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[S1] Welcome to the ultimate English masterclass.[S1] Get ready to level up your English pronunciation skills so that you can speak clearly and understand.
[S1] Standably then you'll level up your vocabulary skills so that you can express yourself completely and Finally will focus on
[S1] leveling up your grammar skills so that you can speak advanced natural English.[S1] Hi, I'm Vanessa from Speak English with Vanessa Duck.
[S1] And like always, I have created a very special PDF worksheet for you today.[S1] This PDF worksheet includes everything that you will learn.
[S1] in this masterclass.[S1] It is 24 pages long.[S1] It is completely free.[S1] My gift to you.[S1] You can click on the link in the description.
[S1] to download this free PDF worksheet.[S1] Don't miss out because it will help you to level up your English skills and get the most out of this ultimate masterclass.
[S1] Let's get started by focusing on pronunciation so that you can speak clearly.[S1] Let's go.[S1] Today, I'm going to be helping you with some common English...
[S1] phrases and sentences and questions, how to combine them, how native English speakers make them quick and fast so that you can pronounce them like this yourself.
[S1] if you feel like it, but also to help you be able to understand fast English.[S1] You're going to be pronouncing these eight fast sentences in English in no time.[S1] Let's...
[S1] Let's get started.[S1] Our first five sentences include some kind of reduction with the word you.[S1] Let's take a look at our first sentence.[S1] What do you think?
[S1] But do you think that we really say at this slowly? What do you think? Absolutely not.[S1] I just bought this new dress.[S1] What you think?
[S1] What is happening in the middle of this question? Let's break it down.[S1] There are a couple different ways that we can reduce this question.[S1] So let's talk about the first one.[S1] What?
[S1] do you think? What do you think? Here the final T on the question word what?
[S1] is cut off, we just say what? And then instead of saying do with a nice ooo sound, instead it sounds like duh.
[S1] What da? And then the next word you is gonna have a similar sound.[S1] What da ya? Da ya? What do ya think?
[S1] What do you think? What do you think? Can you say that with me? What do you think? What do you think? But would you imagine that we can reduce this e-
[S1] Even more? Yup.[S1] You will definitely hear in English movies and TV shows people say, I just bought this new dress.[S1] What do you think? What?
[S1] think.[S1] What is happening to the verb do? Listen carefully.[S1] I just bought this new dress.[S1] What you think? What you think? Do is just
[S1] gone.[S1] It's completely absent from the sentence.[S1] It's off on vacation somewhere.[S1] So you can say what ya think.
[S1] What you think? What you think? What you think? Our second question is where did you get it?
[S1] But do you think we say it like this? Where did you get it? No, if English speakers spoke like this, then you probably wouldn't be here because you'd already be able to understand.
[S1] fast English because it would just be slow English.[S1] So let's see how this is actually said.[S1] I love that dress.[S1] Where do you get it? Where...
[S1] Do you get it? Let's break this down.[S1] Weird, weird.[S1] This is a contraction of where and
[S1] did.[S1] Wared ya.[S1] This is you.[S1] Wared ya.[S1] And then our final two words, we're going to link together.
[S1] Get it.[S1] Get it.[S1] Where is that D coming from? Get it.[S1] Get it.[S1] Well, in American English, when there is a T between two v-
[S1] vowels, we often change that T to a D sound.[S1] This is going to be extremely common in American English and it's going to help you to pick up on fast words.
[S1] like sweater, water.[S1] These are common examples of a T changing to a D.[S1] And finally, in this question, there's one more thing we need to...
[S1] mention, listen to the final sound of the question.[S1] Where do you get it? It.[S1] It.[S1] Do you hear it?
[S1] Nope.[S1] Listen one more time.[S1] Where do you get it? Where do you get it? That final T is not really pronounced.[S1] Your tongue is getting...
[S1] to be in the same place as if you're going to make a t sound, but instead of letting that air flow out, your tongue just stops on the top of your mouth.[S1] That's why we call this a s-
[S1] Stopped T.[S1] Can you say those final two words with me? Get it.[S1] Get it.[S1] Get it.[S1] Alright, let's put it all together and...
[S1] I want you to say this out loud with me.[S1] Where do you get it? Where do you get it? Where do you get it? Now sometimes we reduce this a little bit.
[S1] And the entire rest of the sentence sounds the same except for the word you sometimes we say where Juh where Juh
[S1] instead of where'd yuh.[S1] This is the difference between yuh and juh.[S1] Where'd juh get it? Where'd juh get it? Where'd juh get it?
