks
hey rach i’m going to starbucks wow
there’s a big difference there
one’s natural okay i love doing that
comparison
and that is because sometimes i get
comments from people and they say you
know the way you teach english
gowanda gonna go to whatever these kinds
of things they say
that they’re too casual they’re too
sloppy that they’re not good english but
it’s actually not true
i did a video where i took presidential
speeches during the
let’s see was it the 2008
i think it was the 2008 might have been
the 2012. no
is the 2012 presidential election and i
took excerpts from obama’s speeches and
mitt romney speeches and they both
use reductions like ghana wanna gotta
and can you get more formal and
important than a speech
when a president or someone who wants to
be the president is addressing the
nation
i don’t think so that’s a pretty formal
and important situation and there
they were using reductions all the time
so it’s not something that’s
reserved for only a certain kind of
english
reductions are a very natural part of
all spoken english and if you don’t use
them then it doesn’t sound right
which is what tom and i wanted to
illustrate when we dressed up
in that more formal garb do you know
this word
vocab word g-a-r-b garb
it means attire dress what you’re
wearing
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the lesson
fast english now i see in the chat some
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someone says can you please explain how
to pronounce through
yes i’m going to put that down in my
notes and i will do that in the next q a
session which we will have in
just a second after we watch a bit more
of
the lesson video here mexico city hey
andrea
sounds fast very american the other one
sounds completely
unnatural all of the sounds are american
and the melody is american but somehow
it just
doesn’t work out to sound like natural
conversational english
hi rachel i am going to starbucks hey
rach
i’m going to starbucks let’s look at the
very beginning he takes i
am and says i’m a contraction tip number
one
use contractions americans use
contractions when speaking english
all the time if you never used a
contraction it would start to sound
a little unnatural a contraction is a
kind of reduction
and i guess i should define reductions
here a reduction is when we change
or drop a sound so in the combination i
am
we have the i diphthong the a vowel the
m consonant
i am but when we make a contraction we
drop the a vowel and it becomes
i’m i’m so that dropped sound means
this is a reduction hey rach i’m going
to starbucks
notice he’s not saying i’m he’s saying
i’m i’m i’m he’s saying it really
quickly
you can too practice that this is one of
the things i tell my students all the
time
is how much faster can you say it than
what you’re doing
you take i’m and you say i’m i’m i’m
and sometimes we even just drop the
diphthong entirely and it’s just the m
i’m gonna i’m gonna that kind of
simplification can really help us
speed up those short less important
words
and because we don’t want to speed over
our important words the faster we can
make those less important words and
syllables
the better it’s going to be for contrast
and the more natural it will sound
the more it will match that faster pace
of american english
okay so a couple of questions have come
in in the chat
someone asked about the word through so
it’s a little tricky that th
is unvoiced which means your tongue tip
does have to come through the teeth so
you’ll see
you’ll see it there thir thir then the
tip pulls back it’s inside the mouth
it’s not touching anything
that’s for the r through and then
o u g h all of those letters just make
the ooh vowel
through through through o-u-g-h
has several pronunciations actually if
you go to youtube and you type in the
search
rachel’s english o-u-g-h you’ll see a
couple of different videos that i’ve
made on that topic
it’s crazy how much those sounds can
change so look that one up
another question that came through kevin
asked about
rn like in corn learn earn
earn so for this r sound which is tricky
er
your tongue tip is pulled back and up a
little bit so it’s not touching anything
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then for the end it has to come forward
and lift
we want the tongue to be nice and wide
for the end we don’t want it to be tense
at all and
thinner that’s going to start to sound
like an ng so it’s
nice wide and flat corn
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also bertha who i know from my academy
said she was just
working on gonna lately bertha that’s
awesome were you using all of those
materials in the academy
or maybe you were using another resource
either way i love it i love knowing what
my students are working on
okay in chat we have grace from
argentina hi
grace thank you for being here elena
diaz
