If you understand THIS you can understand fast English (test yourself!)

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Do you sometimes have trouble understanding people when they speak fast in English? When learning and speaking a second language, one of the biggest challenges we face is being able to understand the speakers of that language, and fast speakers can be extra intimidating!
In this episode, I'm gonna share with you strategic tips to improve your listening comprehension, and a quiz for you to put your skills to the test!
Using these tips will allow you to develop your listening skills and feel much more confident when communicating in English.
Key points of the video:
0:00 Intro
1:42 Why is fast English so hard to understand?
3:24 Hearing vs. Listening
4:07 How to improve your listening
5:00 Improve your pronunciation
5:34 Focus on reductions
5:55 Quiz time!
Here are some videos for practicing reductions and connected speech:
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[@TheArbiterOfTruth]

As a native English speaker working on Spanish and French, you guys seem to speak way faster than we do 😂

[@baptiste_nonat]

It’s true, I’m french and speak way faster than most English/American people. Went to Australia for a while and I was like, well they’re not that hard to understand !

[@matias371]

A right Spanish speaker cant reduce anything, its even not polite to shortening words, and Spanish is a transparent language, so graphemes are always same of phonetics (sounds like que, qui, gue, gui have their own rule, but always apply), but probably we can speak pretty fast. To me, my principal difficult with English its not about speed, but compress words. Portuguese language compress words and have a closer vocabulary to Spanish than Italian, but the phonetics of Italian are more closer to Spanish, so I can understand more an Italian speaker than a Brazilian and I can understand more Portuguese when is written (graphemes). The English of the narrator of video was clear as water, I could understand everything w/o close caption

[@fatkat727]

Wow tu parles plus vite que la dernière nana du clip qu'elle montre ? J'ai absolument rien compris à ce qu'elle disait... J'ai tendance à pas mal mâcher les mots, mais là on dirait qu'elle parle en accéléré. J'ai pas le sentiment que les français parlent comme ça, ou en tout cas ça choque quand quelqu'un parle très vite @@baptiste_nonat

[@baptiste_nonat]

@@fatkat727 question d’habitude. Je parle très vite en français donc en anglais j’ai tendance aussi. Après souvent quand on est amenés à parler anglais c’est pour du professionnel donc j’ai tendance à bien ralentir la cadence pour être sûr d’être compris. Comme en français.

[@astridmontrob6117]

Hello, I'm a Frensh fifty-old-women who started to learn English since 2 years and for me it's very difficult to understand Americans. It's still frustrating and I really doubt of my capabilities. I don't want to give up and my next step would be to work more on these contractions by reading youth romcom and watching more TV shows, KZbin programs, podcast... Which ones could you recommand me to really improve my comprehension ? Thanks in advance and thank you for your videos that are always very helpful😊

[@crayonzii]

I’m so glad I always consumed audio content in english as much as in my native language growing up, because I’m used to hearing it and it definitely helped in learning.

[@lucacelina4811]

Same

[@nickra60]

I am talking daily to native speakers from England and US. No one of them talked that fast ever. However, that demonstration of fast speaking was really interesting!

[@mohubbthmdzad123]

How can you speak with them ? Also ı want to interact with native speakers but ı don't. How can ı do this

[@nickra60]

@@mohubbthmdzad123 I am traveling the world due to my job. Thus, business negotiations in English are my daily routine. However, google "Tandem language" for having contact to native speakers.

[@Lana.S.]

I agree with you. There are SUPER FAST examples of English speech in this video. Native English speakers DON'T speak with so extreme speed. If somebody starts to talk such fast way, I personaly, ask them: "Please, slow down". I agree with the teacher, a reduction is the key to understanding every day english conversations. However, if somebody wants to understand natural english, i think this video is not good for start leaning the reductions. Firstly, I would try to find and watch a video about "schwa sound". It is the key sound in the reduction. And then, I would learn some information about simple reductions like, "I could have => Couldev (pronunciation of the words with reduction) "Let me know => Lemmi" On the channel "English with Lucy", Lucy created a great video with almost full list of reductions in an english conversation. It helped me a lot, when I had the problem of understanding English conversation. Finally, after 2 previouse steps, I will use recommendation from this video.

[@jim9689]

@@Lana.S. Some native English speakers do speak this fast, but they are almost all excited teenage girls.

