Adjust Your Ears to FAST English (in only 25 Minutes!)

in the next 25 minutes you're going to adjust your ears to fast English so you can understand native speakers on TV movies YouTube and everywhere outside of the classroom welcome back to J Forest English of course I'm Jennifer now let's get started what do you mean she can't make it did you hear what I just said what do you mean she can't make it I said what do you mean she can't make it but of course I did didn't say it like that I said what do you mean she can't make it notice how I

said what do you what do you what do you what do you mean what do you mean this is called connected speech and native speakers love connecting their speech but of course this makes it difficult for you to understand us so let me share the most common connected phrases that you need to know the first one of course Whata what do you what do you mean what are you doing what do you want how do you know she can't make it did you catch this one how do you how do you how do you how

do you know what you doing this weekend did you get this one what are you becomes Whata Whata what you what you doing this weekend so make it your goal to learn these connected phrases but but for now focus on the top three you need to know what you how you and Whata how about this one how are you going to get to the mall how are you that's a connected phrase how are you how are you how are you GNA now this is a reduction we take two words going to and we reduce it

into one GNA these are informal they're very casual but they're frequently used in spoken English I got to go I'm sure you know this one got to sounds like got to I got to go give me a break give me give me give me a break give me sounds like gimme I don't know I don't know don't know as a reduction I don't know I want to go to the movies want to becomes wna start with these and pay attention and keep adding more reductions to your speech we'll be there at 5 we'll be there

at 5: we will be there at 5: we'll be there will will this is a contraction we take two separate words and we form one word the thing you need to know about contractions is that they are grammatically correct you can use them in your spoken English and your writing and although they do sound more casual they are grammatically correct I would never say it is a hot day I would say it's a hot day it's it's it's a hot day I would not say she is my friend I would say she's my friend she's

my friend now because of this students might not get the verb because it's in a contraction you must learn contractions if you want to understand native speakers let's start with the most common it is it's there is there's I have I've you are your sure should not shouldn't will not won't start with these and keep adding contractions to your speech it will help you understand native speakers let's try that listening exercise from the beginning again what do you mean you can't make it what do you mean you can't make it I'm sure you already understand

this a lot more because you now understand the connected speech but did you also know I said make it it make it now if you looked at each individual sound it sounds like May kit so you might be thinking May the month of May April May and kit like a KitKat bar I don't understand this is linking linking is when we take a sound from one word and we put that sound on the the next word we do this in English to help us connect our speech and smooth our pronunciation so we can speak without

pauses make it notice there's that c on make but it forces me to take a pause make it so to get rid of that pause I take that c and I put it on the next word makeit make kit let's try another listening exercise you shouldn't walk alone at night now I used a contraction should not becomes shouldn't you shouldn't and then I said walk alone but again there's that c sound so I take that k sound and I put it on the next word and it becomes W cologne but cologne sounds a lot like

men's perfume which we call cologne for women it's perfume but for men it's cologne so this can cause confusion because you might think I just said cologne meaning men's perfume but this is part of Walk Alone Walk Alone walk alone with linking the best way to get comfortable with linking is to study native speakers so instead of listening to an entire 30 minute episode just listen to one sentence on YouTube or on TV and pause and listen to that sentence many many times and really get comfortable with how those sounds are pronounced together and really

get comfortable with how those sounds are pronounced at a natural pace let's try a listening exercise I got a lot of merch I got a lot of merch I got a lot of merch here I used a reduction a lot of is pronounced a lot a lot now what is merch maybe you understood the sound you understood I said merge but you have no idea what that means that's because native speakers we shorten words all the time for no reason this is very casual and informal but is done in both a professional and social context

so merge is short for merchandise if you work in a company that buys and sells products most likely your co-workers will say merch and you might not understand what they mean that's a Fab dress Fab is short for fabulous I have to take my cat to the vet vet is short for veterinarian are we meeting at HQ HQ is an acronym for headquarters which is the head office the main office of a company but pretty much everyone calls it HQ so when you're studying native speakers listen for these shortened words and just make a list

of them and keep adding the most common ones to your speech Let's try another listening exercise you got to cut it out you got to cut it out I used a reduction got to gotta you got to cut it out cut it out cut it cut it out now maybe you heard the what and you're thinking hm what does Jennifer have to cut out does she have to cut something out but no because this is an idiom so to understand native speakers you have to learn phrasal verbs idioms and expressions because we use them all

the time take a look at this article from Forbes Magazine now everything I have underlined is either a phrasal verb an idiom or an expression and they don't have literal meanings so maybe you understood the word cut but that doesn't help you understand my message because it doesn't have a literal meaning now there are hundreds and hundreds of phrasal verbs idioms and expressions but don't worry because I have many video tutorials on my channel already so make it your goal to add one one a day one phrasal verb idiom or expression a day and that