why can’t i understand many songs after
living in the usa for
seven years and being to an ameri being
married to an american
who only speaks english you know what
elena it is
very common for americans to have to
look up
the lyrics to songs sung english
is not exactly like spoken english
people put in
different little affects to bring in an
emotion or just to sound different in
one way or another
also there’s often a little bit of a
weird quality coming into newer music i
found
breathy it is less clear and so it’s not
uncommon for
even myself or someone another a
native speaker to have to look up a word
so if you’re listening to a song and you
can’t understand the lyrics don’t feel
too
terrible about it it’s not at all like
conversational english
which is much easier for everyone to
understand
songs lyrics lots of native speakers
also have to look up
the pronunciation not the pronunciation
the words like
you type in the song and lyrics and it
pops up right there because it knows
that’s what you’re looking for
because it knows a hundred people have
already searched that same thing
okay let’s get back to that lesson with
me i’m
i’m i’m hey rach i’m going to starbucks
there are so many contractions in
american english
take for example you are that becomes
your but actually even that reduces
it’s very common to pronounce that
you’re here
we change the vowel to the schwa and we
make it super fast
you’re gonna love this you’re you’re
you’re doing so well
you’re you’re i think you’re right
here here so fast
because there are so many contractions
and tricks to their pronunciation
i’m going to put together a playlist on
how to speak english fast
and i’m going to put lots of videos in
there that supplement what we’re
learning here today
so i’m going to put in videos on
contractions including a really fun one
that includes some
real life english that’s because she’s a
good teacher
that’s because did you hear that another
contraction that is
that’s okay let’s go back to tom’s
sentence
hey rach i’m going to starbucks i’m
glenda
going an ing verb he changed the ng
ending sound at the end and made it an
n instead going instead of
going so when we make this change it
changes the vowel too
the if vowel when it’s followed by ng
tends to sound more like
e but when it’s swallowed just by n then
it does sound like a pure i
so going sounds like
e plus n g and goin in
in sounds like the vowel and the n
consonant and i do feel like i’m able to
make that ending faster
going going hey rach
i’m going to starbucks we’ve changed a
sound an example of
a reduction so tip one was man there are
so many things that you can study from
just
one sentence i’m going to starbucks the
word two becomes
ra gonda gowinda that’s what i love
about taking
anything a scene from a movie or from
real life english when i have my video
camera out with my family and friends
i love analyzing it after the fact and
just thinking my goodness there are so
many things we change from what you
would see on the page if you were just
looking at the letters
and what you would think there are so
many things that we change
okay a couple other questions are coming
in um utam asked how to pronounce the
word
riots riot so i o
there makes ry
and then schwati riots riots
with the plural it’s a ts cluster at the
end wow you have
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does that reduce can that simplify to
can
um and the short answer is yes
how can it reduce to something that has
the opposite meaning i’m working on a
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someone asked about the word favorite so
i did a video
in the fall and it was called
words that you’re probably
mispronouncing so go search for that
rachel’s english
words you’re mispronouncing and it has
all of these different cases where we
have
three verses two syllable pronunciations
like favorite can be fave
writ two syllables or it can be fey
the writ three syllables so it’s way
more common to do the two syllable
pronunciation
fave rhett and i have a whole list of
words in that video where it’s the same
thing
you’ll want to do a two-syllable
pronunciation instead of three
or a three syllable pronunciation
instead of four so be sure to check
that one out all right let’s get back to
our lesson use contractions tip two
expands that use reductions we have so
many of them in american english and
americans use them
all the time when they speak it is
common to change the ing ending to an in
ending
you’ll hear other people do it so we’re
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somebody’s doing worse than you right
did you hear that doing instead of doing
so we do it especially with really
common words in casual conversations
if you do this all the time always
change the ing ending to an i n
consonant it will probably start to
sound
like a southern dialect nothing wrong
