Name: Fast Speech 2 | How To Sound Like A Native Speaker
Uploaded: 2018-02-27T09:24:59.000Z
Duration: 14 min 10 s
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Hey guys what's up Stefanie the English
coach here from EnglishFullTime.com

in this video we are gonna talk again
about fast speech now I say "again"

because I already made a video about
fast speech or what is known also as

connected speech and you guys really
seemed to like it and you asked me to make

more videos like that so that's what I'm
doing so here's the deal you guys

already know that English actually
sounds nothing like the way that it's

written and that's because it's not a
phonetic language so you might see for

example a T in a word and realize that
native speakers don't pronounce the T

when they say it okay that's quite
common and that's just something you

have to make your peace with the writing
system of English is old it's outdated

and it just doesn't work very well okay
so spelling in English writing in

English is completely different than the
way that native speakers speak and when

we are speaking in casual conversation
we combine words in many different ways

so as long as you're paying attention to
the way that we combine the words you

can imitate us and do this too you just
really have to get away from trying to

pronounce things the way that they're
written because if you separate every

single word in a sentence you're gonna
sound like a textbook you're not gonna

sound natural and you know what even
though every word might be clear because

you're clearly pronouncing them it'll be
difficult for native speakers to

understand you because they really have
to focus on what you're saying and put

the words together in their head okay
because it'll say on choppy so for

example if I say "hi what are you doing
today?" right that's kind of slow and it

just sounds choppy or like whoa what is
she saying right and if I just say "hey

what are you doing today?" okay what are
you doing today I'm sure you understand

that and it sounds more natural okay so
we're gonna talk about phrases like this

and words that get reduced when we're
speaking in casual conversation and

actually I want to go back to the
example that I just gave "what are you

doing today"
because in the first video that I made

about fast speech the example that I
gave you was "hey whatcha doing later?"

right whatcha doing later?"
we don't always say what are you doing

later cuz that's just way too choppy we
say whatcha doing later but we can

also say
whatter you doing later what are

becomes "whatter" what are what are you
doing later what are you doing later

okay
and I wanted to give you that example

because when I watched the other
video I realized oh that's not the only

way we say it okay so with fast and
connected speech sometimes we you know

we combine the same words differently so
what are you can become whatcha or

"whatterya" "whatterya" next the word
especially okay when something is

especially funny or especially
interesting the word is especially it's

spelled with an e in the front so it
looks like it should be especially but

the way we say it is just especially but
here's the thing in fast speech when I'm

just talking in a regular conversation
with somebody I don't really say

especially unless I'm really
exaggerating the word and trying to draw

attention to it I just say 'specially
like I really like dessert 'specially

chocolate ice cream okay 'specially now
the reason why I'm telling you about

this is not just for the pronunciation
because I think a lot of you know that

we say specially you've picked it up
but what happens is sometimes when you

write comments on my videos you say
'specially in the comments and we don't

do that we don't write 'specially we
only say it okay we write especially the

next one is similar excuse me if you're
in a formal situation you're gonna say

oh excuse me I'm sorry I didn't
understand you can you repeat yourself

or something like that okay excuse me
but if you're just at the grocery store

and someone's in your way you can say oh
'scuse me we take off the "ex" okay so

instead of saying excuse me you are in
my way excuse me you're in my way I just

say "scuse me" okay the next word is
fundamental fundamental fundamental now

this is a pretty long word and words
like this get reduced all the time and I

said this the other day but I didn't say
fundamental okay I said "funamenal"

funamenal okay so I actually said
funna funna menal now maybe I'm

actually saying that wrong maybe it's
supposed to be "fundamenal" fundamenal

where you actually still pronounce the D
a little bit like funda menal but I

don't even do that so who knows maybe
I'm saying it wrong but that's how I say

I just say yeah "the funamenal rules of
XYZ are blah blah blah" okay so if you

want to speak like me feel free to say
that if someone makes fun of you just

tell them to shut up I'm just gonna
don't say that don't think you're mean

okay the next example really makes me
laugh the word is "probably" okay probably

probably the thing is when I'm speaking
quickly I actually don't really say

probably so let me give you an example
let's say my sister asks what I'm gonna

do today let's say she says "hey
Stefanie whatcha gonna do today?" and

I'll be like I don't know I'll probably
go to the store I'll probably call my

friend I will I don't know I'll probably
work a little bit so what am I saying

there
I'm not saying probably I'm literally

saying prolly like prolly except when I
say prolly by itself it sounds

ridiculous it sounds bad but when I'm
speaking quickly I'm saying prolly but

I'm saying it very very fast I'm not
saying probably I'm saying prolly look

I'll prolly go the store later
prolly there's no way I can say

probably that quickly okay so I'm
eliminating a ton of sounds so I can get

it out of my mouth fast anyhow I didn't
realize how much English speakers reduce

sounds until I started really paying
close attention to it for you guys so I

could make more videos like this and I'm
realizing yeah we reduce sounds all over

the place so I'm sorry English is really
hard but you know you guys are doing

good and the fact that you're watching
these videos and you're learning from

them and you're improving your own
speech it shows how dedicated you are so

just keep it up okay and by the way
that's an extra tip it has nothing to do

with this video but a lot of times you
guys say hey keep going like you really

like something and you say "keep going!"
in English we don't say "keep going" we

say "keep it up" okay so it means the same
thing but that's like the English way of

saying it like I don't want to say the
correct way it's just the normal way

okay so keep it up you guys are doing
great keep it up next the word

comfortable this is really hard for a
lot of non-native English speakers to

pronounce because there's so many
syllables okay so listen "comfter-bl"

comfortable comfortable comfortable so
what gets confusing right is the M and

the f come-fff com-fff e so we put that together
we just say come come come it's really

weird it's it's I don't even know how
I'm making that sound come like that

okay come the yeah the M and the F just
get squished together so comf just say that

comf usually when I'm working with a
student and I say repeat after me and I

just make the sound and then they make
it right after me they almost always do

it correctly
the problem is doing it correctly in

other situations right you have to
develop the muscle memory to be able to

make these sounds quickly in natural
conversations so that takes time but if

you just repeat what I say I think
you're gonna do pretty well anyhow so

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