will be 365 in one year and by expanding your vocabulary with these phrasal verbs idioms and expressions it will really help you understand native speakers so now you know exactly what you need to do to understand native speakers so which are you going to focus on first which do you have the most difficult time with and if it's number six phrasal verbs idioms and expressions I want to tell you about the finally fluent Academy this is my premium training program where we study native English speakers on TV movies and YouTube so you can improve your

listening skills of fast English expand your vocabulary learn Advanced grammar learn correct pronunciation all at the same time so you you can look for the link in the description for more information on how to join now that you have the strategies to understand fast English let's do some more listening exercises here is how this lesson will work I'll say a sentence three times and you need to write down exactly what you hear after I'll explain the pronunciation changes that I used in spoken English and I'll explain what the expression means are you ready for your

first listening exercise get out of here get out of here get out of here did you get this one I said get out of here let's talk about a common reduction outa out of side by side you can pronounce as outa outa get out of here get out of here and if you don't feel comfort able using that in your speech that's fine but you should understand it because native speakers use it the majority of the time in spoken English outa get out of here get out of here and maybe you understood the words but

did you understand the expression this might be a trick question because there are actually two totally different meanings for this expression there's the more literal meaning where I want you to leave the room that I'm currently in being here get out means leave leave of here of the room I'm currently in so I'm recording this video and my annoying little sister barges in and starts talking get out of here that's what I would say now most likely you're going to say it with a little bit of anger or annoyance get out of here and it's

not a very polite expression so if you politely want to ask someone to leave don't say get out of here you should say would you mind leaving could you please leave because I need to film a video get out of here is also used as an expression to show shock or surprise at what someone said so let's say my friend just told me she's going to move from Chicago to Australia around the world and she has lived in Chicago her entire life to show my surprise or even shock I could say get out of here

get out of here it's almost like saying really wow I can't believe it get out of here get out of here now with this expression it will be lighter there won't be that anger or annoyance in it get out of here there'll be more surprise in it get out of here so the meaning will depend on the overall context of the situation and also look for the tone of voice because that can be very helpful to decide our next listening exercise I'll say it three times give me a break give me a break give me

a break did you get this one give me a break pretty easy right did you hear that reduction give me give me give me give me again you might not feel comfortable using reductions in your speech but you should understand them because native speakers use the most of the time give me give me a break what does this mean this is another expression we use this to express disbelief in what someone says let's say I am watching TV late at night and I see an advertisement for a pill that is supposed to help me lose

20 lbs overnight that's what the ad says if I want to show my distrust or disbelief with this ad I can say give me a break give me a break there's no way that's true give me a break so that's a fun expression you can use and remember that tone you'll want to add some sarcasm into this oh give me a break are you ready for another listening exercise I'll say it three times my sister will know my sister will know my sister will know I said my sister will know did you hear the verb

will my sister will know probably didn't hear it but maybe based on the grammar you understood that it has to be there because my sister no doesn't make any sense something's missing my sister will know you probably know that we form subject will contractions I will go I'll go you'll go he'll go she'll go it'll go will'll go they'll go those are subject pronoun contractions and they are grammatically correct learning contractions is another must when you want to understand native speakers in this case a noun phrase my sister isn't contracted grammatically but in spoken English

we combine them together anyway even though grammatically this isn't done simply to be able to speak faster and confuse students but remember grammatically we only contract subject pronouns with Will so in your writing make sure you don't write my sister will as a contraction but in spoken English you'll hear it another listening exercise I'll say it three times you ought to call her you ought to call her you ought to caller did you get this one you ought to call her so here ought to a very common reduction a a ought to is a modal

verb used to express necessity more commonly you should call her but you can also use ought to you ought to call her in spoken English native speakers will say ought to the majority of the time now did you hear call her me maybe to you it sounded like one word caller caller like a dog caller that's because we drop the H sound on her and it sounds like but we also combine it with the previous word call ER and then we combine them caller caller again based on context you'll understand that I'm not saying call

her like a dog caller and I'm in fact saying call her you ought to call her how about one more listening exercise I'll say it three times I had an inkling sheet Bale I had an inkling sheet bail I had an inkling sheet bail oh did you get this one I had an inkling Sheed bail Sheed bail she would as a contraction this is a grammatically correct contraction she bail I had had can also be in a contraction with a subject pronoun when it's the auxiliary verb so if I turn this into the past perfect