[S1] Where'd you get it? Oh, I like that dress.[S1] Where'd you get it? Where'd ya? So that's the one main difference here between these two different reductions, and you're going to hear both of them.
[S1] So now I hope that you'll be able to understand them.[S1] Let's go to our next one.[S1] Sentence number three, I guess question number three is, are you doing okay?
[S1] Hmm, this is a very kind question you can ask someone who you feel like might be having a hard time in life It's the year 2020 so a lot of people are in
[S1] situation and it's a kind question you can ask and you will also hear other people asking.[S1] But do they say, are you doing okay? No.
[S1] This is often reduced in a couple different ways within the Senate, so let's talk about it.[S1] Hey, I haven't seen you in a while.[S1] Are you doing okay?
[S1] Are ya doin' okay? Here we have kept the word are, but then you, listen carefully, are ya.
[S1] Do an okay.[S1] Does that sound familiar? We already talked about how sometimes you becomes a yeah.[S1] And this is extremely common as we're speaking quickly and talking with
[S1] people in a comfortable situation, are ya, and then listen to our verb, do in, okay.[S1] What's happening with the G at the end?
[S1] doing.[S1] It's gone.[S1] It is on vacation.[S1] So make sure that we say, are you doing okay? Are you doing okay? Are you
[S1] We can reduce this even further by cutting off our first verb, R.[S1] You doing okay? You doing okay? Say that with me.
[S1] You doing okay? I haven't seen you for a while.[S1] You doing okay? You doing okay? Fast sentence number four.[S1] Did you eat yet?
[S1] Did you eat yet? But do you think we say it like this? Nope.[S1] Instead, we're gonna reduce this in a couple different ways.[S1] So you might say, when I visit my grandma's house,
[S1] she always asked me, did you eat yet? But she doesn't say it like that.[S1] Instead she says, did you eat yet? Did you eat yet?
[S1] Yet? Here the word you is being reduced to ya.[S1] Did ya eat yet? And also notice what's happening with the two final words.
[S1] eat and yet.[S1] They both end in T.[S1] So think back to another rule about T that we talked about.
[S1] Yet.[S1] My tongue is stopped at the top of my mouth and I'm not letting that air pass through.[S1] Listen to the full sentence.[S1] Did ya eat yet?
[S1] Did ya eat yet? Can you say that with me? Did ya eat yet? We can reduce this another time and say did ya.[S1] Did ya eat yet?
[S1] Say it with me.[S1] Did ya eat yet? Did ya eat yet? And then we can reduce this one final time and this is I think one of my favorites.[S1] Grow.
[S1] Growing up, my family sometimes used to laugh about this because it's reduced so much.[S1] It doesn't sound like any English word, but in the right context, you can...
[S1] totally understand it.[S1] What if I said to you, jeet yet? It sounds so weird.[S1] Jeet yet? Jeet yet? This means d.
[S1] you eat yet but we are reducing this again and again and again if you remember we just talked about did you making you
[S1] into dj, dj, a dj sound.[S1] So that's what's happening here, but we're dropping did and we're keeping dj and then...
[S1] eat, jeet, yet? Did you eat yet? Jeet yet? Jeet yet? Now if you are uncomfortable using these
[S1] extremely reduced versions of English sentences yourself.[S1] That's no problem.[S1] One of the biggest benefits to knowing these types of reductions is being able to
[S1] to understand other people when they use them.[S1] So I want to give you these tools in your figurative English toolbox so that you can understand people.[S1] If you're watching this,
[S1] a movie and they say, jeet yet? Before this lesson you would have thought, what in the world did they say? But now you know that they're asking, did you
[S1] eat yet.[S1] So you have that tool in your toolbox to know how they're saying this, what they're saying and how they're reducing it.[S1] Sentence number five is I'll text you later.
[S1] I'll text you later.[S1] We often use this if we just want to get in touch with a friend later.[S1] Maybe you don't have the information they're asking about.[S1] You don't know.
[S1] if you're free on Saturday to get together.[S1] So you're going to go home, look at your calendar, and then you'll text them later.[S1] So let's break down how we can say the sentence.
[S1] I'll text you later.[S1] I'll text you later.[S1] Did you notice what we're doing here? You is becoming...[S1] Listen again.[S1] I'll text you.
[S1] later.[S1] It's becoming ya again.[S1] As you can tell, this is a very common reduction of the word you.[S1] I'll text you later.[S1] We have another reduction that's happening here.