[@Lana.S.]

@@jim9689 Maybe 😀, fortunately, I didn't have much experience chating with teen girls. Most of my time I communicate with adults-neighbours, coworkers and so on.

[@willardchi2571]

I'm a native English speaker, and I'm having trouble understanding some of the fast English samples in this video.

[@antonyfernandez-peru]

😭😭

[@ahmadalhaddad4600]

Thank you very much. That is a big relief.

[@vayalobo]

I work as auditor in several countries worldwide. Spanish is my mother tongue (I was born in Bolivia and live now in the Canary Islands). I've got to say that the hardest accent I've ever had the chance to deal with was English from Liverpool. It's not just fast, but it has so many linguistic turns and accentual nuances that you really need to get used to that, if you wish to understand enough to do your job properly. It should be said though that talking fast is not necessarily talking right 😉

[@mayafreak5311]

yeah, scouse is HARD to understand. Jodie Comer or Stephen Graham are scousers. I guess even some people from Britain have problems with understanding it

[@YYUZ]

hahah scouser here, i also agree

[@LeoListening]

If it's any consolation, native speakers of English, including people who live in the UK, can have a hard time understanding each other. The Liverpool accent is definitely one of the most distinctive!

[@AdrianoMarcelino-nu1vb]

Hi Hadar! I'm a brazilian guy and because of that sometimes I can't understand native english speakers that speak so fast. Your english is super understandable, but when I put myself to listening another person who speaks fast, its so hard hahaha its a challenge and I love it...

[@geomax2010]

What's up bro! I'm from Brazil too! Just know that not everyone speaks that fast in everyday life, when you're talking to people from all over the world you learn the difficulties everybody has when they speak, like pronouncing VAT in place of WHAT (Russian and German people), or 'EAD in place of HEAD (Italian people). And if you really want to improve listening to fast English, then you have to pick a series or movie you like with good subtitles and try to understand WITHOUT subtitles at least 3 times, then you watch it with SUBTITLES then you try to pick the sounds. Fast music works well too, with lyrics...

[@gildardobarrios3115]

Just for general knowledge in day life people speak normal like in other languages

[@cqeoliveira]

@@geomax2010 Look at the Brazilian squad hahaha, who says we don't know how to speak English. That's it guys, keep it growing

[@jonathanperes]

I'm also Brazilian but for me the biggest problem is not the fast speech but the reduction of words, especially in connected speeches cuz sometimes I can't recognize the word that was said....even the sound changes.

[@umorislam9411]

Hi

[@karlasyppli2059]

Im Danish and i actually fully understood the clips.

[@kyoha9840]

Hearing how fast this was let me feel like crying😭

[@gildardobarrios3115]

I listened to this video at 1.5 x to save time untill the quiz started hahahahah

[@bumberpikachu8078]

To understand fast English, i have to sleep with a lot of native speakers who from England and America!

[@sirixaysabandith3903]

I listened to this video at 2.0 x to save time until the video ended heheheheeh

[@mohubbthmdzad123]

​@@sirixaysabandith3903ı did not listen to this video to save time hehehe

[@ahmadalhaddad4600]

@@gildardobarrios3115 you made laugh so hard

[@thefurbeastunderyourbed5012]

Actually, it's pretty easy. Once the brain is levelled in on listening to English, you can follow whatever is being said much better because you process the information simultaneously rather than picking up the words first, thinking about what they mean and then basically translating them to yourself. A good way of getting into the English native "flow' is to visualize the words as they're spoken.

[@the_italian_warrior]

Speaking with punctuation in the sentence is just right for everyone, listen to the speaker which they're Pro to do that and speak fast isn't a priority. Too slow or too fast it's always wrong in my opinion, what's the point of talking soo fast? It's not about the English language but all things working in lifestyle... society.... progress... Again I talked about the "too fast" or even "too slow".

[@kiki101900]

As an American in the process of learning Norwegian for the first time, this video is super helpful in terms of getting to know my own language and how I can applying these definitions and methods to my learning. I appreciate the video!