I had gone I can say i' gone because then had is the auxiliary verb I i' gone i' gone but here because it's the main verb we don't turn it into a contraction I had an inkling she' bail what does it mean she' bail bail well when someone bails this is an expression that's used when someone doesn't do what they said they were going to do and we specifically use this with plans and Arrangements so let's say I made a plan with my friend to watch a movie on Saturday at 7:00 then Saturday 7:00 no

friend she bailed she bailed on me I can't believe she bailed on me again she didn't do what she said she was going to do and again we use this frequently with plans and Arrangements now what an inkling an inkling I had an inkling sheet bail an inkling is a slight indication a slight hint a slight suggestion so something my friend said made me think she was going to bail maybe she didn't sound that excited about seeing the movie maybe she's been talking about how tired she is so that that's an inkling an inkling that's

fun to say an inkling I had an inkling she' bail you doing an amazing job let's keep going with the next listening exercise I'll say it three times cut her some slack she's a newbie cut her some slack she's a newbie cut her some slack she's a newbie I said cut her some slack she a newbie did you get that do you know what this means first let's talk about the pronunciation changes her him and them we often shorten these so her I get rid of the H sound and it sounds like but then I

combine it to the word before cutter cutter cutter cutter some slot she's this is a contraction native speakers use contractions all the time in spoken English she's represents she is she is a newbie she's she's a newbie now do you know what this means to cut someone some slack this is an expression and it's when you punish someone less severely than you normally would and a newbie this is a new employee a new employee or even a new member to a group you can refer to that person as a newbie a newbie so it makes

sense that you might cut a newbie some slack you might be less severe with that person because they're new they're still learning they're still training cutter some slack she's a newbie our second listening exercise I'll say it three times give me 20 to whip up some appies for the party give me 20 to whip up some appies for the party give me 20 to whip up some abies for the party I said give me 20 to whip up some appies for the party give me we reduce these to sound like gimme gimme gimme give me

20 20 here means 20 minutes commonly we drop the minutes when it's obvious call me in five instead of call me in 5 minutes give me 20 give me 20 minutes give me 20 to whip up whip up is a phrasal verb for the pronunciation notice is whip up whip up whip up because of linking whip up whip up means to prepare something quickly we specifically use this in a cooking context whip up some appies what are appies well I just said that we use the phrasal verb whip up in a cooking culinary context what

does Appy sound like anything you can think of appetizers appetizers native speakers we love shortening words so we take the word appetizer and we shorten it to appy appy because it's plural in my example appies appies another common shorten word is simply apps so you could say give me 20 to whip up some apps or whip up some appies both are commonly used are you ready for your next listening exercise she's got some neres sauntering in 30 minutes late she's got some nerve sauntering in 30 minutes late she's got some neres sauntering in 30 minutes

late I said she's got some nerve saering in 30 minutes late for pronunciation notice she's got here the contraction is she has she has got I know this because grammatically it isn't correct to say she is got it's she has got she's got she's got some nerve what does that mean to have some nerve is an expression to say how dare she she has some audacity so you're criticizing her behavior to say that she has no right to do something she's got some nerve now what does she have no right to do well is saering

in 30 minutes late to understand this you need to know what saunter in means when you saunter it means you walk in a very relaxed casual unhurried way to saunter in here means into the office into the room into the meeting she sauntered in 30 minutes late so basically she came to the meeting 30 minutes late and when she came she was so so relaxed and she didn't show any sense of urgency even though she was 30 minutes late she's got some nerve doing that our next listening exercise I got to hand it to you

I didn't think you'd pull it off I got to hand it to you I didn't think you'd pull it off I got to hand it to you I didn't think you'd pull it off I said I got to hand it to you I didn't think you'd pull it off did you get this one got to is pronounced got I got hand it notice the linking here hand it it I got to hand it now I said to you but native speakers will frequently reduce both of these and say to t t t ya or ya

T to ya got to hand it to you to but I believe I said to you I got to hand it to you I got to hand it to you UD is a contraction the d stands for would you would you you it's difficult to hear that D because it's very soft but grammatically it's important that it's there you'd pull it off notice the linking pull it lit pull it pull it off when you hand it to someone it means that you recognize that someone deserves praise or respect so by saying I got to hand

it to you means I have to acknowledge that your actions deserve praise or respect and why am I doing this because the person pulled something off when you pull something off it means you achieve something difficult you succeed on doing something difficult so that's why this person deserves praise I got to hand it to you I didn't think you'd pull it off but you did our last listening exercise I've got to have a little me time I've got to have a little meantime I've got to have a little meantime I said I've got to have

a little me time here notice we have the same Gada reduction got to got this time I said I've I have as a contraction I've I've gotta I've gotta I've gotta I've got to have a little will sound like little little a a little little a little meantime now what is metime metime is simply personal time it's time when you can do whatever you want to do it's your personal time so of course I've got to have a little me time I must have some time for me to do whatever I want to do personally

time me time now let's do some imitation practice to make sure that you practice practice practice this natural pronunciation I am going to say each sentence three times and I want you to repeat it out loud and you can do this exercise as frequently as you'd like cut her some slack she's a newbie cut her some slack she's a newbie cut her some slack she's a newbie give me 20 to whip up some appies for the party give me 20 to whip up some appies for the party give me 20 to whip up some appies

for the party she's got some nurse oning in 30 minutes late she's got some nurse Hing in 30 minutes late she's got some nurse oning in 30 minutes late I got to hand it to you I didn't think you pull it off I got to hand it to you I didn't think you pull it off I got to hand it to you I didn't think you pull it off I've got to have a little me time I've got to have a little me time I've got to have a little me time do you want me

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