with that if you live in the southern
part of the u.s and you want that
dialect
but if you want a more standard american
accent use this reduction a little
sparingly
let’s go back to tom’s sentence wow it
is a tiny sentence and he is showing us
so many things that make us speak faster
when we speak american english
we’re going to learn one more tip on how
to speak english fast before we get into
our mistake
that i want to make sure that you avoid
hey rach
i’m going to starbucks the word to
how did he pronounce it hey rach i’m
going to starbucks
i didn’t hear and i didn’t hear ooh
two what did you hear hey rach
i’m going to starbucks hmm let’s listen
to the sentence when he’s fully
pronouncing everything
hi rachel i am going to starbucks now
there i did hear the true tea and the
ooh vowel
but both of those sounds changed when he
was speaking more casually
hey rach i’m going to starbucks what’s
happening
two things first the true tea
he’s changing that to a flap t the true
t is a stop consonant
it has two parts a stop and a release
the flap t is a quick single flap of the
tongue against the roof of the mouth
so i can make that more quickly
rather than which sort of
stops the momentum in american english
it is very common to change a t
to a flat t in certain situations those
situations are
when the t sound comes between two
vowels or
when the t sound comes after an r and
before a vowel
and i should say when i say vowel in
these rules i do mean vowel or diphthong
let’s listen to how tom says it again
hey rach i’m going to starbucks
okay now there it came after an n before
a vowel
okay sometimes with the okay okay we’re
gonna
break in here okay i’m sorry you cannot
pronounce your name
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how to pronounce
dnt such as president student
president student
super tricky because for the d the
tongue position is up
present and
so same in student
so when d is followed by schwa n you
don’t have to bring it down and put it
back up
student student
i’m leaving my tongue up that whole time
so
stood put your tongue up stop the air
that’s the d
stood
but then you release the air again into
your position and make the end sound
without having to bring it down
student president present and
now there i i notice i do want to bring
my tongue down and put it right back
up i’m not entirely sure why how
why in my body that’s different student
president
president i do definitely bring it back
down and back up
student student you could do it with
student as well
um the thing to keep in mind is if it’s
a schwa and that syllable has to be said
really really quickly for the unstressed
but that’s what i would say student
i leave my tongue up president i’m not
i’m bringing it down but then putting it
immediately back up
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these would be helpful with the zoomed
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have you guys seen those videos that
i’ve made with the zoomed in footage
uh i’ve been doing some vocabulary
videos over the past few months where
i’ve done that
i did a video on the word for and how we
say
instead and i had a bunch of zoomed
footage of the mouth
what did you think of those did you like
them were they helpful
what other kinds of videos would you
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what other topics how how is that
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i’ve said that one that i did on 4
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west did you see that one
let me know in the chat okay let me
answer another question
um hadi said how do you pronounce the
word attitude
this word is so confusing because it has
a double t which you make as a flap
and then a single t which you make a
true t attitude
and the reason why we make that a true
tea is because it is
the beginning a stressed syllable why
can’t i make this go away there we go
attitude attitude so the first t sound
the double t
is a flap attitude oh we got another
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how do you pronounce hip hop in a
sentence okay
i love hip hop music hip hop so just
like when i was talking about with
yep or yup and nope
not releasing that p this is something
that we would do in the phrase hip hop
hip hop hip hop hip hop hip hop hip
you probably wouldn’t hear hip-hop
hip-hop
hip-hop with that released p it would be
hip hop hip-hop
hip-hop hip-hop music hip-hop and
uh the first word is stress so the
second word isn’t
hop the second syllable isn’t ha but
it’s hop
pop pop said very quickly hip hop hip
hop music
hip hop hip hop hip hop and don’t forget
you do need a light h
sound in some of our words we drop the h
like in the word hour or
honor the h is silent but in the words
hip
and hop the h is not silent we do
pronounce that h okay let’s keep going