[@juliettedesecillon1379]

The way you speak in the video I understand 100% and I wish every English speaker spoke like that

[@shredd5705]

Native Finnish speaker, surprised that I didn't need the breakdowns to know exactly what they said. Saw a lot of movies in my lifetime, and I try to not rely on subtitles. That's it really, haven't spoken to native speakers much in my lifetime

[@sreekrishnam5268]

Hey Hadar ! I really love the way you explained reductions and connected speech which makes listening so so tricky ! Thanks alot ❤

[@tio9428]

If you don't understand what the fast talking people were saying in this video, it is not your problem. It is their problem. Generally, the better educated a person is, the easier it is to understand him/her. So don't be frustrated. The vast majority of native speakers don't talk like that. You don't even need to understand people like Montana Tucker. You won't miss anything if you don't.

[@diazemap]

I was just going to say the same. Especially uneducated women do tend to blabber. Men do talk fast too, but usually out of humour or when they rap, and the last quiz proves that, and that was even before I got to the last quiz. I do like different English accent challenges rather than these idiotic and lazy reductions. The explanation is spot on, though.

[@boopsbucket]

I'm a native English speaker, but I've got a cousin who speaks so quickly that I only ever catch half of what she's saying, lol. I think it's important for non-native speakers to know that sometimes native speakers have trouble understanding what the heck fast-talkers are saying!

[@thorstenwestheiderphotogra7722]

I did need a second try to fully understand her, but that was mainly because I wasn't familiar with the expression "to be in someone's face" and also because I work in IT and the term "interface" is ubiquitous in my field of work, so that's what I heard and what threw me off the first time around. I then focused exclusively on this part of the audio and got it, thanks to the video, because she literally is "in their faces" (standing right in front of them).

[@maryammoradi9729]

This season was really great, I really enjoy your lessons , ❤ Thank you for everything 😘🙏🌻

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

... i'm so sad. you never thanked me for everything. or for anything. i feel so unappreciated.

[@valeriacerpasalas2330]

Hi Hadar, I loved your video. I am from and currently living in Peru. As part of my work, I have heard different accents in English, from the West Coast, people from India, Latinos, and my accent also lol and all of that trained me in the best way possible to understand better English. I think the secret is getting used to it and then in a moment you just feel comfortable and too immersed in the language. I remember watching one of your videos like 5 years ago when I used to feel so lost in my understanding of English. I never thought of working for a US company never in my life as I am doing today or have lived in the US for some months. Last year, gained and scholarship and was living in Virginia. But little by little, opportunities came and now working in English every day, every moment of studying the language was worth it. I enjoyed so much this exercise and definitely would recommend everyone to immerse as much as they can in talking and hearing English, if there are opportunities to study/work in an English-speaking country just do take them. Congrats on these amazing videos!

[@rachelharding751]

Well I’ve lived in England my whole life and I couldn’t even work out what that second clip was. Something about eating peppers…. I think if someone is talking THAT quickly, you’re perfectly justified in asking them to slow down a bit 😂😂

[@LeoListening]

Great tips on how to improve your listening comprehension. I like that you encourage people not to worry about using or not using subtitles - just expose yourself to lots of English! I love how listening and pronunciation reinforce each other. I get my learners to do a bit of pronunciation work but the aim is actually to help them with their listening - I don't expect them to pronounce words like a native speaker because sometimes the pronunciation is actually way too reduced and unclear. But it has made them more confident with their speech as they're able to make the language flow better by linking words together. That quiz was HARD by the way!

[@bahamansour3178]

Hi Hadar Actually all your videos are extremely helpful. I stick to watch them all bc i liked them all. the thing i,m doing right now is i write down whatever you say and repeating it like a " parrot" . This is the way i liked and i guess it,s gonna work. i expect to find out the results so soon. thank you very much

[@anotheraggieburneraccount]

I dont know why KZbin recommended this to me, being an english-speaking American, but thankfully I can understand it all.

[@constantinosmoukouros5656]

Congratulations Mrs. Hadar. Your lessons are excellent. As a retired Math teacher, I know a lot of teaching methods. The most effective for learning the English language is the conversation through the messenger in Face Book. If you like, accept a friend request to see the truth. Thank you and I look forward to the continuation.

[@reinaldobarreto]

Hi Hadar! Do you mean then that I don't need to feel bad about not understanding some speakers? Because I've had this experience, I'm learning English, but with you everything has changed for the better, I'm just sorry I didn't discover you sooner, congratulations you're amazing and you've helped me in other videos to continue learning with motivation.

