American English Speakers... Impossible to Understand??

0:00 What is connected speech?
1:55 Sound changes in English
3:05 d + y = j
3:52 Sound changes in wh-questions
4:59 Sound changes with should, would, could
5:26 t + y = ch
6:15 Weak forms
10:19 Final T and D sounds
12:00 "n" at the end of function words
14:22 Celebrities speaking other languages!

💛A little about me:
-I am a Cambridge CELTA certified English teacher
-I have a Master's degree in Language and Literacy Education
-I am American but I live in Canada
-I've taught English in the U.S., Canada, Japan, South Korea, and France!

[dr.gamelistening]

I'm an English professor from the United States, and I have a small channel that combines gaming + learning English. I often watch other channels that teach English (even if I don't understand the native language!) to get ideas about how different people make content, and I just wanted to say that your videos are super well-made and helpful to learners, I think. You're doing a really good job.

[감자고구마-mn]

It helps me a lot with my English studies. Thank you. I have a request. "can" and "can't" sound similar. Could you make a video next time to show how they are pronounced differently?

[mallorga]

Many years ago, when I was starting to learn English while I listened to The Beatles white album at the same time I read the lyrics in it, one thing that called my attention was the flap sound, which sounds like an r in Spanish (I'm Chilean); so for English speaking learners of Spanish, as an example, if you want to pronounce correctly the r in the Spanish word "clara", you can use the flap sound in the English word better.

Thank you, Brittany. Well done. You've got my like and subscription.

Sergio.

[omarkaram]

You are doing a great job, teacher. Thank you.
can you make more of those kinds of videos? We need to learn how to speak clearly and naturally.

[conradoconceicao]

14:55 I'm a Portuguese native speaker but we understand pretty well Spanish. I suppose Will Smith is A1 or maybe A2 in Spanish.

15:07 I'm leaning japanese the expressions that Taylor Swift used is common on A1 well known as N5 in Japanese.

[SteelFanther]

Thanks a whole lot from Russian ESL students!
Keep up the awesome work!

We'd really appreciate it if you could you upload more videos presenting US idioms and slang expressions so that we could start communicating with native American speakers on an entirely different level.

Also we'd like to see videos on your great channel featuring samples of job interviews, which is extremely critical for newly arrived immigrants as well as people coming to the US to work for a period of time stipulated in the contract.

We are especially interested in customs and traditions as well as rules and regulations a typical American citizen is trying to follow.

In addition, it would be great if you could give some valuable advice to new immigrants on where and why they had better settle down in the US in order to land a good job, get married and start a family.

Those of us who are planning to get into a romantic relationship with Americans would like to get a better idea about personality traits of an average man or woman born and raised in the US.

You're the best!
We love you!

- American Language Center
Moscow, Russia

[LilaRioux]

Thanks teacher Brittany! It was a great lesson for me today 🙏

[mateuszgogowski]

Another great video! I've just opened the google doc file attached in the weekly newsletter and there is a lot of examples. Thank you Brittany 😊

[Teti_K]

This video is the very one I needed!
Pretty useful is to try to use connected speech while speaking. Because if you speak like a robot, it's hard for your brain to understand that others speak in a different way.
I am already on the "didʒə" (did you) step for a year+ watching videos and movies ONLY in English, but the "dʒə" understanding is only on its way 😅
The progress is slow as one can see 😆

[newcreator]

Really a good way to make us understand ..
I got a lot of words what happen when a celebrity what speak up.

[crisgalvis]

te quiero mucho profe grettings from colombia, each time i see u i am feel so confident and I'm always all ears, ready to improve my listening skills.

[maxsarabia]

Your voice is so relaxing, it's like asmr.

[CandidoFinda-op]

Thanks for great class of inglês teacher

[TamanDamai]

Barack Obama says= going back to my hometown is part of my life

[duyanh]

Very useful. Need more videos like this

[goldfish]

Ma'am we hope videos day by day.thank you ma'am .i'm learning american english . I desided to join with this channel . I can get improvement when development this channel . This is a super cool channel ❤

[CamilaAlejandra]

Very useful video as always, and I'd love if you make more of it in a practice way. Also I'd love to watch a video about the use of some prepositions in prhasal verbs such as up, out, off and so on, if there's any way to learn them.😂

[ericb]

Timothée Chalamet is C2, he's perfectly fluent in French, he has no Armerican accent. Taylor Switf is more like B2. Great lesson, you've managed to squeeze in all that's needed to understand reductions and connected speech. But the way, I've noted that you tend to pronounce words starting with "str" as if they were "shtr", such as in "stress" which sounds like "shtress". Is it a regional feature? Is it common? Thanks for this excellent video

[CandidoFinda-op]

Hello Very good your class of inglês with Interview of people 👏👏👍👋👋💯

[zuryperezs]

Hello Brittany i love your videos i'm improve my English with your tips thanks so much i wondering if you have any platform for teaching English beside youtube i mean a formal English curse. Again thank you so much.