word two the word today the word
tomorrow
in those three words probably together
too
the beginning t can become a flap t even
if the sound before
wasn’t a vowel or diphthong or an r
it can do that when the sound before was
voiced like in this case the n
that sound is a voice hey rach
i’m going to starbucks so he makes the t
a flap t
he changes the vowel to the schwa very
common reduction
this word will almost never be
pronounced to it will usually be
pronounced
t with a true t or with a flap t
now he did the flap t as we’ve already
discussed
and we talked about we make a flap t
when it comes between certain sounds
what does that mean comes between it’s
the beginning of the word
the letter t is the beginning of the
word two
but wait this brings us to tip three and
that is
linking linking will help you speak more
quickly and it is how americans speak
all the time let’s listen to his
sentence again
hey rach i’m going to starbucks the n
sound goes right into the flap t
with no break in american english the
unit of the word
doesn’t matter in spoken english we
don’t do anything to signal the end of a
word the beginning of the next word
within a single thought group all of the
words all of the sounds link together
smoothly transitioning from one sound to
the next
because of this it means a phrase like
for getting
my sounds just like forgetting
my it’s my fault for getting my hopes up
for getting my for getting my
i keep forgetting my homework forgetting
my
forgetting my forgetting my sounds just
like forgetting my
because the sounds are the same the
stress is the same and there’s no
differentiation between word
units in spoken english the unit we use
in spoken english is a thought group
that is the words that make up a single
thought that we articulate
now that might include breaks as we
think of what to say
and those breaks each make a new thought
group
but the important thing to note is
linking
isn’t that crazy how those two phrases
sound the same even though they’re
completely different words
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monica she says
how to pronounce connecticut and is the
american accent the same as the canadian
accent
i’m working on reductions in the academy
glad to find this live hey thank you for
being an academy member it’s great to
see you
american english and canadian english
are extremely similar
though there would be a few minor
differences um
like they say is it the out of thong
um i have to actually take a minute to
think there’s one sound i think it’s the
ow diphthong that tends to be a little
bit different
um and usually i could say this without
without even thinking about it but i
think because i’m live right now i can’t
think of it
but i can let you know i can put that in
the um
in the facebook group for the academy
which is i assume where you saw this
post
um thank you again for the super chat so
the word connecticut
uh connecticut it’s second syllable
stress
k notice it’s not cun or cone even
though it’s a letter o it’s just
can can connecticut
connected connecticut
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connecticut so with the word like that
where it’s for syllables
focusing on stress will really help you
it will make you understand where to
simplify
also i do have a video series
actually bertha from the academy
recommended that i make it
and it’s how to pronounce each state
name and each state capital and so i
sort of break it down there with the
stress and the sounds
what change like a flap t for example to
help people get through all of the
different state names in american
english
um so thank you for that super chat i
think i wrote down another couple
questions oh yeah
sweetie asked about the word schedule
jamal asked about the word
uh internet um so internet
very common to drop that first t
internet the word
schedule this is another word that can
be pronounced a couple different ways
three syllables or sca
two syllables two syllables would be
more common
actually i have a whole video just on
that word so if you go to youtube and
type in rachel’s english
schedule you’ll be able to find a little
bit
more of an in-depth breakdown of that
word um
so check it out why not you know even if
you feel like you already know how to
pronounce the word why not go watch it
check it double check try it are you
making it two syllables if you’re making
it is three
go ahead and try to see what that feels
like that simplification
in a thought group everything links
together smoothly with no breaks
that means a t can become a flap t when
it links two words together and follows
the rules
another example linking the word at with
the article a
atta atta adda adda that becomes a flap
t
that sound links the two words together
i do have a playlist on linking i go
over the different kinds of links and
how to practice them to really
