FAST ENGLISH: Native Speakers CAN’T Understand!

Want to speak fast English and sound more like a native speaker? One of the most important things you need to do is utilize reductions. If you want to learn how to speak fast English you’ll be surprised by this: sometimes even native speakers don’t understand reductions out of context. These bits of conversation sometimes combine three or four words into very fast reductions. I’ll prove it to you in this video! Come along with me, learn fast English and watch even native speakers struggle to understand these reductions out of context!

New to Rachel's English? Where to Start Playlist:

00:00 Introduction
05:47 Repetition Exercise #1
08:06 Repetition Exercise #2
08:22 Repetition Exercise #3
08:39 Repetition Exercise #4
10:11 Repetition Exercise #5
10:28 Repetition Exercise #6

Improve your American Accent / spoken English at Rachel's English with video-based lessons and exercises. Rachel uses real life English conversation as the basis for teaching how to speak English and how to sound American -- improve listening comprehension skills. Study English vocabulary and English phrases such as phrasal verbs, as well as common expressions in English. Learn American idioms and American slang.

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[francis]

Imagine being a non-native 14-year old who hadn't had much experience with English spoken by natives thus far (in ~2015) being asked by a cashier "Dywannabag". Like, yes, I want a bag, but please have mercy on me

[dascyne]

One of my favorite "fast English" slurs is "What do you want?" pronounced. "Wa-yawant?" Or "I don't know" as "i-OH-oh".

[TamiaTheNerd]

This happens often in AAVE (African American Vernacular English) too. If you say something like “Ouno, she wentuda sto-o summ.” Literally translates to “I don’t know, she went to the store or something.” It’s also spoken faster as well, sometimes quieter but also sometimes louder depending on what’s being said.

[DrewForGames]

I’m a native English speaker, I love hearing people try to learn English. As Americans, we don’t get how hard it is to learn and to sound natural.

[katethegreat]

Apparently in the Midwest, they like to say “did you eat?” Like “djeet?”

[roldanbelenos]

I think the ultimate reduction I've ever noticed in my own speech is:
"I'm going to go to" —> "mna".

[Erinselysion]

I'm a native speaker but I have an audio processing disorder so this happens to me a lot 😭 But despite the struggle I think it's really fun and interesting the way our brains process sound and speech. Your videos are super enjoyable, thank you for all the work you put into them and to helping teach people 💕

[ambeer]

English is not my mother tongue, but I've been learning it for 20 years now and when I see videos like this I just feel really proud that I can speak it at all. These were all so hard.

[mashdarr]

I wish there were Spanish and Korean learning videos like this. Acclimating your listening to colloquial speech patterns is essential. Even as a native English speaker, I thoroughly enjoyed this breakdown.

[ahetzel]

This is like showing someone 10% of a painting or picture and saying "do you know what this is?"

[joaovarela]

This is something that I did a lot when I was learning English, I'd repeat what people were saying on a show dead slow and accentuate it as much as I could and then go as fast as I could until it sounded similar. Today I live in England and not to flatter myself but I've had people assume I'm from here 😅 This is a great exercise in my opinion :)

[titaniumvulpes]

I've just discovered that my auditory processing disorder has given me the power of fully understanding tiny clips of out-of-context slurred segments of sentences because _all_ words sound like that to me anyway. Fascinating.

[switchblade.saints]

the way my brain went “dónde estás” for the first one and refused to hear anything else 😭😭😭

[lesliedaubert]

That's why I put subtitles on when I watch a movie. Almost every language has it's quirks. The accent in Glasgow, Scotland, is different than the rest of Scotland.

[jay]

As a non native speaker, I actually got them all quite easily. Perhaps I subconsciously pay more attention to my pronunciation precisely because it isn't my native language, therefore being more familiar with this kind of "mumbling". However, I've noticed the same effect in my native language and genuinely struggle to understand what's being said.

[aerydar]

where i'm from, the native speakers don't talk like that- but when i moved across the country, everyone spoke like this. to this day i still struggle. this video is very helpful!

[ToYourHealthAndMine]

This gives me more empathy for my immigrant father. Sometimes when someone is talking, he'll randomly stop them and be like "WHAT?" and tell them they're talking gibberish. And his own spoken English is good, so my family always makes fun when he does this because we just assumed that he was being annoying, but now I understand that he's genuinely having difficulty understanding us.

[ahhh]

I have an auditory processing disorder and that's how everything sounds until i process it.
The part where your friends and family suddenly understand is how my brain works

[melingitis]

oh my god. all the props to people who learn English as a second language, I'm a native speaker and never realized how complex linguistics is, let alone the complexities of English. if I hadn't been born in an English speaking country there's no chance I could learn it tbh.