[@fxaman]

I could understand all of it, that makes me happy. What helped me most with my english were (and still are) reality tv shows... Especially Big Brother UK, US, CA and AU. People there talk fast and in many different dialects and it was great to hear. In the beginning listening to scotish or irish people was pretty challenging, but now it feels as natural as listening to brits or americans. Neither movies or tv shows usualy use as many dialects, so these feel less useful to me.

[@SophiesDriver]

A native speaker born into a US American home that spoke English as its first language, I have spoken American English for 64 years. If another native speaker of American English reduced their English to the extent that the speaker (not the auctioneer) in the example has, and I though it important that I understand, I would find myself annoyed, and suggest to them that if they thought it important that I understand, they should slow down. Yes, I am impatient, sometimes rude, and sometimes obnoxious. But if they want to communicate something to me, they think important, they should do so in a way that is easy to understand. Notice that I chose to not contract words in this response. I rarely use contraction in either my writing, or my speech. Eliminating contraction slows me down, safeguards against excessive language reduction, and safeguards that I say precisely what I intend to say. After all, if I am communicating, I think that what I say is important enough that I want people to understand what I say. I enjoyed the video. Thumbs up!

[@joanhurtado6061]

Thanks for this lesson, it feels so good when getting a 90% percent of the fast audios you played😍😊❤️

[@investmentanalyst779]

As a native English speaker, even the fastest English was a cake walk. They were practically talking slow. This must be the feeling of native Spanish speakers. I shall continue my spanish studies so I can understand them when they are talking fast.

[@stevenhauptmann5631]

Same thing for me as an American learning French. Even living in France for some time it still sounds like they’re always in a competition to see who can talk the fastest lol

[@marie-claudeg.4128]

Very interesting and helpful!!! I'm a French Canadian and I have a hard time with fast English speakers. I just discovered your chanel and I love the way you explain!! Thank you very much 🙏🙏

[@anikiforova]

Took me years, but now I'm proud of being able to understand the first two speakers. I mostly got only numbers from the action guy. But they are notorious for being hard to understand unless you know what to expect.

[@user-ep6zc2iu5w]

I think this kind of exposure to the fast language and the amazing explaining from Hadar made super clear thank you from Libya

[@toforgetisagem8797]

If you are trying to learn English don't be put off if you didn't understand the quizz. I am a native Engish speaker. I have spoken for72 years. I didn't understand a word of that quizz!

[@margett__]

The ‘homework’ totally sent me 😂 Nothing better than a good old country song for practicing decoding 😅😂

[@hadar.shemesh]

Hahahaha 😂

[@gregmann8981]

​@@hadar.shemeshIt wasn't a country song. It was an auctioneer.

[@debedodoja9119]

I live in switzerland, where we have separate dialects everywhere and we are used to different pronounciations and can easily understand (nearly) all the different dialects. So it's a little easier to get shortcuts and dialects in english, because we are used to different versions of a word.

[@mariettekaosisonna774]

Thank you Hadar. The last speaker was literally singing, I couldn't hear even a word, but sounds.

[@peterokell-walker6493]

Speaking as a native English speaker I have to say that even I could not understand the first example of "fast English" in the quiz. If her annunciation is that bad she doesn't deserve to be understood 🤪

[@lekate8888]

Hi Hadar, I'm soooo glad that I found you. I always struggle with understanding English. I am working with native speaker but most of the time I have no idea what they are talking about. There are two reason: I cannot hear all the works and I don't understand the content .

[@TeclaTorta]

I have been speaking English properly for 5 years now, and living in an English speaking country. But anytime I can do a test like this I am here. The worse/best parts is how surprised I am when I do pass the test or when I horribly fail, haha

[@user-re3ph6ps8k]

I love these quizzes! But the second audio I can not hear clearly on my own, but I can master what she said. Maybe I need more practice in my listening and speaking. Anyway, thanks Hadar!

[@borakayalar]

Actually it's not about only pronunciation and it's not about what we expected and heard. the problem is sentences structure. my main lang is turkish and our sentences sequence is subject, verb, object, time. but english is diffrent so our brains wait main lang sequence but english talks come with diffrent sequence so we can not directly generate to mean, our brains put the sequence according to default sequence and so we lost time for it then we can not catch to other words or sentences. as I said it is about structure so we have to learn to english sentence, not word by word. I hope tell clearly. My english is not good :) . I am follower you. I can understand to you so easly coz you give me time for translating to my brain. As I mention before. when I watch your contents you do not break the word or sentences and you speak so clear. thanks for your contents. Wish I could make conversation face to face with you.