smooth out your speech click here or in
the video description
and actually i’ll add that to the
playlist how to speak fast in american
english so we have the flap t we talked
about a true t
t the stop and the release we actually
have
another way that we pronounce the t and
that is as a stop t
that means we make the stop but we don’t
release for example in the word
thoughtful
thought full you didn’t hear
but you heard thought full a quick break
i’m exaggerating it there
thoughtful thoughtful there it is at
regular spoken pace
do you hear that little lift between
syllables thoughtful
thoughtful it’s not fawful thoughtful
that little lift between syllables is
the stop is the stop t
and just so you know there are two other
ways you might hear the t
sound pronounced first totally dropped
we do this sometimes after
n like in the word interview or internet
or
center and the other thing that we do
with the t is we can make it
actually we often make it a ch sound
when it’s followed by
r like in the word train t is maybe the
most complicated sound as far as how
much it changes
isn’t that crazy someone was just asking
about the word internet and then here it
was already
pre-loaded in the live lesson to show
one of the ways that we reduce or that
we change the t
by dropping it internet um okay covid19
says rachel put on your mask you know
what i have one right here
let’s put it on okay
there now i know i can’t get anyone sick
although i will say
i am the only one in this room so i’m
not too worried about it
so i wonder would you guys mind if i
take off the mask
i think i’ll take it off just seems a
little bit more
personal when you can see my face isn’t
that what’s so strange though about
walking around with masks
everyone’s wearing masks you pass
someone on the sweet street
and you have no idea if they’re smiling
at you especially now in the summer
wearing like a hat and sunglasses which
i usually do to protect my face and my
eyes from the sun
then it’s like they see nothing of me
they have no idea who i am or if i’m
being friendly or not
um okay so najim asked how
tips for understanding quick speaking so
my main tip for that is to look
for my videos on reductions
when i have people join the academy you
know my academy i made
mostly for accent reduction but also of
course listening comprehension
and if people come in with a real strong
focus on listening comprehension
then that’s the first thing i have them
go do i have them go study
all of those reductions in in great
detail
with lots of training so that they start
to really hear it and notice it
and that’s going to really increase
listening comprehension
so that’s that’s my tip for
understanding the fast speaking
look for the reductions and if you go to
my youtube channel and or you go to
youtube and you search rachel’s english
reductions you’ll find a lot
also my conversation studies i point out
every reduction that happens i’m doing a
whole series right now from movies
so check out all of those all of my
learn english with tv
learn english with movie real life
english videos those
all cover reductions in full sentences
and situations so that’s another
great way to work on your listening
comprehension for understanding this
fast english okay and actually that’s
what we’re doing right now in this live
lesson right
a lot of the tips that you’re getting
here is about fast english how to speak
fast english
but then also on how to notice it you
know when you know all these things then
you understand
um then you understand how
when you’ve studied it you’re more
likely to notice it in conversation
is what i’m trying to say slim lim
another super chat thank you has a
question
the best way to exercise the jaw for the
american accent okay slim limb
two tips one on youtube search
rachel’s english vertical versus
horizontal
that talks about how we want a relaxed
kind of jaw drop
then also have you seen i have a
relaxation
series it’s a playlist on my channel uh
you can probably find it by just
typing in rachel’s english relaxation
series or rachel’s english jaw
relaxation
and in that video set i have different
videos for all sorts of different
relaxation
tongue lips cheeks jaw throat all of
these things
that sort of help you let go and relax
but
the main thing is to think about
taking away effort and that’s something
that will also help you relax
um karina says how can i enroll in your
academy karina i’m sorry that
i i don’t always talk about it and so
some people are like what you have an
academy i do have an academy
that’s it rachel’s english academy
so you can join there also if you want
to sign up for a monthly subscription
i can give you a coupon for 18
off your first subscription so it’s a
nine dollar
first month and that code is just
nine so the letters j-u-s-t and the
number nine
just nine so that can get you into the
academy
