Name: FAST ENGLISH: 英語を早く話すために必要なNo.1の秘訣 (FAST ENGLISH: The #1 Secret You Need for Speaking English Fast)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:51:00.000Z
Duration: 36 min 6 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

What is the trick of native speakers that helps them speak so fast

but still be understood by other native speakers with no problem?

法助動詞 A2

As a non-native speaker, can you learn reductions and sound more natural speaking English?

Can you learn how to speak English fast while still being clear?

Today we're going to study up-close shots of the mouth while we study the 'for' reduction.

This video has over 500 sentences so you can study how native speakers use this reduction

to speak fast English, while sounding natural and clear.

And I guarantee you're going to be able to do it yourself.

We're going to break it down, we're going to make it clear for you.

And even if this is a concept that you know already all about,

being able to see it up close and in slow motion, in action, reveals so much.

And in working with these sentences, you're really going to build towards that habit

of being able to do the reduction perfectly, without thinking about in conversation.

A couple seconds on the basics.  The words is F-O-R.

Fully pronounced, written in IPA with the AW as in LAW vowel,

but that R does change the vowel.  It's not a pure AW vowel.

But we're not here to perfect the full pronunciation,

because this word is rarely fully pronounced.

When schwa is followed by R, you don't need to try to make a vowel at all.

The R overpowers the schwa, so your word becomes fff-rrr.  Frrr.

A reduction means a sound changes or is dropped.

Let's look at this up close and in slow motion.

Notice the T sound is dropped here because it comes between two consonants.

This is something that you do not because you benefit from it in time or money or convenience, but pleasure.

Let's say you're driving somewhere and you decide to take a way that's longer because it's prettier.

You could say, let's take the scenic route, just for fun.

First, we'll just watch the whole sentence. Here it is:

Now we'll see that again, and we'll break down 'for'

The bottom lip is pulled up a little so the inside is touching the bottom of the top front teeth.

The top lip is lifted a little so it's not touching the bottom lip.

The correct position for the F is not this: ffff.

Don't curl your lip in. It's the inside of the lip, here, that touches here.

Now let's watch the whole word FOR, pronounced 'fer'.

Wow. That was fast, and this is even slowed down.

Now we're back into position for the F for the next word, fun.

Let's watch just the word 'for' a few times

'For' is much shorter than the stressed word 'fun'.

Now, we don't want to rush through our stressed words,

that would be fast English but unclear English.

So know your reductions, learn them, but don't rush through everything.

Stressed syllables should still be long and have that up-down shape.

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Okay, now, do you have to use this 'for' reduction?

If you want to sound natural, yes, you do.

A native speaker would never pronounce it that way,

Short and long, that contrast, is important in American English.

Now let's look at that up close again, but this time at regular pace.

Now we're going to isolate just the word 'for'.

Ok, my mouth is in position for the F of 'fer'.

Notice how we go right from F into R. There's no jaw drop to make a vowel or anything like that.

Let's watch just that word in slow motion three times right now.

Notice how minimal the mouth movement is.

Okay, let's see 'for fun' at regular pace now.

Now we'll look at the phrase: It's for dinner. In slow motion.

I'm starting the word 'for'. Let's hear it.

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