[@zbruch66]

You definitely one of the best teachers) Thank you.

[@KenFullman]

I really don't know why I'm watching this. As a native English speaker, I usually have my youtube settings on double speed so I don't get bored. I even watched this one at double speed. I never have a problem understanding English at double speed. Unfortunately, any foreign language, I have difficulty understanding even at half speed. It's not just english that has reduction. It seems to happen in every language I attempt to learn. I'm pretty fluent in French. I can read, write and talk in French but have great difficulty understanding the average French person. TV presenters are challenging, but I can generally keep up, if I really concentrate. But try listening to the man on the street and it's just reduced beyond recognition.

[@ahmadalhaddad4600]

Thank you Hadar for this valuable video. A shortcut for solving this issue is by simply asking the speaker to speak slowly 😁

[@hadar.shemesh]

Hahahah love that!

[@platinumUser7]

Oh my, such an amazing job you do, thank you. God bless you

[@MM-kt5dv]

This is really good! One of my favourites is the word something, which is often pronounced simply "sum'm", as in "sum'm like that".

[@michelepaupelard2335]

What's funny , is when you listen the quizz for the first time , it’s Hebrew😅 but after listening to Hadar’s explanations , and you listen to it a second time , it sounds clear , as if there were no reductions .

[@hadar.shemesh]

Wow! Haha I loved how you described it!

[@bahamansour3178]

the same thing happens when we listen to songs for the first time .Then we read the lyrics. big difference between the two 😀😀😀

[@cejannuzi]

Which really shows how even the most 'bottom-up' aspects of listening are really top-down, psycholinguistic, perceptive, etc.

[@bahamansour3178]

we ( non native speakers) should talk to high authorities in the USA to issue a law stating that " American people should speak SLOWLY to non native people for better communication " ! what about that ? 😀😀😀😀👍

[@Xorxskun1]

Hello Hadar. ?I 'm spanish and I've discovered your videos. I have a great help with your audios. I need to improve my listening and hearing because it's difficult to me understand the people. Thanks for your helpul videos. i'm your new student 😀

[@bensoontm5244]

IMO one of the easiest ways to learn English is reading the lyrics of songs you listen to. You are not just learning to sing the song, no the words actually stick in your head and make it work. I really used to hate English but that changed 5 years ago. It's far form being good but I feel confident enough to use the language

[@lucianaferreira5573]

Despite having difficulty to get all , I loved it

[@alexanderbarron8574]

As a native Engl;ish speaker, while not difficult to understand, they are speaking uncofortably fast. Just come to the South. Slow english, BUT the words are indeed mushed together.

[@Melisa-xl1rt]

When the dude from the auction started to spit his lines 😂👍😂☠️

[@FrankKimono744]

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😊😊

[@user-ot4nu1dd6n]

Enfin un bon cours d'écoute et de compréhension. J'ai très peu fait d'anglais au lycée (3 années). J'essaie depuis quelque temps de comprendre les natifs. J'ai compris tout ce que Hadar a dit. Cependant, rien du tout s'agissant des vidéos du cours. Mais je vais poursuivre. Merci Hadar.

[@genivalfilho7569]

Hi! I loved pretty much that lesson! Congratulations!!

[@chrisevans2547]

Alright, now i think i even see myself improving my english. Moreover I'm now 80% sure i can speak like an american. Thank you so much Hadar.

[@JoseHernandez-cn4xh]

Hadar, thank you very much for this lesson, I really appreciate what you are doing in this lesson. It help us very much to tune our ears to listen and understand not only a common daily spoken English, but I may say any English speaker if it were possible...once again thank you very much... God bless you..

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

*helps

[@user-ww3tw1gx4r]

Hello, I am William. I always follow you on your channel. I am proud of you, because you are an excellent teacher. I have some request. I hope, you agree. I want you to introduce a program about this, " How to present English to kids?". This is, you will explain the mechanism of presenting English to kids step by step, because there are alot of beginners teachers need that. we all will be grateful to you. and olso we will be waiting for you!