um at a cheaper price okay let’s go back
to that lesson
we’ll make sure that i link to a whole
playlist on all of these tea
pronunciations here
and also in the video description but
this video is not about tea
pronunciations
it’s about how to speak english fast
let’s go back to tom’s sentence
hey rach i’m going to starbucks okay so
we’ve talked about
tips for speaking english fast use
contractions use reductions
use linking i said there was one thing i
wanted to tell you to make sure
not to do and that one thing is cheat
you’re stressed
syllables let’s listen to his sentence
again what is the stressed syllable
hey rach i’m going to starbucks
starbucks
it’s very clear it’s longer it has an up
down shape in pitch
that is the shape of stress starbucks
now what would that sentence sound like
if he had cheated that if he had also
made that syllable
really fast then it would sound
something like
i’m going to starbucks i’m going to
starbucks i’m going to starbucks i’m
going to starbucks
listen to how he says it again hey rach
i’m going to starbucks
and i need that i need that longer
syllable that stressed syllable it gives
me my anchor
and that’s why we still understand each
other if everything was reduced
and linked and said extremely quickly i
wouldn’t be able to understand anything
but it’s these longer stressed syllables
that give me my anchors and a sentence
that help my mind organize what i’m
hearing that help me understand
and when you don’t use reductions at all
and everything is fully pronounced
then i lose my anchors they’re less
clear so that’s why it’s actually really
important for people to understand you
for you to use reductions it seems like
well that’s not a very clear
pronunciation i shouldn’t use it
but actually you should because it’s
that contrast of
really fast with the longer stressed
syllable that helps us
understand you it gives us the context
the structure of american english
let’s listen to the two sentences in
contrast one more time
okay wait before we get to that um did
you catch that did you
were you paying attention to that part
or were you watching the chat because
that was really important when we’re
talking about fast english and you’re
learning all of these tips for how to
speak fast english
what you can’t do is just rush through
everything
you have to have a strong sense of the
rhythm so you know what is very fast and
said very quickly
but then also what is longer and more
stretched out
because if you rush through everything
which i know
my spanish speakers have a tendency to
do then
it becomes unclear if you only
rush the unstressed words and syllables
then it becomes very clear it gives us
the contrast
and actually speaking of that i had a
couple questions come in
the chat about reductions and speaking
fast so
um future winner says how do you say the
word that
fast so that and at go together
they have a similar pronunciation the
vowel reduces from a
to the schwa and then the t
depends on what the next sound is so
that will become the
the the the there i’m making it with the
stop t
i would make that a stop t if the next
word began with a consonant like
that my would become the my the the the
my that my that my the
the that at my would become
my my my can you believe that
it when it’s unstressed and it’s reduced
we have so little energy in the voice
it’s low in pitch it said really quickly
the t is a stop
so it’s not a full release so
unless you’re really used to that you
feel like you don’t hear it at all you
feel like it’s dropped
so i do have a video on the reduction of
that and at another question that came
in from enze
enza i’m not sure how to pronounce your
name at the end of the day
this person said they don’t hear the
word of at the end of the day
at the end of the end
there it is that’s the word of it’s
probably just going to be the schwa
enda and end of the end of the end of
the day
now there i’m saying four words and the
day and you’ll notice end and day are
longer
they’re my anchors they’re stressed it’s
not end of the day into the day into the
day
that’s not clear but end of the day is
clear end
of the day that stress that contrast is
what we want
end of the day why don’t you guys all
practice that right now
just try it end of the
day becomes end of the
day and look at how different my mouth
moves on a stressed syllable
and the day
i have more jaw drop i fully pronounce
the words of
and the my mouth really doesn’t have to
move at all it’s just my tongue
end of the day that’s the kind of
simplification we’re
we’re looking for can we reduce all of
the mouth movement
to just the tongue the the end of the
day
end of the day are you guys all doing
that with me at home
i hope so because it’s one thing to
learn it and that doesn’t do much you
have to also practice it and do it
that’s what the academy is for actually
it’s all about training
