Speak English FAST, like a native speaker: 3 methods

Ask questions quickly like a native speaker by learning natural pronunciation. When native speakers of English speak fast, the clear boundaries between words disappear and this is what gives the impression of talking fast. In reality, native speakers are not talking faster than normal -- it’s just that the sounds in their pronunciation flow together in the most smooth and efficient way. For this natural, flowing effect to happen in pronunciation there are three important changes in pronunciation that may occur. The first change is that whole sounds in the sentence may disappear completely (“elision”). The second change in pronunciation is that for the sounds to flow more smoothly, individual sounds may shift to a different sound (“assimilation”). And finally, new sounds that are not in the individual words themselves may appear when the sentence is spoken quickly (“intrusion”). No need to worry if that makes learning natural pronunciation seem very complicated; I break everything down for you in this lesson. All you need to do is follow the lesson and repeat after me. I’ll also teach you some IPA (the International Phonetic Alphabet) so that you can recognise the individual sounds of English more easily. For a lot more information on sounding like a native speaker and improving your accent, take my accent course: www.engvid.com/out/jadeaccent...
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Hi, everyone. In this lesson we’re going to learn how to speak fast like a native speaker. When you’re learning English and you hear native speakers, why is it that they sound so fast and it’s hard for them to understand? Are they really talking like: “Blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub”, or is it something that they’re doing when they pronounce sentences that makes it seem fast, but it’s not really? Let’s look at some example sentences, and I’ll teach you how to speak fast like a native English speaker.
All my question phrases are questions with “Do” or “Did”, and this is them written out in the full sentence, then I have in this column what the sentence sounds like. If we don’t know how to read IPA transcription, here, this is very useful for us. But the problem, when we write out the pronunciation in this way, is we don’t have letters for all the sounds. We don’t have letters from the English alphabet for all the sounds in English, so it’s helpful, but we can still sound slightly wrong if this is all we know about the pronunciation. That’s why I’m going to teach you little bits that we need to know from here, so that you get the correct pronunciation. And this is what, altogether, will help you speak fast like a native speaker.
So, let’s start here, question phrase: “Do you like it?” That’s really slow. If you’re a beginner in English, you can understand it. “Do you like it?” But this is not how native speakers actually speak. It sounds something like: “D-you lie-kit? D-you lie-kit?” What happens is the “Do” and “you” join: “D-you”, “Do you”, and the “like” and the “it” change. The “k” goes to the second… The “k” joins “it”. “D-you lie-kit? D-you lie-kit?” And we can see this also in the IPA transcription. “Ii: kIt”, “də.ju: Ii: kIt”.
What’s also happening, here, in the IPA transcription, if you look here, this is “də. ju”, “də. ju”. This is schwa. “də. ju”. When I write it here, we don’t have any letter in English that can… In the English alphabet that can represent schwa, so that’s why I just put the “d” consonant: “D-you”, “D-you”, “D-you”.
Another… Now, you have to listen really, really, really carefully to hear the difference. “Do you like it?” can also sound like: “Jew lie-kit? Jew lie-kit?” I’m going to say the first one, then the second one: “D-you lie-kit? D-you lie-kit? Jew lie-kit?” You have to listen really, really carefully. So, I suggest you watch this video a few times so that you can start to hear the difference between very similar pronunciations. Here’s the transcription: “dʒU: li: kIt”. The same thing is happening, here, in the two examples: “li: kIt”, but the first part is different. “də.ju”, “dʒU”, “də.ju:”, “dʒU”. “dʒU: li: kIt”.
Let’s look at the next example: “Did you see that?” That’s how a beginner would say it. “Did you see that?” What does it sound like? “Did-yah see that? Did-yah see that?” Am I speaking fast now-“Did-yah see that?”-or am I just joining up the words so that they flow? “Did-yah see that?” If we look at the IPA transcription: “you” becomes “jə”. Although it’s… It looks like the letter “j”, this is the sound for “yah”, together with the schwa. “jə”. “did.jə si: đaet”. Don’t be scared by this; we don’t use this IPA symbol that often, and this is the word “that”. “did.jə si: đaet”. “Did-yah see that?”
Can you hear the difference between the first example and the second example? “Di-jah see that? Di-jah see that?”, “Did-yah see that?”, “Di-jah see that?”, “Did-yah see that?”, “Di-jah see that?” “di.dʒə si: đaet”. “jə”, “dʒə”, “jə”, “dʒə”. “Di-jah see that?”, “Did-yah see that?”, “Di-jah see that?”