[@DavidSilva-tr1ch]

I loved it! Thanks Hadar! 🤓

[@Charlotte32030]

👍That was interesting and helpful, I'd like you to analize british and australian accents when they speak very fast. Thank you 😊

[@diazemap]

I'm writing this comment really slowly, because I know some of you can read only slowly. But, now I'm writing fast, so take that!

[@zapatillasiniestra]

At first Awkwafina (I think she's her, correct me if I'm wrong) was easy to listen but later on in the analysis I noticed I had caugth barely a 15% 😅 Good quiz, good video teacher! Thank you

[@hadar.shemesh]

Yeah it was her! I think that part, without seeing her face - was hard!

[@trendtalker207]

Woooww!!! what a good training lesson....congrats Hadar. This is really good content.

[@hadar.shemesh]

Thank you! 😃

[@oomtreintjematilde8830]

Thank you for all your tips you’re really a professional ❤👍

[@luanderlurch]

never knew how good I can understand that fast stuff

[@elsareyes8333]

The best teacher in the🌏 ❤❤❤😊 thank you 🙌

[@JesusLeonelRodriguezLuckert]

I love the way you teach in your videos. Greetings from Colombia.

[@Vukii92]

I do remember that as a kid I did not understand a word of the serbian reports because they where talking way to fast and i speak serbian at home, tough i live in austria. Even as an adult with better skills in the serbian language I have to concentrate to understand them sometimes.

[@Vladyslav_Maxymov]

I do understand fast English, I just struggle to speak fast enough myself lol. Anyway, I find it quite helpful :)

[@worldatmyfingertips7771]

The last one! I think it was an auction, they usually say things that way, they only say prices and bidders, keeps repeating same thing over and over until someone offers more, I think🤔

[@O-la25]

I like the quiz! Thank for it. There is a lot of work to start understand fast speech for me.

[@worldatmyfingertips7771]

At the end I still hear: "leading to it" 😂....it is quite incomprehensible no matter how hard I try 😅....the ghost pepper challenge clip I understood everything, it was weird but I think I got it all....I am hooked! 😁😁😁

[@eugenesamilyk6131]

Thank you a lot for these pieces of advice.

[@nvrmnvls]

Well, understanding these clips was easier than understanding videocalls at work. Understanding videocalls is often a big problem for me, because microphones in laptops are usually horrible quality, and people are even able to speak 3 meters away from their 1 milimeter wide laptop microphone, so the sound is extremely low quality. It's like listening to someone speaking behind a door.

[@thiagodias6951]

I feel you. And how did you deal with this problem?

[@nvrmnvls]

@@thiagodias6951 I didn't

[@abcdef2069]

can you make a video about how to tell the difference between cant and can? because in usa accent i cant tell the difference when someone says i cant do it or i can do it. if you make a lot of examples, i will practice. at this point, only examples may solve the problem

[@ajaydhurve842]

Thankyou so much ma'am 🙏❤

[@markreilly4577]

I'm a native English speaker and even I had to concentrate to understand the second speaker. Honestly, some people just have a bad habit of speaking too fast and even I tell people to slow down, its okay lol.

[@arjajohannesdotter7079]

Thank you so much! ❤

[@worldatmyfingertips7771]

Awesome!! Now I know why I don't understand movies and songs many times, and the words I actually do not know is NOT an excuse not to keep trying 🙃😂.....we don't understand because sometimes we just don't pay attention 😅

[@nhanchau8530]

look like I saved your whole channel to my learning list. =]]. again, thank you so much.

[@sdwqbvlwdslbvlbwflbunlwbf]

I'm past that now, but i wish i'd found such video years ago. Great content

[@tinkagriff]

I generally don't have trouble understanding spoken english if the accent is too bad and they do not speak extremely fast. Funny thing is that some accents are mote easy for me as for native speakers. This al changes when listening to music and movies. Half of the time I miss too much to make sense of it due to other background sounds. As we don't dub english here, Im very good at readying subtitles. Even a dutch movie (my native language) I notice I do better with subs. Movies are just hard for me to understand in general. Might be due to moviemakers playing with the background sound and noises too much.... And once Im tired I often feel like I cant just understand any language, haha, its terrible.