you learn about something in a video but
then you have to train it
to make it happen so it can find its way
into your voice
i am going to starbucks hey rach i’m
going to starbucks
did you notice how we were wearing
different outfits this was from a fun
video series that i did with tom a while
back where we wore
casual clothes when we were speaking
natural american english
and then we wore very formal clothes
when we were speaking with no reductions
and only
true tea pronunciations and i want to
say that’s not a formal way of talking
it’s just
an unnatural way of talking but we did
this outfit change to add
to the contrast hi rachel i am going to
starbucks
hey rach i’m going to starbucks i don’t
want to tease you with just that one
sentence let’s go ahead and watch the
full
lesson you’ll be able to study how we
speak english fast
how we speak english really quickly by
using reductions
linking contractions and things like the
flap t
do you want to come along you want to
come along do
you do is reduced so much that we almost
don’t hear it
just a light d sound the vowel in you
isn’t quite a pure ooh either it’s a
little more relaxed
heading towards the schwa dia dia
dia want
to reduces to wanna do you wanna
do wanna do you want to come along you
wanna come along
do you want to come along you wanna come
along
no thank you tom no thanks thank you
becomes
thanks one less syllable no
thank you tom no thanks no thank you tom
no thanks
i have got too much i want to get done
here
i’ve got too much i want to get done
here i have becomes
i’ve okay so this always really
surprises me
when i do a contrast of a sentence where
i make every tea a true tea
which is what it will say if you look it
up in a dictionary
versus the way americans actually do it
there is a massive difference
true tea is less common than other
sounds i don’t know a true tea happens
maybe 10 20
of the time the rest of the time it’s
either a dropped t
a flap t or a stop t and when you make
every t
a true t it’s crazy how different it
sounds
and so knowing the rules there are very
few rules in american english
pronunciation but the t
pronunciation rules are pretty
clear and there there are not very many
exceptions to them
at all so if you’re on youtube and you
type into the search bar rachel’s
english tea pronunciations you’ll find
several videos because i’ve taught it
in several different ways you will
find all of those different
pronunciations and rules you can start
to learn them
okay young west how do you pronounce
gesture
gesture gesture that’s
how i would say that gesture gesture now
let me think about why
you know what i’m actually i’m going to
look up the official pronunciation of
that
while we watch a little bit more thank
you for the super chat young west you
are
my biggest super chat fan so far it
looks like i appreciate you
i’m gonna look up the official
pronunciation of that and then see is
what i’m doing straying from that at all
or is it exactly
how the dictionary says the official
pronunciation is
got to just one t between those two
words
got to got to want
to becomes wanna wanna
get we use a stop t sound here
because the next sound is a consonant
get done
get done i have got
too much i want to get done here i’ve
got too much i want to get done here
i have got too much i want to get done
here
i’ve got too much i want to get done
here
okay i will be back soon okay i’ll be
back soon
i will becomes isle reduced to
all okay i will be back soon okay
i’ll be back soon okay again i just love
that contrast of the reductions versus
no reductions
okay so young west i wanted to look this
up because i kind of suspected
that the official pronunciation was a
little bit differently from how i’m
doing it so i would say
gesture just j sound
a vowel s first syllable stress and then
when i look it up in the dictionary now
i like to use dictionary.com i also use
the cambridge
dictionary of american english those are
the two main sources i go to
those sometimes i find i want to do
further research and then i’ll look at
merriam-webster in in addition and maybe
one or two others but my two main ones
are dictionary.com
and cambridge uh but the official
pronunciation is
gesture church with an unvoiced sound
that would be the ch schwa r in the
unstressed syllable gesture
gesture sure i find i tend to
voice that and make it not true but
another j sound gesture gesture it’s
light it’s not j a super heavy j
but and i honestly i don’t
feel like i can tell you why like
there’s not a clear rule well i do it
because of this and that changes this
that’s just how i find myself
pronouncing it and
young west you probably know about
youglish.com but if you go to uglish
you type in any word like this word then
you can hear
probably a hundred maybe even 200
examples of americans
saying this word and then you can really
get a sense for
