5 Techniques to Understand Fast-Talking Native Speakers

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0:00 Introduction
00:15 FREE PDF and QUIZ
00:49 Understand that you won’t understand everything
01:55 Find a language partner
04:20 Learn the contractions!
05:26 Learn the weak forms!
06:40 Familiarise yourself with connected speech
07:05 Catenation
07:33 Intrusion
08:53 Elision
09:48 Assimilation
10:32 LanguaTalk
10:40 Social Media
10:59 Courses
11:21 OUTRO
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Important tip - pay attention. That's my no. 1 problem :) Listening a lot will help, even with understanding all the things mentioned, I don't even notice them. I used to be totally lost and had hard time understanding most native speakers, today it's much better with no conscious effort or learning. But I'd say hearing about them helps with using them.

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Assimilation. I'm glad to learn this. I wrote a song called, "Would You Be Ready". My cousin who sang it brought up this up to me about the ju sound between would and you. I thought about changing the words to will you after his comment.

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As a court stenographer, I experience many of these examples every day, with the way people speak. The linking can be funny at times. I wish I could go with the context instead of capturing what is said verbatim! The one thing I do not agree with is what you said about contractions. They can be dangerous because the n’t can be swallowed and unheard, which completely changes the meaning, such as “didn’t” to “did.” The example you gave of slurring together “won’t you” often is heard by a court reporter as “won’t chew.”Thank God for proofreading!Otherwise, it would be wonderful if all of my witnesses could listen to these tips before they give sworn testimony. 😊

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As an excercise I watch videos, listen to podcasts, news etc at double speed. At the beginning it is shocking but later I get accustomed and real everyday speakers seem to speak very slowly. Another thing I learn whole sentences and pieces of texts saying them aloud. It also helps with better understanding of fast speech😊😊

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