Name: Learn English Listening Skills - How to understand native English speakers
Uploaded: 2013-02-13T13:09:11.000Z
Duration: 20 min 15 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：

Hello and welcome everyone. This is Minoo at Anglo-Link.

Today's video is all about listening comprehension.

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I have some interesting tips for you. This is particularly for those of you

who still find it a little hard to understand native speakers

I'll be telling you about some specific aspects of the English sound system

and some speech patterns that native speakers use

you will have a really good understanding of where the difficulties that you might be facing come from

and really improve your listening comprehension.

that will really improve your listening comprehension of native speakers.

the first thing is to understand is what makes native speakers hard to understand.

The second key is improving your own pronunciation.

And the third key to improving your listening comprehension is

Okay, lets start with understanding what makes native speakers

is the great number of vowels and diphthongs in English.

And some of these are very similar to each other.

They're many words where the consonants are exactly the same.

And when these vowel sounds are very similar

These are called minimal pairs by the way.

they can be very very similar. So, in connected speech they're not easy

why listening to English native speakers can be challenging.

The second reason is the way that native speakers shorten

Let's give you a quick example. Look at this sentence:

And I'm going to take you through them one by one.

Speech pattern number one is contractions.

always use these patterns when they speak.

That is why there's a difference in tone and meaning between

When we use the contraction there's no stress

on the contracted form. There is no particular emotion.

So, as using contractions is the norm rather than the exception in spoken English.

I would recommend that you try and use them as much as possible yourself.

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