[@vuke500]

Yes, I can not understand English when it is being spoken too fast! The kids and aged people say I get what they say because they speak slowly. 😀

[@nasezwerg1151]

Als Schwabe kann ich "Reductions" auch sehr gut: "Das kann ich auch" - "Ko i au!"

[@_BioKnowledge_]

Almost 90% accurate, but i need to work confidence in myself, don't doubt about myself.

[@ruslan_yefimov]

I've been living in London for 2 years by this moment and well, my accent is almost perfect, I understand everything I hear and I can easily talk about almost anything, BUT THOSE 2 DRUNK BRITISH GIRLS CHATTING ON THE PLANE RIGHT NEXT TO ME...... They made me understand how miserable my english skills are 😂😂

[@marcksuarez]

A lot of times I can't understand native since they speak a bad English and have a hard accent either. I am learning this language not only talking with native even also none native. It's taken me about one year being able to get them here I am so I suggest you guys all listen carefully the pronunciation in English. Peace and much love from Colombia

[@investmentanalyst779]

Keep up the good work. Voy a visitar Colombia otra vez.

[@teolinek]

4:30 Radio really worked for me. Thank you, BBC 4. Not the fastest speakers, but good to start with.

[@escritorapatriciamontes6308]

Fantastic!! I really loved It.

[@percapita1239]

It depends, fast no problem and if it´s well spoken fine, but then there´s sloppy spoken English/American along with some accent and on top of that slang as well and i drop out. The problem with that is that i stop listening as well, it´s smooth listening or exhausting to listen then. I´m a swede.

[@r0land014]

lol this came up in my recommended, as a native English speaker myself I realised just how quickly I do all of those things lol.

[@anthony-ov7uv]

This is so very helpful!

[@Jobson85]

Im from Finland. Based on my experience its mostly if not all about what accent they are speaking. For instance some african or caribbean accents i might have trouble understanding.

[@malastrom884]

me: opens this video to check and improve myself also me: sets it on 2x

[@hadar.shemesh]

Hahahhaa

[@zecknews3162]

Really good, it show me how I need to improve my listining😊

[@thiagoskapata]

I've understood "whole cost education". I need to listen to more.

[@tanyau]

its "holocaust education" lol

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

I am English and the only other language I have ever attempted to learn ( and still attempt to learn ) is Spanish. It`s difficult enough to speak another language - since one`s "brain" / one`s "wits" has to be ever ahead of one`s tongue. But to hear it is equally as difficult, since it is a trial to recognise when one word ends and the other begins. All in exceptionally good fun though !

[@westmovie7517]

Yeah right, I'm french and even if I can speak english I still think that I have a lot to learn with this language XD

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

@@westmovie7517 Carry on. Your written English gives me enough confidence in you as to say that you will succeed in writing ( and speaking ) excellent English. I`d love be able to speak French, but it is too beautiful a language for my vulgar ways. God bless you - and God bless France.

[@westmovie7517]

@dogwithwigwamz.7320 Thanks bro it comforts me to read that, and to be honest even when I talk I try to sound more like a Britain English, even if most people would try to mimic US accent, for me the UK looks and is clearer when I hear or speak English. Also I love drill music, and for me the best are from France and UK definitely 👌 And don't worry buddy, I've seen some erasmus coming from all around the world and they learn French so don't worry I'm sure you can do it!💪

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

@@westmovie7517 `Nothing wrong with "American English." British English sounds better. English English sounds better still. But I envy you (a rare thing - there are few I envy ) being able to speak both English and French. I have no ability in French at all.

[@povsturns]

omg i already love you!! you're helping me a LOT. tysmmm

[@anaidjine4253]

This kind of videos it is useful . Thank you so much

[@samsoulgrav1132]

I'm French and the funny and sad thing is I have zero problems understanding American English, but those roastbeefs across the Channel... I go there every year trying to improve my British, but I'm still amazed at how they can improvise with their own language to expectorate something that is so different from the written form XD

[@percapita1239]

Then you go to France and nobody speaks it. 😅🤭 Waiters and such? I´ve never been to France and just heard about it.

[@SusanaXpeace2u]

I am a native speaker so I don't know why this came up in my feed, I thought it would be a Spanish video, I always put on subtitles when watching American films as they can mumble/drawl and there doesn't seem to be any emphasis or stress. Just a monotone, there's not as much ''staccato'' to mark the end of one word and the start of the next as there is in other accents. It depends of course.