[@MjauDuuude]

I’m Swedish and we are taught British English in school but learn most of our English from tv etc which is mostly American so we get this strange combination with a Swedish accent. I’m currently working really hard to learn British English and these videos are so helpful, thank you so much

[@arbulonrexhepi]

I'm from Kosovo and 2 weeks ago we were talking about accent, like differences between american and british accent and the english teacher told us that we learn english in british way, but she pronounces 90% of the words in american accent, I was wondering what on earth she was saying.

[@silkycylist]

MjauDuuude I’m a native speaker only learn the southern English accent like Jade

[@menes2667]

@@silkycylist Congratulations. 100% correlation👏

[@kelvinxg6754]

I'm from Thailand We are taught British English as well and most of the book came from Cambridge English

[@abbasmosavi8349]

Oh my god 😱😱😰😵 now I understood, why when a native English speaker speak ,I not understand completely?! 😔😥 Dear jade I love and like your accent 😇😇😍😍😘😘

[@JustinsEnglishLessons]

This is good advice. I'm learning Japanese and all of the words just blend together, so often when we speak our native language there is no pause between words.

[@gillesmanchuel7956]

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, "like" is [laik] and not [li:]. The symbol i: refers to the long vowel in words like "see", "bee", "sea"... The symbol : always refers to a long vowel, like also in [ku:l] (cool).

[@user-yk8tt3ce1n]

Even a teacher can make a mistake, she just didn't notice that

[@alya6183]

Thank you Jade! This is amazing! Happy new year from Syria💗

[@kanchanabalasubramani6191]

You are an excellent teacher. Putting in your best efforts to help us understand .👏👏👏 Thank you very much... And wish you a happy new year

[@VolverACristo]

Thank you so much for this, Jade. I wish you a very happy new year!

[@Ashish.journey]

I am starting my English with engvid now become english learning and it's really helpful for me and changed my life

[@ekmekarashavyar6888]

Very succesful study... Thank you!

[@confridesable]

Wonderful lesson, Jade. You are a magnificent teacher, in spite of the small mistake you did. Congratulations. Wish my teachers of English had been more like you in your nice approach to the living real British English. God bless your work here on the web.

[@andrea-lu1ph]

thank you a lot, you are opening my ears :)

[@abdullahahmed3843]

I just love this channel . Improved my accent a lot!

[@look007456]

I’m chinese people and we are taught British English in school but learn most of our English from tv etc which is mostly American so we get this strange combination with a Swedish accent. I’m currently working really hard to learn British English and these videos are so helpful, thank you so much

[@esm325]

Thank you, Jade! Happy New Year!

[@scarscrews]

I would have loved to have you as a teacher when I was in school ! Keep up the good work and videos, thank you ;)

[@megnam3923]

Thanks ever so much 🙂

[@dongwooistim]

i am happy to see you continue doing this wonderful thing. i thank you~ i also shared this video with my students

[@bacsandrei]

Thank you. Happy New Year !

[@muhammadabbasi7854]

WITH TEXT VERY FANTASTIC ...AND YOU HAVE WONDERFUL WAY OF TEACHING....

[@Franciscoluche]

Thanks Teacher. 🤗💖 Happy New Year from Vietnam 😊🍚

[@domenicoernestoesposito1318]

You are an excellent teacher, moreover, your advice is definitely brilliant. Thank you.

[@aligbeer]

Very good thanks 🙏

[@cleiton4891]

Than you teacher! Excellent lesson, i always learn so much from you, thank you!

[@brtk7]

It's a great lesson. Thank you.

[@oscarmwanamoya4213]

Hi jade, bare good lesson.... Happy new year!.

[@webernorbertgermany]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@fabp2609]

excellent video!, thank you!.

[@marcomendoza236]

Dear teacher,,, is the first time. I can see your class,,,👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@pliniolimajunior5185]

Great lesson

[@Evan-dp2et]

beauty!thanks for your lesson

[@istiakhahmed7418]

Claps for ur beautiful explanation and ur efforts :)

[@guca2024]

Thanks a lot Jade and Happy new year from Chile.

[@noohjaber261]

Great Video Jade❤️😊

[@mirandzuna3122]

Nice to see you back☺

[@dr.mohamedfarahat1223]

Thank you Jade

[@clandestine2701]

Great job I'm glad you're back. Happy New Year

[@ameerahamed3523]

Thanks 🌸🌸🌸 happy a new year

[@khaledalnour4663]

Thankyou so much my teacher i hope you happy New 2109

[@gihanfawzi5122]

Happy New year 🌷🌷🌷

[@waqasattari271]

Its informative!

[@yushi7743]

Thank you

[@yujaylee]

thank you Doctor jade

[@Education4iq1]

Thanks

[@carlosjalpa8532]

Ohhh really useful!!!

