How To Say Common English Expressions! | 💬 Small Talk PART 1

In this lesson, I'll show you how to say 4 really common English expressions used by native English speakers use all the time!

This lesson will teach you how to say 4 really common English expressions naturally, like a native speaker. You'll practise connected speech, reductions and contractions to help you improve your pronunciation and sound more natural when you speak. This is REAL English pronunciation.

NOTE: My video lessons are created to help English learners to improve their pronunciation and speaking skills. Please note that the pronunciation of some of these words and expressions differs between English accents. I speak with an Australian English accent 🙂

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00:00 Introduction
00:22 Why this is important
02:39 English Greetings
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14:35 Emma's request - What would you like in a lesson?
15:21 Extra practise - Outside the studio
15:41 Give it a go
18:08 Hang on a sec
20:01 We're running out of time

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I didn't speak English at all when I came here for the first time and have found myself struggled a lot to get my confidence with speaking. I am still much better with texting rather than speaking or even understanding( specially over the phone😦). I guess I have learnt mostly through years of employment within different environments...but still try to get better. So I would like to thank you for your effort and all those topics you are talking about. These lessons are brilliant and so useful!
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thanks alot! I'm French and I'm an English teacher. I actually asked my students to watch this video to improve their prononciation with a native. Hope this will help ! ;-)

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[marcob]

What a nice and useful lesson! Easy going is the best way of teaching spoken English. The main difficulty for us foreigners, above all for Italians and Germans (!) who pronounce clearly all words, is to understand the way native speakers are shortening and contracting words and expressions, and not enough, moreover also quite lazy in pronounciation. John Gray, an American friend of mine (from L.A. - a retired literature professor at U.C.L.A ) - said to me that native spoken common-trivial English is the best way of barbarizing a language (!) This said, without intention of being offensive. What makes us often crazy, is that after years of useless efforts, we hardly can understand a modern English fast spoken movie or worse, a comedy. All is contracted, minced and chewed so fastly that we need subtitles. In a short: common spoken modern English seems to me a sort of a dialect or an idiom, anyway far different from the written form! However thanks a lot Emma: it's surely not your fault for this - for us - so strange custom.

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*It's thanks to you that we got the opportunity to learn the exact pronunciation of common expressions in English* thanks a lot:)

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First time I’m really learning good pronunciation but from a teacher with an australian accent!!! Superb!!!

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Emma I love the way you explain, its quite interesting, every single detail is explained so precisely clearly and no more doubt once you explain