hi everyone welcome back to the channel so a lot of you are already familiar with this format of video and a lot of you love it me too in this video we'll be working on our listening and speaking skills at the same time how efficient is that right we all know that understanding native speakers in real life can be really challenging sometimes and I'm sure that you've noticed that sometimes when you watch something in English words phrases or even whole sentences might sound like a random cluster of sounds and this is due to many factors
such as the speed of speech accents all the contractions and connected speech and even intonation that's why working on your listening skills is very important but sometimes it's just difficult to understand or even hear what people say exactly because of those reasons and because our listening is just not trained enough so it becomes a vicious cycle it's especially important when you're doing a shadowing exercise because to practice properly you first need to be able to hear what is being said and to be able to do that you need to know how connected speech works and
what contractions people use in real life and sometimes all you need is just someone to explain these things to you so let's break the cycle together I'll be showing you examples of real life speech and explain and break down parts of it that usually pose a problem for people who are learning English and will also practice saying those parts to work on our speaking pronunciation and articulation and I promise next time when you hear those words you will recognize them alright let's start let's watch example number one look on Sunday my fellow HR reps and
I we talked about how to handle situations like this it was when we were discussing the chapter okay so he said look on Sunday my fellow HR refs and I talked about how to handle situations like this and we will focus on the words how to that were said as Hara sounds weird when you say it separately this is actually a very common way to say these words in a casual fast speech and the reason it sounds like this is contractions and connected speech the word how sounds like ha in this phrase so we drop
the ow sound and we substitute it with a short o sound the word to is pronounced as in this phrase and this allowed us to contract how to ha because if we kept the proper pronunciation of the word to or even contracted it to just the as native speakers often do we would have to pronounce how as how it just naturally wants to be pronounced like that ha Tu would be forced and sounds really weird that's why it's pronounced as the in this phrase a fast D sound plus the schwa sound because da is easier
to blend in with the word handle let's compare what sounds more effortless in this phrase how to handle or how to handle Jarre reps and I we talked about how to handle situations like this not which one is easier to understand but which one is easier to say and this pronunciation of the word to doesn't blend with every word but this is a whole other topic okay now it's time to practice saying these words even if you don't use these reductions in your speech actually saying them helps us understand them better look on Sunday my
fellow HR reps and I we talked about how to handle situations like this it was when we were discussing the chapter dealing with children we'll start slowly and then speed up a little bit say it with me how to handle how to handle how to handle how to handle how to handle how to handle about how to handle situations like this how to handle situations like this how to handle situations like this if you would like to continue improving your pronunciation Asian on your own or maybe this was your New Year's resolution why wait let's
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and forty percent off of a one year membership all you need to do is just click the link Down Below in the description or in the pinned comment let's move on to example number two oh so yeah you probably shouldn't have done that so this translates into oh see yeah you probably should not have done that it was said very casual really almost lazily a very widely used contraction for should have is should have where we reduce the word have to just the reduction used in this case is one step further should have becomes Shoulda
we dropped the word have completely and substituted with the schwa sound now when we also have the word not in this phrase we do the same thing but only in this case we'll leave the end before the schwa sound to indicate that this is now a negative statement and get shouldna oh see yeah you probably shouldn't have done that I know crazy and you're probably asking yourself why would they do that well there's only one logical answer so that non-native speakers go nuts trying to understand native speakers I'm kidding it's all for the same reason
because those words blend nicely together sound more effortless and allow speakers to speak faster moreover the word probably is also reduced in this sentence to probably to two syllables dropping the middle syllable oh so yeah you probably shouldn't have done that and some people would even go further and drop the B and say prolly so we can say probably or probably so let's practice saying this phrase together we'll start slowly and then speed up a little oh see yeah you probably shouldn't have done that okay so let's go you probably should not done that you
probably should not done that you probably shouldn't have done that you probably should not done that probably should not done that now let's take a look at some more reductions of the word have you know I could have done worse than to have a father like you again he reduced the word have but only this time to just the and with the word could and said could have could have and it was barely detectable because it was said very quickly you know I could have done worse than to have a father like you we would
normally reduce the word have with the modal verbs such as would could should might and must and here's one more example I have had the longest day you have no idea what I've been through this one is interesting because in the first statement she fully pronounced every word and we would do that when we want to emphasize something when we want to draw the listener's attention to what we're saying because it's important to us and then in the next sentence sure used to have and said you've and even this part she didn't fully pronounce because
she then emphasized the word no because it's important here as it delivers the gist and then she said I've reducing I have I have had the longest day you've no idea what I've been through and that's a common contraction with personal pronouns such as I you we they we can say if you've weave or they've but only when the word have is unstressed you wouldn't say do you have some chips left for instance because in this question the word love is stressed and it's stressed because it's important here it conveys the meaning of the question
let's practice saying this paying attention to the intonation and the stressed words I have had the longest day you've no idea what I've been through I have had the longest day you've no idea what I've been through I have had the longest day you've no idea what I've been through I have had the longest day you've no idea what I've been through all right you guys I hope you enjoyed this video and learned something new give it a like subscribe to the channel if you haven't yet and I'll see you in the next one bye
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