[@anakmama2385]

I'm still very happy to learn English British although it's a little bit hard especially when I want to spell some word in Brtish

[@shailenb3272]

Gr8 n inspiration to all of us

[@siddigmuhammed7291]

I loved the lesson

[@tangotang02]

it is a good lesson, thank you , teacher

[@aayadabas8268]

thanks

[@JohannBaritono]

Hi Jade! There's a mistake in the IPA transcription: it says "do you lick it?" instead of "do you like it".

[@user-cg4ff3lt7l]

I also noticed that. lai-kit, right?

[@lospazio]

It actually says "do you leek it?", not "lick".

[@mahmoudfouad_6969]

Good job

[@aadeshmanandhar2133]

great way invented for those who do not know IPA transcription 👏👏👏

[@techkickin]

Happy new year

[@techkickin]

Nice one

[@FernandoRodriguez-mf2mp]

A very good video!!! 👌

[@eidoparkour7111]

Love your accent😍😍😍😗😗😗

[@alir7197]

hi jade this is really good to undrestand

[@maimagdi4489]

Thank you very much 😘😘 lam Arabic and l have a lot of proplems because l canot speak english 😥😥😥 really thank you 😘😘😘😗

[@inky4763]

I don’t even know why I’m watching because I’m English, but I do like it!

[@Kamran_esmat]

Thx

[@user-rb1mc6dk3v]

We have been missing you so long, jade~ we can pass through hardship together.

[@muhammadilhamnasution5448]

* O * sound make me love british Btw love u jade from Indonesia

[@bptiwadi7751]

great....

[@easyenglish2023]

Nice drill

[@anadolupars2230]

Very very good

[@LucasYuge]

Hi dear Jade, one question: How I say :"Do you know him? Thanks for the lesson, Best wishes for 2019.

[@SR_TP2004]

Jew know him

[@clubofskill]

Lo que pasa que cuando pronuncias las palabras por separado es un sonido(fonema). y los hablantes cuando hablan desarrollan otro sonido(fonema) o contraen las palabras cuando las juntas en una oración.

[@divinedancer8342]

*_Really 9ice_* 🌹💖🌹

[@varunsharma3144]

*I love the way people say okie dokie in the UK however I never been there*

[@ortilio]

Lady Jade is back on track!

[@hiubhp]

What I like the most here is Jade's glottal stop.

[@andreasbaumann9238]

Me too!!! T-glottalisation at the word ending. Her IPA transcription does not correspond with her pronunciation ... and that's wonderful. Love her accent!

[@krishnaveni1691]

Very nice

[@ilustrasi2009]

thank you Jade, but could you please teach me others???? :D

[@brahimbouzgarene2149]

thank ju:

[@voso4978]

Peach, yum-yum!

[@samadsadiq5816]

Happy New year

[@hassanisdodi1403]

Superb

[@juliocrevoisier6616]

Nice! Good 2cu here again! = ))

[@yongchaozhao8449]

god bless you.

[@marvinyu7555]

Do you have any examples

[@mostafaaboushama9722]

I loved the blu blu blu blu blu blublu blu blu part :D that was epic!

[@faisal9277]

Finally😁

[@essammahfouz8060]

I like u so much thank u

[@apositiveperson6820]

Hi teacher. How r u I donnu ur name 😊 am sorry Thank you for your efforts i appreciate it. Many thanks 💙❤

[@apositiveperson6820]

@Natalia Igaa Thank you alot ناتاليا 😊🥀

[@Auggies1956]

Adorable lady

[@aishwaryagupta1399]

❤️

[@joshuantineo5669]

Thanks for all and happy new year 😊

[@qed456]

D-yah know ye good!

[@Reckoner1985]

❤️❤️❤️

[@daniadyus8507]

I love english and i love my crush You teaching english and looks like my crush. Internet makes me happy

[@binokomputer]

"BLUB BLUB BLUB"! You've made my day :D

[@before_boaz]

12:00 Do you know her ? Dude Noah 😆

[@faizalmussa519]

Love u

[@dede19833]

ARE they really talking like : '' Blu blu Blu blu blu " 🤣🤣

[@donhataitammada7065]

Thank You. Please zoom Teacher's mouth . I try to speak after you.

[@sohaibbuz47]

I love you 😍😍😘

[@bluevergil2636]

Hi, Don't u have Instagram?

[@suchiyggupta1772]

Hello

[@abderrahmanehasni8021]

Is this english british or language amrican!!!

[@sea-goatbr7588]

British

[@sea-goatbr7588]

Can't you really pick the accent?

[@greatgirl6013]

Never use this method in formal exams But in daily life ok