are most people making that a j sound or
a ch sound
gesture gesture uh so that’s what i
would say thank you again for your
question
via super chat all right guys we’re
getting close to the end of this lesson
here i’m gonna
let it play here for a bit and just
continue to read your questions in chat
and hopefully we’ll have a few more to
answer here towards the end
okay i will be back soon okay i’ll be
back soon
oh i would love a coffee though oh i’d
love a coffee though
i would becomes i’d
oh i would love a coffee though oh i
love a coffee though oh
i would love a coffee though oh i’d love
a coffee though
medium that will be fine medium
that’ll be fine that will becomes
thattle
a two-syllable word with stress on the
first syllable
the t at the end of that is a flap t
because it comes between two vowels
that’ll that’ll medium that will be fine
medium that’ll be fine medium that will
be fine
medium that’ll be fine
great see you in a bit great see you in
a bit
great with a stop t this is because it’s
the end of the sentence
you is more relaxed here not an ooh
vowel but more of a schwa
sia sia and finally bit
with a stop t bit bit
again because it’s coming at the end of
the sentence
great see you in a bit are all of these
things that you guys mostly already knew
or any of these
brand new for you dennis says in brazil
they study a lot of grammar and
vocabulary but nothing about
pronunciation
what a shame that really is a shame if
you’re learning all these vocabulary
words
but you’re not really learning the
pronunciation at the same time
that’s something you have to go back and
learn later
also the way i feel about language is
you don’t want to be able to use it in
limited ways like only in writing right
you want to be able to use it
in all the ways that you use your own
native language so you really want to be
able to be speaking it from the
beginning and you know what dennis
you’re not the only one
a lot of places don’t say much about
pronunciation
i have so many students who are so
advanced in their ability to write and
read and
i could communicate with them on almost
any topic and it would sound
native via writing and then when you’re
in a conversation it be
can become kind of difficult to
understand so that’s the way
a lot of my students are i mean in the
academy that’s sort of my main student
someone who already knows quite a bit of
english
my academy is not for people who are
just starting to learn english it’s for
people who really need to
feel more confident in their ability to
make the sounds to understand the stress
and the linking and all of this about
american english so you’re not the only
one
i also know a lot of american teachers
who have trained to become
english teachers and they feel like in
their school they weren’t really taught
how to teach pronunciation and they’re
really frustrated by that
so it’s it’s a it’s a bigger problem
i would say and hopefully my channel is
here to
help ease that issue
great see you in a bit great see you in
a bit
great see you in a bit so many options
for reductions
and contractions in such a short
conversation
i also have a playlist of all four
videos that tom and i made in that video
series i called it a
contract versation you can check it out
here or in the video description below
you’ve got a lot to do to study how to
speak english really fast
there are so many habits to make your
own one thing that helps a lot is
studying real english conversation
and i’m excited okay guys so that video
is about to play out but i just wanted
to come back to say
um make sure you’re watching this summer
series because all of that conversation
study
from the movie scenes is doing exactly
this
it’s studying where are stressed
syllables and where are all of our
reductions all of the opportunities to
speak more quickly
to sound more natural speaking english
so if you’re not already following that
summer series
let’s see i started in the first week of
june i’m doing a total of 13
so go back and check it out also if this
is a topic you’re really interested in
then i would say go to youtube and
search on rachel’s english
fast and you’ll find a lot of my videos
that i’ve made on this topic all right
i’m gonna
finish out this live stream thank you
guys for being here i’m seeing some of
you saying
it’s early in the morning there you’re
gonna go to bed now
wonderful thank you for ending your day
with me alberto in costa rica hello
it’s great to see all of you guys here
and i am planning on going live again
every friday here in july so be sure to
come back
check it out thank you guys for joining
me thank you so much to those people who
sent me a super chat i appreciate the
support
and i will see you guys again on the
other side
take care everybody oh my hand looks
weird from that green screen doesn’t it
i’ll stop waving there that’s less
straight