The Secret to Understand Fast-Talking Native English Speakers

This video holds the secret to understanding fast-talking native English speakers!

Learning the most common English REDUCTIONS will help you to understand fast-talking native speakers!

📝 At school, you learn how to pronounce sounds perfectly and complete full English sentences - but out in the real world, the words you learned in the classroom SOUND DIFFERENT! Fast-talking English speakers often connect words and delete or change sounds when speaking natural pace - so what you *expect* to hear and what you *do* hear can be quite different!

In this week’s video, you’ll learn 30 of the most common reductions. Words and expressions that you hear every day, in every English conversation, that sound completely different to what you expect.

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📹 Watch the video, say the words with me, and be sure to download the free workbook too. It’s packed with everything you need to know about this lesson - the reductions, the phonemes, example sentences, and the extra practice activities!

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0:00 Introduction
3:02 Greetings
4:16 YOU Reductions
7:45 HAVE Reductions
10:45 OF Reductions
12:20 TO Reductions
13:16 ME Reductions
14:52 Practice!

Read the full transcript of this lesson on my blog here:

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[mmmEnglish_Emma]

Can you think of any other reductions that you often hear in movies or TV shows?

[rabtechtutorialvideo]

i'm studying for the IELTS and needed some extra help, therefore I came across your IPA YouTube session. That was incredible. As a teacher and eminent native speaker, you're doing a fantastic job. New subscribers to this channel, take note: you will not be disappointed.😌

[masteryodaf]

Emma, I love that you're using chapters to be able to move back and forth through the lesson! 👌Thank you! Great lesson!!!❤️

[karinalhaze]

Emma, you're the best English teacher in YouTube. Your Grammar explanations are so clear and helpful. A few days ago somebody said, in a FB site for teachers, that a video which lasts more than 15 minutes isn't appropriate to include in your class, but you always tear down this "theory" and I really enjoy your expositions and I'll keep up on displaying them in my classes either virtual or real.

[nikolaj]

Emma is one of the best English teachers in the world! She explains so many things in very lovely & entertaining way, so I feel happy every time I listen to Emma! Her lessons are really awesome! 🙏👍

[davesmith]

Well hey there Emma, my lovely English mentor! OMG, .. this is a new hair style looks so unusually but it fits you a lot!
As always, I enjoy watching your lessons, they're always riveting and captivating, you do know it! Despite I've been here with for over five years, I still love listening to you, you're like a my family's part already, it's not exaggerating at all! And surely, I'll go on watching your useful videos even further! I remember I couldn't perceive your fast speech without subtitles and now, several years later I'm not turning them on for the most part! And it's your great merit completely!
Highly grateful to you, Emma and of course, I'll see you soon for another great video!

[ManishSharma-skzh]

Hi Emma,
An interesting lesson about "the secret to understand fast-talking native English speaking." I sincerely appreciate your efforts and it is truly helpful to all learners.
Thanks and regards,

[Stanly]

had an experience working with native English speakers, it was crazy at first, but as you get to listen to them speak on a daily basis, you get the hang of it.. This topic on reduction is amazing 👏 Thanks from your fan 🇵🇭

[attilahagen]

Thank you Emma for all your help, you don’t know that how much you are helping people like us who are struggling a lot with understanding fast speech.

[heesuyoo]

I recently started making videos detailing the things I've learned about English as a Korean. I talked about the same thing in one of my videos! I couldn't agree more about "reduction". It's super helpful and I think everyone should know about it . Thanks for the video!

[abrarfarooqui]

This is an unique kind of the video on listening topic and trust me, no one can teach better than Ms Emma. Hats off to u once again for sharing such a vital vid which will surely assist all of us!!!

[chemicalconan]

Hi there! I came across your videos about a week ago and have been sharing them with anyone and everyone!
Not only your English and English teaching skills are fantastic but I think you are a great communicator - passionate and expressive.
I wish you continued success!

[mudassirzahid]

An amazing way through which one can learn how to pronounce the words like native speakers, well done

[banushsab]

Hi Emma, you are a wonderful teacher! I have been watching your video for 6 years, I have learned a lot through your videos, thank you so much 😊

[smithlizvoices]

Thank you Emma, As I'm an OET and IELTS trainer it helped me to teach my students to improve their listening skills.

Love from Kerala.

[hellomello]

I've been looking for videos as part of a teaching class in my linguistics degree. I love this video! Searching for videos like this can be difficult. Some "understanding speakers" videos don't talk about pronunciation like this. And pronunciation searches usually give results about how to improve your accent in English, not understanding others. The IPA is invaluable for those who know it. The slow repetition is a must. And the in context uses are excellent instead of presenting them only in isolation.
An interesting experience for me is this. I always have captions on because I'm hard of hearing. While watching this video, as soon as you pronounced it in context and the captions showing the full version, my brain "heard" each word or the contracted version. For /ʃʊdə/ I'd hear "shoudda" but for "I shoudda done it" I'd automatically hear "I should've done it" even without a /v/ sound (and even though "done it" was likely "dunɪ/ instead of two words).

[gulmirakalmambetova]

Thank you so much, dear Emma for letting us to understand the secret of English!

[oscargiraldo]

Teacher Emma, what an excellent video and explanation. Thank you so much

[toniarnold]

Thank you, Emma, this video is impressive. It shows how many reductions native English speakers use in spoken English and helps me understand them better. I can tell you that the Swiss-German dialects also sound very different from written German. When we talk to strangers, we do our best to speak written German so they can understand us

[yosephklemensmau]

For us living in a country like Indonesia where English is only a compulsory subject teaching at school with very limited time allocated to learn proper English, your channel is so brilliant and helpful.. again thank for sharing your great teaching.