[S1] What is that first word? I'll.[S1] This is simply a contraction of I plus will.[S1] The future tense in English.[S1] I'll.
[S1] text you later.[S1] Listen to our final word later, later.[S1] Hmm, there's a T but it sounds
[S1] like a D is this happening again? Yes.[S1] Here we have a T between two vowels.[S1] And so the word later doesn't sound like.
[S1] later.[S1] Instead it's gonna sound like later, later.[S1] Can you say that full sentence with me? I'll text ya later.
[S1] text you later.[S1] We can even reduce this a little bit more, especially in an informal situation and drop the subject altogether.[S1] You might just say, text you later.
[S1] This is kind of like when you say goodbye to someone and you say see you later You're dropping.[S1] I'll see you later.[S1] We just say see you later
[S1] talk to you later.[S1] This is the similar idea but you can say text you later.[S1] Okay, text you later.[S1] I'll get back in touch with you.[S1] Text ya.
[S1] later.[S1] For our final three fast sentences, we're going to be talking about reducing contractions even more and sometimes cutting out verbs completely.[S1] Let's go to
[S1] sentence number six.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] This verb to get means to understand and we often use this for
[S1] Jokes so if someone tells a joke you might say I don't get it This means you don't understand why it's funny, so they might have to accept
[S1] explain it to you and this is something that's common as you're learning another language.[S1] There's probably a lot of twists of language or jokes and different things that people will say that...
[S1] you won't understand why it's funny or why it was interesting or why it was sad.[S1] So you might need to say this, hey, I'm sorry, I don't get it.[S1] Can you explain it to me?
[S1] That's perfectly fine, but let's break down the pronunciation of how you can reduce, I don't get it.[S1] Our first way is to say, I don't get it.
[S1] I don't.[S1] Don't.[S1] This is a negative contraction.[S1] Do not.[S1] And that T is just going to be stopped at the top of your mouth.
[S1] Don't, don't.[S1] So you're making a slight end sound, but you want to make sure that that T is stopped.[S1] Don't.[S1] I don't.
[S1] don't and then we're going to link together.[S1] Get it.[S1] Get it.[S1] Do you notice here a T is between two vowels even though they're different words?
[S1] It's okay.[S1] It's still between two vowels.[S1] We're gonna link them together not get it but get get get
[S1] it.[S1] What's happening with the word it? Here that word it has a stopped T at the end so it's just it.
[S1] It, my tongue is stopped at the top of my mouth.[S1] Do you think we can put all of this together? I know it's a short sentence, but isn't it amazing how so many pronunciations...
[S1] tips can be packed into one short sentence.[S1] All right, let's say it all together.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] I don't
[S1] get it.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] But you might have imagined we can reduce the contraction don't even further.[S1] Listen to this.
[S1] I don't get it.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] I don't own What's happening to the D here? I don't own own
[S1] It's just gone.[S1] Sometimes we just cut it out when we're speaking really fast.[S1] So you might hear, I don't, I don't, I don't.[S1] And that's...
[S1] is I don't.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] I don't.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] The final part is the same as before.[S1] We're changing the T to a D.
[S1] Get it and then it is a stopped teeth get it But that first part with the vowel listen again.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] I don't I
[S1] own.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] I don't get it.[S1] I don't I don't get it.[S1] So you're gonna hear people say this in movies and TV shows really fast if someone says some
[S1] funny and the other person doesn't laugh they might say sorry I don't get it I don't I don't I don't get it sentence number seven
[S1] is I have got to go to some place, the store, my friend's house, work.[S1] But do we say it like that?
[S1] that, oh, I bet you wish that we did.[S1] But unfortunately, we reduced this many times.[S1] So let's talk about it from the beginning.[S1] First, we're going to make a contraction.
[S1] with I have, I've, I've, and then we have got to, got to implies a necessity.[S1] I have to do some
[S1] something, but got to means something very similar.[S1] But we can reduce these words together instead of saying, I've got to, we can say got to.
[S1] Godda.[S1] Godda.[S1] We often write this in a text message or in a quick email as G-O-T-T-A.[S1] Godda.[S1] Godda.[S1] God.
[S1] Duh.[S1] What's happening with the pronunciation? That T is changing to a D.[S1] Say it with me.[S1] I've gotta.[S1] I've gotta study English every day.
[S1] I've gotta.[S1] The same thing is gonna happen with the next two verbs, go to the store.[S1] Instead of go to, work in...
[S1] say I've gotta go to go to I've gotta go to the store I've gotta go
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