hi my name is Kristen and welcome back
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today's lesson we are going to talk
about how to speak American English like
a native now if you're a native then
speaking English is natural to you you
were probably born in the United States
or maybe Canada and English is your
first language an American English is
what you grew up learning so it's
natural to you and it's your native
language so how to speak American
English like a native is what we're
going to learn today
isn't that a mouthful of a topic now if
I were to say that in slower a slower
way for you to understand the way that I
speak to you when I'm teaching I really
try to break down the words so that you
understand it so that you can learn
better and understand more fully what it
is that I'm trying to teach because I
understand that English is new to you
and that you are trying to learn it for
the first time so I would say isn't that
a mouthful of a topic we're going to
revisit that in a minute but first I
want to go over just a few things that
can help you to learn how to speak like
a native
so for American English one of the first
things that you really need to focus on
is pronunciation pronunciation of the
words is how they sound how do the words
sound
because how they sound is then how you
are going to pronounce them and that's
going to affect your pronunciation which
is in turn going to affect whether you
sound like a native speaker or whether
you sound like someone that is learning
English for the first time how you
pronounce those words and how you speak
them based on how those words sound is
going to make that difference okay so
based on that we want to go over a few
different things because when you are
learning English for the first time and
you learn the basic principles of
English it's very different when you are
learning how you're supposed to say the
words and how they end up sounding when
you are a native speaker there is a big
difference we speak very quickly
definitely native English American
speakers and English speakers speak
quickly
and that being said many of the words
end up running together so for instance
then the consonants end up running
together as well so if I were to say for
an example
if you look at this question before I
say it out loud I want you to say it to
yourself so now if we're going to break
it down we would say what time is it
what time is it so you are asking about
the time however for a Native American
English speaker we would run it together
so instead of saying what time is it we
would end up saying what time is it
so this T and this T end up coming
together so it almost makes one word
what time instead of what time what time
is it when you have constants that have
the same sound at the end of the word
and at the beginning of a word they run
together we blend them into almost
sounding like one word I hope that makes
sense for you let me give you another
example another example
once again I want you to say it to
yourself first these are actually two
different consonants but they have a
very similar sound so if we separate it
we have that door is open but we
wouldn't say that door is open that
makes it very succinct and separate now
I want you to know you can easily say
that door is open and we will know what
you're talking about
however a Native American English
speaker would say that door is open that
door that door do you hear how it runs
together the T and the D end up becoming
one sound that door so it no longer
separates because it's a similar sound
let me give you one more example that's
very similar okay
once again say that one on your own so
if we say together separately there's a
black cat now if we run it together
there's a black cat there's a black cat
black hat there's a black cat the whole
thing almost runs together in that
phrase it's no longer there is a black
cat but it's there's a black cat it
almost sounds like one one full word
instead of an entire sentence I can see
how that would be so confusing when
you're learning English for the first
time and trying to master the Native
American English there's a black cat so
those end up running together another
good thing to point out right now since
I used one is the contraction we use
contractions a lot in our everyday
language in American English we
regularly will take instead of saying
there is we will say there's instead of
saying do not we will say don't
instead of saying is not we will say
isn't these are just a few very small
examples because there truly are so very
many so we have these different examples
of run-ins together here we also have
some words that we run together so for
example we have the word business
business
if you look at that word you want to
pronounce it busyness or business but
the way that we actually pronounce it is
one full sweep it almost sounds like
this business this almost sounds like a
Z business you almost don't even hear
that I in the middle another example let
me write it out for you
when you look at this and separate it
we've got comfort and we have table so
you would think that it's comfortable
but the way that we say it is
comfortable comfortable
it runs together come after Bowl okay
another small example would be
restaurant
there's a you there that we don't really
say we say restaurant
we don't say resto Ron or rest all wrong
it's just rusta wrong so there are so
like I said I keep saying this but it's
just so true there are so many examples
of ways that the native English in
English is different and it's very hard
to pick up on some of those little
nuances so I wanted to give you a few
examples of little things that you can
kind of work on as you're going through
your English lessons and your vocabulary
so one more thing that I'm going to
throw at you today just for you to
practice is the soft tea
so whenever we have anything that has a
tea oftentimes we end up making it sound
like a d' instead of a tea example when
we have the words better instead of
better we would say better so it sounds
like
d instead of T better
another example is metal metal it ends
up having a soft T sound which then
sounds like a D or setting
setting it has that soft T or D sound
instead of saying set T you would say
setting so these are just a few
pronunciation aspects of learning to
speak like a Native American English
speaker and then a few other things I
just kind of would like to run by you is
to make sure that you look into
different sayings and phrases the hard
thing with American English is we have
such a large country we have the United
States don't you love my drawing of the
United States pretty great I think and
then we have Canada definitely a great
drawing of Canada so between the two
countries we have so many different ways
of speaking so even in American English
between for the full of North America I
am in California we have different
sayings and different ways of speaking
here in California over here than they
do in Texas in Texas they have a
completely different accent
they say y'all and they talk with a
different drawl they have a completely
different accent than we do here then
they do in New York they have different
slang different ways of speaking in New
York and they have different ways of
speaking in Canada so it's really hard
because when you're learning to speak
like a Native American English speaker I
encourage you to learn the different
sayings get an idiom dictionary
study phrases slang and sayings from the
region that you're interested in or the
region that you plan to visit whatever
region that maybe that's where you want
to learn from because they're all so
different and one great way if you're
not sure if this is also overwhelming to
you and you don't know where to start I
recommend that you start by just
watching television find some American
movies an American TV that you like and
will start watching them on a regular
basis that's the greatest way to really
learn the native american english
because most television has examples
from all over the different regions they
have movies that are based in California
they have movies that are based in New
York they have movies that are based in
Texas in the Midwest all over North
America so you can take a look and see
which areas you love and which ones you
want to learn from it's a really great
way to study the Native American tongue
for American English so I highly
recommend it I also recommend that you
find an American friend to speak to
that's going to give you an invaluable
way to learn when you can learn from a
person who has actually spoken the
Native American English their whole life
you're truly going to get a first-hand
experience of how to learn and that's
going to be the greatest way to go about
it the most most important thing to do
is practice practice and repetition
I can't say it enough the more that you
can study the more that you practice the
more that you repeat these sayings go
through even if you go through this
lesson a hundred times and just practice
these simple little sentences and
running those words together is going to
make a big difference so as I said
earlier I do want to go through this
sentence so I had said isn't that a
mouthful of a topic that's the proper
way to speak that out is it that a
mouthful of a topic now in my native
american english the way that i would
say that is isn't that a mouthful of a
topic do you hear how that all runs
together let me say it one more time i
will try to speak a little bit slower
for you but still in the native american
english isn't one more time isn't that a
mouthful of a topic do you hear how the
teeth end up being silent this runs
together isn't that uh
isn't that a mouthful of a-- did you
hear how those ran together
isn't that a mouthful of a topic and
then this goes up at the end because
it's a question
isn't that a mouthful of a topic i hope
that i've been able to help you today
this is truly a huge lesson we probably
could have broken this into four
different parts because there's so much
to be learned when it comes to trying to
speak like a native speaker i encourage
you to keep learning keep trying and
don't get discouraged I know that it's
hard but the more that you practice I
know that you can do it please continue
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